Researchers identify new catfish family
...ng the discovery has been published in Zootaxa, an online scientific journal. They've named the new family Lacantuniidae and named the species Lacantunia enigmatica. It becomes the 37th family of catfishes, a diverse group of fish found around the world. Discovery of new families of living vertebrates is ...Study identifies gene in mice that may control risk-taking behavior in humans
...ter. The findings will be published in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Sept. 26.Olson and colleagues studied mice with a single copy of the neuroD2 gene and found they had an impaired ability to form emotional memories and conditioned fear. "M...Boosting The BCG Vaccine To Beat Tuberculosis
...nst newly emerging isolates. In a study appearing online on August 18 in advance of print publication of the September 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Stefan Kaufmann and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute devise a strategy to boost the immunogenicity of BCG and describe a novel vac...Researchers Discover Ancient Origins Of Tuberculosis-causing Bacteria
...nst newly emerging isolates. In a study appearing online on August 18 in advance of print publication of the September 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Stefan Kaufmann and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute devise a strategy to boost the immunogenicity of BCG and describe a novel vac...Study shows eutrophic lakes may not recover for a millennium
...st of circumstances. Writing in today's (June 13) online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), University of Wisconsin-Madison limnologist Stephen R. Carpenter reported results of a study that showed that the buildup of phosphorus in soils in lake watersheds is likely to be......nst newly emerging isolates. In a study appearing online on August 18 in advance of print publication of the September 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Stefan Kaufmann and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute devise a strategy to boost the immunogenicity of BCG and describe a novel vac...MicroRNA tweaks protein that controls early heart development
...t of heart muscle. The findings, available in the online edition of the journal Nature, may aid scientists in their understanding of how a progenitor cell, or stem cell, decides to become a heart cell, as well as offer researchers a way to predict how other microRNAs in the body control the production of i...AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat feminization of HIV/AIDS
...ccess. The article appears in the journal Science online June 10. ...Discovery suggests why stem cells run through stop signs
... in most other cells. The findings were published online this week by the journal Nature. In the paper, the researchers also speculate that microRNAs may play a similar role in cancer cells, encouraging their proliferation. This speculation is supported by three other new papers published this week in Natu...Monkeying around to improve organ transplantation
...essive activity in vitro. Now in a study appearing online on June 9 in advance of the print publication of the July 1 print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Hisashi Bashuda and colleagues from Juntendo University investigate whether this approach can induce indefinite organ allograft survival...Researchers predict infinite genomes
...hed a study in this week's (September 19-23) early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). In the study, TIGR scientists, with collaborators at Chiron Corporation, Harvard Medical School and Seattle Children's Hospital, compared the genomic sequence of eight isolates of...Hopkins scientists uncover 'tags' that force proteins to cell surface
...s, the findings, described in the Sept. 11 advance online publications of Nature Cell Biology, might revolutionize efforts in drug and vaccine development, says the Hopkins team. "A typical step in drug development is to get cells in a dish to express the protein you want to target with drugs, and then to ...Hormones and growth: The control of body size and developmental growth rate in fruit flies
.... The two studies are reported in Current Biology online on September 22 by Dr. Philip E. Caldwell and colleagues of Rice University and Dr. Christen Mirth and colleagues of the University of Washington. Previous work had shown that there is a close linkage between the final body size of an organism and t...UIC researchers show protein routes messages in nerve cells
... 20 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience (released online July 13) by a team led by David Featherstone, a University of Illinois at Chicago assistant professor of biology, provides some important preliminary answers. Featherstone and UIC post-doctoral associate Kaiyun Chen, along with German researchers Ca...Several minute intermediate stage in virus-cell fusion discovered; opportunity for drug development
...he Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences online on June 3. Biophysicist Gregory Melikyan of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and microbiologist John Young of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies filmed individual viruses fusing with a host cell membrane. Avian sarcoma and leukosis vi......ue of the journal Genes & Development (advance online publication August 17). The other researchers involved in the study were Scott Lowe, Ying Wu, Xuecui Guo, and first author William Keyes of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Hannes Vogel of Stanford University. Researchers who did not participate i......ration in our own species. The paper is available online at www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=4elc7n9j2au5tb95. McMaster University, named Canada's Research University of the Year by Research InfoSource, has world-renowned faculty and state-of-the-art research facilities. McMaster's culture of innov...Sugar helps control cell division
... of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, available online now. The sugar, known as O-GlcNAc (pronounced oh-GLUCK-nack), is used inside cells to modify proteins, turning the proteins off or on, helping or preventing their interactions with other proteins, keeping them from destruction or allowing their dest...Newly Discovered Role for Heart Response Enzyme May Yield Better Heart Failure Therapy
... Biology. The study is now available as an advance online publication. "We've uncovered new details of the first step of heart failure, in which heart receptors that normally allow the heart to adapt in the face of changing conditions are lost, rendering the heart unable to pump enough blood to meet the ne...Huntington's cure in flies lays groundwork for broader treatment approaches
...ing those of humans. The study results, published online today by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, were a "logical finding" because of a growing body of work in the area, says senior author Jerry Yin, a UW-Madison molecular geneticist. Scientists previously knew, for example, that hikin...