UCF research links proteins, stem cells and potential Alzheimer's treatment
A team of scientists led by professor Kiminobu Sugaya at ... stem cells from becoming neurons. The research team treated Alzheimers-model mice producing human APP with phenserine, which is known to reduce the amou...Anthrax bacterium's deadly secrets probed
...yses from separate, distributed computers. The team decided to test their method on 12 members of the ...ow in the host and not in the soil, he adds. The team is setting up a website to guide users through the process for any bacterium whose genome is known. ...Teamwork between 2 key proteins necessary for normal development and regulation of red blood cells
...and corresponding author for this study. Lloyds team studied gene expression and red blood cell development in the mouse embryo. They used mouse embryos missing both the KLF2 and EKLF genes to show that embryonic globin expression is severely reduced, and that the embryos therefore are anemic, compared...Not all embryonic stem cell lines are created equal
... of human neurodegenerative diseases. The research team was led by UCLA stem cell biologist Yi Sun and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Thomas Sdhof at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Embryonic stem cells are developmentally immature cells that are capable of sel...Satellite tracking will help answer questions about penguin travels
...ed with oil, and that can mean death. Last year, a team of scientists that included Boersma reported they had found 19 groups rehabilitating oiled seabirds along the Atlantic coast from central Brazil to central Argentina, indicating a much larger problem than generally had been believed. It remains uncer...Disabling a sensory organ prompts female mice to act like male mice
...cts the chemical cues mice use to attract mates, a team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers has prompted female mice to behave like male mice in the throes of courtship. The finding, reported August 5, 2007, in the journal Nature, suggests that the neural circuits that govern gender-...See what you're spewing as you speed along
...lution spewing out of their vehicles exhausts. A team from The University of Manchester has constructed ... are then measured. The University of Manchester team employed a device known as a near-IR diode laser sensor to measure the variation in gas concentratio...MIT study: Maturity brings richer memories
...nce online edition of Nature Neuroscience, the MIT team reports that children rival adults in forming basic memories, but adults do better at remembering the rich, contextual details of that information. The MIT study provides new insights into how children learn that are not only theoretically important,...Human knowledge is based upon directed connectivity between brain areas
...short-lasting dynamic networks. An international team of scientists that includes biologists, engineers, physicists and psychologists has now investigated this network in humans by measuring electrical brain currents (EEG) and by applying the most advanced analysis techniques currently available. Huma...Immunity in social amoeba suggests ancient beginnings
...in-1 Receptor domain protein (TirA), Kuspa and his team found. This signaling pathway or a very similar one is present in plants and animals, he said. Now it has been identified in amoeba. It has not been found in fungi. Amoeba have, in the last 10 years, become appreciated as one of the four main f...Forecasting system provides flood warnings to vulnerable residents of Bangladesh
...wed by one- to six-month seasonal forecasts. The team will also study the feasibility of applying its forecasting technology and methods to other vulnerable countries, such as Cambodia and Vietnam. "We feel that the prediction modules we have developed for Bangladesh are templates for flood forecastin...Discovery of new protein could provide new understanding of male fertility
...that this was indeed the case. Groettrup and his team also tested whether UBE1L2 was like the original E1 expressed in all organs and tissues. They measured the expression levels of UBE1L2 in mice and found that the protein was expressed about five times more in the testis than other organs. Again, ...ASU researchers partner with UOP to make biofuel for military jets a reality
...Arizona State University researchers are part of a team led by UOP, LLC., a Honeywell company, that is loo...ch is used by U. S. and NATO militaries. The ASU team in the School of Applied Arts and Sciences will lead an effort to demonstrate the technical and econ...Discredited Korean embryonic stem cells' true origins revealed
...ithout being rejected by the immune system. The team recently demonstrated in mice a feasible technique for generating parthenogenetic embryonic stem cells that were genetically matched to the egg donor at the genes that control tissue typing, and are attempting to create similar cells from humans. (se...Marijuana component opens the door for virus that causes Kaposi's sarcoma
...rcoma to infect cells and multiply, according to a team of researchers at Harvard Medical School. According to the researchers, low doses of -9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), equivalent to that in the bloodstream of an average marijuana smoker, could be enough to facilitate infection of skin cells and could...Altering a protein makes mice less fearful
...ing response and even climbed onto the beaker. The team showed that the loss of ASIC1a did not affect the ...n the mice." In a second set of experiments, the team also showed that chemically inhibiting the ASIC1a protein in normal mice (using a component of taran......ly deadly when its spores are inhaled. Bergmans team focused on the mystifying step in anthrax infectio...ctivates inside the defender macrophages, Bergmans team used DNA microarrays, a technology emerging in the last decade, to examine mouse macrophage cells in...Handicapping tuberculosis may be the way to a better vaccine
...li at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The team will publish its findings in the August, 2007, iss...acrophage doesnt know its infected. Jacobs and his team hypothesized that eliminating this enzymes activity would give macrophages the opportunity to trigge...Orangutans' communication resembles a game of 'charades'
...as does the orangutan--but secondarily to help the team get your meaning by giving them hints as to how well they are doing. To find out whether orangutans intentionally communicate with people through gesturesa skill earlier attributed to chimpanzeesErica Cartmill and Richard Byrne presented six captiv......ressure but the reasons were never clear. Now a team led by Professor Jim Deuchars has examined pathway...of research until new techniques allowed the Leeds team to take the work forward. Their work began by chance, as Prof Deuchars explained: Cells in the are...