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Protein translation in sperm

...tilization. Their paper has been released online ahead of print at www.genesdev.org. After ejaculation, sperm reside in the female reproductive tract for several hours. During this time, a number of biochemical changes take place within sperm, collectively known as "capacitation," that render the sperm ...

Utah researchers confirm chromosome may harbor autism gene

...All in all, the researchers have a daunting search ahead of them. "We're just looking for the needle in the haystack," Coon said. Along with the original family, the U researchers are studying two more families with autism in some members, and they'd like to find others in which the disorder occurs. Larg...

Thin tough skin, slow-growing gills protect larval Antarctic fish

...rted online by the Journal of Experimental Biology ahead of regular publication, counters the assumption that these vital proteins must be present from the time of hatching -- a view held by scientists since fish AFPs were found in the 1960s. Internal fluids such as blood in many notothenioids are about h...

Outsmarting the smartie bug

...tudy described here, is intended to ensure we keep ahead of organisms such as S. pneumoniae. ...

U-M researchers take new approach to defeating Gram-negative bugs

...c resistant, but when. We have to work hard to get ahead of them." ...

BioMed Central launches Biology Direct

... about the manuscript but publication can still go ahead unrevised (if the author wishes) unless there are ethical or scientific problems with the manuscript. The aim is to publish the most complete, informative, and interesting manuscripts possible but not to obstruct publication except in extreme cases. ...

Chocolate, wine, spicy foods may be OK for heartburn, Stanford study finds

...t hearing her words. What does she say to them? Go ahead and eat chocolate. Indulge your passion for spicy cuisine. Drink red wine. Enjoy coffee when you want it, have that orange juice with breakfast and, what the heck, eat a grapefruit, too. Gerson says that for most heartburn patients, there's insuffici...

Synthetic molecule causes cancer cells to self-destruct

...ng author of a paper to be posted online this week ahead of regular publication by the journal Nature Chemical Biology. "By bypassing the broken pathway, we can use the cells' own machinery to destroy themselves." To find the compound, called procaspase activating compound one (PAC-1), Hergenrother, with ...

Viagra improves high altitude exercise performance up to 45% for some

... sildenafil responders to see if they can identify ahead of time who will benefit from treatment. In addition, a question still outstanding is whether non-responders would benefit from sildenafil at a higher elevation. ...

Drug discovery team to explore newly discovered deep-sea reefs

... choose dive sites likely to be vibrant reef areas ahead of time, all with an understanding of the full system being explored. The expedition will have two main goals. First, the team will use the submersible to explore those seafloor areas that appear most promising based on their sonar map contours. As...

Internal body clock dictates timing of different types of stroke

...erent types of stroke, suggests research published ahead of print in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. The research team analysed data from almost 13,000 patients who had had one of three types of stroke for the first time, diagnosed by brain scan. These patients' data had been col...

Connect the Quantum Dots

...ts own this research paper is very significant and ahead of its time in the field of nanotechnology," says Alexey Titov, Licensing Manager for the University of Miami's Office of Technology Transfer. "However, it also has commercial applications which are a truly outstanding and rare combination." Two pa...

Researchers discover which organs in Antarctic fish produce antifreeze

...ive W. Evans in a paper appearing online this week ahead of regular publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Cziko is a research specialist at Illinois. Evans is a professor of molecular genetics and development at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. The liver-synthesis...

Global warming may warrant new approaches to ecosystem restoration

... future They see the largest potential challenge ahead is restoring environments undergoing the most rapid rate of change in the earth's history. This global climate change is likely to have important regional consequences for biota and ecosystems. Ecological restoration, including reafforestation ...

Stimulation of the semicircular canals can artificially control human walking and balance

...way that allowed a person who was walking straight ahead to be steered by "remote control" without her balance being affected. The findings are reported by Richard Fitzpatrick and Jane E. Butler of the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute and the University of New South Wales, Australia, and Brian L....

Federal testing for mad cow disease a failure, law review editor says

...fare and promotional concerns of the beef industry ahead of public welfare. The first case of BSE in the U.S. was reported in December 2003 at a farm in Washington state. Because the cow was of Canadian origin, USDA officials insisted that the American beef supply was safe. However, after Japan and 52 ot...

The higher the hierarchy, the greater the aggression

...each the top of the hierarchy, usually after those ahead of them in the rank have died and they have inherited the right to reproduce. "Certain group members inflict or receive many more acts of aggression than others. In some cases, these acts (which include bites, shoves, mounts, and charges) appear to...

Gene linked to rare disease activates fat breakdown

... and others that another "missing lipase" must act ahead of hormone-sensitive lipase. That prediction led to the discovery of ATGL as the enzyme that specifically removes the first fatty acid from triglyceride. A third lipase finishes the job, Zechner said. The researchers now find that CGI-58 interacts ...

Hair samples show babies can be exposed to 'crystal meth' while in the womb

...mb, reveals an analysis of hair samples, published ahead of print in the Fetal and Neonatal Edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood. Unlike hair, the most commonly used detection methods (blood and urine), cannot register long term use, nor can they always distinguish among different drugs, say the a...

Honey bee genome holds clues to social behavior

...or of a paper that will be posted online this week ahead of regular publication by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "By studying the social regulation of gene expression, we hope to extrapolate the biology to humans." Adult worker bees perform a number of tasks in the hive when they a...

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