New genetic link to high blood pressure found
...s anywhere in the system that produces dopamine or receives its signals on the cell surface could alter someone's ability to regulate sodium levels, and therefore blood pressure, Weder explains. The new finding is published by a team that includes Weder and his Tecumseh study team -- but also researchers who...Conference to set deer-vehicle crash research agenda
...termeasures, he says. Its Web site, deercrash.com, receives approximately 500 hits per day. "It was intended to help engineers and transportation people make decisions as they build roadways," he says. A downloadable report on the site includes information about such potentially crash-deterring measures as de...Insect pheromone research wins Eppendorf/Science prize
...ithin the last three years. The grand prize winner receives $25,000 from Eppendorf, and the winner's essay will be published in the 04 November 2005 issue of Science . Three finalist essays will be published at Science Online ( http://www.scienceonline.org ). The winner as well as the finalists will be re...The brain is broadly wired for reproduction
...rocesses odors, the vomeronasal (accessory) system receives signals -- triggered by pheromones -- from the vomeronasal organ (VNO) in the nasal septum. However, the systems are not entirely parallel. Buck and her colleagues have shown that the VNO can detect some odorants. And conversely, there is evidence th...Open Science Grid technology and applications featured at SC|05
...0 CPUs and many terabytes of data storage. The OSG receives support from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. For more information about the OSG, visit www.opensciencegrid.org ....Loss of fear factor makes timid mouse bold
... lateral nucleus, the portion of the amygdala that receives information from the rest of the body about fearful stimuli. They dissected out individual pyramidal cells, the principal cells in the lateral nucleus, and found two genes, known as gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) and stathmin, that were much more ac...AGI announces winners of Earth Science Week 2005 contests
...the topic, and other relevant factors. Each winner receives $300 cash. Winning entries and other finalists are posted on the Earth Science Week Web site at www.earthsciweek.org . The contests represent an important part of Earth Science Week, which took place October 9-15, 2005. With active participation in...Normal chromosome ends elicit a limited DNA damage response
...g mechanism, which ensures that each daughter cell receives a full complement of chromosomes would inevitably rip the fused chromosomes apart. "Such fusion breakage cycles scramble the genome over time, and cause genome instability, which is a hallmark of cancer cells," explains Karlseder. "This demonstrates...New nanosensor uses quantum dots to detect DNA
...tached to one is a Cy5 molecule that glows when it receives energy. Attached to the second probe is a molecule called biotin. Biotin sticks to yet another molecule called streptavidin, which coats the surface of the quantum dot. To create their nanosensor, the researchers mixed the two DNA probes, plus a quan...Evolutionary shifts in olfactory sensitivities in fruit flies
...brain area (a so-called olfactory glomerulus) that receives input from the MeHex-specific neurons is significantly increased in size in D. sechellia. The researchers' findings indicate that the relative overexpression of MeHex-specific receptor neurons in D. sechellia compared to D. melanogaster has occurred ...Administering stem cells to patients with myocardial infarction leads to a reduction of the infarct
...n the heart is blocked, whereby the cardiac muscle receives insufficient oxygen and heart tissue dies. In many cases, the supply of blood in the deadened portion of the heart can be restored via the so-called balloon technique. But the heart suffers permanent damage, primarily to the left ventricle. The rese......nch out like the branches of a tree. The cell-body receives incoming information, and transmits it further through the axon, a long projection from the cell. Nerve cells make contact with each other at highly-specialised locations known as synapses. There, information is not only passively transmitted. Synaps...Carnegie Mellon develops non-invasive technique to detect transplant rejection at cellular level
...del to study organ rejection. In this model, a rat receives a second functional heart, which is grafted into its abdomen. The rat's native heart functions normally. In this way, the researchers can study how a transplanted heart changes through sequential stages of rejection while the rat stays healthy. This ......s marked and brought into circulation. If a person receives a marked banknote, he/she can register its current location online and return the bill to the pool. Meanwhile website has become so popular that some 50 million banknotes have already been registered this way. Dirk Brockmann of the Max Planck Institu...Highlights from the February 2006 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...turn is partially determined by whether the school receives a percent of sales from soft drink companies that own the vending machines. "It is unclear whether the soft drink companies or the schools themselves promote the availability of additional machines, but the funds received by the schools may provide t...Olfactory nerve cells expressing same receptor display a varied set of reactions
...er layer to understanding how the olfactory system receives outside information." Ma's group measured 53 different olfactory neurons that express the MOR23 odor receptor. As a group, the neurons reacted differently from one another in their response to lyral, an artificial odor used in fragrances and flavorin...Growing evidence of sex-based differences in lung cancer highlighted at roundtable meeting
...cers combined (colon, breast, and prostate) yet it receives a disproportionately low amount of media attention and government research funding. Approximately 350,000 people in the United States have lung cancer, and an estimated 173,000 were diagnosed in 2005. Non-small cell lung cancer is the most common f......all island with a large perimeter touching the sea receives more nutrients from marine ecosystems than a large island due to the differences in surface-to-area ratios. In a new study by John Maron, James Estes, Donald Croll, Eric Danner, Sarah Elmendorf, and Stacey Bucklelew, scientists have discovered that ...Social stress in mice is controlled by genetic pathway, researchers find
..., a small area in the front part of the brain that receives strong dopamine signals from the ventral tegmental area. Normal mice have BDNF in the ventral tegmental area, but a minimal amount in the nucleus accumbens. The defeated mice showed an increased amount of BDNF in the nucleus accumbens. Researchers ...Educators in Texas and Massachusetts earn top 2005 mentoring awards from AAAS
...rs of success in mentoring students. The recipient receives $5,000 and a commemorative plaque. 2005 AAAS Mentor Award Dr. Karen Butler-Purry has made student mentoring and counseling an integral part of her professional academic career, both in the electrical engineering and computer sciences areas. To sup...