American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 13, 2007
...d better avian flu drugs Toward a much-needed new test for cancer of the urinary bladder Protein-enriche...2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toward a much-needed new test for cancer of the urinary bladder Journal of Proteome Research Progress toward development of a ...Ancient Etruscans were immigrants from Anatolia, or what is now Turkey
...d to sample other villages in Tuscany, and also to test whether there is a genetic continuity between the ancient Etruscans and modern-day Tuscans. This will have to be done by extracting DNA from fossils; this has been tried before but the technique for doing so has proved to be very difficult. Inter...Noninvasive screening in early pregnancy reduces Down's births by 50 percent
...al translucency in the fetus by ultrasound. This test looks at thickness of the black space (fluid) in t...did not lead to invasive procedures Women whose test results showed an elevated risk were offered an invasive procedure (chorionic villus sampling or amn...Study could impact noninvasive treatment of cancer tumors
...les might act as a benign replacement for CPAs. To test this, they added commercially available gold nanop...rmally rapid growth rate in lab conditions. While test results showed that the nanoparticles were not as effective in protecting frozen cells as the more t...LIAI researchers identify a potential role for retinoic acid in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases
...ed inflammation. In another approach, designed to test how reducing retinoic acid would affect inflammati...scientists treated T cells with retinoic acid in a test tube. When put back into the mice, these T cells prevented the formation of inflammatory T cells in...Could fungal collection hold the key to new life-saving drugs?
...es to focus on drug discovery. They have developed test systems to detect biological activity in samples of natural products that could lead to new medicinal products. Previous work at SIDR found activities from plant extracts against diabetes, obesity and psoriasis. Professor Alan Harvey, Director of S...New findings challenge established views on human genome
...round the world, the research served as a pilot to test the feasibility of a full-scale initiative to produce a comprehensive catalog of all components of the human genome crucial for biological function. This impressive effort has uncovered many exciting surprises and blazed the way for future efforts...'Wurst' ensures that the respiratory system works
... LIMES Institute in Bonn, we want to automatically test many tens of thousands of substances by machine and see whether they promote the resorption of liquid from tracheae in fruit flies," explains Professor Hoch. "We will then try out any promising candidates on mice with RDS as well as on human lung cel...New findings challenge established views about human genome
...around the world. The project served as a pilot to test the feasibility of a full-scale initiative to produce a comprehensive catalog of all components of the human genome crucial for biological function. The findings promise to reshape our understanding of how the human genome functions. They challeng...Scientists decode RNA mystery, will help aim drug therapies
...hanistic levels, and developed a simple drug-based test to differentiate them. Its a real step in designing the pathway of rational drug design. Defining the Codons Messenger RNA tells the ribosome what kind of proteins to make and how much to crank out. The codons specify which amino acids should en...Breakthrough developments in rheumatoid arthritis reported
...nto citrulline. Laboratories have developed a test to measure for anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody, or anti-CCP. It is now being used as a diagnostic for rheumatoid arthritis. Scientists are now finding that patients have CCP antibodies months or years prior to the illness, suggesting a way...Vets seeing more horses with nutritional issues this year
...e retina at the back of the eyeball. A quick blood test can determine if the animal is suffering from a vitamin E deficiency. Johnson recommends that horse owners who imported hay from unknown sources last year either have the hay tested or keep a close watch on their horses. Horses that do not have acces...Salvage logging, replanting increased biscuit fire severity
...oing experiments within the Biscuit Fire region to test the effectiveness of fuel breaks for slowing the spread of severe fires. ...ASU research shows connection between testosterone, dietary antioxidants and bird coloration
...osterone-induced immunosupression" An experimental test in a colorful songbird, in the current issue (June 6, 2007) of Biology Letters, a journal of the Royal Society, London. The researchers experimentally examined the relationship between testosterone, carotenoids and immune state in 35 male and fema...Agonized death throes probable cause of open-mouthed, head-back pose of many dino fossils
...arian from her home in Lewiston, Idaho, set out to test other post-mortem processes - rigor mortis, which is the temporary stiffening of muscles after death; and the drying of muscles, tendons and ligaments - that some paleontologists credit with creating the opisthotonic posture. She obtained badly injur...ESA's water mission instrument passes test program
...r MIRAS's overall measurement performance. For the test to be meaningful, the instrument's three arms had to be fully deployed suspended like a string puppet it just fitted into the 10-metre diameter chamber. These thermal tests continued around the clock for almost 3 weeks. Testing images Finally, ...Hormone that signals fullness also curbs fast food consumption and tendency to binge eat
...m in obesity includes several ongoing studies that test pramlintide in combination with other hormones involved in weight control, such as peptide YY and leptin, Weyer said. Research in obese rats suggests that amylin may restore the response to leptin, which is often lost in obesity. The hope is that thi...Studies to find better ways to preserve human eggs, ovarian tissue under way
...a local slaughterhouse. Bull sperm will be used to test the viability of cow eggs afterward but human eggs will not be fertilized. Standard cryopreservation has been tried and largely failed in human eggs, says Dr. Emmi, who believes some version of vitrification likely offers a better option for ovaria...Pesticides choke pathway for nature to produce nitrogen for crops
...tudy. According to years of research both in the test tube and, now, with real plants, a team of scientists reports that artificial chemicals in pesticides through application or exposure to crops through runoff disrupt natural nitrogen-fixing communications between crops and soil bacteria. The disrup......f GGA3 actively interfere with BACE disposal. To test the role of GGA3, the researchers silenced activity of the GGA3 gene in brain cells, finding that the silencing caused increased levels of BACE and the amyloid proteins. And they found that inducing strokes in rats caused GGA3 to be degraded and BA...