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Confirmation of human protein interaction data by human expression data

...e brains of fish, Smith said the same rules likely apply to all neurons, including those in the human brain. “Probably these same things are happening all the time,?he said. Neurons that fire regularly while learning to recognize a new person’s face, for example, will form larger arbors with more connecti...

Speak up: Louder neurons form more connections

...e brains of fish, Smith said the same rules likely apply to all neurons, including those in the human brain. “Probably these same things are happening all the time,?he said. Neurons that fire regularly while learning to recognize a new person’s face, for example, will form larger arbors with more connecti...

Natural tumor suppressor in body discovered by UCSD medical researchers

...oted that PHLPP's role as a tumor suppressor would apply to all cancers where Akt is elevated, "which is a large number of cancers," Newton said. ...

Discovery of New Dopamine Action May Yield Alternative Psychiatric Drugs

...; Policy. Dopamine's prolonged effects might also apply to understanding the impact of sustained drug use on the brain, Caron added. Virtually all addictive drugs, including cocaine and amphetamines, directly or indirectly raise dopamine levels. The neurotransmitter therefore plays a major role in drug-in...

Active Vaccine Prevents Mice From Developing Prion Disease

...mice, the NYU researchers say it will be easier to apply in animals in the wild, which are at risk for developing prion disease. Prion disease is contracted when an animal eats the body parts of other animals contaminated with prions. What makes these infectious particles unusual is that they are proteins...

Engineers improve plastic's potential for use in implants by linking it to biological material

... called neurites to help them regenerate. "We can apply an electric field to this synthetic material and enhance neurite repair," said Schmidt. The newly gained ability to attach proteins to polypyrrole, she said, will mean that growth-enhancing factors could also be linked to this plastic wrapping, furth...

Rabies spread speeds up

...e online journal PLoS Biology, Real and colleagues apply a mathematical model to predict the likely spread of rabies across Ohio - a potential gateway for spread throughout the Midwest - and find that raccoon rabies could spread throughout the state in just three years, far faster than previously thought. ...

Two new retroviruses—transmitted from animals—identified

...stigator for both studies. "I saw the potential to apply the attributes of surgical robotics to the treatment of head and neck cancer and we've successfully devised novel approaches to introduce the robotic arms through the mouth into the throat and voice box." For head and neck tumors, treatments often i...

Penn Researchers Use Robotic Surgery

...stigator for both studies. "I saw the potential to apply the attributes of surgical robotics to the treatment of head and neck cancer and we've successfully devised novel approaches to introduce the robotic arms through the mouth into the throat and voice box." For head and neck tumors, treatments often i...

Insects, viruses could hold key for better human teamwork in disasters

...er and social scientists and civil engineers, will apply their natural-world findings to three major areas: collaboration among organizations involved in disaster-relief efforts; the use of information technology to support preparedness, response and recovery tasks; and the emerging role of civil engineers...

Alarm pheromone causes aphids to sprout wings

... insect pests in Europe, it may prove effective to apply pulses of alarm pheromone to infested fields. ...

Scripps scientists find potential for catastrophic shifts in Pacific ecosystems

...hat different sets of biological growth rules will apply in each different physical environment and that sm...statement that different sets of growth rules will apply in different physical environments, combined with a randomly fluctuating environment, gives support ...

Conserved amino acids play both structural and mechanistic roles in sandwich-like protein

...te that their conclusions about the azurin protein apply to most members of the sandwich-like protein family, but testing on other specific proteins must confirm that. "Better understanding of protein folding is crucial for curing human diseases directly related to misfolding of proteins, and it is also i...

Symbiotic bacteria protect hunting wasps from fungal infestation

...the cell. The larvae then take up the bacteria and apply them to the silk threads of their cocoons. The researchers found that experimental removal of the bacteria caused increased fungal infestations and increased larval mortality ?in fact, little larval survival ?suggesting that the bacteria produce anti...

Study reveals dramatic difference between breast cancers in US and Africa

...t much of the U.S. and European data simply do not apply to the types of breast cancer we most commonly see in African women." The researchers studied the pattern of gene expression -- a measure of which genes were turned on and active -- in breast cancer tissue from 378 women in Nigeria and Senegal. They...

First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched

...uing its prion research and development program to apply its technologies to meet the specific requirements of each nation throughout Europe, followed by Canada and the US. The Company is also developing an ante mortem test to detect infectious prions in cattle prior to entering the food supply. ...

Brain-mapping technique aids understanding of sleep, wakefulness

...Dr. Yanagisawa and his colleagues are the first to apply the technique in order to study a specific neural pathway. They introduced the tracer into mice so that it was expressed only in orexin neurons, which are found in a part of the brain called the lateral hypothalamus. The researchers found that some o...

Birds brains reveal source of songs

...ut our own brains and what we learn may eventually apply to human diseases that affect motor abilities, such as Parkinson's disease. "The question we're trying to answer is how a young bird learns its song," says Professor Michale Fee of MIT's McGovern Institute about his recent study, which was published...

New Drugs For Bad Bugs: UF Approach Could Bolster Antibiotic Arsenal

....?/p> UF researchers say they will continue to apply the screening approach to other drugs in various situations and also will seek to develop better ways of determining how frequently and at what dose a drug should be given to minimize the development of resistance. They recently collaborated, for exa...

Molecular models advance the fight against malaria

...aria parasites had done. The team was then able to apply computerized modeling techniques to illustrate exactly how the drug interacted with the cytochrome bc1 complex ?the respiratory enzyme the parasites need to live and multiply -- on a molecular level. With this new understanding of how the parasites w...

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