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Survival of the rarest: Fruit flies shed light on the evolution of behavior

... says. If this process is common in nature, it may offer one explanation for why individuals, in general, vary so much from one to another in almost all species. The researchers' next step is to show that this phenomenon is also taking place in the wild. In addition, since the foraging gene is found in...

World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

...ns of pages of the scientific literature that will offer open access to detailed knowledge. In fact, the BHL now has scanning centers operating in London, Boston, and Washington DC, and has scanned the first 1.25 million pages for the Encyclopedia. "I dream that in a few years wherever a reference to a...

Study offers clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'

...stand who is affected by Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, offer more focused long-term care, and make predictions about their outcomes." ...

Slowing the racing heart

... molecular mechanism for slowing the heartbeat may offer new avenues of diagnosis, drug design and treatment of many common heart diseases," said Solaro. "Further, now that we know something of how this enzyme works in the pacemaker cell, we may discover it is involved in the regulation of other process...

DNA-damage test could aid drug development

...on. Down the road, she suggests, such a test might offer a new way to examine how different individuals respond to chemotherapeutic agents. "The presumption is that, for some biological processes, in vitro human models could be closer to in vivo human than in vivo mouse," notes Shuga. "That premise will...

Decoding protein structures helps illuminate cause of diabetes

... Sciences, the first applications of the technique offer a glimpse into the contorted form of a human protein that is implicated in type II diabetes. Pancreatic damage in type II diabetes has been linked to toxic clumps of the protein hIAPP (human islet amyloid polypeptide), which is normally produced ...

No magic tomato? Study breaks link between lycopene and prostate cancer prevention

...lycopene in their bloodstream. "Our results do not offer support for the benefits of lycopene against prostate cancer," Peters said. Most surprisingly, says Peters, was the relationship between increased risk of aggressive prostate cancer ?defined as disease that has spread beyond the prostate ?and beta...

Deconstructing brain wiring, one neuron at a time

...in the Systems Neurobiology Laboratories. "It will offer us an unprecedented view of the brain." The problem neuroscientists are confronted with "is akin to a computer user who tries to figure out how the machine's electronic chip works by looking down at it; there is no way to figure out how things are...

UCLA study uncovers clues for why Graves' disease attacks the eyes

...f how the autoimmune disorder damages the body and offer a new target for treating the disfiguring disease. Earlier research found that GD patients?immune systems produce an antibody that other people do not. Not recognizing the patient’s thyroid as "self," the antibody mistakenly mounts an attack a...

NIAID expands capability for influenza research and surveillance

...e hospital emergency room setting. Emory will also offer a training program for postdoctoral fellows and veterinarians interested in influenza and other research performed in a biosafety level 3 laboratory. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City (principal investigator—Dr. Adolfo Garcia-Sastre) ...

Researchers wake up viruses inside tumors to image and then destroy cancers

...destroy their tumors. They say this strategy could offer a novel way of treating many cancers associated with Epstein-Barr, including at least four different types of lymphoma and nasopharyngeal and gastric cancers. In the March 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a team of radiologists and oncologists f...

Noise echoes in cell communications

...t Rutgers-Camden is part of a thrust to ultimately offer a doctoral program in computational and integrative biology on the Camden campus. "We talk about biological problems and apply mathematical principles," says Martin, who believes the development of the Systems Biology Institute in Camden, which will ...

Heart failure: Intervention possibilities from imaging programmed cell loss

...aastricht in the Netherlands. "Such a strategy may offer a new possibility for studying interventions to minimize damage to the heart muscle," he added. "This research is significant since cell loss is potentially reversible and earlier intervention could delay the development of cardiomyopathy or heart mu...

Using nanomagnets to enhance medical imaging

...ts are a new class of MRI contrast agents that may offer significant advantages, such as versatility in des...alter the nuclear properties of hydrogen in water, offer the advantage of consistent identical design but provide low contrast. The second category encompass...

Study shows isolation of stem cells may lead to a treatment for hearing loss

...ramam. In this paper, Drs. Miller and Alagramam offer further evidence for the existence of cochlear stem cells in the mouse cochlea by confirming the ability to form ‘stem cell?spheres in culture and by characterizing these cells in terms of neural and hair cell development using a panel of stem cell d...

Imaging pinpoints brain regions that 'see the future'

...n the past. These findings, McDermott suggests, offer strong support for a relatively recent theory of m...eral faceless senators"). "Results of this study offer a tentative answer to a longstanding question regarding the evolutionary usefulness of memory," McDe...

New player in commitment to life as a fat cell

... as xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR), might therefore offer a novel antiobesity therapy designed to fight fat before it even forms, the researchers said. Known for its role in producing the metabolic byproduct uric acid, XOR had earlier been implicated in gout, said Jeffrey Friedman of The Rockefeller Univer...

New details on how the immune system recognizes influenza

...ientists in identifying vaccine targets that might offer broader protection and in predicting how effective a new vaccine will be. Other analyses revealed major gaps in scientists' knowledge about influenza viruses. Of the 600 epitopes in the database, for instance, very few were from strains of H5N1 avi...

Breakthrough vaccine to treat chemo-resistant ovarian cancer

...therapy. Cancer Treatment Centers of America will offer this new treatment to patients whose cancer has recurred after chemotherapy. "To win the fight against cancer, it is absolutely vital we do everything we can to make innovative new treatments like this available to patients as soon as possible," s...

Secret of worm's poison pill box protein could produce new natural insecticide

...s that are toxic to a number of insect pests. They offer an alternative to current commercial protein based insect toxins have been in use for 40 years and are now starting to meet some resistance. This potential new family of protein based insecticides would overcome such resistance as they operate in an ...

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