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Psst! Coffee drinkers: Fruit flies have something to tell you about caffeine

...ical current to the brain where the information is processed and often leads to a change in behavior, such as the decision to eat or avoid. With fine tools, the research team recorded electrical currents in those cells known to contain the Gr66a caffeine taste receptor in the fly's equivalent of the taste bu...

Mouse study reveals new clues about virulence of 1918 influenza virus

... was removed on days 1, 3 and 5 post-infection and processed to destroy any virus. The mouse genetic material (RNA) was then extracted from these lung samples and sent to the University of Washington team for analysis. Drs. Katze and Kash and colleagues examined the mouse RNA using microarrays to determine ...

Scientists discover new regulating mechanism in cells

...structure of the needed protein. Next, the mRNA is processed to remove non-essential information. Then, the message travels from the cell nucleus to another location, the cell cytoplasm. Last, other cell machinery translates the message and assembles the protein. The findings by Boris-Lawrie and her collabor...

Quick -- what’s that smell?

...mplications regarding how olfactory information is processed by the brain. The findings appear in the August issue of Neuron. By demonstrating a clear relationship between odor sampling time and accurate odor identification, the Monell researchers solved a controversy centering on whether the brain processe...

Ultra low-dose estrogen shown safe for post-menopausal women

...ificant because medications taken in pill form are processed through the liver before they reach the bloodstream," explains Yaffe. "It's thought that estrogen in pill form might stimulate the liver to produce substances that can lead to clotting or other adverse side effects. With a patch, you bypass the liver...

Wild vs. lab rodent comparison supports hygiene hypothesis

...se, increased mental stress and the consumption of processed food. Duke members of the research team included Aditya Devalapalli, Aaron Lesher, Karl Shieh, Jonathan Solow, Mary Lou Everett and Arpana Edala. Other team members included Parker Whitt and Nolan Newton of the N.C. Department of Environmental and N...

T cells activated to fight HIV basis for dendritic cell therapeutic vaccine

...ognizing the cells as foreign, the dendritic cells processed the antigen. Importantly, the dendritic cells presenting the HIV fragments were able to stimulate CD8 cells when the two cell types were combined. "This model of T cell activation by dendritic cells provides a basis for immunotherapy trials of per...

Super-sized cassava plants may help fight hunger in Africa

...y more nutritious. And they would still need to be processed quickly and properly after harvesting, as the roots and leaves of poorly processed cassava plants contain a substance that triggers the production of cyanide. In previous work, Sayre...

Chewing up a key regulator of fat synthesis keeps mice lean despite a high-fat diet

... In humans, a high-fat diet ?one heavy on red and processed meats like hot dogs and sausages, refined grains, fried foods and sweets ?increases the risk of fatty liver disease, which may eventually lead to type 2 diabetes, especially in people who are overweight and out of shape. The engineered mice consume...

Predicting successful outcomes in living-donor liver transplants

... how indocyanine green (ICG), a non-toxic dye, was processed by the liver, assessed a non-invasive method of measuring its levels, and determined whether such a test would be a reliable indicator of outcome. The study involved 30 adult recipients who underwent LDLT between June 2003 and February 2005 at Mie U...

Big hips, big belly? It's in your genes, Joslin-led study shows

... behaviors and submitted blood samples, which were processed and stored at cold temperatures. Between 1995 and 1999, the researchers searched medical records maintained by the health plan and selected 42 individuals with MS who had blood samples in storage. Three people with blood samples but without MS were...

Epstein-Barr virus may be associated with multiple sclerosis

... behaviors and submitted blood samples, which were processed and stored at cold temperatures. Between 1995 and 1999, the researchers searched medical records maintained by the health plan and selected 42 individuals with MS who had blood samples in storage. Three people with blood samples but without MS were...

Tandem transcripts team together

...covered that the intergenic sequences of TICs were processed via the same standard eukaryotic splicing machinery that removes introns from RNA transcripts. Following a similar whole-genome survey of splicing events, Guigó's laboratory focused on the ENCODE regions, a set of DNA sequences, representing 1% of t...

Heparin prepared synthetically could replace animal-derived drug

...lace a variable raw material ?heparin derived from processed animal organs ?with a synthetic material ?synthetic heparin ?and have the same therapeutic result." Research in Linhardt's group at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Rensselaer focuses on complex carbohydrates such as he...

Blood flow in brain takes a twist, affecting views of Alzheimer's

...lcium, and another laser to monitor how astrocytes processed the chemical. They found that astrocytes caused blood vessels to dilate. ...

Face perception is modulated by sexual orientation

...variant (facial expression) features are similarly processed in the brain, independent of the gender of the individual who is viewed or the sexual orientation of the viewer. The researchers found that, consistent with their hypothesis, the gender of a viewed individual, when the sexual preference of the viewe...

Oops! Researchers publish new findings on the brain's response to costly mistakes

...blems, but the electrical signal from the brain is processed in a different way. In prior studies, Gehring and his colleagues observed a distinct brain electrical response to errors, dubbing it ERN for "error-related negativity." Using ERP, Gehring and his colleagues localized the brain's response to errors t...

Relic of life in that Martian meteorite? A fresh look

...ed in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001 were processed by living creatures from the Red Planet. The mat...ecular carbon (MMC) in and around the globules was processed organically or not--an unresolved issue. The team had a complete depth profile of the meteorite. Lea...

Picking particles faster than one at a time

...holding procedure is iterative, but eventually the processed high-contrast particle images can be matched unambiguously with their originals in the more highly detailed, low-contrast micrograph. Some images may still remain problematic -- for example, some particles may be so close together they appear to be t...

How the neuron sprouts its branches

...ere integral membrane proteins are synthesized and processed by neurons." ...

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