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Weill Cornell Research Reveals Secrets Of Trafficking Within Cells

...regulate endocytosis like a well-oiled machine. It may also give us insights into the kinds of disease states that can happen when clathrin-regulated endocytosis goes wrong. The findings, already published online, will appear in the April print edition of Molecular Biology of the Cell, whose editors hav...

ASU researchers finds novel chemistry at work to provide parrot's vibrant red colors

... because of their vibrant colors. But those colors may mean more to parrots than what meets the eye. For...ng, colorful plumage. In addition, these pigments may play a valuable role in maintaining the health of parrots. McGraw cites an independent study on the ...

Elephants imitate truck noises, other animals

...d of WHOI said. "Our study suggests that elephants may be using their vocal learning abilities in a simil... that elephants, like parrots, bats, and dolphins, may use vocal learning to develop new communication signals for maintaining complex individual-specific ...

UCSD researchers maintain stem cells without contaminated animal feeder layers

...ilable for non-federal research. The findings here may facilitate the derivation of new human embryonic stem cell lines without the use of animal or human feeder layers." ...

Transport System Smuggles Medicines Into Brain

... because of their vibrant colors. But those colors may mean more to parrots than what meets the eye. For...ng, colorful plumage. In addition, these pigments may play a valuable role in maintaining the health of parrots. McGraw cites an independent study on the ...

Scientists develop new color-coded test for protein folding

...nt of Chemistry. According to Zare, the new sensor may eventually provide biomedical researchers a fast, affordable method for detecting antibodies and other disease-related proteins. Acid and base In their experiment, Zare, postdoctoral fellow Soonwoo Chah and graduate student Matthew R. Hammond create...

Placenta Is A Rich Source Of Blood Stem Cells

...what's special about the placental environment, we may learn how to grow blood stem cells in large number...rely providing nutrients, Orkin says, the placenta may also provide an ''infusion'' of blood stem cells to the fetus. ''This research reveals a new organ ...

Probing The Promise And Perils Of Nanoparticles

... experiments suggest that nanoscale hole formation may be at least as important in allowing materials to travel through membranes. The work that Banaszak Holl, Hong and Leroueil will discuss is one of several major research programs under way in the U-M Center for Biologic Nanotechnology—a multi-discipl...

Nanogen Issued Patent for Electronic Microarray With Memory

...rs of pioneering research involving nanotechnology may also have future applications in medical diagnostics, biowarfare and other industries. For additional information please visit Nanogen's website at www.nanogen.com. ...

Elephants imitate sounds as a form of social communication

...d of WHOI said. "Our study suggests that elephants may be using their vocal learning abilities in a simil... that elephants, like parrots, bats, and dolphins, may use vocal learning to develop new communication signals for maintaining complex individual-specific ...

Highly adaptable genome in gut bacterium key to intestinal health

...anges in the composition of this "microbial organ" may be deleterious to human health, it is important to...f gut microbial communities among different people may be an important factor that influences predisposition to obesity and obesity-related disorders such ...

Researchers find missing genes of ancient organism

...tial process of tRNA biosynthesis. "These results may point to extremophiles in the kingdom of Archaea a... in the process of evolution," said Söll. "Or they may represent a specialization that has rid itself of genetic baggage to exist in extreme environments."...

Scientists identify genetic pathways essential to RNA interference

...ate in the gene-silencing mechanism, which someday may help to fight human disease. The report will appea...n. RNAi occurs naturally in plants and animals and may help control resistance to viral infection, among other functions. For the current study, lead auth...

Ants Genetic Engineering Leads To Species Interdependency

...nger siblings.Recent work on ants suggests that we may need to add geneticengineering to the list of inno...s aneasy way to produce novel characteristics that may be highlyadvantageous for growth, environmental tolerance, or diseaseresistance.Regardless of the sp...

Scientists reveal molecular secrets of the malaria parasite

...ent life stages. In turn, thatmolecular-level data may benefit biomedical scientists who areidentifying new targets for vaccines that would impede the parasiteduring stages when it is particularly vulnerable to intervention. "We hope this project will help vaccine researchers find the besttargets agains...

Studies reveal methods viruses use to sidestep immune system

... by viruses to thwart a host's immune defenses and may aid in the development of more effective drugs to fight hepatitis C and West Nile viruses, as well as the flu and the common cold. In a study to appear in a March issue of the Journal of Virology and currently available online, UT Southwestern resea...

Why do insects stop 'breathing'? To avoid damage from too much oxygen, say researchers

...dy investigating the respiratory system of insects may have solved a mystery that has intrigued physiologists for decades: why insects routinely stop breathing for minutes at a time. Challenging previous theories, researchers at UC Irvine and Humboldt University propose that insects such as grasshoppers...

Scientists discover unique microbe in California's largest lake

...und in oxygen evolvingphotosynthetic organisms. It may have an important place in theevolution of photosy...at the Salton Sea, with its highload of nutrients, may provide an environment that allows this novelphotosynthetic organism to live a free and independent ...

Alcohol's effects on gene expression in the central nervous system

...anges are different in several brain regions which may be involved in alcohol addiction." # Researchers ...identified individual genes and gene networks that may play an important role in determining the behavioral responses to alcohol as well as possibly influe...

Deficiency of growth hormone and IGF-1 reduces cancer and kidney disease, but creates other problems

...ficiencies of growth hormone and similar compounds may reduce cancer and kidney disease late in life, but also may lead to cartilage degeneration and impaired memory and learning ability, according to research at Wa...

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