UCF research links proteins, stem cells and potential Alzheimer's treatment
... of scientists led by professor Kiminobu Sugaya at the University of Central Florida may have found a new... The team, which also included researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the National Institutes of Health, combined a technique for trans...Anthrax bacterium's deadly secrets probed
New insights into why the bug that causes anthrax behaves in the unusual way that it does have come to light thanks to a development under the UK e-Science Programme...Biologist traces coconut's history through DNA
...n palates for centuries, yet little is known about the history of coconuts domestication and dispersal around the world. Now, a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis is embarking on the task of ...Teamwork between 2 key proteins necessary for normal development and regulation of red blood cells
... for regulating overlapping groups of genes during the development of red blood cells. The findings may...ublished online Aug. 3 as a First Edition Paper in the journal Blood, the journal of the American Association for Hematology, researchers reported that a p...Gene predicts better outcome as cortex normalizes in teens with ADHD
...rried a particular version of a gene in a study by the National Institutes of Healths (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). However, the areas, on the right side of the brains outer mantle, or cortex, normalized in thickness during the t...UF, French scientists seek test to detect gene doping in athletes
GAINESVILLE, Fla. Gene doping has the potential to spawn athletes capable of out-running, out-jumping and out-cycling the strongest of champions. But research under way at the University of Florida could help level the pla...Not all embryonic stem cell lines are created equal
...ientists have uncovered significant differences in the mature, functioning neurons generated from each li...- which have yet to be identified -- can influence the developmental properties of human ES cells. The report, which was published August 6, 2007, in the e...Genetic analysis finds greater threat in frog-killing fungus
...ted populations of mountain yellow-legged frogs in the Sierra Nevada can likely be spread by sexual reproduction, seriously complicating efforts to save the frogs from extinction, according to a new genetic analysis led by researchers at the University of C...In a first, Einstein scientists discover the dynamics of transcription in living mammalian cells
August 6, 2007 (BRONX, NY) Transcription the transfer of DNAs genetic information through the synthesis of complementary molecules of messenger RNA forms the basis of all cellular activities. Y...Satellite tracking will help answer questions about penguin travels
...is watching" phobia before this month is over, but the surveillance really will be for their own good. ...ientists will attach satellite tracking devices to the backs of six penguins that have been treated at two centers in northern Argentina after their feathe...New mechanism links smoking to lung damage
In the August 7, 2007, issue of PLoS One, researchers sho...rstood and previously unsuspected mechanism may be the key to understanding how life-style associated forms of oxidative stress, such as exposure to cigare...Disabling a sensory organ prompts female mice to act like male mice
By short-circuiting the sensory organ that detects the chemical cues mice use to attract mates, a team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researcher...Multicenter study nets new lung tumor-suppressor gene
...ound that a particular gene can block key steps of the lung cancer process in mice. The researchers report in the journal Nature that LKB1 is not only a "tumor-suppressor" gene for non-small cell lung cancer in mic...Defects in critical gene lead to accelerated lung tumor growth
...pressors are currently known. Now scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School... Medicine and Harvard Medical School have added to the list another powerful tumor suppressor, a gene called LKB1. Their research indicates that this gene ...See what you're spewing as you speed along
In future drivers may only have to glance at the dashboard to see the pollution spewing out of their vehicles exhausts. A team from The University of Manchester has con...Why nectar-feeding bats need a 'power drink' to fly
...have discovered. The findings, published online in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ec... breeding colony in Germany, Dr Christian Voigt of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin and Professor John Speakman of the Univers...MIT study: Maturity brings richer memories
...tween children and adults have found that although the two groups have much in common, maturity brings richer memories. In the August 5 advance online edition of Nature Neuroscience, the MIT team reports that children rival adu...Human knowledge is based upon directed connectivity between brain areas
... objects" The answer to these questions may lie in the direction of information flow transmitted between ...amic cortical network. This finding is reported in the latest issue of the scientific journal PLoS ONE published on August 1st, 2007 [ http://www.plosone.o...A sensory organ, not the brain, differentiates male and female behavior in some mammals
...s, scientists have searched in vain for slivers of the brain that might drive the dramatic differences between male and female behavior. Now biologists at Harvard University say thes...Census of Marine Life historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe
Ocean historians affiliated with the Census of Marine Life have painted the first detailed portrait of a burst of fishing from 1900 to 1950 that preceded the collapse of once a...