Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky will discuss stress, health, Feb. 17 at AAAS meeting
...k or personality. "Up until 15 years ago, the most striking thing we found was that, if you're a baboon, you don't want to be low ranking, because your health is going to be lousy," he explained. "But what has become far clearer, and probably took a decade's worth of data, is the recognition that protection f...Flavanols in cocoa may offer benefits to the brain
...thy volunteers who were over age 50 and observed a striking blood flow response that evolved over several weeks. Since this cocoa preparation is so well tolerated, it raises hope that the brain blood flow response it stimulates can result in maintenance of healthy brain function and cognition, which is an is...Lost cuckoo breaks its silence
...een plumage with a black crown and green bill, and striking blue facial markings. The Wildlife Conservation Society operates a field conservation projects throughout Indonesia, and works with local partners to safeguard this archipelagos amazing wildlife, many of which are found nowhere else on earth. The ...Mellow in Europe, crazy in America
...olve extremely rapidly," Sebastian Lavergne notes, striking a blow at the conventional view that evolution occurs at very slow rates. "If you drive around in Vermont you'll see that it has taken over whole areas of wetlands, and out West it clogs waterways and takes over irrigation ditches," says Molofsky. ...Vitamin D deficiency widespread during pregnancy
...d lead author of the study. "The numbers also were striking for their newborns 92.4 percent of African-American babies and 66.1 percent of white infants were found to have insufficient vitamin D at birth." A vitamin closely associated with bone health, vitamin D deficiency early in life is associated with ...Researchers at IRB Barcelona discover a new mechanism that regulates stem cell division
...entical. Surprisingly, Gonzalez and his team found striking differences in the two centrosomes of the stem cells they were studying. One is located in a fixed position and is very active during the entire cell cycle, while the other moves around the cell before coming to a standstill, becoming activated only ...Dr. John A. Martignetti receives 2006 Prostate Cancer Foundation Award
... most common non-skin cancer in the United States, striking one in six men. In 2007 alone, more than 218,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and more than 27,000 men will die of the disease. Baby boomer men are turning 60, bringing increasing numbers of men into the highest-risk zone for the diseas...Study challenges idea that schizophrenia is distinct in developing and developed regions
...the expression of schizophrenia in Palau, but more striking to us are the similarities that emerge when comparing the Palauan data with research findings in [Western] settings, the authors write. Indeed, one of the few significant differences between the Palauan sample and the Western sample was the propor...Scientists unlock mystery of embryonic stem cell signaling pathway
... And thats our goal."Kahn's study provides us with striking new insights into the molecular regulatory machinery inside embryonic stem cells, adds Martin Pera, Ph.D., director of the Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine. His team has identified a chemical that controls...Biologists produce global map of plant biodiversity
... general understanding among ecologists about this striking difference continues to be very limited. "Given that we are far off from knowing the individual distributions of the world's 300,000 odd plant species," says Jetz. "Holger Kreft and I investigated how well the richness of plants can be predicted fr...Viral protein is an effective preventative against infection
...se bacteria take advantage of a viral infection by striking when our resistance is lowered," says Fischetti, head of Rockefellers Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology. "You should start taking an antibiotic the moment you come down with the viral infection to prevent the secondary infection, bu...Smithsonian-led Amazon research team wins scientific prize
...early 32,000 Amazonian trees since 1980. The most striking finding, say the authors, is the remarkable speed at which tree communities are changing in forest fragments. "Rainforest trees can live for centuries, even millennia, so none of us expected things to change so fast," Laurance said. "But in just t...Scientists reveal structure of gateways to gene control
...periodic rotation of the DNA double helix. "It is striking how well these positions match with the architecture of the DNA as it wraps around the nucleosome's protein core," Pugh said. This result powerfully simplifies previous theories about the possible architecture of gene packaging. "There is a certai...Newly discovered 'platform' for processing dietary fat
...poprotein-binding protein 1, or Gpihbp1exhibited a striking accumulation of chylomicrons in the plasma, even on a low-fat diet, the researchers report. The animals' deficiency caused their blood plasma to become milky as their blood triglyceride levels skyrocketed. Normally, the lipoprotein-binding protein is...Better together: Bacterial endosymbionts are essential for the reproduction of a fungus
...shipsin which one organism lives within anotherare striking examples of mutualism, and can often significantly...ing blight. The researchers now report a second, striking benefit conferred on the fungus by its intracellular symbiont.When the bacteria are eliminated from ...Progress toward a targeted therapy for a specific form of leukemia
... form of cancer in children under 14 years of age, striking children between the ages of 2 and 3 in particular. Today, with optimal treatment using chemotherapy, more than half of the children are cured. Combined action of several players The search for the mechanisms that cause T-ALL goes on ceaselessly....News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...supplementation. Reductions of A and tau were less striking after 6 and 9 months of supplementation when the diet also contained n-6 fatty acids. The n-6 fatty acids did appear to affect phosphorylation of tau. The authors looked at a number of the steps that could be responsible for the reduction in A and ta......can lead to fatal diseases. "There is a striking parallelism between humans and horses when it comes to obesity," said Philip Johnson, professor of veterinary medicine and surgery at the University of Missouri-Columbia. "Some of the very same problems humans encounter with obesity may also occur in......ranyi, of the Etvs University in Budapest, reveals striking similarities between humans and dogs in the way th...hat animals do imitate selectively. This reveals a striking parallel between dogs and human infants in that they do not simply "ape" an action, but only do so i...