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Largest synthetic gene ever built offers insights into anti-malarial drug resistance

...vely kill the parasite," said Paul Roepe, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Cellular & Molecular Biology as well as the Department of Chemistry. Any animal with red blood cells can develop malaria, which is caused by a single-cell protozoan parasite transmitted by the bite of the...

Pesticides choke pathway for nature to produce nitrogen for crops

...ce Award postdoctoral fellow under Joe Thornton, a professor of biology who focuses on phylogenomics and nuclear receptor genes. Fox and colleagues began detailing their findings in the journal Nature (2001) and Environmental Health Perspectives (2004), testing more than 50 chemicals, including pentachlorop...

Caribbean frogs started with a single, ancient voyage on a raft from South America

...ate's Blair Hedges, the evolutionary biologist and professor of biology who directed the research. "Because la...tinction. Hedges and coauthor William Duellman, a professor emeritus of the University of Kansas, were involved in much of the field work. A third co-author of...

New bacterium discovered -- related to cause of trench fever

...ied that can infect humans, said Jane Koehler, MD, professor of infectious diseases at UCSF and senior author on the new paper. Koehler encountered her first patient infected with Bartonella in 1987 during her first week of training in infectious diseases at the AIDS Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital...

Studies to find better ways to preserve human eggs, ovarian tissue under way

...ign disease, says Dr. Song, MCG clinical associate professor at MCG and director of research for Augusta-based Xytex Research/Xytex International. Collaborators at the University of Texas Health Science Center and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center are doing the same. With some of the tissue, they are using ...

Brain holds clues to bipolar disorder

...tested in clinical trials. Mary Phillips, M.D., professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of functional neuroimaging in emotional disorders at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC, will discuss the emerging role of brain imaging techniques in psychia...

Brightening prospects of using fluorescent nanotubes in medical applications

...ls and tissues,” says Tobias Hertel, the associate professor of physics who headed the research. “Now that we know how to separate out the brightest ones, I hope that researchers will begin considering ways to use them in clinical applications.” The figure of merit for fluorescence is quantum efficiency: the...

Research shows cord blood comparable to matched bone marrow

...07, issue of The Lancet with John E. Wagner, M.D., professor of Pediatrics and director of the University of Mi...lood Center, New York. Mary Eapen, M.D., associate professor of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Associate Scientific Director of the CIBMTR, i...

Sun exposure early in life linked to specific skin cancer gene mutation

...eat skin cancer," said Dr. Nancy Thomas, associate professor of dermatology in the UNC School of Medicine, a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and lead author of the study. This finding is expected to strengthen current recommendations to protect children from sun exposure in order to pr...

Dual-imaging technique useful before -- and during -- brain surgery

...cally for only a few years,” says Leach, associate professor of radiology at UC and a neuroradiologist with University Hospital, “but our preliminary data is very promising because it allows us to optimize surgical approaches to treating brain tumors to ultimately improve patient outcomes.” He says that co...

Alzheimer's disease to quadruple worldwide by 2050

...said the study’s lead author, Ron Brookmeyer, PhD, professor in Biostatistics and chair of the Master of Public Health Program at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. “By 2050, 1 in 85 persons worldwide will have Alzheimer’s disease. However, if we can make even modest advances in preventing Alzheimer’s dise...

U-M researchers discover gene switched off in cancer can be turned on

...study author David Reisman, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School. Results of the study appear in the advanced online publication of the journal Oncogene. The researchers sought to understand why BRM is not expressed in certain cancer cell lines. They found no mu...

Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming

...f the Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) and professor of energy resources engineering. ''But the idea th...bon emissions, said Lynn Orr, director of GCEP and professor of energy resources engineering. Stationary facilities that burn fossil fuels-such as power plants o...

Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing

...ith co-authors Lee Lewis and UNC Charlotte biology professor Stanley Schneider, Pierce’s mentor. Pierce was first author on the paper – a rare achievement for an undergraduate. “It was a very good work and an impressive achievement for a student researcher – he got a publication as an undergraduate,” Schnei...

Newly discovered antibody may be body's natural defense against Alzheimer's

...t NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell and associate professor of clinical neurology at Weill Cornell Medical Col...Irving Wright Sherwood Professor of Geriatrics and professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, and senior investigator in the Phase I IVIG study that...

ASU research shows connection between testosterone, dietary antioxidants and bird coloration

...th. The researchers, Kevin McGraw an assistant professor in ASU’s School of Life Sciences and Daniel Ardia, of Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania, focused their work on zebra finches, a common domesticated pet bird originally from Australia. Carotenoids are known to play several key roles in bir...

Study shows lizard moms dress their children for success

...t author of the paper. Coauthor Barry Sinervo, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, is Lancaster's adviser and has been studying side-blotched lizards for nearly 20 years. He said the lizards' main predator, the coachwhip snake, is a highly efficient hunter, and the lizards need just the right co...

MU researchers to study the status of black bears in Missouri

...gy and chemistry major, and Lori Eggert, assistant professor of biological science in the College of Arts and Science – will use a non-invasive sampling technique called “hair snares,” barbed wires that remove a few of the bears’ hairs without harming the bears themselves. After collecting hair samples this su...

Small, self-controlled planes combine plant pathology and engineering

...e agricultural fields. David Schmale, assistant professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has not only linked agriculture and engineering with his interdisciplinary research but has also given scientists an unprecedented glimpse into the life...

Study investigates 'divorce' among Galapagos seabirds

... who co-authored the study with David J. Anderson, professor of biology at Wake Forest. The chance of successfully breeding probably improves as the pairs of birds get older and are together longer, as has been found in other birds. But, often the female seeks a divorce after a few breeding seasons. Sinc...

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