American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...t Work, can be a valuable resource for journalists trying to keep pace with chemistry and the multiple fields of science that involve chemistry. The report features a series of commentaries by chemists, including Nobel Laureate Robert H. Grubbs, on chemistrys role in working toward better medications, more ...Newly created cancer stem cells could aid breast cancer research
...gist at Brigham and Womens Hospital, he was simply trying to create breast cancer models that look like real human tumors under the microscope and behave like those seen in many patients. In more than 90 percent of human breast tumors, cancer cells resemble those lining our bodys cavities. A trained path...High blood pressure, low energy -- a recipe for heart failure
...f Medicine in St. Louis and other institutions are trying to figure out what could explain that difference. Their latest research reveals that impaired energy production in heart muscle may underlie heart failure in some hypertensive patients. The researchers assert that a molecular factor involved in main...Swarming starlings help probe plasma, crowds and stock market
...ty) that caused the observation problems they were trying to overcome meant there was no accurate real world date set to check their new technique against. The solution came from the work of Hungarian researcher Tams Vicsek, Professor of Physics in the Department of Biological Physics of Eotvos Universit...ESF EURYI award winner aims to stop cancer cells reading their own DNA
...rch Councils (EuroHORCS). Dekker and her team are trying to stop tumor development by interfering with the molecular motors that copy DNA during cell division. This will cut off the genetic information flow that tumours need to grow, and could complement existing cancer therapies, while in the longer term ...Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields'
..." he said. "It's one of the few win-win options in trying to forestall the effects of climate change." ...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 1, 2007
...t Work, can be a valuable resource for journalists trying to keep pace with chemistry and the multiple fields of science that involve chemistry. The report features a series of commentaries by chemists, including Nobel Laureate Robert H. Grubbs, on chemistrys role in working toward better medications, more ...Link identified between Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma
...e effects on glaucoma are even stronger. "We are trying a new approach which has never been tried before, not even to treat Alzheimer's disease," says Dr Cordeiro. "Our success in treating glaucoma in the lab by combining different Alzheimer's treatments represents a brand new treatment strategy." Rese...Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
...e host medium (water) absorbs light. If you are trying to generate realistic computer graphics, it is intuitive to specify what the material is made of, like the amount of fat and protein in the milk. In the past, we had to do a lot of observing and measuring to determine how the milk would scatter and a...Anthrax bacterium's deadly secrets probed
...l the proteins it produces. Difficulty arises when trying to pick out only the proteins that are secreted. Methods exist to do this, but are very time-consuming, given that many bacteria secrete 4000 or more proteins. Now, however, the Newcastle researchers have developed an automatic method which makes th...Satellite tracking will help answer questions about penguin travels
...urate to within 5 kilometers, so it really is like trying to find a needle in a haystack," Boersma said. Locating the penguins once they reach the breeding ground is important so the researchers can assess the birds' physical condition after the long journey. "We'll know how much...New survey documents the headaches of computerized medicine
...he one weve seen over and over again is physicians trying to enter orders for the wrong patient. Usually theyre caught, most often by the pharmacist or the nurse, but sometimes theyre not. Ash, in a separate article published in the News and Views section of the June 30, 2007 issue of the prestigious Briti...... rays for as long as three years, so NASA has been trying to come up with a mechanistic model of DNA repair to estimate the increased risk of cancer. We are helping to develop such a model." Double-strand breaks and radiation-induced foci In many NASA studies cells have been exposed to particles like...Orangutans' communication resembles a game of 'charades'
...ive instead. When the person with whom they were trying to communicate did not meet the orangutans aims, t...articular result, anticipated getting it, and kept trying until it got the result, Cartmill said. The orangutans made a clear distinction between total misund...Particle emissions from laser printers might pose health concern
...sity of Technology in Brisbane, initially were not trying to close that knowledge gap. It wasnt an area that we consciously decided to study, Morawska said in an interview. We came across it by chance. Initially we were studying the efficiency of ventilation systems to protect office settings from outdoor a...Reading a face is tricky business
...STON, Ill. --- Reading the face of a person who is trying to conceal fear or other emotions is tricky business, according to a new Northwestern University study of electrical activity in the brain. Though such microexpressions as a brief flash of fear are unlikely to be consciously noticed, they still ge...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
...t Work, can be a valuable resource for journalists trying to keep pace with chemistry and the multiple fields of science that involve chemistry. The report features a series of commentaries by chemists, including Nobel Laureate Robert H. Grubbs, on chemistrys role in working toward better medications, more ...Jan Lwe awarded 2007 EMBO Gold Medal
...MRC-LMB as a post-doc. His work with Linda Amos on trying to crystallise tubulin led to work on a bacterial version of it, called FtsZ. In 1998, Jan solved the structure of FtsZ. Three years later, his group determined the structure of MreB, a prokaryotic actin-like protein which had been discovered by Jeff...Scratch no more: Gene for itch sensation discovered
...me proteins that are similar to GRPR, so now we're trying to determine if there is functional redundancy in the itching pathway." GRPR knockout mice had normal reactions to painful stimuli, indicating that pain and itch are mediated by separate sets of genes in the spinal cord. This suggests that drugs can ...Discoverer of Sly Syndrome finds way of delivering medicine to fight rare genetic disorder
...it so the cargo can get there too. Weve found that trying to transport the cargo changes the Volkswagen and the Volkswagen can no longer get across. ...