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Going To Extremes To Improve Human Health

A new research tool will allow University of Oregon scientists to replicate an extreme range of environmental conditions in their quest to test and understand the human body's response to everyday stresses. The instrument, called an environmental chamber, is a 12-foot-square room...

TGen awarded $7.1 million to accelerate brain disease research

...st sophisticated genome scanning technologies will allow us to unlock the mysteries of how the brain functions normally, as well as what causes common human disorders like Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, and others," said Dr. Dietrich A. Stephan, Director of the Neurogenomics Division at the Trans...

Study shows how retinoic acid enters a cell's nucleus

...ed proteins. "Advances in structural genomics will allow you to predict what the protein does," Noy says. ...

Six previously blind patients detect light, motion, identify objects with retinal prostheses

...troy vision by annihilating the retinal cells that allow light to be translated into recognizable images. Second Sight's intraocular retinal prosthesis is taking the first step to replacing those cells with its device, a 4-by-4 grid of platinum electrodes embedded in silicone rubber. The electrodes are wi...

Vietnam war technology could aid elephant conservation

...e system by using an array of geophones which will allow them to use beam forming techniques. According to Wood: "Using a geophone array has additional advantages. Seismic equipment is designed for rugged field use and independent arrays can be buried and left in the ground to collect the data for as long ...

Spiders help scientists discover how muscles relax

.... "Solving the structure of the relaxed state will allow us to investigate how these filaments are activated when they are switched on." The scientists were surprised to find that the atomic structure of isolated myosin molecules from vertebrate smooth muscle--the type of muscle found in the digestive tr...

VCU study shows hormone-like molecule kills cells that cause inflammation in allergic disease

... cultured these precursor cells in conditions that allow mast cells to develop, and then added IFNγ to some of these cultures. A high rate of cell death yielding no living mast cells was observed in the cultures that received IFNγ. Similar results were reported in vivo using a mouse model. Mice ...

Climate model links higher temperatures to prehistoric extinction

... cultured these precursor cells in conditions that allow mast cells to develop, and then added IFNγ to some of these cultures. A high rate of cell death yielding no living mast cells was observed in the cultures that received IFNγ. Similar results were reported in vivo using a mouse model. Mice ...

Thinking the pain away? Study shows the brain's painkillers may cause 'placebo effect'

...rain scans from 14 young healthy men who agreed to allow researchers to inject their jaw muscles with a concentrated salt water solution to cause pain. The injection was made while they were having their brains scanned by a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner. During one scan, they were told they wo...

Promiscuous Catalytic Activity Possessed by Novel Enzyme Structure

...d ever seen before. Not only does this wide barrel allow Orf2 to act on such a wide range of aromatic molecules, its discovery could also shed new light on the relationship between an enzyme’s structure, the way it has evolved, and the chemical reactions it is able to carry out. Although the researchers h...

Stem cell training program to make its Stanford debut

...d ever seen before. Not only does this wide barrel allow Orf2 to act on such a wide range of aromatic molecules, its discovery could also shed new light on the relationship between an enzyme’s structure, the way it has evolved, and the chemical reactions it is able to carry out. Although the researchers h...

Woods Hole Research Center plans controlled burn in Amazon rainforest

...s provoke leaf thinning; and both of these changes allow the litter to become dry enough to sustain a fire....are also scheduled during satellite overpasses, to allow collection of remotely sensed thermal data for comparison with our detailed ground measurements of h...

Gene therapy advance treats hemophilia in mouse models

...ould more easily attach to certain liver cells and allow the genes within the vehicle to enter the cells. The genes then caused the liver cells to make the protein that prevents bleeding. The researchers also modified the vehicle so that it would express these therapeutic genes only in liver cells, thus ...

'Jumping genes' contribute to the uniqueness of individual brains

... cells. If enough of these jumps occur, they could allow individual brains to develop in distinctly different ways. "This mobility adds an element of variety and flexibility to neurons in a real Darwinian sense of randomness and selection," says Fred H. Gage, Professor and co-head of the Laboratory of Gen...

New Scripps Oceanography project to study sediments and ecosystem restoration in Venice lagoon

...e subtidal banks inside the lagoon. The banks will allow the researchers to test how the chemical content and biodiversity of the lagoon respond to such a local change. The researchers will conduct assessments by extracting short and long sediment cores, which will be analyzed for geochemical and biologica...

Researchers devise new technique for creating human stem cells

...periment was to do cell fusion in a way that would allow the elimination of the embryonic stem cell nucleus to create an embryonic stem cell from the somatic cell," said Melton. "This paper reports only the first step toward that goal, because we end up with a tetraploid cell. So, while this does not obvia...

Fruit fly studies open new window on cancer research

... to further investigate the processes involved and allow Dr Goberdhan to establish her own group. Professor Julia Goodfellow, BBSRC Chief Executive, remarked, "Although research into fruit flies may not seem an immediate priority, only fundamental research such as this can provide us with the understandin...

Gambling monkeys give insight into neural machinery of risk

...imals, we can do electrophysiological studies that allow us to understand how the fundamental processing un...id Platt. What's more, he said, the monkey studies allow manipulation of the circuitry using drugs to determine how the circuitry might malfunction in human ...

NIH creates nationwide network of molecular libraries screening centers

...e the databases supporting the network, which will allow us to tie together data from diverse fields of science in ways not previously brought to bear on important health problems," said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. The nine institutions receiving grants as part of the Molecular Librarie...

Laboratory professionals in Africa receive training under AIDS Relief Plan

...e Control and Prevention (HHS/CDC). The money will allow the Chicago-based ASCP to continue its involvement in a cooperative agreement program with CDC. ASCP's role in the program is to provide laboratory training and quality improvement programs for diagnosis and laboratory monitoring of HIV/AIDS patients...

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