American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...n complication of cataract surgery, according to a report scheduled for the Aug. 13 issue of ACS Biomacromo... becomes clouded. Christine Jrme and colleagues report development of a method for applying a polyethylene glycol coating to IOLs. In laboratory experiment...Multinational research: protecting ecology means understanding people, too
...ble Resources Foundation survey done in 2003. The report also said the interior department also will lose more than 60 percent of its program managers, the forest service will lose more than 80 percent of its entomologists and 49 percent of its foresters, and the EPA will lose 45 percent of its toxicologis...Diverse genetic abnormalities lead to NF-κB activation in multiple myeloma
...seca, from the Mayo Clinic Arizona, and colleagues report mutations in several genes that result in constitutive activation of the alternative NF-κB pathway. We propose that the acquisition of the mutations identified in our study results in the accumulation of malignant plasma cells beyond the physiol...Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, study finds
...environmental degradation on human diseases. Their report is published in the online version of the journal Human Ecology (available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/101592/ , to be published in the December print issue). "We have serious environmental resource problems of water, land and energy, and...Gene regulation, not just genes, is what sets humans apart
...fessor Gregory Wray. Haygood is lead author in a report on the research to be published online on Sunday, Aug. 12, in the research journal Nature Genetics. His group looked at the regulatory sequences immediately adjacent to 6,280 genes on the DNA of chimps, humans and the rhesus macaque, a more dist...High blood pressure, low energy -- a recipe for heart failure
...issue of Cell Metabolism, Kelly and his colleagues report that mice born without any ERR alpha developed symptoms of heart failure when their hearts were forced to pump against high pressure. The hearts of normal mice took that pressure overload in stride and stayed healthy. Those contrasting outcomes sugge...Scientists show that mitochondrial DNA variants are linked to risk factors for type 2 diabetes
Monday, August 13, 2007 Today, researchers report for the first time that genetic variants in mitochondriaenergy-producing structures harboring DNA that are inherited only from the motherare directly linked to metabolic markers for type 2 diabetes. The study, which highlights the role of mitochondr...Smokeless tobacco more effective than cigarettes for delivering dangerous carcinogens into the body
...chers at the University of Minnesota Cancer Center report that users of smokeless tobacco are exposed to higher amounts of tobacco-specific nitrosamines -- molecules that are known to be carcinogenic -- than smokers. Smokeless tobacco, also known as oral snuff, is a variant on chewing tobacco that users ...deCODE discovers cause of major subtype of glaucoma
...ital in Reykjavik and Uppsala University in Sweden report the discovery of two common single letter variations (SNPs) in the sequence of the human genome that appear to account for virtually all cases of a major subtype of glaucoma. The SNPs are located in the LOXL1 gene on chromosome 15, and confer respect...Climate change and permafrost thaw alter greenhouse gas emissions in northern wetlands
...se gas perspective, Turetsky said. However, the report also cautions that this flooding associated with collapsing permafrost also increases methane emissions. Methane is an important greenhouse gas, which is more powerful than carbon dioxide in its ability to trap heat in the earths atmosphere. Ture...Evolution is driven by gene regulation
...between species at least in yeast according to a report by Yale researchers in this weeks issue of Science. Weve known for a while that the protein coding genes of humans and chimpanzees are about 99 percent the same, said senior author Michael Snyder , the Cullman Professor of Molecular Cellular and ...A unique arrangement for egg cell division
...g cells in mice. In the current issue of Cell they report the assembly of this machinery, which is very different from what happens in all other cells in the body. The process is likely conserved across species and the new insights might help shed light on defects occurring in human egg cell development. Th...European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...rd Look requires up to three years until its final report is published. The document usually is complemented...t around three Grand Challenge meetings. Its final report presents a vision of how the field of Systems Biology should develop in the European life sciences a...Inflammation may cause preterm labor and fetal deaths
...l and Raymond Redline from the Case medical school report results from their investigation, TLR4 promotes F. nucleatum-induced fetal death in mice, in the Journal of Immunology. New findings from the mouse study holds potential to develop ways to curb the emotional and economic toll on families that lose ......not outlive their grubby siblings, the researchers report in the August 8 issue of Cell Metabolism. The finding challenges the conventional wisdom that even harmless bacteria and the immune response they provoke suck up the energy of the host organism and hasten its death. It seemed like it was dogma ...Penn researchers discover how key protein stops inflammation
... Bcl-3 plays a role in immunity, this is the first report that Bcl-3 regulates inflammation by blocking ubiquitination. Their findings, published in Science, open new avenues of exploration for developing therapies to treat infectious or inflammatory diseases, such as sepsis, diabetes, and rheumatoid art...AAAS analysis finds Congress would add billions to FY 2008 R&D investment
...rgy and biomedical initiatives, according to a new report by the R&D Budget and Policy Program of the Americ...ion, says Kei Koizumi, the programs director, in a report posted online on 6 August. The report, updating congressional action on R&D budgets as Congress b...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 1, 2007
... to increase the service life of the concrete, the report said. ARTICLE #1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECrystalliz...rces, researchers in the United Kingdom and Greece report development of a new method for producing ethanol from wheat. The technology - potentially cheaper a...Gene variant is associated with brain anatomy, clinical course of ADHD
...mong individuals with the disorder, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. ADHD is among the most heritable of neuropsychiatric disorders, according to background information in the article. Several genes have been identified as pos......Commonwealth University researchers. Researchers report that as individuals develop, genes become increasingly important in influencing how they choose their peer groups. The findings offer insight into which individuals may be at risk for future substance use or other externalizing behaviors such as cond...