Zebrafish may hold key to understanding human nerve cell development
...uromast cells, eventually go on to makehair cells, but only when they are sufficiently far enough away fr...uch more research is needed toidentify this signal but we're optimistic our work has set the stagefor future discoveries," said Piotrowski.The University o...Harmful Bacterium Commonly Found in Poultry May Survive Refrigeration and Frozen Storage Combined
...uromast cells, eventually go on to makehair cells, but only when they are sufficiently far enough away fr...uch more research is needed toidentify this signal but we're optimistic our work has set the stagefor future discoveries," said Piotrowski.The University o......uromast cells, eventually go on to makehair cells, but only when they are sufficiently far enough away fr...uch more research is needed toidentify this signal but we're optimistic our work has set the stagefor future discoveries," said Piotrowski.The University o...Beyond lithium for bipolar disorder
... also treated other slices with the two chemicals, but added inositol. The researchers used DNA microarrays--so-called "gene chips"--to detect genes that were unequivocally activated when inositol was depleted in the brain slices. They discovered several genes that they concluded "suggest new direction...Novel ultrafast laser detection of cancer cells also may improve understanding of stem cells
...onger a cooperative agent in a collection of cells but becomes malicious, tries to get outside the area, ...entifying the spectra associated with cancer cells but also those associated with stem cells, and how these optical signals change as they differentiate in...PANTHER Protein Classification System Database 5.0
...ay that is accessible notonly to bench biologists, but also to computational biologists. TheCellDesigner software immensely simplifies the task of capturing anddisplaying detailed pathway data,?added Dr. Thomas.“This collaboration has been a terrific experience that has provided uswith enormous feedback ...New research indicates a 'troubled' greenhouse is brewing
.... "We know the gathering greenhouse will be warm, but this new information confirms that the contrast be...een known as sources of evidence of past rainfall, but Retallack says they also can be used to determine the seasonality of rainfall as well as the amount ...International trial of two microbicides begins
...ion in women result from heterosexual intercourse, but women may not always be able to insist that their male partners use measures to prevent HIV transmission," notes NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "If effective, microbicides would be a valuable woman-controlled means of slowing the pace of the H...Breast Cancer May Be 'Uniquely Sensitive' To Inhibitors Of PI3K Pathway
...Only one PI3K pathway inhibitor is in use to date, but others areincreasingly being developed and tested, says Mills, who is discussingthe importance of this pathway at the annual San Antonio Breast CancerSymposium meeting. “At least 20 different companies have recognized theimportance of the pathway in ...Genetic Variation Visualization - From EMBL
...Only one PI3K pathway inhibitor is in use to date, but others areincreasingly being developed and tested, says Mills, who is discussingthe importance of this pathway at the annual San Antonio Breast CancerSymposium meeting. “At least 20 different companies have recognized theimportance of the pathway in ...MetaChip provides quick, efficient toxicity screening of potential drugs
...ion in women result from heterosexual intercourse, but women may not always be able to insist that their male partners use measures to prevent HIV transmission," notes NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "If effective, microbicides would be a valuable woman-controlled means of slowing the pace of the H...Newly Discovered Compound Blocks Known Cancer-Causing Protein
...y. Ras is a normal genetic component of the cell, but mutations in the gene can cause it to become stuck...he compound will be metabolized in living animals, but we are encouraged by our initial results." Other Duke scientists contributing to the research are R...New Mixing Method for Microchip-Sized Labs
...Only one PI3K pathway inhibitor is in use to date, but others areincreasingly being developed and tested, says Mills, who is discussingthe importance of this pathway at the annual San Antonio Breast CancerSymposium meeting. “At least 20 different companies have recognized theimportance of the pathway in ...Plants defy Mendel's inheritance laws, may prompt textbook changes
...e progeny that didn't show the parents' deformity, but rather were normal like the grandparents. Under Me...ercent of the offspring will look like the parent, but 10 percent will look like the normal grandparents," Pruitt said. "Our genetic training tells us that...UCSD discovery may help extend life of natural pesticide
...oil bacterium, is toxic to insects and roundworms, but not to vertebrates, which accounts for its popular...structure are found in both insects and nematodes, but are not found in vertebrates at all, which may be one reason these proteins are safe to vertebrates....Scientists identify new model Of NK cell development
...pment of human natural killer (NK) cells, powerful but somewhat mysterious components of the body's immun... that human NK cells are generated in bone marrow, but Michael Caligiuri, director of the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center and the senior author of the stud...New RNA polymerase discovered in plants
...re were no huge consequences. The plants survived, but there were slight delays in flowering and some str...s, which are known to regulate flower development, but that proved wrong." In a series of genetic and biochemical tests , Pikaard and his collaborators di...Research Using Mouse Models Reveals A Novel Key Player In The Initiation Of Colon Cancer
... called Foxl1 that is also expressed in the colon, but in a different layer of cells, adjacent to the epithelium, called the mesenchyme. They had seen that mice that are deficient for the Foxl1 protein show a similar accumulation of the beta-catenin protein in the epithelium layer, yet they do not get ca...Bird Brains Show How Trial and Error May Contribute to Learning
...ve long known, a young bird cannot learn its song, but an adult bird can sing its song without that regio... tune and rhythm of the basic song did not change, but a tiny burst of electricity would show up a few notes later as a change in volume or pitch at a part...Agilent Technologies releases automated literature search tool for biology researchers
...ature Search tool is currently available as a free but unsupported plug-in to Cytoscape. Both are downloadable at www.cytoscape.org. Agilent's plug-in and additional information are available at www.labs.agilent.com/research/mtl/projects/sysbio/sysinformatics/download.html. Screen shots of Agilent Liter...