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Stem cells bring fast direct improvement, without differentiation, in acute renal failure

...nd some still unexplored paracrine mechanisms. The former include the induction of organ-protective and repair-supporting genes in surviving renal cells, robust suppression of proinflammatory cytokines in the ARF kidney and upregulation of anti-inflammatory genes, as well as the delivery and release at the ...

From a Few Wild Ancestors, a Citrus Cornucopia

...he UCR Department of Botany and Plant Science, and former graduate student Noelle Barkley (now with ARS in Griffin, Georgia), Krueger set out to determine the connections among the hundreds of citrus accessions -- to see which ones were genetic duplicates and which were novel and distinct. The project was ...

Helping in a selfish world

...ers to support the altruistic cause spearheaded by former Boomtown Rat, Sir Bob Geldof. In today's rat-race climate, what makes some of us look out for each other, while others look out for themselves? According to evolutionary theory, natural selection has designed individuals to behave selfishishly; self...

Ants, not evil spirits, create devil's gardens in the Amazon rainforest, study finds

...e competition, says co-author Michael J. Greene, a former Sanford postdoctoral fellow, now assistant professor of biology at the University of Colorado-Denver. "This work is a truly remarkable example of how effectively ants can manipulate their environment in order to promote their own survival," he adds. ...

New imaging technology shown to detect pancreatic inflammation in type 1 diabetes

..., both in Vancouver, Canada; Maria Denis, Ph.D., a former Joslin research fellow who now works at the BSRC Alexander Fleming Institute of Immunology in Greece, and Eric Swart and Umar Mahmood, M.D., Ph.D., from MGH. In this study, the Joslin and MGH researchers used a new imaging technique to reveal the ot...

MicroRNA tweaks protein that controls early heart development

...or this particular microRNA." Dr. Srivastava is a former professor of pediatrics and molecular biology at UT Southwestern, where he and his colleagues performed the Nature research. He currently is director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and professor of pediatrics at the University o...

Beyond genes: Lipid helps cell wall protein fold into proper shape

...author Dowhan are first author Wei Zhang, Ph.D., a former graduate student who is now a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, and post-doctoral fellow Heidi Campbell, Ph.D., of the UT Medical School Department of Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology, and Steven King, Ph.D, associate professor, Departm...

Tagging pathogens with synthetic DNA 'barcodes'

...iplexed pathogen detections," by Luo, Yougen Li, a former Cornell graduate student now at California Institute of Technology, and Yen Thi Hong Cu, a current graduate student, to be published in the July 2005 issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology and available after June 12 in the online version of the j...

Discovering an ecosystem beneath a collapsed Antarctic ice shelf

...udy the sediment record in the area vacated by the former ice shelf. The crew recorded a video of the seafloor at the end of its mission and only later discovered a thriving clam community, mud volcanoes, and a thin layer of bacterial mats. The discovery could provide evidence for researchers to better und...

Virologist finds contagious equine flu in dogs

...re Ruben Donis, Cornell Ph.D. '87, one of Dubovi's former graduate students and currently chief of molecular genetics for the influenza branch, found that it tested positive for equine influenza virus. Donis also ruled out the possibility that the sample had been contaminated with equine virus from another ...

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

...ht requires some horsepower," Blanton said. Reed, former director of NCSA, connected Blanton and Leuttich with NCSA, the National Science Foundation-supported supercomputing center located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Using NCSA's Xeon system, a state-of-the-art parallel computer call...

Woods Hole Research Center plans controlled burn in Amazon rainforest

...n withstand and ultimately, how it compares to its former self. Staffs of the Woods Hole Research Center and its partner research institute in Brazil, the Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazonia (IPAM), are carrying out the fires with additional collaboration with faculty and staff of the State Univers...

Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month

...ard to Bill and Melinda Gates. That day, a talk by former President Jimmy Carter about the work Roselyn and he did in Africa inspired Olson to work on deadly but neglected illnesses, she said. "What goes 'round, comes 'round," Olson said. "We have a real opportunity with DB289 and other drug candidates in ...

$6.5 Million Grant for Microarray Center at Yale School of Medicine

...ining classical and modern molecular genetics. The former included our use of transposable elements or 'jumping genes'--discovered at Cold Spring Harbor by [Nobel laureate] Barbara McClintock--to 'tag' the ramosa1 gene. That enabled us to isolate the gene and determine its DNA sequence for a variety of othe...

The genetic origins of corn on the cob

...ining classical and modern molecular genetics. The former included our use of transposable elements or 'jumping genes'--discovered at Cold Spring Harbor by [Nobel laureate] Barbara McClintock--to 'tag' the ramosa1 gene. That enabled us to isolate the gene and determine its DNA sequence for a variety of othe...

Discovery of an American salamander where it shouldn't be: Korea

...Yang of Inha University in Incheon, as well as his former college professor, Richard A. Brandon of Southern Illinois University. Brandon recognized the salamander as a plethodontid and drew it to the attention of Wake. Wake and post-doctoral fellows David R. Vieites and Ronald M. Bonett of UC Berkeley's Mus...

Team Invents Device For Weighing Individual Molecules

...behind the zepto result included Dr. Ya-Tang Yang, former graduate student in applied physics, now at Applied Materials; Dr. Carlo Callegari, former postdoctoral associate, now a professor at the University of Graz, Austria; Xiaoli Feng, current gra...

Chronic Sinus Infection Thought To Be Tissue Issue, Mayo Clinic Scientists Show It's Snot

.... David Sherris, M.D., and Eugene Kern, M.D., both former Mayo Clinic ear, nose and throat specialists who now work at the University at Buffalo, also participated in the project. The team found that in chronic sinus infection patients, activated white blood cells (eosinophils) cluster in the nasal and sin...

Bugs, even 'bad' ones, can be educationally beneficial, new book says

...llustrated "Insights From Insects." Waterstraat, a former Illinois graduate student in mathematics education, also illustrated "What Good are Bugs." Waldbauer and Waterstraat began working together after he saw and was intrigued by her paintings of beetles at the Anita Purves Nature Center in Busey Woods in...

Young Blood Revives Aging Muscles, Stanford Researchers Find

...### Postdoctoral scholar Michael Conboy, PhD, and former postdoctoral scholar Irina Conboy, PhD, now an ass...rd researchers who contributed to the work include former postdoctoral scholar Amy Wagers, PhD, now an assistant professor at Harvard, and Iriving Weissman, M...

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