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... Science July 30. In their experiments, the Duke team studied a well-documented strain of animals known as agouti mice. Normally, these mice tend to be slender and brown. While past epigenetic research at Duke has focused on nutrients given to pregnant agouti mice, the current experiments represented th...Military to study better pain relief in battle zones
...atic stress disorders. A large multidisciplinary team of U-M scientists will use the grant to design mul... the first year of in vitro studies, Baker and his team want to apply for continued DARPA funding to proceed with animal and eventually human studies. ...Research shows NPD1 protects a key component of vision
... can be counteracted by NPD1. The LSUHSC research team conducted studies on the formation and action of N...ive effects were present even six hours later. The team decided to explore whether oxidative stress triggered by another experimental condition, called seru...MIT team building robotic fin for submarines
...e ocean floor to surveying shipwrecks. But the MIT team hopes to create a more maneuverable, propeller-les...rtant for propulsion and copy those. So far, the team has built several prototypes that successfully mimic the sunfish fin. They reported the successful t...Insulin grown in plants relieves diabetes in mice; UCF study holds promise for humans
...l researchers. Professor Henry Daniells research team genetically engineered tobacco plants with the insulin gene and then administered freeze-dried plant cells to five-week-old diabetic mice as a powder for eight weeks. By the end of the study, the diabetic mice had normal blood and urine sugar levels,...Caffeine and exercise can team up to prevent skin cancer
...ore than 1 million new cases each year. A research team at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, sh...g the four groups of UVB-treated mice, the Rutgers team looked at physical changes in the cells. The scientists also relied on chemical markers, such as cas...Zebrafish: It's not your parents' lab rat
...east cancer. Using the tools of biotechnology, the team studied zebrafish that couldn't transcribe the LMO4 gene, and they observed marked enlargement in both the forebrain and optical portions of the embryos. When they overexpressed the LMO4 gene, making more protein than normal, those same areas shrank....First new multiple sclerosis gene found in 30 years
...sity of Miami and Vanderbilt University. The same team was also involved in another paper replicating sim...identification of targets for new therapies. The team used a technique known as genomic convergence, in which they took the results of many studies lookin...Using stem cells to help heart attack victims
...t so their properties are better understood. The team has already demonstrated that sufficient numbers of stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes can be produced for detailed analysis and they plan to use new 'electrophysiology' systems to record changes in the cells when cultured. Electrophysiology is the stu...Nottingham biosciences million pound injection
...gnition of the hard work and creativity of a large team of scientists who have worked at the University of Nottingham and within Regentec over the past five years. They are pioneers in terms of their science, but also in ensuring that the expertise and knowledge honed in a research-intensive university ...System to analyze beating heart stem cells could lead to heart attack treatments
...allenges that stem cells bring, Dr Denning and his team plan to engineer a novel system for real-time anal... so their properties are better understood. The team have already demonstrated that sufficient numbers of stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes can be produce...Wild weather forces farmers to adapt
...and environmental attributes. From 2002-2005, a team of researchers at the USDA-ARS Northern Great Plai...approach along with the multidisciplinary research team effort enhanced evaluation of crop interactions that may otherwise be overlooked in crop sequence re...St. Jude study solves mystery of mammalian ears
...ly, Zuo said. In the current study, Zuo and his team conducted a complex series of studies that showed ...lia dominate amplification in non-mammals. Zuos team took advantage of a previously discovered mutated form of prestin that does not make the outer hair ...New research identifies anti-viral protein that may predict who might be at risk to develop lupus
...umatology at Hospital for Special Surgery, and her team were looking at levels of interferon-alpha. The researchers found that when an SLE patient had high blood levels, so did many of their healthy first degree family members. There was a genetic link. The study, which is now online in advance of print...Strength of connections between brain regions may affect an adolescent's response to peer influence
...the most easily recognized emotion. Paus and his team observed 35 10-year-olds with high and low resistance to peer influence, as determined by a questionnaire. The researchers then showed the children video clips of angry hand movements and angry faces and measured their brain activity. They found that...$9M grant awarded to University of Cincinnati for bipolar disorder research
...motional and social behaviors. He and his BITREC team plan to further study these areas by visualizing them in healthy people and in people with bipolar disorder during several different early phases of illness. They will then view the brains physiological response to two mechanistically different, but ...UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute partners with Abraxis BioScience
...cience will collaborate with the institute and its team of leading researchers to capitalize on the recent explosion in nanoscience and to chart the future of nanotechnology within biotechnology. Abraxis has agreed to contribute $10 million over 10 years to fund collaborative projects at UCLAs new CNSI bu...Surprising new species of light-harvesting bacterium discovered in Yellowstone
In the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, a team of researchers has discovered a novel bacterium th...on (bioremediation), or in medicine. The research team led by Bryant and Ward found the new bacterium living in the same hot springs as the most famous Yel...Innovative research technique reveals another natural wonder in Yellowstone Park
In the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, a team of researchers partially funded by the National Sc... (bioremediation), and medicine. Bryant and Ward's team found the new bacterium in three hot springs--Mushroom Spring, Octopus Spring, and Green Finger Pool...Hepatitis C helicase unwinds DNA in a spring-loaded, 3-step process
...ingle-molecule fluorescence analysis, the research team tracked how the hepatitis C helicase, NS3, unwound a duplexed DNA molecule tagged with a fluorescent label on each strand of its double-stranded region. (The NS3 helicase is primarily involved in unwinding the single-stranded RNA of the hepatitis vir...