Chinese medicinal compound stops formation of cysts in polycystic kidney disease in lab
... the mice compared to genetically similar mice not taking the compound. During normal kidney development, cells lining the kidney tubules continue growing and dividing until they receive a signal that the tubule is fully formed. The switch that turns on that signal consists of the growth regulatory protei...University of Texas researcher earns APS Bowditch award
...ld, Stockand wanted to know how things work, often taking things apart to figure them out. His road to a career in biology began, ironically enough, when his high school biology teacher tired of his mischievous behavior. She removed him from the class and assigned him an independent research project to work...Researchers identify new genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes
... help to reduce the terrible toll that diabetes is taking on the world's health," said Dr. Tuomilehto of the Diabetes Unit in Finland's National Public Health Institute. To validate their findings, the researchers compared their initial results with results from genome scans of 3,000 Swedish and Finnish p...Double honor recognises world-class science and spin-out success
...ts have developed ground-breaking research and are taking it to the international marketplace in the fields of engineering, pharmaceuticals, food science, computer science, agriculture and the environment. Last year The University of Nottingham won a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category of Intern...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April 2007
...s and other tools to reduce energy consumption and taking into account a number of variables such as a buildings construction, its ability to stay cool or warm, and how outside conditions impact the inside. The research is funded through DOEs Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. [Contact: Fred ...Mosquito genes explain response to climate change
...ke recess at a different time. Many organisms are taking the latter course, using day length to guide them."...FSU researcher's award will fund study into cardiovascular grafts
...ve the award at FAMRIs Sixth Scientific Symposium, taking place in Miami on May 14-16. According to its Web site ( www.famri.org ), FAMRI "honors flight attendants who have dedicated their lives to make air travel healthy and safe since its inception, especially the advocates for smoke-free cabins. FAMRI ...Kent State University and Summa Health System receive NIH grant to study prehypertension
... not yet categorized as hypertensive, they are not taking medicine to treat high blood pressure and they are willing to commit to either the mindfulness-based stress reduction treatment or the progressive muscle relaxation-based stress reduction treatment.......bees sometimes had the shortest tongues. But after taking into account all that variation in body size, he says long tongues really do impose a mechanical cost on bees. Everyone knows just how busy bees can be, but orchid bees are basically sacrificing speed at flowers for exclusive access to them. Borrell ...2007 Communicator Award goes to glaciologists from Bremerhaven
... and meteorologists in the working group have been taking deep ice cores from the Arctic and Antarctic ice on numerous national and international expeditions. From these ice cores they can obtain deep insights, enabling them to reconstruct the earths climate over the past millennia. In 2003 they took the de...Winter flounder on the fast track to recovery
...f of Maine went into serious decline in the 1980s, taking with it a major commercial and recreational fishery. Despite stringent fishing regulations, it's estimated that it could take more than a decade for winter flounder to regain its once-robust place in New England coastal waters. Now, researchers at...Health disparities -- Genetics, society and race play an important role in access to healthcare
...d. "For example, we found an indication that after taking other factors into account, a person with a lower level of acculturation who lived in an area where few others speak English was more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage of disease than the same type of person who lived in an area where most spok...Blame the brain for high blood pressure
...patients remain hypertensive, even though they are taking drugs to alleviate the condition, emphasises the urgency of looking for new mechanisms by which the body controls blood pressure, and finding new therapeutic targets to drive fresh drug development. Professor Paton said: We are looking at the possi...Where is the proton? Yale scientists discover footprints of shared protons
...e gas-phase and cooling them to about 50 Kelvin by taking advantage of recent advances in argon nanomatrix spectroscopy. "Historically it has been very difficult to isolate the signature of an excess proton in a complex environment like a cell membrane, and say with confidence Aha, I have one," said John...New way to catch cancer's spread, rapid 3-D retinal imaging, more at CLEO/QELS 2007
...tion, three-dimensional images of blood vessels by taking advantage of the natural light-absorbing properties of hemoglobin, the red-blood-cell molecule that carries oxygen throughout the bloodstream. Developed at Duke University, the new laser-based method should provide 3-D images of blood vessels in ...Study pries into ovarian cancer's deadly secrets
...denocarcinoma. Cho says possible new treatments taking advantage of the labs findings are probably several years away. In the new paper, Cho, lead authors Rong Wu and Neali Hendrix-Lucas, and other members of Chos team report that defects in two cellular signaling pathways occur together in a subset o...Bronfman gift to Mount Sinai catalyzes genomics-based medicine
...ised to lead the most important medical revolution taking place today, and one that will have the biggest impact on the direction and growth of bioscience for the next few decades," said Kenneth L. Davis, M.D., President and CEO of the Medical Center. "Mr. Bronfman's generosity and vision will enable Mount ...UC Davis study finds high arsenic levels in herbal kelp supplements
...sor treatment recommendations, the patient started taking a variety ofherbal therapies, including a kelp supplement, fish oil, ginkgo biloba andgrape seed extract. The kelp supplement was the only herbal therapy shetook regularly throughout the course of her illness. Over a period of several months the wo...Sandia researchers take new approach to studying how cells respond to pathogens
...al Laboratories research team led by Anup Singh is taking a new approach to studying how immune cells respon...selected cell subpopulations. "In effect, we are taking many work-horse technologies such as confocal microscopy, flow cytometry and immunoassays and combin......s week with the first collections of cancer tissue taking place at the new Wesley Research Institute Tissue Bank. The Tissue Bank is the first of its kind in Queensland to provide a widely available and diversified collection of ethically consented and clinically annotated tissue, helping to unravel the c...