ASU and Mayo lead 'MAC Attack' to accelerate cancer research
... diseases earlier, and to treat patients with more sophisticated and effective medicines," said Tracy. MAC5 represents the largest collaborative effort to date between Mayo Clinic and ASU. It builds on the historical research teamwork of ASU and Mayo Clinic that has grown in recent years to include a pilot researc...Search for alien life challenges current concepts, says U. of Colorado prof.
...ication, the authors wrote. Despite new suites of sophisticated instruments developed in recent years, the ability of scientists to detect life on Mars or in another solar system is probably very limited, Cleland said. "If the DNA in an alien organism was even slightly different than the DNA in life on Earth, wi...... that this differential response, regulated by the sophisticated use of intracellular calcium and nitric oxide signals, may determine the fitness and succession of phytoplankton communities....Active inbreeding avoidance in wild capuchin monkeys
.... The findings suggest that psychological or other sophisticated behavioral barriers have evolved in this primate species to prevent inbreeding within individual populations. It has long been known that in group-living mammals, almost all members of at least one sex leave their birth group at adolescence, hinderin...Studies suggest new targets for tuberculosis treatments
...The current studies reveal that TB bacteria have a sophisticated way to remove the damaged proteins -- a protein-cleaving complex known as a proteasome -- with wide specificity for degrading protein parts. This protein cleanup mechanism allows Mycobacterium tuberculosis to remain in macrophages, and possibly go on...Hamster study shows how our brains recognize other individuals
...ins are strikingly similar to ours. "They are more sophisticated than you might think," he noted. In the latest experiment, a male hamster encountered two individuals that he knew equally well but had different interactions with the previous day: a male that defeated him in a fight and a male that he had never fou...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...imally invasive, inexpensive, and not dependent on sophisticated or costly equipment or radioactivity, allows culture of H. pylori from infected persons about 80% as efficiently as endoscopic gastric biopsies," say the researchers. "We suggest that the H. pylori string test assays will be of increasing importance...Molecular signatures predict disease progression and prognosis of high grade brain tumors
...D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas used a sophisticated genetic screening technique to perform an extensive examination of samples from multiple HGGs. The researchers were able to identify molecular subclasses of tumors that were based on perturbation of specific signaling pathways and distinct clinical c...Rare Chinese frogs communicate by means of ultrasonic sound
...such ability is limited to animals equipped with a sophisticated sonar system," he said. "This suggests that there are likely many other examples of unexpected forms of communication out there."...Through a satellite darkly: Night views of European seas improve ESA ocean heat map
...red for input into the relevant 'virtual ocean' a sophisticated computer model of the genuine article. The combination of satellite and also available in-situ observations with numerical modelling a technique known as 'data assimilation' is an extremely powerful one. It has revolutionised atmospheric weather f...Researchers seek answers to combat TB epidemic
...ing Indian researchers to come to Florida to learn sophisticated techniques and giving UF trainees firsthand experience in dealing with the epidemic there. "One single patient with tuberculosis can infect hundreds of people," Antony said. "One-third of the world's population is infected with the organism that cau...Relic of life in that Martian meteorite? A fresh look
...sociated with carbonate globules was created using sophisticated instrumentation and they compared the results to analogous globules from a volcanic complex on Svalbard, an island north of Norway. It does not appear that living organisms were at work. The research is presented at NASA's Astrobiology Science Confe...Glimpse to past adds weight to global warming forecasts
...sue of the journal Science. The paper shows that a sophisticated climate model, which is one of several global models used in projections of future climate change, is successful in recreating the last period of significant global warming. "If the climate model is capable of reproducing a climate scenario that is c...New male contraceptive clears hurdle
...an 15 years ago, we didn't have access to the more sophisticated toxicity tests available today," says Dr. H. C. Das, one of the lead investigators. "Last year we sent RISUG to an FDA-registered laboratory in the United States for more tests, and the results came back clean. We've also done more studies at the Ind...Identity theft, cancer detection among interactive demos at UH event
...ield, because interdisciplinary collaborations and sophisticated computing are allowing computer scientists to create tools and solve problems in areas like the environment and medicine." About a million dollars worth of equipment will be on display, such as a high-performance computing booth used by UH research...UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore researchers
...boratory using an accelerator mass spectrometer, a sophisticated instrument that counts single atoms of 14C. "Our study showed that labeled 14C- B12 is absorbed and metabolized normally and that we have a powerful new tool to assess vitamin B12 absorption," said Green. "While Lawrence Livermore National Laborator...Physical intelligence in rooks
...d that these birds have the capacity to apply more sophisticated cognition to solving physical tasks. The work is reported by Amanda Seed and Nicola Clayton and colleagues from the University of Cambridge, and appears in the April 4th issue of Current Biology. Laboratory studies show that many tool-using species ...Vitamin D and flavonoids examined for impact on breast and ovarian cancers
...or Cancer Research, two groups of scientists using sophisticated statistical techniques report their findings of possible preventive properties of Vitamin D against breast cancer. Two other groups of scientists present their work analyzing the possibility that natural antioxidants found in plants, substances calle...Brookhaven Lab and Mount Sinai form joint Center for Translational Biomedical Imaging
...Sinai researchers will gain access to Brookhaven's sophisticated imaging tools - including positron emission tomography (PET), high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), micro-PET, and micro-MRI - as well as Brookhaven's expertise in radiotracer chemistry and specialized facilities for the development of new tra......e. But studies at OSU, which were done with highly sophisticated electron spectroscopy, showed that the alleged stability of the nucleic acid bases in DNA is largely a myth. "In their biological form, surrounded by other hydrogen-bonded bases, it's true that the nucleic acids which make up DNA are stable," Kong sa...