New study could bring relief to sweltering city slickers
...portant issue. Its hoped the work will provide a blueprint for the development of computer map-based (GIS) systems, allowing planners and designers to examine possible changes and see the wider impact on the climate of a city or urban area. Researchers are also aiming to create a new heat and human comfor...Steps needed to reduce smoking in the US
...icant public health problem. This report offers a blueprint for putting the nation on a course for achieving that goal over the next two decades." The desire to educate youth and limit their access to tobacco underlies many of the committee's recommendations because of the high rate at which teens start sm...A sweet step toward new cancer therapies
...ide a sort of fingerprint that reveals the genetic blueprint from which the protein was built---information that helps researchers confirm the protein's identity. This works fine as long as the protein has not been modified after it was produced. But if other chemical groups such as phosphates, sulfates or sug...Two central mysteries in genome inheritance solved at UCSD
...ng every cell cycle, the genome which carries the blueprint of life must be duplicated and distributed. Errors in genome distribution result in genetic birth defects and contribute to the genesis of cancer. Accurate distribution of the genome, which is split into chromosomes of varying number depending o...Park your car and walk to store, school, work
... 10 features of activity-friendly communities is a blueprint for improving public health, the author of the research says. "We wrote the book on identifying the range of different influences that gets people engaging in physical activity not just for recreation but as part of their everyday life activities,"...DNA computing targets West Nile Virus, other deadly diseases
... of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), nature's chemical blueprint for life. But getting nano-sized pieces of DNA to act as electrical circuits capable of problem-solving like their silicon counterparts has remained a major challenge. In a series of laboratory demonstrations over a two-year period, Macdonald and he...Mayo Clinic study could lead to safer pesticides
...e trillion operations per second.) "We now have a blueprint that will enable the development of a new generation of pesticides that will not be toxic to humans. Ultimately, the idea would be that we would be able to eat apples without washing them -- even though it may be covered with pesticides," says Dr. Pa...Blood cells linked to heart attacks, other inflammatory diseases
...duction. "Knowing these steps gives you an initial blueprint about how to modify Cox-2," Zimmerman said. Understanding this mechanism may enable researchers to develop drugs that help people during a heart attack, or prevent heart attack, stroke or other inflammatory diseases....Top NIH prize goes to three pioneering Stanford scientists
...e the field of computer engineering by designing a blueprint for "brains in silicon." "Now, what I can do with this award is take the engineering back to neuroscience," he said. His goal is to make the chips programmable and build models so that neuroscientists can better understand the areas they are studyin...DNA repair in mammal embryos is a matter of timing
...osome by using that chromosome's exact "twin" as a blueprint to guide the repair job, according to Peter McKinnon, Ph.D., an associate member of Genetics and Tumor Cell Biology at St. Jude and senior author of the PNAS paper. However, such twins only exist in cells that are preparing to divide into two new cel...Study first to show potential of light-activated gene therapy for knee injuries
...ruly repair, or re-grow, articular cartilage. The blueprint for the human body is encoded in genes, which store information that is converted into proteins which carry out bodily functions. Gene therapy works by inserting specially designed genes into cells that can, for instance, direct cells to divide, whic...Powerful new tool for studying brain development
...efers to the production of mRNA, which becomes the blueprint the cell uses to make the protein coded for by that gene. The BGEM links these images with the most up-to-date information on those genes, such as their function, location on chromosomes and exact DNA sequence. The BGEM gathers this information throu...U of M hosts business planning for pandemic influenza
... planning. This summit is about moving forward a blueprint for business preparedness." "Pandemic influenza needs to be on the minds of all organizations. It is not an 'if' but 'when' scenario," said Ann Beauchesne, executive director, homeland security division, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "This is a critic...Mechanism controlling DNA damage response has potential novel medical applications
...RNA is the decoded form of a gene that acts like a blueprint that the cell's protein-making machinery (ribosomes) use to make a specific protein. Researchers identified a region of the mRNA, called the 5-untranslated region (UTR) that serves as a control switch for this process. In undamaged cells, nucleolin b...Parasite genome sequences offer hope for new drugs and vaccines, Science studies say
...initiated independently, was to decode the genetic blueprint and gain insights into the biology of each of the three parasites. The comparative study is a valuable outgrowth of those projects which has yielded important results," said El-Sayed. Trypanosoma brucei causes sleeping sickness, also known as Human...Researchers develop 'genetic blueprint' to predict response to esophageal cancer treatments
...to individual patients because it offers a genetic blueprint for gauging the potential effectiveness of all common esophageal cancer treatment, not just an analysis of how one or two "candidate" genes respond to a single treatment. "Our data strongly suggest that combined pathway-based analysis may provide pow...