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Salk scientists hammer out a pathway that promotes muscle cell survival in mice

...l cell survival," said Marc Montminy, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology at the Salk Institute and senior author of the study. "Therefore, we believe that understanding the role of this enzyme in muscle cells may someday shed light on the underlying mechanisms of ...

A cherry on top: Tart cherries may alter heart/diabetes factors

...Halperin Kahn Professor of Integrative Medicine, a professor of cardiac surgery, co-director of U-M Integrative...dicine co-director Sara Warber. M.D., an assistant professor of family medicine at the U-M Medical School, will lead a pilot clinical trial of whole tart cherrie...

Climate change was the cause of Neanderthal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula

...edimentary and metamorphic environments, headed by professor Miguel Ortega Huertas and whose members Francisco José Jiménez Espejo, Francisca Martínez Ruiz and David Gallego Torres work jointly at the department of Mineralogy and Petrology of the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada [ http://www.ugr.e...

Technique monitors thousands of molecules simultaneously

...sites. Kevin Moeller, Ph.D., Washington University professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, is doing this... University colleague Amy Walker, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, in the monitoring of his system. ...

Protein enables discovery of quantum effect in photosynthesis

... the bun." That's what Robert Blankenship, Ph.D., professor of biology and chemistry in Arts & Sciences at...Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of chemistry at the University of California, and colleagues used 2-D spectroscopy to study what ha...

'Insulator' helps silence genes in dormant herpes virus

...tudy senior author Jumin Zhou, Ph.D., an associate professor at The Wistar Institute. The findings, appearing in the May issue of the Journal of Virology, mark the first time an insulator has been identified in a virus and may lead to ways to develop strategies to manipulate the virus. Insulators, also ...

Amphibians in losing race with environmental change

...ctions and other issues," said Andrew Blaustein, a professor of zoology at OSU and one of the world's leading experts on amphibian decline. "But looked at in a different way, it's not just that there are threats and pressures amphibians have to deal with," Blaustein said. "There have always been threats, an...

Global survey of lizards reveals greater abundance of animals on islands than on mainland ecosystems

...h changing climate,?says Walter Jetz, an assistant professor of biological sciences at UCSD and a co-author of the study. “Climate change will drive animals to move to new places,?says Lauren Buckley, a postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute who is a visiting scholar at UCSD and the other co-author o...

US control strategies may make flu epidemics worse, UCLA study shows

...gy and currently available online, Sally Blower, a professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, and Romulus Breban and Raffaele Vardavas, postdoctoral fellows in Blower's research group, used novel mathematical modeling techniques to predict that current health policy ?based on...

Novel system developed to turn data into real-time, interactive 3-D images

...s, senior research scientist, and Dr. James Blank, professor and chairperson, department of biological sciences, Kent State University, developed the technology. "We believe the system we have developed can move rapidly into a clinical setting and significantly improve the ability of physicians to make ...

Master regulatory gene of epithelial stem cells identified

...e. The study, which was lead by Frank McKeon, PhD, professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), s...eveloped by Howard Green, MD, the George Higginson professor of cell biology at HMS, to show that p63’s key function was to provide the enhanced potential of ste...

Cancer patients monitor fatigue in real time

...ck in time, says Eileen Hacker, clinical assistant professor and lead researcher of the study, or to average their symptom experiences. "Their mood may affect their recall. They may have been experiencing pain in addition to fatigue, and that affects how they remember the fatigue experience," she said. I...

Fuel from fiber -- Pretreatment can put corn stalks, trees in your car's tank

...e in part by Bruce Dale, Michigan State University professor of chemical engineering and materials science, making fuels from poplar trees and corn stalks is becoming more efficient and cost-effective. Dale is internationally known for his 30 years of research on making ethanol from plant biomass ?the stems...

Alien plants attack using 'resource conservation' as weapon, researchers say

...or controlling invasive species, said Chris Field, professor of biological sciences at Stanford and director of...asive plants, said study co-author Peter Vitousek, professor of biological sciences at Stanford. To determine which species warrant action, some government ag...

Legal ruling may put endangered species in danger

...of the animal," said John A.Vucetich, an assistant professor of population ecology in the School of Forest Reso... say. Vucetich and Michael P. Nelson, associate professor of environmental philosophy and ethics at Michigan State University, have collected 38 signatures on...

A frown or a smile? Children with autism can't discern

...ate student in psychology, and Susan Bookheimer, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, the research compared brain activity between 16 typically developing children and 16 high-functioning children with autism. While undergoing ...

Traumas like Sept. 11 make brains more reactive to fear

...uli," said Elise Temple, a co-author and assistant professor of human development at Cornell. More than half the population experiences trauma, which makes people more likely to develop PTSD, depression, anxiety and physical illness later in life, according to other studies. Also, trauma has been found to ma...

Brain's white matter -- More 'talkative' than once thought

...e matter,?says Dwight Bergles, Ph.D., an associate professor of neuroscience at Hopkins. The discovery focuses on oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs), whose main role when they mature into oligodendrocytes is to wrap themselves around and insulate nerves with a whitish coat of protective myelin. The imma...

Targeting sugar on blood vessels may inhibit cancer growth

...ng to first author Mark M. Fuster, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Med...r’s principal investigator Jeffrey D. Esko, Ph.D., professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UCSD, showed that modifying the action of heparan sulfate uniq...

How to steer a moving cell

...cer throughout the body. Richard Klemke, Ph.D., professor of pathology at UCSD School of Medicine and the Moores Cancer Center, and his colleagues set out to better understand the complexity of signaling mechanisms within the cell that become de-regulated and allow cells which are usually static to begin mi...

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