centers 2 2

Tag: "centers" at biology news

Defenseless plants arm themselves with metals

...tion that has long stymied Salt and his colleagues centers on the origins of this trait. While essential as micronutrients, metals are toxic in high levels. Most plants have mechanisms that keep metals in the environment out of their tissues. So what would have driven some plants to do just the opposite? "T...

UNC launches study of liver injury caused by drugs

...th Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of five clinical centers nationwide to receive funds from the National Inst...e liver injury associated with drugs. Other DILIN centers along with UNC are at the University of Indiana at Indianapolis, University of California at San Fra...

Study: 'homemade' gene expression technology unreliable

...Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) centers led by CROET ?one with Oregon State University and the Battelle-run Pacific Northwest National Laboratory focuses on mechanisms underlying Superfund chemicals with neurotoxic properties; the other with the OHSU School of Medicine's Department of Pedi...

Africa to take it on chin again with climate change

...e continent from February into April. Low-pressure centers moving west from the Sahel during the monsoon often serve as seed for tropical storms and hurricanes in the North Atlantic. Hurrell's work does not address the possible impact of increased rains in the Sahel on future Atlantic hurricane activity. Fo...

Molecular messengers perform a crucial role in the ability of injured nerve cells to heal themselves

...sphorylated state, they can communicate to command centers in the cell, transmitting a message that activates certain genes in the cell body, which then manufactures proteins that are vital for the healing of the injured axon. The problem is that the messengers must transmit their phosphorus message over a g...

NHGRI targets 12 more organisms for genome sequencing

...Sequencing efforts will be carried out by the five centers in the NHGRI-supported Large-Scale Sequencing Rese...ssignment of each organism to a specific center or centers will be determined at a later date. NHGRI's selection process begins with two working groups compri...

Moffitt-USF head toward first human trials of anti-cancer drug that targets protein AKT

...compound, tricirbine, was tested at various cancer centers from 1982 to 1996 and found to inhibit some cancers, but researchers failed to determine why. The Moffitt-USF team discovered that tricirbine works only against tumors in which the cancer-causing Akt protein is abundant and/or abnormally active. "Th...

Researchers extend mouse lifespan by protecting against free radicals

... Washington and their colleagues at other research centers have found a way to significantly extend the lifespan of mice while reducing the impact of the aging process. Their study, which will be published online by the journal Science on May 5, lends more credence to the free-radical theory of aging. The t...

TGen awarded $7.1 million to accelerate brain disease research

...t that TGen will share with three other microarray centers that are part of the NIH Neuroscience Microarray C...s of genes can cause human disease. The consortium centers specialize in technologies which provide information about the genes turned on or off in the disease...

New type of rejection blocker protects kidneys after transplant

...II clinical study of 218 patients, conducted at 22 centers in the United States, Canada and seven European countries. Flavio Vincenti, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, and Christian Larsen, MD, of Emory University in Atlanta, were co-principal authors of the study. The results mark an imp...

Snapin: A protein with therapy potential for autism

...n with therapeutic drugs. Dendrites are the input centers of neurons -- where nerve cells receive information that they pass on to another nerve cell or to the brain. When there is an abnormal decrease in dendrite branches, there are fewer sites to receive information and communication may be impeded. Indiv...

NIH creates nationwide network of molecular libraries screening centers

... high-throughput assays conducted at the screening centers will be made available to researchers in both the public and private sectors through the PubChem database (http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/), created and managed by the National Library of Medicine at NIH. The network's first screening center, the NI...

UNC computer, marine scientists collaborate to predict flow of toxic waters from Katrina

...wake of Hurricane Katrina, scientists and research centers from across the country came together to generate information on the contaminated floodwaters and offer it to hazardous materials experts and public health officials. In a matter of hours, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Marine Sci...

Survival of heart patients on beta-blockers varies greatly with genetic variation

...uct a larger study of 4,500 heart patients from 20 centers throughout the country. Called TRIUMPH (Translational Research Investigating Underlying Disparities in Myocardial Infarction Patients' Health Status) and funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, the study will evaluate patients' symptom...

NHGRI Selects 13 More Organisms for Genome Sequencing

...ssignment of each organism to a specific center or centers will be determined at a later date. NHGRI’s process for selecting sequencing targets begins with two working groups comprised of experts from across the research community. Each of the working groups is responsible for developing a proposal for a se...

Possible treatment found for 'chemobrain'

...ssignment of each organism to a specific center or centers will be determined at a later date. NHGRI’s process for selecting sequencing targets begins with two working groups comprised of experts from across the research community. Each of the working groups is responsible for developing a proposal for a se...

Study uncovers dirty little secret: Soil emissions are much-bigger-than-expected component of air pollution

...ustion are most closely linked to major population centers and show up in the satellite's ozone-monitoring measurements of nitrogen dioxide, part of the nitrogen oxides family. Other satellite instruments can detect large fires and the resulting emissions also can be measured by the ozone-monitoring experime...

Suppressing growth hormone in early adulthood may prevent cancer

...ake Forest University School of Medicine and other centers reported today at ENDO 2005, the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, in San Diego. Suppression of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) also may decrease cancer risk in those individuals at high risk for disease, and perhaps cou...

Computers close in on protein structure prediction

...er's lab already receives help from supercomputing centers in San Diego and Illinois. More help will soon be on its way from many of the 5,000 freshman entering University of Washington this fall. Using software developed to assist the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, the students c...

Experimental shingles vaccine proves effective in nationwide study

...22 study sites nationwide, including 16 VA medical centers and six clinical research sites outside the VA system coordinated through NIAID. Between November 1998 and September 2001, the multicenter research team enrolled more than 38,500 men and women age 60 or older into the study. Half of the participants ...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7