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Parkinson's disease mechanism discovered

...tree using multiple model organisms, will open the door to new therapeutic opportunities for Parkinson's," said Bonini. ...

MIT 'seeing machine' offers hope to blind

...help - "there are five steps there; it's the third door on the left" - are often wrong, especially people with good vision, Goldring said. "If you are visually challenged, if you see something once using the machine, you remember." Participants explored the virtual environment - which represented the ins...

Think fast! Rice undergrad unlocks nerve speed secret

...s loading dock managers, deciding when to open the door to release shipments of chemical freight. SNAREs f...ARE-driven membrane fusion ?the act that opens the door for neurotransmitter to leave the neuronal cell ?was inhibited by complexin. "By halting fusion pa...

Flick of whiskers helps tease out brain's 'shadow' signaling system

...sm during everyday circumstances. "This opens the door to whether these cells are part of everyday higher cognitive functioning that defines who we are as humans," she said. For years astrocytes have been related to the status of helper to the neurons, which rely on astrocytes to bring nutrients and to ...

Finding paves way for better treatment of autoimmune disease

...easily make large numbers of these cells opens the door to improved treatment and a better understanding of autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes and arthritis, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. T cells are components of the immune system designed to attack invaders such as bacteria and ...

Scientists tie several cancers to common 'oncogene engine'

...ss MITF, the identification of MITF's role opens a door to potential therapies because the researchers have identified some of the genes and proteins that MITF regulates that new drugs could be used to block. One of the targets is Bcl-2, which enables cancer cells to survive when the body has ordered them...

Gene discovery opens door to tackling disease

...rofessor Leedman said the discovery could open the door to targeted new treatments for the cancers. "If we can unravel the mystery of how SLIRP works to turn down the hormone action in cancer cells we could potentially develop so-called 'smart' drugs that zoom in on the gene," he said. "The benefit is t...

Variations in detoxifying genes linked to Lou Gehrig's disease

...nd colleagues at Northwestern University, open the door to investigating gene-environment interactions as a cause of ALS and other illnesses and to the development of molecular targets for specific treatments. The study was published in the August 22 online issue (available now) of the journal Neurology. ...

Patients to benefit from novel technology revolutionizing high-speed molecular imaging

...times, provides better image quality and opens the door to new diagnostic procedures using simultaneous multi-isotope imaging--providing the potential to revolutionize functional imaging, according to results released at SNM's 53rd Annual Meeting June 3? in San Diego. "The potential of using more than o...

Surprising symbiosis: Glassy-winged sharpshooter eats with friends

...sident bacteria are close neighbors, residing next door within host tissues and feeding each other chemical precursors needed to make nutrients. In the future, Eisen says, the bacteria will likely evolve into organelles of the insect, losing their distinction as bacteria altogether. Looking ahead, Eisen...

Bacterial 'switch gene' regulates how oceans emit sulfur into atmosphere

... microbial physiology of DMSP metabolism opens the door to understanding the biology and ecology of this globally important process," said William Whitman, a microbiologist at the University of Georgia and co-author of the Science paper. The discovery of a bacterial gene switch in these two groups of plan...

Pure carbon nanotubes pass first in vivo test

...o see where the nanotubes end up, and it opens the door to some exciting diagnostic and therapeutic applications." In a ground-breaking 2002 study, Weisman and colleagues at Rice, including the late Professor Richard Smalley, discovered that nanotubes fluoresce, or emit near infrared light. Because nea...

Study offers innovative profile of enzyme that aids tumor growth

...strategy. "The success of our study opens the door to assembling the full range of enzymes into both metabolic and signaling networks contributing to complex pathologies like cancer," Cravatt said. "This could lead to the discovery of new markers for diagnosis and targets for treatment." ...

Emotional control circuit of brain's fear response discovered

...on is needed or not. For example, if it was a car door slamming, the rACC would shut down the amygdala." "Based on these findings, tailored treatments may someday be developed based on the biology of the person's disease," said Eric Kandel, M.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute senior investigator, Fre...

Two central mysteries in genome inheritance solved at UCSD

...g cell division. "These two discoveries open the door to further studies of the chromosome-spindle interface, studies that could result in improvement of chemotherapies for cancer," said Arshad Desai, Ph.D., assistant professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UCSD and investigator with the Ludwig ...

Ebola-outbreak kills 5000 gorillas

...cial group to gorilla social group. This opens the door to targeted vaccination strategies that, by breaking the chain of transmission, could be much more efficient than in the case of outbreaks driven entirely by reservoir spillover. The consistent spread rate of the Ebola infection wave also suggests th...

Genetic surprise confirms neglected 70-year-old evolutionary hypothesis

...mans and other mammals. Masly's work shows a back door through which speciation can start. If the right genes jump around in the genome, a population can begin creating individuals that can't successfully mate with the general population. If other speciation pressures, like geographic isolation, are adde...

Clue found to Epstein-Barr virus' ability to form and sustain tumors

...th (SMPH) have found a viral target that opens the door for the development of drugs to destroy tumors caused by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). The finding, published in the Sept. 4 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online, identifies the activity of a critical segment of a viral protein requir...

Comments, experts and background on the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry

"The research Dr. Kornberg did will help open the door to understanding and treating many human ailments, including cancer, heart disease and inflammation, and will help scientists better understand stem cells and their potential for therapeutic applications. "This Nobel Prize also underscores the key r...

Male contraception: One door opens, another closes

...uncement of one hot new lead and one dead end. A door opens Researchers in Italy and at the Population Council in New York have announced a breakthrough on a non-hormonal compound known as Adjudin (Nature Medicine, Oct. 29). By injecting the compound as an attachment to a modified hormone that seeks...

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