NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...in the NMR as they go in and out of resonance. The spectrum is influenced by the shape of the molecule in whic...ating atoms reside, and scientists can use the NMR spectrum of a protein to determine its three-dimensional structure. The three techniques have coexisted for...University of Edinburgh hosts European conference on childhood disability
...'From Evidence to Empowerment', debating the whole spectrum of childhood disability. Around 500 professionals working with children with disability will attend the 16th annual meeting of the European Academy of Childhood Disability, hosted by Child Life and Health, the University of Edinburgh. Conference orga...NHGRI seeks next generation of sequencing technologies
...s technologies. "These projects span an impressive spectrum of novel technologies from sequencing by synthesis to nanopore technology. Many of these new approaches have shown significant promise, yet far more exploration and development are needed if these sequencing technologies are to be useful to the aver......ncompasses a wide array of symptoms--called autism spectrum disorder (ASD)--including various degrees of behavioral, developmental, and sensory deficits. Many people first became aware of autism with the 1988 movie Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman as a middle-aged autistic man. Hoffman portrayed an autistic ...Children's Hospital Boston geneticist awarded for research on muscular dystrophy
...nkel's work is unique in that it covers the entire spectrum of genetics-based research from identifying genes, to understanding how mutations of these genes cause disease, to finding new diagnostic techniques and new therapies and figuring out how to make them work. Kunkel was the first to discover, in 1986,...Automated scans let scientists track drugs' broad effects on cells
... cancer cells with different genetic profiles to a spectrum of anti-cancer drugs, which could help predict clinical responses in individual patients. Alschuler, Wu, and Mitchison were joined in this research, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, by co-authors...University of South Florida designated Center of Excellence by Huntington's Disease Society
...rs a weekly Huntington's Disease Clinic and a full spectrum of services, including genetic testing and counseling, psychiatry, physical and occupational therapy, caregiver and patient support, education programs and community outreach. USF researchers conduct a variety of basic science and clinical research ...Revisiting the vertebrate invasion of the land
...trategies to survive on land, and they represent a spectrum of specimens through which we may examine various biochemical adaptations that would have facilitated the invasion of the terrestrial habitat by fishes during evolution. These articles are from two merged symposia ("How to Live Successfully on Land ...Efforts to clone primates move forward
...lastocyst stage is farther along the developmental spectrum than ever achieved before, Gerald Schatten, Ph.D., director of the Pittsburgh Development Center at Magee-Womens Research Institute, and his colleagues report. Calvin Simerly, Ph.D., associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive scie...Children's Hospital Boston launches major genetic study of autism
...eld a greater biological understanding of autistic spectrum disorders, better diagnostic and prognostic techni...out one in 1,000 people, it is now thought of as a spectrum of disorders including autism, Asperger's syndrome and pervasive developmental disorder. There is no...UT Southwestern researchers locate gene family involved in determining potential for acquiring lupus
... way the disease is treated now is through a broad spectrum of drug therapies that basically suppress the entire immune system," Dr. Wakeland said. "Patients with lupus under this therapy are at risk to develop infectious diseases because their immune system is completely impaired. If we can understand what t...MIT creates new model of cancer syndrome
...ene p53 yields a mouse that develops a broad tumor spectrum that is reminiscent of LFS. Although LFS is a rare genetic disease, affecting fewer than 400 families worldwide, the p53 gene is also very commonly mutated in tumors unrelated to LFS. Mutations in p53 are detected in over 50 percent of all human tu...VA patients get better chronic, preventive care than similar US adults
...eceived consistently better care across the entire spectrum of care, including screening, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up. Quality of care for acute conditions was similar across both study populations. The study compared the quality of outpatient and inpatient care between a national sample of patien...Cells don festive holiday colors
...ne, tomato, orange, banana and honeydew. The color spectrum would make Pantone proud. No, Tsien's group is not...eins to longer wavelengths, filling in gaps in the spectrum of colors, said Tsien. In the Nature Biotechnology article, the researchers also reported a demonstr...Mutations in transporter protein shed light on neurodegenerative disorders
...tions in one transporter molecule can cause a wide spectrum of symptoms in Salla Disease and infantile sialic acid storage disease (ISSD). The research appears as the "Paper of the Week" in the January 14 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, an American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ...Clam embryo study shows pollutant mixture adversely affects nerve cell development
... clues about such neurological mysteries as autism spectrum disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disord...that documented a higher than usual rate of autism spectrum disorder and explored its link to bromoform, chloroform, and tetrachloroethylene in Brick's water su...Genetic testing for Parkinson's disease on the horizon
.... These include establishing the complete clinical spectrum associated with this mutation and accurately evaluating the risks associated with the mutation. He writes that genetic testing for the new LRRK2 mutation will also raise ethical issues. Due to the absence of preventative treatment, testing offers no ...UCLA/VA researchers discover fat gene
...wed obesity and emaciation as opposite ends of the spectrum caused by changes in different genes," Reue said. "Yet lipin is a single gene that can regulate body-fat content from one extreme to the other. As a result, it may present a target for the treatment of human diseases related to both excess and insuf...Fat deficiency gene also spurs obesity
...present extreme and opposite ends of the adiposity spectrum and have typically been attributed to alterations in the expression or function of distinct sets of genes," Reue said. "Lipin represents the first gene with the capacity to go both ways on the scale, modulating body fat content from one extreme to th...... solution, however, because each still has its own spectrum of possible side effects and limitations. "The antibiotics studied proved to be more or less equally effective for eradicating carriage of N. meningitides, however the differences found in development of resistance highlight ...