Mechanism of RNA recoding: New twists in brain protein production
...ars in the March 17 issue of Nature. DNA sequences spell out the instructions for making protein but they aren't always followed to the letter. Sometimes, the genetic recipe gets edited after cells copy DNA to RNA--a close chemical relative--during transcription. Think of DNA as an unalterable "read only" ...Using celebrities to market drugs and diseases: whats the problem?
... "formal requirement for stars or media outlets to spell out drug side effects." Another problem with celebrity marketing is that "the public is often not even informed whether a celebrity is receiving money from a drug company." "When Frasier star Kelsey Grammer promoted irritable bowel syndrome on ...Some hospitals face financial upheaval under new NHS payment system
...Using hospital records, the research team compared spell based activity and episode based activity to examine the impact of using different criteria for determining numbers of heart attacks over time. They found considerably more episodes of heart attack than there were spells. Measuring hospital activity ...Living wills don't work, study says
...oethicists who wanted to give patients a chance to spell out what treatment they would want and what treatment they would reject if they became unconscious or unable to make their own decisions for some other reason. The idea of the living will is to allow people to maintain control even at the end of lif...A little stress may go a long way toward boosting skin's immunity
...ing a wound and fighting infections, it could also spell trouble for people with skin allergies or inflammatory disorders such as eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis and arthritis. "In many of these diseases, the immune system attacks the body and causes inflammation and other serious problems," Dhabhar said. "A...Variations in state laws affect elder abuse documentation
...team also determined that it is "worth the time to spell out abuse definitions within regulations." Abuse definitions are broken down into eight categories: abandonment, emotional/psychological, exploitation (usually financial), sexual, self-neglect, neglect (by another person), physical and abuse not othe...Carcinogen in cigarettes causes mutation linked to lung cancer
...comprise codons, sequences of three chemicals that spell out the code for amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. The mapping technique relies in part on special enzymes that cut DNA where it has been damaged by the binding of a carcinogen, which is technically called a DNA adduct. Adducts cause muta...A caring mother is a childs best defence against drug culture
...largely absent from drugs prevention campaigns. We spell out the dangers of drug abuse to children on TV and launch drug prevention initiatives in schools but it seems that no-one is really tackling the issue of parental responsibility. Of course some marriages come to an end but both parents could st...Stanford researcher's uncommon approach to common cold fights cancer
...rotein called p53 is defective. "P53 is like a DNA spell checker," he explained. "If it finds typos, it shuts down replication." And if the typo can't be repaired, p53 commands the cell to commit suicide. In cancerous cells with a defective p53, the cells continue to divide despite a buildup of har...Nonintrusive Imaging Technique Useful For Identifying Language Regions In Kids' Brains
...investigators also made certain the children could spell and generate wordsin their heads without moving th...eadphones. The children were given five seconds to spell a word before the nextone in the series was delivered. A 25-second break followed in which they were...