Researchers demonstrate way to control tree height
...were able to create young poplar trees, which grow rapidly and can reach a mature height of 150 feet or more, that were anywhere from about 15 feet to a few inches tall after two years of growth. The smallest of them could be difficult to even find, tiny little shrublets among the flowers in the field site. ...Promising protein may prevent eye damage in premature babies
...d role in healthy eyesight, a discovery that could rapidly lead to treatments for babies born before their eyes are finished growing, University of Florida and Harvard Medical School researchers have found. The finding, described in separate, back-to-back papers to be published in Tuesdays (June 19) Proce...How 'memory' T cells curb the spread of viruses throughout the body
...Fox Chase experiments show that memory CD8 T cells rapidly multiply and kill target cells inside the lymph node. In fact we found that memory CD8 T cells already killed target cells in the lymph node and decreased viral spread to the liver and spleen when the virus just barely started to multiply. Thus, m...454 sequencing identifies HIV drug resistance at early stage
...any low-level resistant HIV strains which can grow rapidly under drug selection pressure and lead to therapy failure. This retrospective study clearly shows that even resistance mutations present at the 1% level lead to premature failure of therapy explained Michael Kozal, M.D. the senior author on the stud...NSF funding to advance research on interplay between biology and society
...l influences have been growing for decades and are rapidly accelerating." A project by the American Council for Learned Societies and led by Frederick Burkhardt will continue work on editing the correspondence of Charles Darwin. Darwin's correspondence is a primary source for understanding the intellectual...Cancer stem cells similar to normal stem cells can thwart anti-cancer agents
...eliminating the bulk of the disease, including all rapidly proliferating cells, but are eventually thwarted because they cannot eliminate a small reservoir of multiple-drug-resistant tumor cells, called cancer stem cells, which ultimately become the source of disease recurrence and eventual metastasis. Now, ...Ultra deep sequencing identifies HIV drug resistance at early stage
...many low-level resistant HIV strains that can grow rapidly under drug selection pressure and lead to therapy failure. This study clearly shows that resistance HIV strains present at the one percent level can lead to premature failure of therapy, said Kozal. It is our hope that in the future, clinicians ca...Microbes at work cleaning up the environment
...nic aggregation of zinc-sulfide initially occurred rapidly to 100-nanometer diameter aggregates but then slowed or ceased after one week. However, zinc-sulfide nanoparticles in the presence of cysteine displayed more extensive and prolonged aggregation, accumulating up to 1-10 micron (1/1000th of a millimete...Pre-cancerous blood diseases can be products of their environment
... into mice with the RAR-deficient microenvironment rapidly developed the blood disease, they showed, evidence that the microenvironment can be the sole cause of hematopoietic disorders. Meanwhile, Orkins team set out to examine the role of so-called retinoblastoma protein (Rb)a critical player in controlli...University of Pittsburgh researchers culture blood-forming stem cells from human fat tissue
...er in Toronto. Adipose tissue has the ability to rapidly expand or contract in accordance with nutritional constraints. In so doing, it requires rapid adjustment in its blood supply and supporting connective tissue, or stroma. Based on previous reports that the stromal vascular fraction of adipose tissue c...5.9 million award gives UK aging research a new lease on life
...ard will help strengthen the UK's position in this rapidly developing field of research and will help scientists understand what it means to age. The award has been made to Professor Linda Partridge, Professor Dominic Withers and Dr David Gems at UCL (University College London) who received 5.1 million, a...University of Washington researchers play leading role in major study of human genome function
...years of work. The group used the Internet to help rapidly disseminate and review complex computational analy...o track down the causes of these diseases far more rapidly than before, and will be better equipped to treat or prevent them....Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming
...t of the world's energy consumption, and their use rapidly increasing due to the growth of developing countries, such as China and India, the need to find solutions to curb carbon emissions becomes even more crucial, Benson said. From the air to the earth In the capture process, carbon dioxide is extra...University of Manchester researchers reveal clues to new genes behind rheumatoid arthritis
... others develop a progressive form which can quite rapidly result in marked disability. We believe the genes... UK. It has taken us to the place we are now, more rapidly and efficiently than if we had tried to undertake this study on our own. "We had 2,000 DNA samples...Columbine flowers develop long nectar spurs in response to pollinators
...these flowers, changes appear to happen relatively rapidly in response to changes in pollinators," said Zamer.......ed a neuronal mechanism that our brains may use to rapidly distinguish similar, yet distinct places. The w...at the learning in the dentate gyrus is crucial in rapidly recognizing and amplifying the small differences that make each place unique. Dr Jones, commentin...Studies to find better ways to preserve human eggs, ovarian tissue under way
...d more focused radiation therapy, designed to kill rapidly spreading cancer cells, also can destroy dynamic reproductive tissue. I dont think when you are faced with the reality that you may die, your fertility is the most important thing you are thinking or talking about, but there are a lot of women int...Research team identifies new Alzheimer's gene
...the Affymetrix 500K Arrays, the studys researchers rapidly produced a genetic map of each brain tissue sample and isolated the GAB2 gene relatively quickly. This Alzheimer's disease breakthrough is another powerful example of a fundamental life science discovery made by an Affymetrix customer. Our latest...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 30, 2007
...by up to 13.5 percent while reducing the levels of rapidly digested starch by up to 19.7 percent. The next step will be to test these materials in human trials. ARTICLE #3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE"Starch with a Slow Digestion Property Produced by Altering Its Chain Length, Branch Density, and Crystalline Stru...ChemGenex reports successful personalized dosing of Quinamed at ASCO
...id and intermediate acetylator genotypes (who more rapidly metabolize the drug to the acetylated derivative associated with side effects) achieved a maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of 320 mg/m2 of Quinamed weekly, whilst patients with slow acetylator genotypes achieved an MTD of 400 mg/m2 of Quinamed weekly (th...