$4.4 million NIH grant renews Echinacea and St John's wort research at Iowa State
...d science and human nutrition at Iowa State. "In studying the nine different species of Echinacea, we found some species work better than others," Birt said. "This suggests that it will be possible to get an improved preparation that will enhance the supplement's benefit to human health." Researchers als...Scientists offer new view of photosynthesis
... evolve. The researchers focused their efforts by studying the center stage of photosynthesis, the reaction center, where light energy is funneled into specialized chlorophyll binding proteins. The textbook picture of photosynthesis represents the reaction center proteins as a scaffold, holding chlorophyl...Scientists discover rare 'gene-for-gene' interaction that helps bacteria kill their host
...t Reynolds from the University of Bath. "People studying diseases think that the kind of gene-for-gene interaction between pathogen and host that we have found is quite common, but actually rather few are known, which is why this research is so interesting. "The immune systems of all animals, even relati...New clues for treatment of disease that causes accelerated aging
...an average life expectancy of 13 years. Scientists studying the genes of two infants who died of mysterious il...le distortions in the structure of cell nuclei. By studying the mutations that killed the two infants, Miner and his colleagues acquired new perspective on the ...Manchester to spearhead 8.3 million particle physics project
...generation of very intense sources of neutrons for studying the structure of materials and the dynamics of chemical reactions, of interest to physicists, chemists, biologists, engineers and many industries. "The demonstration in this country that these machines are able to meet the expectations listed above...National Academy of Sciences elects 2 Rutgers professors
...e co-inventor of a fluorescence-sensing system for studying microscopic marine organisms, Falkowski has authored or co-authored more than 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals and books. Most recently, his paper describing the connection between the increase in oxygen content in the atmosphere and mammalian ev...Protein enables discovery of quantum effect in photosynthesis
When it comes to studying energy transfer in photosynthesis, it's good to think "outside the bun." That's what Robert Blankenship, Ph.D., professor of biology and chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, did when he contributed a protein to a stud...Engineering professor receives prestigious NSF Career Award
...r diseases. Graduate students in his lab are also studying the mechanisms of artery kinking in the elderly and the wall stress and remodeling of the left ventricle after heart attacks. "Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, so we are trying to understand the adaptatio...Peramivir protects mice from lethal H5N1 infection
... peramivir during a pandemic, and we are currently studying the emergence of H5N1 variants that are resistant to this drug and may occur in the course of treatment," said Natalia A. Ilyushina, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in Websters laboratory. Ilyushina is a co-author of the paper....National Academy of Sciences elects 2 Brandeis University scientists to membership
...animals. Miller has spent his research career studying the molecular underpinnings of the generation of electricity within the cell. The ion channels, a subclass of membrane proteins, mediate all electrical activity and control important physiological functions, including hormone secretion, blood volume ...MNI researchers find a new role for mitochondria in cellular copper regulation
...al Neurological Institute at McGill University are studying how copper is processed in our bodies and its distinct role in early development. Their findings, published in a recent edition of the journal Cell Metabolism, identify a new role for two proteins involved with copper regulation. This study may lead ...Ape gestures offer clues to the evolution of human communication
...is relatively invariant," Pollick continued. By studying similar types of communication in closely related species, researchers are able to determine shared ancestry. We know gestures are evolutionarily younger than facial expressions and vocalizations, as shown by their presence in apes and humans but not...Cherries may help reduce metabolic syndrome and heart disease risk factors
...olic syndrome, and there is tremendous interest in studying the impact of particular foods that are rich in antioxidants, such as cherries." Metabolic syndrome (also called insulin resistance syndrome) has become increasingly common in the United States, especially among adults in their mid-30s. The Ame...The brain is more adept at using the nose than previously realized
... respond to challenges of distinguishing smells by studying actual activity in the olfactory bulb while varying the difficulty of the discrimination," Kay said. For the study, the researchers attached electrodes to the brains of four rats and trained them to distinguish different odors. The electrodes fol...Pioneering research on sleeping sickness wins MERIAL Award for Parasitology
...rasitology. For a number of years now, he has been studying the parasite that causes sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis). This deadly disease strikes about 300,000 new patients each year, thousands of whom die. Not only is Stefan Magez trying to discover how the parasite makes us sick, hes also search...Landmark study highlights complex genetic risk factors behind type 2 diabetes
...e." These initial findings were then confirmed by studying a further 9,000 samples from the UK (the majority of them from the Dundee area collected by researchers from the Ninewells Hospital and Medical School. The research has been conducted in close collaboration with two other groups from the US and S...Cancer scientists create 'human' leukemia process to map how disease begins, progresses
...onto, said: "Most human leukemia research involves studying a patient's diseased cells or a cell line grown fr...cancer takes many months or years to develop, just studying the cells at the end of the process does not let you know what the series of changes were that cause...Study of planarians offers insight into germ cell development
...n use the molecular biological tools available for studying planarians to get at the mechanisms that tell a cell: Youre going to be a germ cell. " S. mediterranea also has the ability to reproduce asexually: It clones itself by means of fission. In looking at nanos in asexual individuals of this species, th...Researchers find ways to reduce side effects in the treatment of damaging protein plaques
...edicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia are studying the possible use of carboranes, which are clusters of boron and carbon atoms, to prevent such side effects. These boron-rich clusters are substituted for carbon-based benzene rings commonly found in pharmaceuticals of all types, including COX inhibit...Stanford scientists make major breakthrough in regenerative medicine
...estor may have been like 550 million years ago. By studying this modern day representative of our evolutionary ancestor, researchers are able to identify fundamental principles of complex processes, such as healing and organ regeneration, on which new treatments are based. "The aim of biomedical science is ...