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Housecat-sized Siberian tiger cubs get collared

...to focus on real disease mutations and to minimize attention on the innocent gene variants that colour the humanity of life." Contact: Lon R. Cardon, Ph.D. Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Oxford Phone: +44-01865-287591 E-mail: lon.cardon@well.ox.ac.uk ...

Studies on human genome variation provide insight into disease

...to focus on real disease mutations and to minimize attention on the innocent gene variants that colour the humanity of life." Contact: Lon R. Cardon, Ph.D. Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Oxford Phone: +44-01865-287591 E-mail: lon.cardon@well.ox.ac.uk ...

On a wing and a prayer - Alaska researchers seek clues to bird flu

...fluenza program. "Before I came nobody was paying attention to the extensive overlap between the Old World and New World migration systems as a disease pathway," said Winker, curator of birds at the UA Museum of the North and an associate professor of biology at UAF. "Our ability to combine studies in natura...

Picky female frogs drive evolution of new species in less than 8,000 years

...calls of the male frog, which are what females pay attention to in the mating game, had become different from each other. Yet despite this difference, reflected in the call's duration, note rate and dominant frequency, the two lineages could still breed with one another. The southern females, however, were mo...

Prescription pain patch abuse blamed for increase in deaths

... Medicine, said that the UF study brings necessary attention to the importance of physician and patient education regarding addictive disorders. "There is nothing wrong with the patch, the problem is with addictive disorders," Ray said. "Any drug has the potential for abuse. This study is useful for raising a...

Metal-containing compounds show promise as HIV weapon

...r more than 50 years but just recently came to the attention of researchers in the Czech Republic as a possible AIDS drug, Dr. Otwinowski said. The Czech group bound the metallacarboranes they were studying to the proteases, then brought the diffraction data to UT Southwestern to have the structures interpre...

New study shows SARS can infect brain tissue

... effects on the brain. "Physicians should pay more attention to the prevention of brain damage if [SARS patients] are superinfected with other conditional pathogens," according to Dr. Xu and Dr. Jiang. ...

New technique could alter field of mouse genetics

... last few years many scientists have shifted their attention to determining the function of all of those genes. The strategy is as systematic as the genome sequencing projects -- mutate each gene, observe the consequences, and investigate the molecular mechanisms. In the past two decades, only about 3,000 of t...

Progress on HIV/AIDS significant but insufficient

...: world leaders should give AIDS the same level of attention as they gave to global security; universal access to prevention and treatment must be ensured; money must be made to work for people on the ground; long-term strategies must be incorporated into planning and actions; and the United Nations system sho...

Methamphetamine Abuse, HIV Infection Cause Changes in Brain Structure

...ing new information, solving problems, maintaining attention and quickly processing information. Co-occurring m...l cortex (which helps people to understand and pay attention to what’s going on around them) and basal ganglia (linked to motor function and motivation). HIV inf...

Flies on speed offer insight into the roles of dopamine in sleep and arousal

... functioning, as has been seen in human studies of attention and distraction. Dopamine has been implicated in numerous aspects of brain function in humans and other animals, and many of these brain functions involve the modulation of neuronal activity and the ability to assign proper saliency (or relevance) to...

Modification of program enables prediction of gene transcription

...hile genomics researchers 15 years ago paid little attention to parts of the genome outside the coding regions, they have discovered some strange functions in UTR that have provoked second and third thoughts. For instance, it recently was discovered that huntingtin, a gene associated with Huntington's disease...

'Shifty-eyed' Monkeys Offer Window Into Brain's Social Reflexes

...'social reflexes' that humans do -- shifting their attention in response to the direction of gaze of another in...al model of how the brain controls what humans pay attention to in social situations. Such a model would enable scientists to better understand how processing o...

Why were the HIV prevention trials in commercial sex workers abandoned?

...l trials of tenofovir as PREP and brought negative attention to tenofovir, somewhat similar to that visited on thalidomide more than four decades ago," say two researchers in an essay in the open access global health journal PLoS Medicine. The dramatic protest at the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangko...

Looks matter to female barn swallows

..."The study shows that the females are paying close attention to these signals and that they respond quickly to changes in their mate's appearance," said Safran. The reddish breast and belly feathers indicate a male's quality, such as his health, status or ability to raise young, Safran speculates. The actu...

Snapin: A protein with therapy potential for autism

...ton. Now Firestein's research group has turned its attention to the protein snapin. When snapin binds to cypin, tubulin is crowded out, so fewer dendrites assemble and more branching occurs. When researchers overexpressed snapin in hippocampal neurons in the lab, the number of primary dendrites growing out of...

Going To Extremes To Improve Human Health

... biology, it is more important than ever that some attention be focused on the research-training of individuals who will make sense of the explosion of available information by connecting these discoveries to integrative physiological functions in the intact human being," Halliwill said. ...

Field of beams - Novel system uses polarized light pulses to reveal crop health

...lighting what 'may happen' if we don't pay careful attention to the inherent assumptions in the models that we fit to data," said Wearing. "The key point is that uncertainty about the latent and infectious period distributions should be taken into account when making quantitative predictions for public health ...

Researchers Discover That Microbes Can Produce Miniature Electrical Wires

... 18 years his research has earned widespread media attention and major funding from government and private sources. The tiny organisms, widely found in soils and aquatic sediments, have demonstrated promise as cleaners of toxic spills and generators of energy. They are anaerobic bacteria (living without oxygen...

Inhaling large amounts of salt can cause hypertension

...lighting what 'may happen' if we don't pay careful attention to the inherent assumptions in the models that we fit to data," said Wearing. "The key point is that uncertainty about the latent and infectious period distributions should be taken into account when making quantitative predictions for public health ...

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