Dwarf mistletoe reveals its sexual secrets
Hold off putting up your usual variety of mistletoe the dwarf mistletoe could soon eclipse its better-known Christmas cousins as the green fertility symbol of choice for holiday party goers. In fact, the discovery of the intimate details of the sex life of the dwarf...Purdue scientists hunt for 'secret X' to treat liver cancer
...that caused the liver cells to behave erratically, putting them out of step with healthy liver tissue. "To find out what instructions the X protein was feeding the cells, we worked with samples of mouse liver tissue in the lab," she said. "We first took the X gene from hepatitis B and inserted it into ...Carbon sink or carbon source? Aerosols play role in shifts
...imate change. "Studies like these can really start putting forward the right processes in trying to quantify the carbon sink more accurately. Once we start introducing these reality-based processes into our models, we'll get better estimates" of carbon budget, Niyogi said. Niyogi now plans to add other varia......nts at a time, they implicitly learn the rules for putting all five segments together. In a final experimen... the puzzle picture looks like, just the rules for putting the pieces together," for example, that they fit like locks and keys, he says. Rose believes birds...Improved molecular switch could serve as sensor, medical tool
...engineering techniques to make a molecular switch, putting together two proteins that normally had nothing to do with one another, but the switching properties of that version were insufficient for many applications," said Ostermeier, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engi...New program examines stem cells' potential to repair, replace damaged tissue
... multidisciplinary, multi-institutional group he's putting together. "Is it because the stem cells are becomi...ge between growing these cells in an incubator and putting them back in people," Dr. Isales says. Up the street, MCG dental school researchers already are coll...Grants target better predictors for type 1 diabetes
... high risk. What we want to do and what the NIH is putting a lot of money into for many diseases, is use modern, high-throughput technology like proteomics to discover new proteins that can increase the sensitivity and the specificity of disease prediction. These also give us new targets for treatment becaus...Academics find that the finger of destiny points their way
...e has been male-dominated the past and this may be putting women off entering it, even though they are able to. "Why male scientists should have fewer children is not known. "The study of my colleagues at the University of Bath was also interesting in that it shows that women in social science tend to have a...Dr. Harris receives NIH Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award
...ith Dr. Harris on the grant. As she was putting that grant application to bed, Dr. Harris remembers thinking reviewers might consider it too much ground to cover in the five years she originally requested. Instead, the application was given a high score by reviewers and subsequently nominated for ...Flies have morning and evening clocks
...e at taking the clock apart, are now succeeding in putting it back together." Biological clocks in both flies and humans operate on a 24-hour, or circadian (Latin for "about a day"), cycle. In humans, the clock's influence is far-reaching, governing such functions as sleeping and waking, fluid balance, body...Channel protein converts vibrations to electrical signal
...gives when you stimulate the cell," Corey said. By putting a microelectrode on the mouse hair cells, the scientists could directly measure the amount of current flowing through the channels. With lower levels of TRPA1, current flow was diminished. In zebrafish embryos, they measured the voltage inside the de...US Agency for International Development awards $34 million to Virginia Tech
...ll as with individual families and farmers, we are putting knowledge to work to give people greater economic self-sufficiency and a more secure future. A strong Virginia Tech faculty and staff, partners, and collaborating institutions are ready to implement these two projects immediately." "Research re...