Gene variant increases risk for alcoholism following childhood abuse
...s with the high activity variant. Our aim was to test whether this low activity variant influences the impact of childhood sexual abuse on alcoholism and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) in women, says Dr. Ducci. She and her colleagues analyzed DNA samples from a group of American Indian women l...University of Arizona launches major scientific research initiative at Biosphere 2
...(30 meters) long and 22 yards (20 meters) wide, to test how water moves down, into and across the slopes. "Then we will introduce plants and ask how having life on a landscape changes the behavior of water, both in the air and in the soil," Huxman said. "We are interested in how plants modify their env...Omega-3 fatty acids protect eyes against retinopathy, study finds
...abnormal blood vessels in the retina. To further test the apparent beneficial effect of omega-3 fatty ac...g clinical trial at Childrens Hospital Boston will test the effects of omega-3 supplements in premature infants. ...Modified mushrooms may yield human drugs
...have been genetically altered for resistance. The test demonstrates that if a second gene, insulin for example, were to be patched in the plasmid, that gene would be expressed as well. "There is a high probability that if the mushroom cell has the hygromycin resistance gene, it will also have the partn...UGR researchers design an alternative to blood test to detect drugs in the body
...ne that the pericardial fluid is an alternative to test blood in order to carry out drug tests for forensi...lighted by the professor of the UGR is that this test is easier than blood test as it shows less interference and takes more time to decompose after the d...New amfAR research grants to optimize HIV treatment
...ften not tested for the virus or do not return for test results. And Dr. Roland Merchant, based at B...ften not tested for the virus or do not return for test results. Because the CDC has recently recommended that all people be tested for HIV, Dr. Gwadz plans...Ancient retrovirus sheds light on modern pandemic
...his innate viral defense system," Emerman said. To test their hypothesis, Emerman and co-authors Harmit Singh Malik, Ph.D., an evolutionary biologist and an assistant member of the Center's Basic Sciences Division, and Shari Kaiser, a graduate student in Emerman's laboratory, used DNA sequences from the c...Scientists close in on missing carbon sink
...north. Stephens and his collaborators set out to test how well the models captured carbon sinks, focusing in particular on estimates produced by a recent international study into global carbon exchange known as TransCom. They turned to flasks of air collected by research aircraft over various points of ...Northern forests less effective than tropical forests in reducing global warming
...e about a "missing carbon sink" in the north. To test whether the computer models were correct, Stephens and his collaborators turned to flasks of air that had been collected by research aircraft over various points of the globe. The air samples had been collected and analyzed by seven labs, where the...Paving the way toward a vaccine against Alzheimer's disease
...e second half of this year, the two companies will test a potential drug, called Bapineuzumab, on patients with mild to moderate Alzheimers symptoms. If successful, these trials could result in a new type of vaccine containing antibodies that would directly attack the amyloid beta protein clusters. Unl...New $1.16 million study investigates how dietary iron is used by cells
...thin soluble compartments. The researchers will test this form-function model of ionic iron metabolism by focusing on three steps critical to maintaining the proper balance of iron in cells: 1) the reduction of ferric to ferrous iron and the subsequent transport of ferrous iron into a cell; 2) the hand...Helping chlorine-eating bacteria clean up toxic waste
...et what they are," she said. Her laboratory will test the D. ethenogenes strains under a variety of different conditions, such as exposing them to different chlorinated compounds one at a time, varying the environment or the nutrients supplied, and then observing which genes are expressed and what prote...Prey not hard-wired to fear predators
...lowstone and Grand Teton National Parks ) To test reactions of animals living without their traditional predators, Berger played recordings of wolves and tigers and chronicled their reactions. As expected, in the absence of predators, the elk, moose, bison and caribou did not show the kind of vigil...Researchers pit novel version of common virus against cancer
... a terrific but it had one big problem: you cannot test it in people because you cannot give people HIV, explained Kim. So we had to find another route. Thats when we came up with the idea of modifying the adenovirus with dNTP. Thus, the Rochester team set out to construct a new weapon. Their adenovirus...Hepatitis B drug can compromise HIV treatment
...resistance in this setting underscores the need to test all antiviral drugs for anti-HIV activity before t...d entecavirs effects on HIV using a more sensitive test they had developed to measure inhibition of HIV replication. That test uses a strain of HIV engineer...A faster way to recover from chemotherapy and marrow transplant
...up chemicals through their skin, making it easy to test the developmental effects of large numbers of compounds very rapidly, while their transparent skin makes it possible to visualize the blood stem cells in live fish. The researchers also confirmed their observations in mammalian models. When dmPGE2...St. Jude shows gene test not needed if cancer drug given in low doses
...he researchers concluded that it was not useful to test patients to determine if they had UGT1A1*28. This is a negative finding in the sense that the UGT1A1*28 variation does not seem to predict toxic responses in patients treated with low-dose irinotecan, said Lisa McGregor, M.D., Ph.D., assistant mem...Innovative subsea separation technology wins 2007 EUREKA environmental award
...iterally had to build a 1:1 scale separator in our test lab. Without EUREKA, funding the project would have been difficult, he added. Separation equipment plays a crucial role in the oil and gas production process by splitting the wellstream, which may comprise of oil, gas, water and sand, into individu...Fever after smallpox vaccination tied to individual genetic variations
..., the authors say, it may be possible to develop a test that predicts which patients are at risk for vaccine-related fevers. Such a test also may help doctors anticipate and prevent more serious complications linked to the vaccines. Va...Reconstructing the biology of extinct species: A new approach
...of the limb structure. For the first time, we can test our previous conclusions using a new source of information." ...