Penn researchers discover how key protein stops inflammation
...ments target inflammation signaling pathways. When you inhibit entire pathways, you can produce negative side effects, said Carmody. Since Bcl-3 acts on specific genes, we should be ab...UCLA scientists produce functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells
...ng a disease found in a certain part of the brain, you should use a human embryonic stem cell line that produces the neurons from that region of the brain to get the most accurate results from your study. Huntingtons disease, for example, is a forebrain disease, so the neurons should be differentiated fr...Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
...raphics and interactive techniques community. If you tell the new computer graphics model how much fat and protein you want in your milk, the model will spit out the information you need to create a life-like milk image...UF, French scientists seek test to detect gene doping in athletes
...ht and day from a therapeutic standpoint. When you use the phrase gene therapy it should be very clea...so be relevant in sport doping settings. And there you cannot talk about gene therapy you can simply refer to the same technology as gene transfer. G...Not all embryonic stem cell lines are created equal
...at if youre going to treat a motor neuron disease, you need those types of neurons; whereas if you want to treat a forebrain disease like Huntingtons, you need ES cells that differentiate into that t...In a first, Einstein scientists discover the dynamics of transcription in living mammalian cells
...ting gene expression. With this sort of mechanism, you could have everything at the ready in case you suddenly needed to rev up transcription, says Dr. Singer. Once the paused polymerase starts up again...Disabling a sensory organ prompts female mice to act like male mice
... cellular biology who led the new study. "It means you only have to build one brain in a species and that the one brain is built, more or less, the same in the male and the female." Dulac's team, composed of first author Tali Kimchi, a postdoctoral fellow, and collaborator Jennings Xu, a Harvard undergr...Immunity in social amoeba suggests ancient beginnings
... is that a requirement of multicellularity is that you develop systems to recognize pathogens and other non-self cells from yourself. Kuspa sees two paths for future research in the area. One is to look for evidence of the same immune mechanism and protein in other kinds of amoeba. The other is to loo...Discredited Korean embryonic stem cells' true origins revealed
...ues. "There has been an advance in the idea that you can couple parthenogenesis and genetic screening to identify those cell lines that are going to be most helpful," Daley says. Parthenogenetic embryonic stem cells do not obviate the need to also create embryonic stem cells through nuclear transfer ...Biologists at Tufts University discover 1 reason why chromosomes break, often leading to cancer
...nce can cause tumors," explained Freudenreich. "If you delete that gene or delete part of that gene so it...cause deletions and deletions can cause cancer, so you want to understand the fragility because that might be what's causing cancer," she continued. DNA...New strategy for treating allergic disorders
...this research can raise a lot of questions, we ask you to please refer questions in your report or article to the email address that VIB makes available for this purpose: patienteninfo@vib.be. Everyone can submit questions concerning this and other medically-oriented research directly to VIB via this add...Coelacanth fossil sheds light on fin-to-limb evolution
...r of the paper. But its a common misconception. If you look deep in the fossil record to the first member... If youre going to figure out how limbs evolved, you need to have a good idea about pre-conditions, Friedman said. You need to know what the ancestral mo...A low expression of MX2 gene exists in the white blood cells of narcoleptics
...ople is known to have narcolepsy. The chance that you have narcolepsy is higher when a relative also has it. It is very rare for more than two people in the same family to have this sleep disorder. It affects the same number of men and women. Those who suspect they might be suffering from narcoleps...Marijuana component opens the door for virus that causes Kaposi's sarcoma
...s questions about using marijuana, in any form, if you have a weakened immune system, said lead study author Jerome E. Groopman, M.D., professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. While THC is best known as the main psychotropic part of marijuana, an analog of THC is the active ingredient of marinol,...Orangutans' communication resembles a game of 'charades'
...ws. Looking at the tapes of the animals responses, you can easily work out whether the orangutan thinks i...rades' analogy, he continued. In playing the game, you want primarily to convey your meaning non-verbally--as does the orangutan--but secondarily to help t...Particle emissions from laser printers might pose health concern
...can carry more toxins into the body. No matter how you look at it, there could be problems. Morawska said that more research on the health effects of inhaling printer-generated particles is needed. As a first step to lower risk, people should ensure that rooms in offices or houses are well ventilated ...Reading a face is tricky business
...d. In other words, sometimes when it seems like you are acting on the vagaries of instinct, your brain...ble as this ability may be, when someone is paying you a compliment it is sometimes better to take it at face value rather than read more into it....Pets could be source of multiresistant bacteria infections in humans, MU researchers investigate
COLUMBIA, Mo. The next time you have difficulty fighting a bacterial infection, your next trip to the doctor might be to the family veterinarian. A new University of Missouri-Columbia study is investigating whether the family pet could be a reservoir for infections of multi-resista...New UD tissue-engineering research focuses on vocal cords
... and must come together to produce a sound. When you talk or sing, the folds may vibrate more than 100 .... In order to grow a functional tissue in vitro, you need to provide the cells with a biological and physical environment that is as close to that of the...Discovery in plant virus may help prevent HIV and similar viruses
...or these types of viruses, such as HIV, because if you block them, then the viruses simply can't replicate." The retrovirus HIV and the pararetrovirus CaMV both use reverse transcription to recruit the host's proteins in order to reproduce and spread infection. Transcription in cells is the process in ...