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Prenatal exposure to famine increases risk of schizophrenia

...nd culturally distinct, the processes involved may apply in all populations undergoing famine," the authors conclude. ...

Complex gene interactions account for autism risk

... underlie autism," Pericak-Vance said. "We can now apply the analytical approach to other genes that may play a role in the disease." Such findings may ultimately yield a method to screen for individuals at high risk for the disease, she added. "The new findings offer important new information for familie...

Scientists and engineers apply nature's design to human problems

...and if you study them, you have the opportunity to apply that knowledge in the human sector. You can also e...ind of research. It provides engineers who want to apply their expertise with biologists a new way to design solutions to problems." After this experience, ...

New results validating Pall prion reduction filter disclosed at ISBT Congress

...uing its prion research and development program to apply its technologies to meet the specific requirements of each nation starting in Europe, the epicenter of vCJD, followed by North America. The Company is also developing an ante mortem test to detect infectious prions in cattle prior to entering the foo...

Elusive salamanders have role in developing new sampling models

...rs can help installation natural resource managers apply effective conservation strategies for this species. Helping provide research tools that support conservation is one of the missions of the SERDP. The three-year SERDP project, which began in January, takes advantage of some of the Department of Ener...

Drugs from the deep blue

...e years ago, they quickly realized that they could apply the same methods to screen 124 sponges that Molinski's group had recently collected off the coast of Western Australia. In one of the samples they came up with xestospongin C, the first of a class of drugs now widely used in research studies on calc...

Genetic variation alters response to common anti-clotting drug

...ows one important way in which we are beginning to apply knowledge about the human genome for treating disease and improving human health." Warfarin (trade names include CoumadinTM) is the most commonly prescribed oral anti-clotting drug. Allan E. Rettie, Ph.D., University of Washington professor of medic...

Aquatic plants may hold key to advancing plant disease management

...h further study, plant pathologists may be able to apply the novel mechanisms found in aquatic plants to land-based agricultural systems," said Schmale. Research done on the management of freshwater plant disease has created environmentally sound methods of plant disease control. While plant pathologists ...

Cells direct membrane traffic by channel width

...es in size. The same principles, he added, likely apply to all selective protein channels. Understanding the principles could provide new, effective pharmaceutical targets to control the channels to help treat disease. Study co-authors were group director Klaus Schulten and Yi Wang, a doctoral student in...

Genomics researchers discover protein deficit that causes drug toxicity

...ause we believe our findings can be generalized to apply to many instances in the field." The finding helps explain what goes wrong under certain genetic conditions -- and suggests mechanisms which might help predict which genetic changes could alter the effect of drugs. Prior efforts to explain the myste...

Monkeys understand numbers across senses

...sent number abstractly," she said. "When we humans apply the word 'three' to sounds or visual images, we're using language to link these different sets from different modalities. And the question has been whether an animal without that kind of language based representation can still notice or represent the...

No small feat: First ever gene therapy success for muscular dystrophy achieved

...e larger than most, so it has not been possible to apply the same methods successfully used for delivering other types of genes. And because CMD affects all muscles, an organ that accounts for 40 percent of body weight, gene therapy can only have real therapeutic benefit if it is able to reverse genetic de...

Several minute intermediate stage in virus-cell fusion discovered; opportunity for drug development

... to say. "But our model," he added, "is likely to apply to any virus such as HIV that fuses with the cell membrane and shares the same fusion proteins, so it certainly provides a new target. Also, existing drugs can be re-evaluated to pinpoint at what stage they actually work, to fine-tune their activity....

Study shows eutrophic lakes may not recover for a millennium

...al phosphorus for lawn products, but farmers still apply phosphorus fertilizers, even when soils have a reservoir of the nutrient. The biggest help, Carpenter says, would come from reducing soil erosion rates. However, developing larger buffers around lakes and streams, restoring wetlands and encouraging ...

Bitter or sweet? The same taste bud can tell the difference

...these work, too, but for now their next step is to apply bitter and sweet stimuli to taste bud cells that contain both NPY and CCK and see how each peptide reacts. Herness conducted the study with Fang-li Zhao, a postdoctoral researcher in dentistry at Ohio State; Yu Cao, a graduate student in neuroscienc...

Researchers track down cause of a disfiguring bone disorder

...y has a mission to ensure national security and to apply science and technology to the important issues of our time. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. ...

Fragment of yellow fever virus may hold key to safer vaccine

...the other, ter Meulen speculates. The findings may apply to the whole flavivirus family. The results confirm and extend similar studies in mice, but the human antibody-virus binding configuration looks more complex, ter Meulen said. In theory, the crucial antibodies, which have been cloned, could be used...

Spiders help scientists discover how muscles relax

...xciting," he remarked. Padron said he hopes to apply the research to muscle diseases that arise from malfunctioning of the muscles' on/off switches. One such disease is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, in which the wall of the left ventricle of the heart becomes enlarged, causing sudden death. It is caused...

Biologists determine genetic blueprint of social amoeba

...ow cells regulate their behavior. Both things will apply in the studies we do." He and the other members of the international sequencing team found that there are more protein coding genes in the organism than they had thought and nearly twice as many as there are in fungi. Their unraveling of the genome ...

ORNL, UC Berkeley unravel real-world clues to Earth's mysteries

...l relationships and how these inner workings might apply on a grander scale. In a paper to appear today on Science Online, researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of California Berkeley describe a bacterial community that flourishes in the iron sulfide-...

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