Pediatric ritalin use may affect developing brain, new study suggests
...gests a new study of very young rats by a research team at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. The study is among the first to probe the effects of Ritalin (methylphenidate) on the neurochemistry of the developing brain. Between 2 to18 percent of American children are thought to be affected...Alternative farming cleans up water
...d water caused by conventional fertilizer use. The team of scientists reports their findings in the July-August 2007 issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality. Nitrogen is one of the most important elements required in agricultural systems for plant and animal production. While treatment with the co...Rise of dinosaurs in Late Triassic more gradual than once thought
...ous through the paintings of Georgia O'Keefe, by a team of paleontologists from the University of Californ...Most came from a 20- by 10-foot site. The research team continues to excavate at three sites in the quarry and is sifting through the debris for smaller fos...Genomic analysis uncovers new targets for HIV vaccine
DURHAM, N.C. -- An international team of researchers has identified three gene variants in the DNA of 486 people infected with HIV that appear to have helped some of the patients fight off the virus and delay the onset of full-blown AIDS. The researchers expect the new findings to ai...Molecular detectors may refine cancer treatment
...t data with these molecular profiles. The research team working with W. Stratford May, M.D., Ph.D., director of the UF Shands Cancer Center, and Ying Li, M.D., Ph.D., a clinical assistant professor of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine in the College of Medicine has analyzed additional patien......nity and there is plenty more to explore. Quakes team has already begun using the chip to isolate, identify, and sequence communities of microbes that reside in termite hindguts, and his lab at Stanford is custom building chips for other scientists interested in pursuing any culture-resistant microbe or...JCI table of contents: July 19, 2007
... issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a team led by Robert Farese at the University of South Fl... issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a team led by Lee Ellis from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found that when PDGF-BB was ...Coming soon -- Protein synthesis without amino acids?
...talyst to do the job: a simple cobalt complex. The team was thus able to use this technique to synthesize polypeptides that have previously not been accessible by other means. As a next step, the Chinese researchers want to include not just one, but a variety of imines into the same chain....Restless legs genetics on the move
...nes which might play a role in RLS for years. A team of scientists from the Institute of Human Genetics of the GSF Research Center, the Technical University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry have now first identified risk factors which are involved in the development of the disease:...Scientists a step closer to understanding how anaesthetics work in the brain
.... Earlier studies on great pond snails by the same team identified that anaesthetics seemed to selectively...sthetic binds on the potassium channel, giving the team a clearer picture than ever before of the precise mechanism by which anaesthetics work. This kind...MIT IDs link between brain tumor proteins
... all drugs that have been tried against it. The team focused on a protein called EGFRvIII, a mutated form of the cell receptor for epidermal growth factor (EGF). The mutated receptor, which is found in approximately a quarter of GBM tumors, is continuously active and relentlessly pushes cells to keep g...New proteomics research promises to revolutionize biomedical discovery
...th issue of the journal Molecular Cell, a research team led by Dr. Benoit Coulombe from the Institut de re...ene transcription and RNA processing, the Coulombe team has defined an intricate network of 805 high-confidence interactions that connect together 436 diffe...Charting ever-changing genomes
...vorite genes. To assemble their lists, the Ecker team poured over data derived from old-fashioned gene-c...ience practicing evolutionary genomics. Weigels team went a step further and effectively re-sequenced whole genomes with the help of nearly a billion 25-...Bird sized airplane to fly like a swift
... enabling new biological research. The RoboSwift team presented the design on the yearly Design Synthesis symposium at TU Delft. The team will build the high-tech micro airplane in the following months; it is expected to fly in January 20...Exercise, exercise, rest, repeat -- how a break can help your workout
... individuals in the future. However, Goto and his team of researchers plan on conducting further studies in order to explore the results in a variety of exercise durations as well as in different types of individuals....Purdue-IU researchers explore new method for early disease diagnosis
...t into the markers of metabolic disorders. The IU team was critical to the success of this work, Raftery ...ues to provide early detection." Raftery and his team used nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, a cousin of magnetic resonance imaging, which provides...Gene identified for Crohn's disease in children
...genomes of 282 matched control subjects. The study team found that 64 percent of children with Crohns disease had a specific variant form of the gene ATG16L1, compared with 52 percent of the healthy children. The odds ratio for children with the gene variant was 1.62 compared to control children, meaning ...UK scientists lift lid on genetics of coronary artery disease
...isease. Our thanks go to this dedicated research team and the thousands of heart patients, who provided samples of their DNA for the BHFs Family Heart Study, which made this research possible. We now look forward to seeing further research so we can add more pieces to this complex puzzle." The 9 milli...Researchers discover gene responsible for Restless Legs Syndrome
An international team of researchers has identified the first gene assoc...oal of identifying genes causing RLS, the research team conducted genome-wide scans of nearly 1,000 Icelanders and 188 Americans. A new chip technology was ......ntion. The initial studies were carried out by a team of researchers led by Professor Yates and Professor Tony Moore at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. Further work to confirm the initial findings was carried out by researchers in Scotland led by Professor Alan Wright, Medical Research Council Human...