$4.4 million NIH grant renews Echinacea and St John's wort research at Iowa State
...r Research on Botanical Dietary Supplements brings together plant scientists, biochemists, nutritionists, chemists, immunologists, food scientists, virologists, metabolic scientists and statisticians. Center strengths include genomic analysis, broad-based plant metabolic profiling and an ability to integrate ...Essential genes cluster clue to order in the genome
...ondered if the reason that the chromosome remained together (and is not easily broken apart or recombined with other parts of this or other chromosomes) is that it had all these densely packed essential genes," said Justice. With the aid of a computer program developed by Dr. Bin Liu at Baylor College of M...UCSF-led team receives $15 million to study genetics of epilepsy
...e of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and brings together more than 50 researchers and clinicians from 15 medical centers around the country. The project is led by Daniel Lowenstein, MD, professor and vice chairman of the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and ......i from Ndlec's group, who carried out the research together with Martin Srayko from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. "How exactly this works we don't know yet. One possibility could be that part of the cortex holds on to the microtubule while it shortens, and so pulls on the wh...New Arizona alliance aims to boost technologies for medical diagnostics and human health
...ources and the important problems they are working together to solve. "Collaboration is one of the things that sets Arizona science apart from other states, where competition is more often the rule," said Joseph Rogers, president and senior scientist of the Sun Health Research Institute. The important p...'Personality-gene' makes songbirds curious
...Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, together with a former lab member who is now at the Cawthron Institute in Nelson (New Zealand) and with colleagues from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology in Heteren, have shown that the choice of the Drd4-gene in the study of the great tit turned out to be...Gene malfunctions cause schizophrenia, depression symptoms in mice
...mical, and behavioral phenotypes, which when taken together are strikingly consistent with the emerging picture from clinical and basic studies of DISC1 as a common genetic and biologically plausible risk factor for major mental illness," concluded Clapcote and colleagues. They wrote that "our findings lend f...SNM 'capitalizes' opportunity to meet with policymakers, regulators at annual meeting in D.C.
...the molecular imaging and therapy community to get together with policymakers and regulators to discuss issues of shared concern," said SNM President Martin P. Sandler. "This year we have increased the number of educational sessions presented by representatives from the Food and Drug Administration and the Ce...Work with nanoparticles may lead to 'on-the-spot' virus detector
...ing electrodes separated by just a few micrometers together with electrothermally induced fluid flow, we can accelerate the transport of viral particles from aqueous suspensions with physiological ionic strength to specific points on a surface, allowing them to reach local concentrations high enough to allow ...Lab-on-a-chip device from Berkeley Lab to speed proteomics research
...much of the connectivity that enable cells to come together into tissues and organs. One of the first steps in proteomics research is to determine the identity and modifications of individual proteins that make up a cell or tissue sample. The principal means of doing this is through mass spectrometry. Mass ...Salk scientist Ursula Bellugi elected to National Academy of Sciences
...the Foundation IPSEN Prize in Neuronal Plasticity, together with Torsten Wiesel and Wolfgang Singer. Dr. Bellugi has served on an Advisory Council to the NIH, and is an Associate of the Neurosciences Research Program as well as the Dana Brain Alliance. Her research has been presented to Congress as part of th...Tree rings show elevated tungsten coincides with Nevada leukemia cluster
...on Cancer has declared cobalt and tungsten carbide together to be a probable carcinogen. ( http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Meetings/vol86.php ) The biological research that has been done suggests a relationship between tungsten and cobalt and cancer but is not definitive, the researchers write. Witten said,...Statin treatment improves spatial memory in mouse models of Alzheimer's
...their memory by nine months of age. These animals, together with regular mice without the beta amyloid genes, were acclimated for one week, with as much food and water as they wished, then divided into four groups. Half the Alzheimers mice and half the normal mice received 10 mg/kg Simvastatin for seven days,...Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes similar at molecular level
... "Like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, they have to fit together just right. We are finding out how they fit together. We dont yet know all the ways of forming the zippers; we are working to fill in the missing pieces and are hopeful of doing so. Thanks to our colleagues in Grenoble and Copenhagen, technology is n...Penn leads $4 million grant to study gene-environment interactions in lung cancer
...o air pollutants for each subject will be analyzed together with their individual variation in approximately 100 genes. The genes to be tested are considered to be very important for dealing with the carcinogens that are known to cause lung cancer and include many of those responsible for the metabolism and d...... to global climate change. The consortium brings together a unique combination of expertise and facilities enabling the design and execution of a novel experiment. Plants were grown in a facility containing atmospheric carbon dioxide almost exclusively with a heavy form of carbon (13C). This makes the carbo...Researchers identify new genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes
... the breadth and depth of the research. By pulling together and sharing their data, these three groups were able to achieve far more than any one of them could have done alone," said Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D., director of NHGRI's Division of Intramural Research. "This is scientific collaboration at its best....Researchers 'look into' plant cells to increase ethanol yields
...that help break down the cell wall. "This brings together the tools that link the processing technology to the plant tissue physiology," said Nathan Mosier, an assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue University. "It helps us understand, on a fundamental level, what the proce...Female ticks have market on gluttony
...luid contains two engorgement factor proteins that together act as a signal to tell her to complete engorgement. Kaufman's future research will look toward the potential to produce an anti-tick vaccine. Some experiments have already suggested that normal, mated ticks are unable to fully engorge when feedin...Genome-wide search unearths surprising clues for diabetes and triglycerides
...search groups. The three groups studies, appearing together in the April 26 advance online edition of Science,...ating blood glucose. "This collaboration brings together biologists, geneticists, statisticians and physicians. This interdisciplinary team approach may be t...