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Multi-species genome comparison sheds new light on evolutionary processes, cancer mutations

...dy of basic evolutionary processes can lead to new insights into the origin of human diseases," said Dr. Lewin, who is director of the Institute of Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois. ...

Men Estimate Men's Risks Of Common Disorders Higher Than Women Do, And Vice Versa

... be fit and to live longer. The research provides insights about gender identity and difference. They found that each gender tends to think risks are higher for their own sex than for the other gender. Previous studies suggest that lay people and health professionals operate on stereotypes about the gender p...

Spiders help scientists discover how muscles relax

...izing tissues in their natural state, provides new insights into the molecular basis of muscle relaxation, and perhaps its activation too. "We have solved the structure of the array of miniature motors that form our muscles and found out how they are switched off," said Raul Padron, a HHMI international res...

Space matters: Estimating species diversity in the fossil record

...llaborations across disciplines may offer valuable insights into ecological dynamics through time. Citation: Barnosky AD, Carrasco MA, Davis EB (2005) The impact of the species-area relationship on estimates of paleodiversity. PLoS Biol 3(8): e266. ...

New Scripps Oceanography project to study sediments and ecosystem restoration in Venice lagoon

...d research project that will provide many valuable insights into several different aspects of environmental toxicology and environmental quality assessment," said Deheyn. "It will be extremely interesting and unique to address the many different angles of a single problem." Scripps scientists and SIOSED rese...

Gambling monkeys give insight into neural machinery of risk

...e to gamble to receive juice rewards -- could give insights into why humans compulsively engage in risky behav...d developed a valid animal model that would reveal insights into the brain mechanism for assessing risk, the researchers next explored the neural circuitry that...

'Shifty-eyed' Monkeys Offer Window Into Brain's Social Reflexes

...ial reflexes, said Platt, such a model could yield insights into such disorders as autism. 'Children with autism tend not to orient to other individuals,' he said. 'They don't tend to look other people in the eye, and in particular they show a strong deficit in shifting their attention where another individua...

Elderly mice yield clues to the process of growing old

...programmed cell death in aging." If true, the new insights may one day lead to opportunities to stave off old age through drugs that could prevent the gathering of genetic defects in mitochondrial DNA, genetic material that resides outside of the nucleus of a cell and that helps power critical cell processes...

Past droughts geographically widespread in the West, according to tree-ring data

... said such reconstructions could provide important insights into the hydrologic variability of a river basin over time. The findings represent just the first phase of a study partnered by SRP and The University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. UA scientists Katherine K. Hirschboeck, an associat...

Sleeping beauty plays a significant role in identifying cancer genes

...e believe that the technology used will reveal new insights into human cancer and could be translated for clinical use. Hopefully, this discovery will speed up the development of new drugs and improve already-in-use drugs that target specific genes for treatment of various types of cancer, including lymphomas...

Simple sea sponge helps scientists understand tissue rejection

... The ultimate goal of this research is to provide insights into the machinery behind human tissue rejection and immune responses in hopes of someday being able to control these processes and save lives. ...

Unweaving amyloid fibers to solve prion puzzles

...species. "These findings give us some fundamental insights in how amyloid fibers form," says Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist, lead scientist in the research team whose results will be published in the June 9 issue of the journal Nature. "They solve the important problem of identifying the intermolecular con...

NHGRI Selects 13 More Organisms for Genome Sequencing

...t malaria. The sequence data will also provide new insights into key structural and functional elements of the...sect pests. Understanding its genome will increase insights into biological control, as well as into basic mechanisms of parasitism that may be applicable to pa...

Possible treatment found for 'chemobrain'

...t malaria. The sequence data will also provide new insights into key structural and functional elements of the...sect pests. Understanding its genome will increase insights into biological control, as well as into basic mechanisms of parasitism that may be applicable to pa...

Living with salt

...nce in a mouse has led the researchers to some new insights into kidney physiology. The researchers hope that the knowledge gleaned from their study of a tiny alga might provide the basis for designing new drugs that could target enzymes based on their salt tolerance. Prof. Joel Sussman's research is funded ...

Neanderthal teeth grew no faster than comparable modern humans'

... world," she said. "We feel that they give us some insights into the variation that exists within modern humans." For the study, the researchers used precise dental impressions Guatelli-Steinberg and Larsen made of 55 teeth believed to come from 30 Neanderthal individuals. These were compared to 65 teeth fr...

Protein structure key for AIDS, cell function

...very cellular process. The findings also may offer insights into mechanisms involved in certain diseases, ranging from leukemia to diabetes and HIV-AIDS. Levels of the protein climb, for reasons unknown, when people fall ill, making human CD38 a marker for these diseases. As one example, researchers have...

Variant prion protein causes infection but no symptoms

...l Institutes of Health. "This work provides novel insights into how prion and other neurodegenerative diseases develop and it provides tantalizing clues as to how we might delay or even prevent such diseases by preventing certain cellular interactions," notes NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. A paper des...

Environmental lessons from tsunami as world's coastal population doubles

... maintaining resilience is the key. New scientific insights from ecologists show that natural ecosystems such as coral reefs and coastal mangrove forests can adapt to change and recover from storms and floods and still provide services of protecting the coast and absorbing pollution. But once these ecosystems...

Trio of plant genes prevent 'too many mouths'

... mechanisms that control stomata patterning offers insights into such questions as how plants evolved to protect themselves when they moved from water to land, Torii says. Even atmospheric scientists are interested in such basic plant biology, given the enormous amount of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide tak...

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