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Scientists collaborate to assess health of global environment

...ting the status of all of the ecosystems on Earth, and the outlook is troubling. Commissioned by the Uni...okyo, Beijing, New Delhi, Brasilia, Cairo, Nairobi and Rome. More than 2,000 scientists from 95 countries participated in the assessment and concluded that...

Muscle-targeted gene therapy reverses rare muscular dystrophy in mice

...nstrated they could introduce the functioning gene and correct glycogen buildup in heart and skeletal muscle. The findings suggest that such an approach should be considered as a potential gene...

Enzyme shown to help protect genomic stability

Genomes throughout the animal kingdom and beyond are characterized by extensive segments tha...n as telomeres, has been linked to aging in humans and an elevated risk for aging-related diseases, the most prominent of which is cancer. For this reason,...

BRCA1 causes ovarian cancer through indirect, biochemical route

...ists at the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Keck School of Medicine of the University of S... Dubeau, professor of pathology at the Keck School and principal investigator on the paper. If that were the case, it would mean that mutation of the gene ...

Scientists decipher genome of fungus that can cause life-threatening infections

...en in parallel withthe HIV/AIDS worldwide epidemic and the increased use ofimmunosuppressive therapies.Th...ct was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and InfectiousDiseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Numerouscollaborators helped ...

Needling Chromosomes Reveals Cell Division Secret

...nny surgical skills have added a piece to thelarge and intricate puzzle of how one cell divides into two ...ell manage to balance their adhesion to oneanother and their release during cell division. Their work wassponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Ch...

Poplar trees redirect resources in response to simulated attack

... about how plants respond to environmental stress, and shows that radiotracer imaging can be a big help i...ollaboration with scientists from Tufts University and Stony Brook University, the research is reported in two articles, to be published in Plant, Cell &am...

Purdue proves concept of using nano-materials for drug discovery

Researchers at Purdue University have built and demonstrated a prototype for a new class of miniat...ndividual drug, said Gil Lee, the project's leader and an associate professor of chemical engineering. "What we are reporting now is a proof of concept," ...

In the sea slug's defense against lobsters, confusion is key

...s sea hares) release an inky secretion, termed ink and opaline, from a pair of glands. The new findings s...usurpation of its normal behavioral control system and a confused response that facilitates the slug's ultimate escape. The team of researchers conducting...

Scientists discover the cellular roots of graying hair

Few things about growing older are asinevitable and obvious as “going gray,?yet scientists have been u...ence,researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s HospitalBoston say they have found the cellular cause of graying hair whileinvestigating ...

Researchers identify target for cancer drugs

... of cells that contributes to many malignant brain and prostate cancers. While scientists have identified...mportant player in the regulation of cell division and survival. Abnormally high activation of Akt has long been implicated in a variety of cancers. If Akt...

Plant hemoglobins: Oxygen handlers critical for nitrogen fixation

...proteins with well-known roles in oxygen transport and respiration in animals. Hemoglobins are also present in plants and bacteria, but until now the physiological role of plant hemoglobins has been unclear. A group of res...

Fundamental Finding Yields Insight into Stem Cells, Cancer; Opens Door to Drug Discovery

Few things about growing older are asinevitable and obvious as “going gray,?yet scientists have been u...ence,researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s HospitalBoston say they have found the cellular cause of graying hair whileinvestigating ...

Scientists rid stem cell culture of key animal cells

Tackling a pressing and controversial technical barrier in stem cell biology, scientists at the WiCell Research Institute and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have crafted a recipe that allows researchers to grow human embr...

Essential mangrove forest threatened by cryptic ecological degradation

...by mangroves, forests thriving at the edge of land and sea that are ecologically and socio-economically important for local people in tropical countries on all continents. Using biology...

Weizmann Institute scientists develop a new approach for directing treatment to metastasized prostate cancer in the bones.

Few things about growing older are asinevitable and obvious as “going gray,?yet scientists have been u...ence,researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s HospitalBoston say they have found the cellular cause of graying hair whileinvestigating ...

Experiments provide proof of how traveling in groups protects insects

...als are more dramatic than when they band together and head out on the march cross-country. Among examples are the many thousands of wildebeests and other hoofed mammals that form herds and migrate across the African plains. Countless millions of ...

Protein Packages Found To Activate Genes; May Be What Regulates Development And Disease

It's all in the packaging. How nature wraps and tags genes determines if and when they become active, according to researchers from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Te...

First 'atlas' of key brain genes could speed research on cancer, neurological diseases

...ormalities in thedevelopment or function of nerves and related structures.Although the gene regulators we...ndevelopment by direction the formation of neurons and supporting cellscalled glia from uncommitted progenitor cells. Until now, braintranscription factors...

New research questions basic tenet of neuron function

...synaptic vesicles that sequester neurotransmitters and release them when needed into the synapse, or spac...fferent "modes" ?one when the neuron is stimulated and actively relaying a message, and the other through spontaneous release when the neuron is "at rest,"...

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