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Image of myosin-actin interaction revealed in cover story of Molecular Cell

...r proteins, revealing new structural insights that advance the current model of protein motility and muscle contraction. The culmination of four years of work, this collaboration among biochemists and structural biologists was selected as the cover story for the September issue of the scientific journal Mol...

Finding the mind's eye

... of visual consciousness lie." Tse's findings may advance the understanding of the brain's interaction with the eye by identifying the neural basis of conscious experience, a relationship important to the fields of medicine, neurology and psychology. Tse and his co-authors, Susana Martinez-Conde, Alexander...

Genes involved in biofilms

...and Public University of Navarra centre, and is an advance in the race to identify action targets for the development of pharmaceutical drugs to combat these infections. The PhD, entitled Identification and characterisation of new factors involved in the processes of formation of biofilm from Gram-positive...

From one cell, many possible cures

...-- a limited supply of stem cells -- he could help advance the development of numerous medical therapies by years," Locke said. According to the Tulane Center for Gene Therapy's Web site, "stem cells are so named because they are like the stems on a tree that can produce new leaves and flowers each year." E...

NIH launches comprehensive effort to explore cancer genomics

...omplexity, but also developing the technologies to advance the science of cancer genetics. A better understan...an genome. The Human Genome Project also helped to advance sequencing technologies and paved the way for other genome-based research tools, including a compreh...

Mutations in the BRAF gene predict sensitivity to a novel class of cancer drugs

...t, and lung cancers. The findings, available in an advance online publication of Nature, represent a potential targeted therapy tailored for patients whose tumors contain this mutation. The researchers found that drugs that inhibit a protein called MEK selectively inhibited the growth of cancer cells lines ...

Scientists crack code for motor neuron wiring

...inal cord motor neurons was an important technical advance that enabled the researchers to crack this code. Using these antibodies, Dasen and colleagues pinpointed the pattern of expression of each protein within the set of motor neurons that project to limb muscles. "Once we had these reagents, we were able...

Odd energy mechanism in bacteria analyzed

... gene for an alternate form of photochemistry - an advance that may ultimately help shed light on the ecology of the world's oceans. The microorganism is SAR11, the smallest free living cell known and probably the most abundant organism in the seas. By being able for the first time to study the SAR11 "prote...

Biologists discover new pathway into plant cells

...g its integrity. This is a significant fundamental advance in our understanding of plant biology." The research was done with a pathogenic fungus that causes tan spot of wheat, a costly plant disease that is found around the world, and in some places can cause crop losses ranging up to 50 percent. These fun...

Travelers can avoid jet lag by resetting their body clocks

...w that melatonin and bright light can both help to advance the circadian clock, and the combination of bright light and melatonin produces a larger phase advance than bright light alone," said Senior Author Charmane Eastman, Ph.D., Director of the Biological Rhy...

Open Source Biotechnology alliance for international agriculture

...Institute) today announced a majorjoint venture to advance the BiOS Initiative - a new strategy that will galvanize agricultural research focused on poverty alleviation and hunger reduction. The ventureis catalyzed by a 2.55M USD grant to CAMBIA from The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway. The BiOS Initi...

UCLA imaging study of children with autism finds broken mirror neuron system

New imaging research at UCLA detailed Dec. 4 as an advance online publication of the journal Nature Neuroscience shows children with autism have virtually no activity in a key part of the brain's mirror neuron system while imitating and observing emotions. Mirror neurons fire when a person performs a goal-d...

3D ultrasound device poised to advance minimally invasive surgery

... the probes prove beneficial in human testing, the advance might lead to more precise and safer endoscopic su...the Duke engineers. The researchers reported their advance in the latest issue of the journal Ultrasonic Imaging, which was issued in late March 2006, but date...

Rare Tibetan antelope listed as endangered

... the probes prove beneficial in human testing, the advance might lead to more precise and safer endoscopic su...the Duke engineers. The researchers reported their advance in the latest issue of the journal Ultrasonic Imaging, which was issued in late March 2006, but date...

A real time look at interactions between RNA and proteins

...Medicine who developed the new technology see this advance as one of the next logical steps in genomics research. Senior author James Eberwine, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology at Penn, and colleagues published their research this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Now we have a wor...

HIV/AIDS rates in Tijuana, Mexico increasing at alarming rate

... Nations AIDS Program considers an HIV epidemic to advance from a low level to a concentrated epidemic when more than 1% of the population is infected ?a figure that Tijuana may soon approach if preventive steps aren't taken, according to researchers. "Intervention and prevention on both sides of the border...

Carnegie Mellon develops non-invasive technique to detect transplant rejection at cellular level

...omedical Research. "Perhaps most importantly, this advance will allow doctors to provide highly personalized care that could prevent transplant rejection." Organ transplantation is the preferred clinical approach to treat end-stage organ failure, but transplant patients face a lifetime of immunosuppressive ...

Largest study of human 'interactome' reveals a novel way

...he Nature Genetics article. The team's conceptual advance was made by comparing human data with 6,014 genes in yeast and 2,284 genes in mice whose effect on survival was known, according to Pandey. "Our much larger database on genes and proteins gave us the information to set the record straight on how to ...

Carnegie Mellon scientists show brain uses optimal code for sound

...ling babies. These results represent a significant advance in our understanding of how sound is encoded for transmission to the brain, according to the authors, whose work is published with an accompanying "News and Views" editorial in the Feb. 23 issue of Nature. The research provides a new mathematical f...

'Accelerated evolution' converts RNA enzyme to DNA enzyme in vitro

... critical mutations. The study was released in an advance online version of the journal Chemistry & Biology. Scripps Research Professor Gerald F. Joyce, a member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology whose laboratory conducted the study, said, "During early life on earth both genetic informatio...

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