exploring 2 2

Tag: "exploring" at biology news

Williams College biologist explores photosynthetic apparatus

...iologist Claire Ting. It will support her work in exploring the structure, function and evolution of the photosynthetic apparatus in one of the most important marine primary producers of the world. Her project is titled "Photosynthetic Response to Abiotic Stress in Prochlorococcus, a Globally Important Marin...

Satellites shed light on global warming

... surface temperature and sea level, scientists are exploring the many subtle ways in which these near-invisible waves are capable of affecting phytoplankton, as they may be providing them with an input of nutrient-rich water from the deep ocean as well as moving them around. These findings are then compared wi...

Turning a cellular sentinel into a cancer killer

...e system, he said. Lowe and his colleagues are now exploring how the innate immune system might be enlisted against cancer. Jacks's team used a different technique to reactivate p53 in lymphomas and sarcomas. In their experiments, the researchers produced mice whose cells did not have p53 activity. These mic...

MIT device draws cells close -- but not too close -- together

...ays. This simple device will also be useful for exploring a host of other cellular interactions. Most prominently, the device could be very useful in exploring embryonic development, during which the local cellular environment dictates development of major org...

A sweet step toward new cancer therapies

...te groups attached. Hakansson's group has been exploring the use of metals such as calcium and iron to carry the necessary positive charges. In a series of recently published papers, they first showed that their method can be used to selectively cleave different bonds and then demonstrated that it can be u...

Gladstone investigators identify a new protective action for the powerful anti-HIV factor, APOBEC3G

...ments," Greene said. Gladstone scientists are now exploring various ways to achieve this desired balance. ...

Neuron cell stickiness may hold key to evolution of the human brain

... adhesion gene expression is a good place to begin exploring the molecular basis of how humans became so cognitively advanced in the 5 to 6 million years since we shared a common ancestor with chimps." ...

'Protecting virus' offers instant flu protection and converts flu infections into their own vaccines

...iled a patent on the protecting virus and they are exploring ways of taking 'protecting virus' through human clinical trials and testing on birds. The University has established a company ?ViraBiotech ?to help advance those aims. This may involve venture capital support, and collaborations with pharmaceutical...

Transplanted brain cells hold promise for Parkinson's disease

...ss of controlled movement. Centers such as MCG are exploring new ways to slow disease progression, diagnose it earlier and more accurately monitor its progression....

Hopkins researchers discover how brain protein might control memory

...ng individual nerve cells - by an act as simple as exploring new environs, for example - causes the cells to make more Arc protein almost immediately. "Arc is an instant and reliable readout for active cells in the brain," says Worley. But although scientists knew that active cells were making copious amounts ...

From a lowly yeast, researchers divine a clue to human disease

... Lou Gehrig's disease, and movement disorders. By exploring how Sen1 works in yeast, Brow provides a powerful tool other researchers can use to better understand the interplay of the protein and gene regulation in human disease. "This work gives a method to start examining what the defect is in humans," he ...

Silver bullet: UGA researchers use laser, nanotechnology to rapidly detect viruses

...ping a business model, seeking venture capital and exploring ways to mass produce the silver nanorods. Next year, they plan on moving their enterprise to the Georgia BioBusiness Center, an UGA incubator for startup bio-science companies. Presently, viruses are first diagnosed with methods that detect the an...

Ferns provide model for tiny motors powered by evaporation

...arch started while doctoral student Ruba Borno was exploring another idea entirely. Borno was interested in mimicking biological devices, specifically microchannels that plants use to transport water, so Maharbiz gave her a book on plants. But something else in the book caught her attention---the section on ...

Worms produce surprise insight into human fever

...Alejandro Aballay of Duke University, who has been exploring two “highly conserved? cell-signaling pathways for innate immunity shared by worms and humans. For one, we have a lot of common enemies, particularly soil-borne pathogens. C. elegans, of course, lives in the soil. Human populations merely ingest so...

Researchers discover key mechanism by which lethal viruses Ebola and Marburg cause disease

...ectious diseases. The investigators are currently exploring whether insights derived from understanding the potency of these immunosuppressive peptides can be exploited to treat autoimmune diseases. ...

A natural chemical found in strawberries boosts memory in healthy mice

...e object from the day before, they spend less time exploring the old one and instead turn their attention to the novel object. Indeed, mice administered a single dose of fisetin could better recall familiar objects. In fact, fisetin worked almost as well as rolipram, a substance known to enhance memory. Me...

First-time analysis reveals millions of Europeans left at risk from influenza

...5 Countries. "At Solvay Pharmaceuticals we are exploring every avenue to increase vaccine capacity and are making significant investments to increase vaccine supply using pioneering cell-culture manufacturing technologies that do not rely on conventional egg based vaccine production," commented Dr Bram Pal...

Extraordinary life found around deep-sea gas seeps

...Hawaii at Manoa (UH) ?has spent the last two weeks exploring cold water seeps and other 'chemosynthetic' ecosystems around New Zealand's east coast onboard NIWA's deepwater research vessel Tangaroa. Cold seeps are areas of the seafloor where methane gas or hydrogen sulphide escapes from large stores deep be...

New dwarf buffalo discovered by chance in the Philippines

...d some fossils in a tunnel he was excavating while exploring for phosphate. Forty years later, Dr. Hamilcar Intengan, a friend of his who now lives in Chicago, recognized the importance of the bones and donated them to The Field Museum. If not for the attention and foresight of these two individuals, science ...

China's environmental challenges

...ogy and the Environment devotes itself entirely to exploring China's environmental challenges and potential solutions, with all of the articles written by Chinese scientists. As the lead guest editorialists Drs. Jingyun Fang and Chia Kiang (both of Peking University) note, "China's extraordinary rate of ec...

1 2 3 4 5 6