David H. Baker to be honored for work in animal and nutritional science
... of 3 grams per 100 grams diet) of L-cysteine to a typical corn and soybean meal diet can be deadly to chickens or rats. Such findings have implications for human health. Baker objects to the widespread availability of these and other nutritional supplements without a prescription. "Professor Baker has de...Scientists produce neurons from human skin
...nment. They progressively took on the oblong shape typical of neurons. At the biochemical level, researchers discovered that in the days following the start of the experiment, the cells began producing markers and molecules associated with the transmission of nerve impulse between neurons. "This suggests the...Pregnancy hormone increases nerve cells' insulation, restores damage
...ting remyelination will be beneficial not only for typical demyelinating diseases like MS," says Fred Gage, PhD, of the Salk Institute, "but also for many other neurological disorders, such as spinal cord injuries and stroke." Gage did not participate in the study. The research was based on evidence showin...Pregnancy hormone key to repairing nerve cell damage
...ting remyelination will be beneficial not only for typical demyelinating diseases like MS," says Dr. Fred (Rusty) Gage, of the Salk Institute, "but also for many other neurological disorders, such as spinal cord injuries and stroke." Gage, an international leader in nervous system repair, was not involved in...Targeting the adrenal gland could be key strategy against heart failure, Jefferson scientists show
... norepinephrine, making a bad situation worse. The typical treatment beta blockers inhibit the beta adrenergic receptors on the heart, blocking the hormones that force the heart to work overtime. Dr. Kochs group focused instead on the source of catecholamines the adrenal gland. It discovered that in he...Changes in west coast marine ecosystems significant
...ared, were drastically reduced or moved from their typical habitats. The El Nio capped what had been a series of years through the 1990s characterized by warm waters and weak upwelling. That regime ended abruptly in late 1998, and the California Current system entered a four-year period of cold ocean condit...Newly discovered West Coast arrhythmias cause
...res 6 degrees Celsius above normal and causing the typical boom in small, prey fish populations to occur too ... Then, in 2006, unusually strong winds doubled the typical amount of upwelling, and increased the influx of nutrients to the system, but these strong winds ebb...Iowa State researchers improve soy processing by boosting protein and sugar yields
...enerate revenue up to $230 million per year from a typical plant producing 400 million pounds of soy protein isolate," says a summary of the research project. "This is a major breakthrough in the soy processing industry." Khanal leads a research team that includes Hans van Leeuwen, an Iowa State professor ...Bats prey on nocturnally migrating songbirds
... coasts are exclusively diurnal. Finally, owls, as typical night-active predators, never forage in the open space: moving prey is detected from substrates through passive-listening of rustling noises. The unique ecological niche of the giant noctule may in turn explain some of its peculiar natural history...Green payments are the future of agricultural support
... real or hypothetical CSP contracts that represent typical New England farm types and crops, including dairy, cranberry, apple, and organic and conventional vegetable farms. Merrigan, and graduate students at the Friedman School, conducted the study in collaboration with the American Farmland Trust. ...Standardized house dust aids health researchers
...g their tests, NIST prepared a reference sample of typical house dust that has been certified for the concentrations of over 80 potentially hazardous chemicals. The dust was collected, with assistance from the EPA, from vacuum cleaner bags collected from homes, cleaning services, motels and hotels in the s......nerve cell's length is the thin, wire-like axon. A typical axon's diameter is about 5 microns in humans, or one-twentieth the thickness of a human hair. Every movement we make ? not just flexing a knee or other joint ? "puts stress on neurons," Bastiani says. Yet the thin axons do not break. Other research...NIH study finds MRI more sensitive than CT in diagnosing most common form of acute stroke
....D. "The patients involved in this study were the typical cross-section of suspected stroke patients that come into emergency rooms on a daily basis." Furthermore, the study has good news for patients, according to Walter J. Koroshetz, M.D., NINDS Deputy Director. "This study shows that approximately 25 ...Wanderlust -- deep-sea fauna under Antarctic ice shelf
...s of towed sampling gear revealed the dominance of typical deep-sea animals and corresponding life forms. Here, sea cucumbers and stalked feather stars are the main representatives. These deep-sea inhabitants belong to a group called echinoderms. Until now, stalked feather stars have only been found sporadi...Be afraid, be very afraid, if you learned to
...early 70 percent of the time of the tone frozen, a typical fear response. In another group of rats, the researchers chemically blocked activity in the prelimbic cortex, which is located near the front of the brain and close to the midline between the two hemispheres. These rats spent only 14 percent of the...Study uncovers a lethal secret of 1918 influenza virus
...an immune response that seems to derail the body's typical reaction to viral infection and instead unleashes an attack by the immune system on the lungs. As immune cells attack the respiratory system, the lungs fill with fluid and victims, in essence, drown.The mechanisms that contribute to the lethality of ......its own species or a peculiar mixture of compounds typical for one versus another reef, the way people's homes have typical odors," says Atema. "This chemical information will be important in terms of water quality and manag...Study identifies glucose 'sensor' that plays dual role in glucose metabolism and fat synthesis
...e does not conform to the standard definition of a typical ligand that activates nuclear receptors, transcription factors that coordinate gene expression in response to hormonal and environmental signals. This discovery, Saez said, represents the first signaling pathway where a carbohydrate activates a nucle...Feinstein Institute and Cold Spring Harbor Lab join forces, seek manic depression genes
...ons and behaviors that are initially thought to be typical of children. Unlike normal mood changes, however, bipolar disorder significantly impairs functioning in school with peers and at home with family. Diagnosis is also hampered by the symptoms often being confused with other childhood-onset mental disor......ve cell division, a process rare amongbacteria but typical of animal embryos. Bailey knew that the fossils had been identified as embryos in part becausethey showed evidence of reductive cell division. Then he thought again aboutthe phosphorite deposits. "When I put those two pieces together, I said perha...