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Researchers Uncover Key Step In Manufacture of Memory Protein

...g of the chemical mechanism she and her colleagues deciphered in the current study may provide insight into long-term memory deficits. She explained that other researchers have learned that some human beings lack normal CPE due to mutations in the CPE gene. Future research may determine if the CPE mutation affe...

Scientists decipher genome of fungus that can cause life-threatening infections

...tant field of biomedical research, scientists have deciphered thegenomes of two closely related strains of Crypt...vestigator Claire M. Fraser, thePresident of TIGR, deciphered the genome of one strain of C. neoformanswhile researchers led by Richard Hyman at Stanford Universi...

Genome study of beneficial microbe may help boost plant health

...ed to greatly benefit crop plants, scientists have deciphered the genome of a root- and seed-dwelling bacterium that protects plants from diseases. The research provides clues to better explain how the helpful microbe, Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5, naturally safeguards roots and seeds from infection by harmful...

Achilles heel of the herpes virus possibly found

...ene that controls the production of that receptor, deciphered some aspects of the receptor's structure, and developed a pig-cell system that could be used to test new anti-herpes drugs. The findings may help explain why the oral and genital herpes virus has such a successful track record: The receptor, dubbed ...

New vaccine protects more effectively against tuberculosis

...for the high efficacy of this vaccine has now been deciphered (Journal of Clinical Investigations, August 18, 2005). Globally, tuberculosis remains the number one killer in adults. Moreover, multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis strains are on the rise which cannot be treated by first-line drugs. A vaccine agains...

Scientists crack 40-year-old DNA puzzle and point to 'hot soup' at the origin of life

...uzzle that has baffled scientists since they first deciphered the language of DNA almost 40 years ago. In 1968, Marshall Nirenberg, Har Gobind Khorana and Robert Holley received a Nobel Prize for working out how proteins are produced from the genetic code. They discovered that three letter 'words' - known as c...

Scientists crack code for motor neuron wiring

...d Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have deciphered a key part of the regulatory code that governs how motor neurons in the spinal cord connect to specific target muscles in the limbs. The researchers said that understanding this code may help guide progress in restoring motor neuron function in peop...

Chemical signaling helps regulate sensory map formation in the brain

..., "information from the eyes could not be properly deciphered by the brain." "Topographic maps are a very common wiring strategy in our brains," he said. Similar systems are thought to regulate other sensory systems -- such as hearing and touch, as well as motor systems -- but the visual system has been the p...

No-mow grass may be coming to your yard soon

...ghes Medical Institute scientists report they have deciphered the signaling pathway for a key class of steroid hormones that regulates growth and development in plants. "By manipulating the steroid pathway…we think we can regulate plant stature and yield," said Joanne Chory, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...

Researchers discover gene crucial for nerve cell insulation

...in peripheral neuropathy. "The researchers have deciphered a key sequence essential to the assembly of myelin," said Duane Alexander, M.D., Director of the NICHD, the NIH institute that funded the study. "Their discovery will provide important insight into the origins of disorders affecting myelin productio...

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