NIDA study identifies genes that might help some people abstain from smoking
...vidual’s unique genetic makeup. “This research marks the first time we’ve been able to identify genes i...moking,?says NIDA Director Dr. Nora D. Volkow. “It marks a movement from identifying the genetics of addiction vulnerability to identifying the genetic basis...Cow protein aids in treatment of gastrointestinal disorder
...ts of antibiotics, respectively, but the new study marks the first time that they have been used together to treat H. pylori. The study found that the infection-causing bacterium was eliminated in more patients treated with the traditional therapy plus lactoferrin than with the existing treatments and may ...An ancient bathtub ring of mammoth fossils
...lotting the deposits to reconstruct the high-water marks of many of the floods, the last of which occurred as recently as 12,000 to 15,000 years ago. "Now is the perfect time to collect geologic and paleontologic data," said George Last, a senior research scientist at the Department of Energy laboratory...Arctic ice retreating more quickly than computer models project
...idual model was 5.4 percent per decade. (September marks the yearly minimum of sea ice in the Arctic.) But newly available data sets, blending early aircraft and ship reports with more recent satellite measurements that are considered more reliable than the earlier records, show that the September ice actu...Definitive evidence found of a swimming dinosaur
...ay consists of 6 asymmetrical pairs of 2-3 scratch marks each. Each set of scratch marks, preserved in a la... swam in approximately 3.2 meters of water. Ripple marks on the surface of the site indicate the dinosaur was swimming against a current, struggling to maint......ng down proteins. The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway marks unwanted proteins with ubiquitin tags and shuttles them for rapid breakdown to a complicated structure called the proteasome. The second is the autophagy-lysosomal system, a more general process in which proteins are surrounded by membranes inside th...