Stem cell therapy rescues motor neurons in ALS model
...day. However, it's not a trivial intervention -- you have to drill a hole in the spinal cord to get the cells releasing GDNF in. But there are few options for these patients and we will continue to move forward with this approach." ...Parents seeking sex abandon 1 in 3 offspring
...roughout most of central and southern Europe. If you are a penduline tit your perfect partner is one th...happy to stay home and look after the kids, whilst you go off and find a new partner, said Dr Tamas Szkely from the University of Bath (UK) who worked with...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
...rtment, and pay a premium for its wild cousin. Are you getting your moneys worth, or was that wild fish actually raised on a fish farm and accidentally or intentionally mislabeled" Scientists in the United Kingdom are reporting development of a method to answer that question. J. Gordon Bell and colleag...New aerogels could clean contaminated water, purify hydrogen for fuel cells
...my, one of the big questions they're asking is Can you make hydrogen pure enough that it doesn't poison t...re in the stream or ones that bind the hydrogen so you let everything else fall through," Chupas said. For example, gels made with open platinum sites woul...Geisinger scientist seeks cure for Lou Gehrig's disease, creating device to find treatment
...orld. There are so many different compounds but you dont know which ones to test, Gerhard says. We need bioengineering help to automate this process. Thats why Gerhard turned to the zebrafish and Bucknell University professor Joe Tranquillo and students Erica Andreozzi, Meredith Kalman and Emily Thi...Learning to evolve: With a little help from my ancestors
Learning to fly is easy, if you are a bird. But why is it that birds learn so easily how to fly" It is well known that birds learn through practice, and that they gradually refine their innate ability into a finely tuned skill. According to a new theory by Dr Stone of Sheffield Uni...MIT team building robotic fin for submarines
...les, Tangorra said. To be appropriate for AUVs, you can't just look at these as propeller replacements, he said....Researchers find pathway that controls cell size and division
... their sequence that they have other activities so you really need to delve deeper and apply different methods to identify them. Levin notes that her research is uncovering just the tip of the iceberg in the field of cell size control, but identifying genes such as ugtP helps Levin and other researcher...Zebrafish: It's not your parents' lab rat
...ee days. Adults can lay up to 500 eggs at once and you have more in common with them than you think. "For all their differences, humans and zebrafish aren't that dissimilar," said Rice Univers...Strains of laboratory mice more varied than previously thought
...g mouse strains for responses to particular drugs, you make assumptions that the strains have certain pedigrees. If they dont, what you are doing may not mean anything. He pointed out that the new knowledge of increased variation will...Risk genes for multiple sclerosis uncovered
... Hafler says. Why werent they found" The answer is you couldnt do it without the sequence of the human genome. Collaboration with Eric Lander at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, a leader in the effort to sequence the human genome, was critical. The next step, Hafler said, is to begin to collect la...$9 million EPSCoR grant to foster integrated research
...r to understand the problems of a changing North, you need that integrated perspective, Schweitzer said. Thats where the research trend is going and we want to be at the forefront of this trend. EPSCoR is a National Science Foundation program that aims to increase research grant competitiveness in sta...Hepatitis C helicase unwinds DNA in a spring-loaded, 3-step process
...ring with small mechanical movements until finally you have accumulated enough tension on the DNA-protein...nse to develop a low-efficiency motor because then you have extra energy to do extra work when needed. Myong noted that NS3 is the only helicase in the v...Boston Univeristy bioengineers devise 'dimmer swith' to regulate gene expression in mammal cells
...ions, said Collins. One of the central problems is you cant get a really tight off state. Even when genetic switches are turned off, a trickle of the protein that is meant to be repressed still gets made. Some genetic switches get around this by entirely snipping out a gene to stop production of a spec...U-M team identifies gene that regulates blood-forming fetal stem cells
...7 is really a critical player," Morrison said. "If you knock it out in mice, they never develop a blood system. They never form blood cells."...MicroRNA works with Ago2 protein to regulate blood cell development
...the different types of blood cells in the body, so you can definitively address whether microRNAs are involved in the processes by which they specialize and develop, says OCarroll. Instead of making proteins, these snippets of RNA repress their synthesis. They bind to messenger RNAs (mRNAs) the bluepr...Learning a second language -- Is it all in your head?
EVANSTON, Ill. -- Think you havent got the aptitude to learn a foreign language? New research led by Northwestern University neuroscientists suggests that the problem, quite literally, could be in your head. Our study links brain anatomy to the ability to learn a second languag...UCLA study links air pollution to clogged arteries
...mmation and lead to cardiovascular disease. When you add one plus one, it normally totals two, said principal investigator Dr. Andr Nel, chief of nanomedicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a researcher at UCLAs California NanoSystems Institute. But we found that adding diesel parti...Study identifies new gene therapy tools for inherited blindness
...n patients and obtain a healthy copy of that gene; you need an agent to deliver the healthy gene to a pat...cells, which is usually a weakened virus; and then you also need additional DNA elements that turn on the healthy gene in the right cells and at the right ...Call for EU to launch major project to map out all our proteins
...ly the total of all proteins, and so by definition you can never be absolutely sure the last one has been found, given that some are present intermittently or in small amounts and can easily be missed during analysis. Mass spectrometry is used to perform this analysis and identify proteins in complex sam...