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Baumann Lab defines proteins that distinguish chromosome ends from DNA double-strand breaks

...strand break repair at chromosome ends." "These findings are important for establishing a better understanding of tumor development," said Robb Krumlauf, Ph.D., Scientific Director. "Genomic instability and gross chromosomal rearrangements are a hallmark of cancer cells. The mechanisms that initiate and dr...

LIAI scientists make important finding on cytomegalovirus transmission

... and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The team’s findings were published online this week in the Journal of ...d individuals. "The potential excitement in the findings is that we may be able to one day use this kind of treatment in humans to block or significantly red...

'Short-circuit' found in ocean circulation

...entral role in regulating Earth's climate. The findings show that much of the overturning circulation - how water moves and mixes vertically - around Antarctica takes place just around the tip of South America and in the small region in the Atlantic south of the Falklands, called the Scotia Sea. Co-au...

Researchers publish first marsupial genome sequence

...irector Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "These new findings illustrate how important it is to understand all o...nnovations around the genome." Other important findings to emerge from the analysis of the opossum genome include: The opossum has many genes involved...

Dealing deadly cancers a knockout punch

...latin and docetaxel. Perhaps the most exciting findings of Reolysin combination therapy were reported at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in April, 2007. In mice transplanted with a human colon cancer, Reolysin plus gemcitabine completely eradicated the tumors in four of five te...

Study offers clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'

...hat are not visible on coronary angiography. These findings will help guide long-term treatment. "Because we don't yet know what causes this phenomenon, we don't know what the best long-term management should include," he said. "As we gather more information on these patients, we can start to understand w...

DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis

... evaluation and comparisons of these tools. Their findings will no doubt have a very significant impact on the field of metagenomics in general. It will help groups like mine to choose efficient strategies for the development of automated methods for high-throughput metagenome analysis. And last, but not lea...

Sleepless for science: Flies show link between sleep, immune system in Stanford study

... those messages get sent back and forth"" Their findings also raise the question of why the flies have a change in their sleep pattern when infected. The researchers speculate that from an evolutionary standpoint, there may be some microbes that are fought better when sleep is disrupted, although clearly n...

Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees

...e home range. According to the authors, the new findings indicate that although low-level aggression between female chimpanzees is more commonly seen, the observed instances of infanticide indicate that deadly aggression is not a gender-specific trait in this species. ...

Researchers develop way to calculate speed of bacterial sex

...l adaptation in the environment. They report their findings in the May 2007 issue of Vadose Zone Journal in a ...terpret previously published conjugation data. The findings revealed that bacterial transport and colonization of surfaces is as important a controlling factor ...

Spud origin controversy solved

...re of Andean and Chilean origin. They report their findings in the May-June 2007 issue of Crop Science. “Eur...al, molecular, agronomic, and crossing data, these findings support a hypothesis of multiple early introductions of both Andean and Chilean germplasm to the Can...

Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia

...de effects of these and other drugs. The team's findings also appear in the May 2007 issue of the journal M...rain," Kaddurah-Daouk said. "If we can apply these findings to the mysteries occurring in the brain, then perhaps we can finally unlock the secrets of these dev...

Herpes infection may be symbiotic, help beat back some bacteria

...ccustomed to asking about such infections, but our findings suggest that we need to start." Virgin notes that human and mouse herpes viruses are genetically very closely related. The similarity strongly suggests that modern herpes viruses are likely descended from herpes viruses that infected evolutionary ...

First demonstration of new hair follicle generation in an animal model

...enes once active only in developing embryos. These findings provide unequivocal evidence for the first time th...nders, mammals have the power to regenerate. These findings are published in the May 17 issue of Nature. A better understanding of this process could lead to...

Scientists discover new life in the Antarctic deep sea

...onised the deep ocean or vice versa. The research findings suggest the glacial cycle of advance and retreat of ice led to an intermingling of species that originated in shallow and deep water habitats. Lead author Professor Angelika Brandt from the Zoological Institute and Zoological Museum, University Ha...

Hexavalent chromium in drinking water causes cancer in lab animals

... animals when administered orally." The study findings were announced at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) after the NTP Board of Scientific Counselors Technical Reports Review Subcommittee completed its independent peer review of the sodium dichromate dihydrate research rep...

Gene thought to assist chemo may help cancer thrive

...p53 displayed only a 30 percent survival rate. The findings raise the possibility of a new strategy for fighting cancer - namely, developing drugs to disable the functioning of this gene in the tumors of patients undergoing chemotherapy. The results appear in the May 16 edition of the open access journal PLoS...

DNA analysis suggests under-reported kills of threatened whales

...'s Marine Mammal Institute, also is presenting his findings to the International Whaling Commission this week at its annual meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. Baker and his colleagues conducted 12 surveys at a selection of shops selling whale meat in certain Korean coastal cities from 1999 to 2003 and collected...

Newly identified mechanism for silencing genes points to possible anti-cancer strategies

...enger RNA into proteins at specific genes. The findings suggests that small bits of RNA known as microRNAs, known to help regulate genes but not used for protein production, may be operating in a completely novel way to prevent genes from producing proteins. MicroRNAs have been implicated in a number of c...

Study of protein folds offers insight into metabolic evolution

... include the building blocks of all life. Their findings relied on a fundamental assumption: that the most widely utilized protein folds (they looked at proteins in more than 200 species) were also the most ancient. "Protein architecture has preserved ancient structural designs as fossils of ancient bio...

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