Bioforensics Analysis Research and Development Center created at Los Alamos
...s locations around the nation. To help authorities trace the source of the deadly letters, bioforensic analysts, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists among them, worked diligently to pinpoint the specific strain of bacteria used. This summer, recognizing Los Alamos' technical capabilities, the U.S. De...International stem cell meeting in Kobe, Japan
... the great diversity of animal life, as well as to trace back the means by which some animals are able to regenerate cell, tissues, limbs and organs they have lost to aging, injury or disease. The knowledge gained from such fundamental studies already shows great promise in clinical applications as well, a...Brain activity in youth may presage Alzheimer's pathology
...uggest that there is now the potential to begin to trace the patterns of the disease and develop methods to detect it before the clinical symptoms set in. Buckner emphasized that the notion of a causative relationship between everyday metabolic functions of the brain and Alzheimer's remains a hypothesis. ......) to study the reactions of mercury and associated trace metals in coal-fired power plants. Under the three-year, $400,000 grant, titled "Partitioning and Mechanism Studies for Mercury and Associated Trace Metals within Coal-Fired Processes," Pitt environmental engineering professor Radisav Vidic and colle...Gambling monkeys give insight into neural machinery of risk
...p that circuitry. "It's going to be interesting to trace this circuitry to see which parts of the brain are signaling something about subjective utility and which parts of the brain are signaling information about true reward and punishment experiences," said Platt. He emphasized that such animal studies a...International move to train more forensic medicine and science experts
...rensic science, human identification, chemical and trace evidence and the legal aspects of forensic practice. The degree course will also train its graduates to investigate and report on cases of physical and sexual abuse of children and on sudden unexpected death in infancy cases. Training in autopsy scie...New title from SSSA: Chemical Processes in Soils
...nds, metal ion complexation, speciation of metals, trace elements, and salt-affected soils. Printed 2005, Hardcover, 723 pages, ASA-CSSA-SSSA, SSSA Book Series 8, ISBN: 0-89118-843-6....New insights into the early development of diabetes and the link to obesity
...ed the amount of inorganic phosphate (an essential trace element and key regulator of energy generation) in muscle cells of both groups, and how it was affected by insulin. They found that in control individuals, insulin results in an increase of phosphate in muscle cells, and that this is also much reduce...A bug's life: Exceptional genomic stability yet rapid protein evolution in a carpenter ant mutualist
...er ant ( Camponotus pennsylvanicus ). In order to trace genetic changes that occurred in the context of this ant-bacterial mutualism, they then compared the B. pennsylvanicus genome to the sequence from a related carpenter ant mutualist, B. floridanus . Although the two Blochmannia species diverged b...... heavily on young willows. Today, there is little trace of beavers, and sparrows have replaced the warblers in what is now a grassland meadow. These profound changes were driven by the absence of the wolf, a top predator. That's the compelling finding of the paper, "Human Activity mediates a Trophic Cas...Amphetamines reverse Parkinson's disease symptoms in mice
...r effects on a different group of receptors called trace amine receptors, the researchers suggested. Recent evidence showed that amphetamines act on trace amine receptors in addition to dopamine transmission, yet little is known about their physiological ...Measurement challenges in detecting cancer biomarkers
...off." Serum proteomics involves reliably detecting trace levels of proteins associated with cancer cells. Both approaches have been hampered by the lack of reproducibility and consistency in measurements. The workshop on Standards, Methods, Assays, Reagents and Technologies (SMART) for Early Cancer Detecti...JCI table of contents August 1, 2005
...stant to atherosclerosis and those that are not to trace full LDL and LDL cholesterol ester uptake after being fed a high fat diet or a standard diet. The authors show that selective uptake contributes to LDL cholesterol ester delivery in both groups of mice, especially when they are fed the high fat diet...Scientists discover stem cell origin of neck and shoulders
...tic technique to tag embryonic stem cells and then trace them to the adult animal. They discovered that ins...the first time the research team have been able to trace what happened to a major shoulder bone that features in many extinct land animals. They found that i...Drawing with DNA: 'Bioart' illuminates genomics
...rs can draw shimmering light-filled traces. When a trace sufficiently matches a pictogram in the human dataset, it triggers a real-time bioinformatics comparison: BLAST begins to run, searching through the rice data for a homologue conducting in a novel (and visible) way the same sequence analysis done by...Stories of descent: Deep genealogy
...S, RACE, AND OUR COMMON ORIGINS. The author will trace five to ten generations to find family trees that overlap, or might overlap if better records were available. Along the way, he will talk about the connection of genealogies to health, genetics, race, and ethnicity. Please bring your family tree or...Identifying blood stem cells is a SLAM dunk
... cells are located in blood-forming tissues and to trace the developmental routes these stem cells take as ...enabled the researchers to tag the SLAM markers to trace the localization of HSCs in their "niches" in tissues. Niches are "microenvironments" of supporting ...CBEN: Buckyball aggregates are soluble, antibacterial
...e in 1985. While a few companies are already using trace amounts of buckyballs in products, large-scale production of buckyballs is still a year or two away. Ultimately, companies hope to use buckyballs in everything from pharmaceuticals to sporting goods. The research team was led by Georgia Tech environm...Molecular steps involved in the creation of gene-silencing microRNAs identified
...ed miRNAs. Taken together, the two Nature studies trace the generation of miRNAs from the genes that give rise to long primary RNA molecules through to the mature miRNAs that target messenger RNA. Significantly, the research also shows that the finished miRNAs are associated with a protein called Argonaut...... whose title is "Where to with supercomputing?" to trace the future prospects of research with supercomputers....