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Cellular message movement captured on video

...ow all the interactions among these molecules that bring the cell into action.” Examining living cells through a microscope, Chien and the paper’s co-author, associate project scientist Ying-Li Hu, filmed red-fluorescence-tagged paxillin molecules traveling from cells’ outer membrane along green-fluores...

CSIRO scientists join fight to save 'Tassie devil'

...is to stop the disease in it tracks and we want to bring our experience of controlling infectious diseases to the research community involved to help achieve this,” Dr Hyatt said. A chemist and Spectroscopist at CSIRO Textiles and Fibre Technology, Dr Jeff Church, is investigating the Tasmanian devil’...

Prey not hard-wired to fear predators

...sts and public agencies by restoring ecosystems to bring native carnivores back to where they once thrived.” said Dr. Berger. Berger’s study, which looked at 19 areas including the Russian Far East, Greenland, Canada, and the U.S., demonstrated that caribou, elk, and moose are all affected by both the ...

Male circumcision overstated as prevention tool against AIDS

... is inevitable. These men then act as a conduit to bring the virus home to their villages, their other casual sex partners and to their wives. The study has important policy implications. Several international AIDS organizations have begun to provide funding for male circumcisions as a deterrent to AIDS...

Putting feelings into words produces therapeutic effects in the brain

...fulness. This suggests people who are more mindful bring all sorts of prefrontal resources to turn down the amygdala. These findings may help explain the beneficial health effects of mindfulness meditation, and suggest, for the first time, an underlying reason why mindfulness meditation programs improve mo...

Want to save polar bears? Follow the ice

...Foundation and will enable landscape ecologists to bring nearly 30 years of daily collected satellite imagery and meteorological data into a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) map that will enable conservationists to more accurately predict where sea ice—a vital habitat for polar bears and seals that t...

Dealing deadly cancers a knockout punch

...ory" mechanism that researchers hope Reolysin will bring about long-term remissions of once-untreatable cancers. At the Fourth International Conference on Oncolytic Viruses as Cancer Therapeutics in March 2007 in Scottsdale, Arizona, several presentations focused on reovirus efficacy alone or in combina...

Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles

...are here to stay. Construction trends continue to bring workers out of private offices and into the open-plan setting. While an open environment fosters accessibility, there is a great need for solutions that counteract the acoustical effects of many employees working closely together. Acoustical scient...

Iowa State scientists demonstrate first use of nanotechnology to enter plant cells

...enic species at the same time," Wang said. "We can bring in a gene and induce it in a controlled manner at the same time and at the same location. That’s never been done before." The controlled release will improve the ability to study gene function in plants. And in the future, scientists could use the...

Hives ferment a yeasty brew, attract beetle pest

The honeybee's alarm signal may not only bring help, but also attract the small hive beetle. Now,... the yeast grows on pollen in nature, perhaps bees bring it into the hive." This combination of domestic honeybees, small hive beetles and yeast produced ...

Biodiesel study targets cleaner air, cleaner engines

... not only in Ontario but across Canada. This will bring both environmental and economic benefits to Canadians, since biodiesel can be produced from local, renewable resources. Biodiesel is a renewable fuel made from locally available sources, including animal fats and plant oils such as soybean, sunflower...

Cold sore virus might play role in Alzheimer's disease

... mice with different forms of the human ApoE gene, bring together several lines of research that have pointed toward a possible role for herpes in Alzheimer's disease. Ruth Itzhaki of the University of Manchester has led the way with several studies showing a correlation between herpes and Alzheimer's. ...

Stopping plants from getting sick

...h ?we can study them in the field, but we can also bring them to the laboratory and isolate the genes that allow them to infect the plant," says Kronstad. "In fact, genomics and computers have made this a lot easier during the last five to 10 years. Before it would take a graduate student all of his or her...

Cancer researchers add spice to research against rare neuromuscular disease

... clump up inside neurons, creating a clog that can bring normal molecular activity to a standstill. The clumps of material eventually become toxic to neurons. In Kennedy's disease, a vital molecule known as CREB-binding protein or CBP becomes bound up or entangled by the clumps in motor neurons. This sm...

Re-analysis of cigarettes confirms tobacco companies increased addictive nicotine 11 percent

... Kennedy (D-Ma.) that would address this abuse and bring the tobacco industry under the rules that regulate other manufacturers of drugs." Beginning in 1997, Massachusetts regulations have required an annual report to be filed with the MDPH by all manufacturers of cigarettes sold in Massachusetts. The r...

Active ingredient in common Chinese herb shown to reduce hypertension

...erstood, these results contribute to the effort to bring complementary and alternative medicine and allopathic care closer together in the treatment of hypertensive patients. ...

RNAi shows promise in gene therapy, Stanford researcher says

...ill help him and others figure out the best way to bring RNAi gene therapy safely to humans. ...

Gene hunters close in on Lou Gehrig’s disease

...c ALS, our results seriously narrow the search and bring us that much closer to finding what we need to start developing treatments for the disease,?says Bryan J. Traynor, M.D., of the Department of Neurology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease fo...

Army research mission focused on autism

...opportunities: To encourage new research ideas and bring more investigators into the Field of Autism research. When the funding opportunities are announced next month, investigators currently engaged in autism research, and researchers and clinicians wishing to apply their knowledge to autism, are encourag...

Engineering the heart piece by piece

...s actively looking for a corporate partner to help bring the technology to market. The U-M team’s bioreactor was developed Robert Dennis, Ph.D., formerly of the U-M College of Engineering and now at the University of North Carolina. It allows up to 11 specimens of tissue to be grown in the same conditi...

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