Has science unearthed the Holy Grail of pain relief?
...lished in the top scientific journal Nature could rapidly advance research into the next generation of painkillers for relief of chronic conditions such as migraine and backache. Chronic pain, unlike the acute pain associated with trauma, has no apparent physiological benefit, often being referred to as t...5 OHSU faculty members singled out for honors
...s to study mechanisms of early morphogenesis, when rapidly dividing cells first begin to differentiate and or...has been a pioneer and international leader in the rapidly evolving field of biomedical informatics. Under his leadership, OHSU has developed one of the nation...QUT's top researchers honored with fellowships
...l use nano-technology to purify water. "Water is rapidly becoming Australia's most critical natural resource and there is an urgent need to re-use and recycle water from domestic grey-water and industry waste," he said. Dr Martens said his work aimed to develop photocatalytic water treatment technologies...Piecing together the cyanobacteria puzzle
...was allocated to vegetative cells because they are rapidly dividing, while heterocysts require very little ca...n a cell by cell basis how newly fixed nitrogen is rapidly exported from the heterocysts to vegetative cells, keeping pace with the nitrogen demands of the gro...Tomorrow's green nanofactories
...hings. By exploiting a viruss ability to replicate rapidly and combine with semiconductor and electronic materials, she is coaxing them to grow and self-assemble nanomaterials into a functional electronic device. Through this marriage of nanotechnology with green chemistry, Belcher and her team are working t...'Virtual' mouse brains now available online
...developed the computer infrastructure to collect a rapidly growing library of 3-D mouse brain data, and make all the data available on the web http://tinyurl.com/3cgj6z . The goal is to use mouse brains as surrogates for human brains to study the connections between genes and brain structure. Investigators ...U-M, Israeli scientists report major advance in search for genes associated with colon cancer
...steries of the susceptibility to disease is moving rapidly since the publication of the complete sequence of the human genome in 2003. Says Gruber, The mystery of the relationship between our genetic code and disease is now starting to become clear, and many scientists are turning to the same chapter to find...MU researchers make discovery in molecular mechanics of phototropism
...sts as a phosphorylated protein in darkness and is rapidly dephosphorylated by a yet unidentified protein phosphatase in response to phot1 photoactivation by blue light. Liscum and Pedmale now plan to study which amino acids on NPH3 are reversibly phosporylated and how NPH3 is involved in regulating other...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...s 2-deoxyglucose, a glycolysis blocker, or insulin rapidly increased phosphorylated levels of p44/42 mitogen-activated protein kinases (phospho-ERK1/2) in the PVH. Microinjection of NE into the PVH had a similar effect. Downstream effects included a rise in PVN c- fos messenger RNA and plasma levels of cort...Waging war on the deadliest superbug
...cidence of infections, for new diagnostic tests to rapidly identify C. diff or MRSA and to develop novel antibiotics in order to treat these infections. The success of this research will be judged by both improved patient outcomes and savings to the NHS in the costs of treating infections. CHAI was officia...Reap what your ancestors sowed
...aintained. But freeloaders can also increase so rapidly that in a generations time the whole building collapses, says Brown. If you have social dilemmas [where there are cooperators and cheaters] mediated by these longstanding, durable entities like buildings, ants nests, or biofilms in bacteria, then y...JCI Table of Contents -- July 2, 2007
...of insulin B chain), rendered CD4+ T cells able to rapidly transfer diabetes to these animals when the recipient mouse also had the native B16:Y insulin B:923 sequence in its islets. The data demonstrate the dependence on just a single amino acid change (alanine versus tyrosine) in insulin B:923 for the deve...Key to tackling malaria may lie in bed nets for adults and older children
...sojourn in the liver, it grows and reproduces very rapidly in the blood, leading to symptoms including fever, anaemia and even death. The parasites can be retransmitted to another mosquito if it feeds on an infected person. The researchers showed that use of the nets can greatly reduce the number of mosqui...CU researchers solve mystery of how DNA strands separate
...tive unwinding motor." While helicases unwind very rapidly in cells, in test tube experiments the unwinding is much slower. The researchers believe that helicases work with other enzymes, where "accessory proteins are helping the helicase out by destabilizing the fork junction," said Wang....Stressed-out African naked mole-rats may provide clues about human infertility
...males battle it out for dominance, with the winner rapidly becoming reproductively active. Studies of dominance within colonies have revealed that breeding animals have the highest social rank. Furthermore, concentrations of urinary testosterone, a hormone associated with aggression, in the queen and non-b...New genetic test developed at Emory advances detection and diagnosis of muscular dystrophy
...ons, then microarray-based resequencing is used to rapidly identify subtle genetic variations that may cause muscular dystrophy. The EmArray Dystrophin test confirms clinical diagnosis of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy in a male and characterizes the type and size of the mutation. Women with a fami...Story ideas from Molecular & Cellular Proteomics
...type of cancer. Esophageal cancer is increasing rapidly in Western countries and is currently the seventh leading cause of cancer-related death. But current techniques do not allow doctors to clearly tell patients how their disease will progress and how to best treat it. David M. Lubman and colleagues ...Ancient retrovirus sheds light on modern pandemic
...esearchers believe, to the presence of an ancient, rapidly evolving antiviral defense gene called TRIM5a, which produces a protein that binds to and destroys the virus before it can replicate within the body. "We know that PtERV1 infected chimps, gorillas and old-world monkeys 4 million years ago but left no...Pregnancy nausea/vomiting may indicate lower risk of breast cancer
...d alterations in the breast tissue, he noted. The rapidly changing anatomy of the breast makes it more susceptible to errors in DNA replication and/or repair, which may translate into breast cancer. Associated with these changes are the fluctuating hormonal profiles that must be kept in a delicate balanc......s histamine, heparin and a number of cytokines are rapidly released into the tissues and blood, promoting an allergic response. The researchers found that the unique structure of the buckyball enables it to bind to free radicals dramatically better than any anti-oxidant currently available, such as vitamin...