Study begins to reveal clues to the cause and progression of sepsis
...erpretations on which many experimental treatments were based were incorrect. This year, nearly 1 million Americans will develop sepsis, a result of the bodys infl...Multinational research: protecting ecology means understanding people, too
...lp conserve the worlds rich biodiversity. When we were developing this project, we realized that there are many biological scientists working in conservation who lack training and skills in how to deal with all the social science issues, Fitzgerald said. The same was true in Stronzas field. I can tell y...AFCYBER holds science and technology symposium
...erience while forging a way ahead for AFCYBER. We were also able to capitalize on the strengths of the local community, said Col. Tony Buntyn, the Director of the Global Cyberspace Air Operations Center who facilitated the meeting. Representatives from both Louisiana State University and Louisiana Tech...Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
...ikoth, Ashavani Kumar, and Saravanababu Murugesan, were co-authors and lead researchers of the project. Other co-authors include research associate Lijie Ci and Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center Laboratory Manager Robert Vajtai. The researchers used ionic liquid, essentially a liquid salt, as the batterys...Clones on task serve greater good, evolutionary study shows
...e, tended to not produce as many flowers (and thus were less likely to reproduce successfully), Dworkin said. There definitely are costs to variation. In addition, this study provides preliminary evidence that a well known plant development gene ERECTA may be in part responsible for some of the change in ...Unravelling new complexity in the genome
...ost cases the investigators working on these genes were not aware that their favorite genes are regulated at the level of splicing. Blencowe believes that the data his group has generated provides a valuable basis for understanding molecular mechanisms by which genes can function differently in different ...Bursts of waves drive immune system 'soldiers' toward invaders
...ell movement. This protein and a second key player were already known to trigger cells to move, but their interaction to generate the self-sustaining waves has now been revealed. "Seeing the wavelike dynamics of this protein, Hem-1, for the first time was easily the most instantly thrilling and illumi...Newly created cancer stem cells could aid breast cancer research
... looked different. Ince suspected that researchers were transforming the wrong type of cells. Now an ind...hem in mice and watched the result. The cells that were grown in the new culture medium were 10,000 times more potent as tumor initiators and were the only ...Doernbecher Children's Hospital scientist earns coveted Javits award
...elin, because the oligo-cells that make the myelin were completelykilled. Hence, it was thought that the children with CP sustainpermanent abnormalities in movement and intellect," Back explained."However, our recent studies suggest that this view may not becorrect." Back and Lawrence Sherman, Ph.D., an...Gene regulation, not just genes, is what sets humans apart
...King and Allan Wilson first said humans and chimps were 99 percent the same genetically, they had offered the suggestion that greater differences might be found in the regulatory regions. The type of analysis performed by the Duke team couldnt be done until the macaque genome was published in 2005 becau...Risk of common vaginal infection linked to preterm birth appears higher for blacks
...Simhan and his colleagues considered 325 women who were in their first trimester of pregnancy. Among these women, 129 (39.7 percent) were white female/white male partnerships, 35 (10.8 percent) were white female/black male couples, 12 (3....Green tea boosts production of detox enzymes, rendering cancerous chemicals harmless
...he teas anti-cancer properties. Healthy volunteers were asked to abstain from consuming any tea or tea-rel...od, blood was drawn and baseline GST enzyme levels were determined for each participant. Then, the volunteers were asked to take four Polyphenon E capsules,...Does the desire to consume alcohol and tobacco come from our genetic makeup?
...igh lipids levels in the blood). (These variables were important because the excessive use of alcohol and... modification by these substances.) The volunteers were from the Saguenay-Lac-St. Jean region of Quebec, Canada. The locale, which is relatively isolated, s...High blood pressure, low energy -- a recipe for heart failure
...eloped symptoms of heart failure when their hearts were forced to pump against high pressure. The hearts o... for fuel. In mice that lacked ERR alpha and that were exposed to pressure overload, the researchers observed signs of early heart failure: the mouse heart...X-ray images help explain limits to insect body size
...h oxygen can be delivered to the extremities. We were surprised to find that the effect is most pronounced in the orifices leading to the legs, where more and more of the space is taken up by tracheal tubes in larger species, said Alex Kaiser, biologist at Midwestern University. They then examined the...New, more direct pathways from outside the cell-to-cell nuclei discovered
...phila. But Gavin says that "other discoveries that were based on this protozoan were later shown to be almost global in their occurrence in the biological world." Therefore, these direc...Abnormal fat metabolism underlies heart problems in diabetic patients
...itochondrial function which became worse when they were fasted a condition that, like diabetes, causes the heart to use lipids for fuel. A 16-hour fast caused significant problems with the mouse hearts' ability to pump blood, again implicating altered lipid metabolism, cardiolipin scarcity and mitochondr...Scientists show that mitochondrial DNA variants are linked to risk factors for type 2 diabetes
...energy production. Thus, for the first time, they were able to directly link inherited variation in the mitochondrial genome to metabolic markers for type 2 diabetes. Our study highlights the role of mitochondrial DNA variation in common genetic diseases, says Dr. Theodore Kurtz, the lead investigator ...Swarming starlings help probe plasma, crowds and stock market
...cessible. The University of Warwick researchers were particularly interested in how complex systems suc...h complicated systems. Initially the researchers were stumped as to how to test this theory. The very complexity (and often inaccessibility) that caused ...Smokeless tobacco more effective than cigarettes for delivering dangerous carcinogens into the body
... the Minnesota researchers found that snuff users were exposed to higher levels of 4-(methylnitrosamino)-...olleagues found that both cotinine and NNAL levels were higher in the urine of snuff users than smokers, when adjusted for age and gender. According to H...