JCI table of contents, February 23, 2006
...alled CD34 have been shown to leave the marrow and travel to sites of tissue injury to mediate repair. Once the cells arrive at the site of injury it has been demonstrated that they can turn into a variety of different cell types, including blood vessel cells, muscle cells, nerve cells, and blood cells, whi...Drawing a crowd: How progenitor cells are recruited to tumor blood vessels from the bone marrow
...alled CD34 have been shown to leave the marrow and travel to sites of tissue injury to mediate repair. Once the cells arrive at the site of injury it has been demonstrated that they can turn into a variety of different cell types, including blood vessel cells, muscle cells, nerve cells, and blood cells, wh...Most Americans do not expect widespread human cases of avian flu in US in the next year
..., most people said that they would reduce or avoid travel (75%), avoid public events (71%), try to get a prescription for Tamiflu or other antiviral drugs (68%), and stay at home and keep their children at home while the outbreak lasted (68%). (Figure 4) "If the public were to respond this way to human case...20th annual Society of Conservation Biology meeting
...d the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program are offering travel scholarships for journalists to participate in a science communications plenary panel on Monday, June 26. Applications are invited from journalists interested in helping scientists become better communicators, who would enjoy meeting with leading co...Weighting cancer drugs to make them hit tumors harder
...oti said chemotherapy by itself is small enough to travel throughout the body via the bloodstream, causing toxicity to vital organs such as the liver, bone marrow and heart. Likewise, chemotherapy's stay inside tumors is brief because it flows out as rapidly as it entered. In contrast, high molecular weight...ESA calls for federal leadership to control invasive species
...s of invasive species." Globalization of trade and travel is fueling an increase in invasions of the U.S. and elsewhere. The U.S., as the world's largest economy and home to many of the world's richest ecosystems, is especially at risk of additional biological invasions. Yet current U.S. strategy on invas...'Shuttling' protein possibly key to resilience of cancer cells
..."nuclear localization" signals, which enable it to travel out of and back into the nucleus, respectively. The researchers also discovered that if ATF2 attaches to c-Jun in the nucleus, forming a heterodimer, the nuclear export signal is blocked, preventing ATF2 from traveling from the nucleus to the cytopla...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...d to this region, however increasing international travel and bioterrorist threats have reinforced the need for an effective and swift acting vaccine. In the study researchers vaccinated mice with a bivalent vaccine, containing both SEBOV and ZEBOV genes, and found that vaccination led to efficient inductio...Report finds cruise industry is protecting the precious places it visits
...hor of From Ship to Shore, and senior director for travel and leisure at CELB. "This helps to ensure that the positive actions being taken can be sustained over time and replicated by others who operate in environmentally sensitive cruise destinations." From Ship to Shore provides several case examples of ...Emerging disease risks prompt scientists to call
... pets through movements associated with the UK PET travel Scheme. These animal movements can also spread diseases to humans. "The movements of domestic and wild animals are complex and profitable but are extremely risky from a disease perspective. Movements can result in the introduction of exotic animal d...Biggest physics meeting of the year
...es. The site offers a quick way to view hotel and travel information. Complimentary press registration wil...ally form nanometer-scale pores through which ions travel to enable communication within and between nerve cells. Researchers are developing biotechnology app...AACR expands cancer research knowledge with scholarships for minority and women scientists
...The award will provide complimentary registration, travel expenses, and a subsistence stipend to participate in the Annual Meeting. The Minority Scholar Awards are supported generously by grants from the Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Branch of the National Cancer Institute and the Susan G. Komen Breast...Changes to in utero environment may alter onset of cancer, U of T study
...ogenesis. "We know that cancer-causing agents can travel across the placenta and harm the developing embryo or fetus," says Professor Peter Wells of the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. "This study provides the first direct evidence that changing the uterus's molecular environment -- in this case, by increa...Pollution trackers hit the road to pinpoint airborne culprits
...e a TV news van," she said. The research team will travel to Roanoke, Va., the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and Baltimore, Md., parking the van in various locations. The pollutant trackers will measure carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas; nitrogen oxides and organic compounds, which are key ingredie...Researchers reverse juvenile diabetes in animal model; Clinical trial FDA approved
...ncreas and lymph nodes, blocks the T cells as they travel to the pancreas to destroy beta cells. "We did this in mice, giving them six injections over the course of several weeks. The injections interrupted the T cell and beta cell interaction, allowing the beta cells in the pancreas to regenerate. This en...Environmentalists' 'marine reserve' proposals misguided, report suggests
...ng the most economically sought-after species, may travel hundreds of miles to move between spawning and feeding areas. "You therefore need to create bigger protected areas and enforce them for several decades if you are to see a significant, lasting effect on stocks, which are massively depleted to histor...52 minority scientists receive APS/NIDDK travel fellowships totaling $90,000
... eligible for the fellowships. The APS has awarded travel fellowships to more than 500 minority students and...ch year to be mentors. A number of former minority travel fellows -- now established researchers with their own graduate students -- serve as mentors themselv...Finally, JAP study shows headdown bedrest precisely mimics human physiology in spaceflight
...work that will be required of astronauts when they travel to the moon or Mars. "Once the level above is determined, it could have important implications to amount of exercise that elderly or bedridden persons might need to get or remain healthy. "Based on what we learn from the three- to six-month stays...Scientists discover new gene responsible for spread of cancer
...estigate the genes that cause cancerous tumours to travel to other tissues in the body. To date, three other metastasis-inducing genes have been discovered S100A4, osteopontin, and more recently, AGR2. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are often the only options available to treat secondary tumours but the......udy, doctors inject a gel into the tube that sperm travel through after they are produced (known as the vas deferens). The gel then disables the sperm as they swim by. In study animals, male fertility returns if the RISUG is flushed out with another injection that dissolves the gel. Elaine Lissner, director...