Iowa State researchers improve soy processing by boosting protein and sugar yields
... yieldsAMES, Iowa -- Graduate student Bishnu Karki turned on an ultrasonic machine in an Iowa State University laboratory. With a loud screech, the machine's high-frequency sound waves churned a mixture of soy flakes and cold water. And that churning could be a major boost to soy processors and the food ind...Googling brain proteins with 3-D goggles
...s should be similar to the observed proteome. This turned out to be the case, which helped to validate the new measurements. What the Allen Brain Atlas doesnt tell you is which genes produce proteins and how much of each of them, he said. Marrying the voxel map with proteomics, researchers were able to g...Gene elevating breast cancer risk also causes prostate cancer
...one per cent of the studied patients, most of whom turned out to have a familial pattern of disease development. The study also involved 141 unselected male breast cancer patients, 188 familial and 288 unselected colorectal cancers, as well as 164 familial and 475 unselected prostate cancer patients. In pro...International study points to new breast cancer-susceptibility gene
...to carry the same PALB2 mutation; and most of them turned out to have a family pattern of the disease. "The mutation causes the middle portion of the PALB2 protein to be truncated," Xia remarked. "That seems to hinder its ability to bind to BRCA2, which, in turn, hinders DNA repair. The screening result s...Microsurgery and Super Glue show how antennae aid moth navigation
...nd sending signals to the brain if the insect gets turned around by, for instance, a gust of wind, said Sanjay Sane, a University of Washington postdoctoral researcher in biology. He is the lead author of a paper describing the research in the Feb. 9 edition of Science. "Whenever a creature is moving abo...Nanotechnology meets biology and DNA finds its groove
...To attack the problem, Schwartz and his colleagues turned to nanotechnology, the branch of engineering that deals with the design and manufacture of electrical and mechanical devices at the scale of atoms and molecules. Using techniques typically reserved for the manufacture of computer chips, the Wisconsin...Discovery could lead to better control of hemorrhagic fever viruses
...y Jonathan Abraham, PhD, an MD-PhD student at HMS, turned out to be transferrin receptor 1 (TfR1), a well-known protein that is key in enabling cells to take up iron. Additional studies, performed in Farzan's lab by HMS graduate student Sheli Radoshitzky, confirmed that TfR1 is also the receptor for the oth...Novel laboratory technique nudges genes into activity
...somal DNA, proteins that control whether genes are turned on or off. Dr. David Corey, professor of pharma...states, its not that gene expression is completely turned off, but rather, the levels of expression are lower than they should be," she said. As a result, the...Reactivated gene shrinks tumors
...apoptosis, or programmed cell death. When p53 is turned off by mutation or deletion, cells are much more l...ers used engineered mice that had the gene for p53 turned off. But, they also included a genetic "switch" that allowed the researchers to turn p53 back on aft...More women students choose engineering -- but not as a career
...gh, heavy and dirty profession, but they are often turned off by the teaching and learning methods used in higher education, says the study led by Professor Barbara Bagilhole, of Loughborough University. As a result, rising numbers of women engineering students have failed to translate into an equivalent i...Chemical switch triggers critical cell activities
...plained. However, the E2 docking site is initially turned away from E1: so if E2 hopped into the docking site at that point, it would be too far away from NEDD8 to grab it, she noted. And that was the puzzle the St. Jude researchers solved. Specifically, the St. Jude study showed that when NEDD8 forms a ...A new target for the treatment of breast cancer
...all number of lung cancers. "Because of this, we turned our attention to the processes that regulate the production of the ligands which bind and activate EGFR," Kenny said. "We reasoned that this binding and activation is essential for EGFR activation and that finding a way to block this interaction mig...Genetic variation may reduce Alzheimer's risk
...ase fetal hemoglobin expression in adults. They turned to colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, one of three sites that contributed families to the National Institute of Mental Health Alzheimer's databank. At the UAB databank, headed by Dr. Rodney C.P. Go, researchers found more surprise...How trees manage water in arid environments
...cle of water availability by its ability to remain turned on during the winter," Brown said. "Water stress, rather than temperature, is the primary control on the forest's behavior. The trees will remain significantly active regardless of the season, providing they have access to moisture." It remains to ...The bumper book of DNA no-no's
... activated to destroy them at a later date if they turned out to be dangerous, Hampikian suggests....Jefferson researchers uncover new way nature turns genes on and off
...lphia may have discovered a new way that genes are turned on and off during development. If they're right, and the same processes are at work in higher organisms, including mammals, the findings could eventually have implications for improving the understanding of a range of diseases, including childhood ca...How does a zebrafish grow a new tail?
...rotein called Wnt5b, turns down the genes that are turned on by Wnt/Beta-catenin, impairs cell proliferation, and inhibits fin regeneration. Fish that have a mutant Wnt5b protein regenerate missing tails very quickly. Too much of another related protein, Wnt8, also increases cell proliferation in the regene......g eyelids, and eye muscle weakness. The diagnosis turned out to be wound botulism. Wound botulism is a potentially fatal illness that occurs when spores of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum contaminate a wound, germinate, and produce botulimum nerve toxin. The doctors made the diagnosis promptly, a...Experience sculpts brain circuitry to build resiliency to stress
...the stressor was not controllable. This activation turned off mood-regulating cells in the brainstem's alarm... When the prefrontal cortex was experimentally turned off during the controllable stressor, the animal failed to develop such immunity. Similarly, turning......hey described as a new genus as well. The kipunji turned out to be present also in the Udzungwa Mountains. A few years prior, WCS researchers working in the same area "photo-trapped" a Lowe's servaline genet, the first of its kind recorded in 70 years. Jackson's mongoose has round, broad ears, with yello...