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Lack of enzyme turns fat cells into fat burners

...han the normal mice.Others who participated in the research included Drs. WonKeun Oh, LutfiAbu-Elheiga, Parichher Kordari, Zeiwei Gu, Tattym Shaikenov,Subrahmanyam S. Chirala. The work was supported in part by by theClayton Foundation for Research and the National Institutes of Health....

Poor prenatal nutrition permanently damages function of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas

..., head of the Section on Metabolism at Joslin. The research was funded by the American Diabetes Association and the Adler Foundation. ...

Fox Chase Cancer Center scientists identify immune-system mutation

...f Fox Chase's transgenic mouse facility; Fox Chase research associate Emmanuelle Nicolas, Ph.D.; and Weihong Xu, Ph.D., and Bruce A. Roe, Ph.D., both of the University of Oklahoma's department of chemistry and biochemistry. ...

Controversial drug shown to act on brain protein to cut alcohol use

..., andclarifying how it works in the brain. The new research findings aboutthe drug Ibogaine open the way for d...t GDNF by itself decreases alcohol consumption.The research is being published in the January 19 issue of The Journalof Neuroscience."By identifying the brain p...

Neuronal 'traffic jam' marks early Alzheimer's disease

...diagnostic tests for the disorder, they said. The research team led by Lawrence S. B. Goldstein, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), reported their findings in the February 25, 2005, issue of the journal Science. Goldstein and his colleagues at UC...

Current human embryonic stem cell lines contaminated UCSD/Salk team finds

...ial therapeutic use in human subjects,according to research by investigators at the University of California,S...UCSD Glycobiology Research and Training Center.The research in Nature Medicine was done with human embryonic stemcells grown in the laboratory of Fred Gage, Ph....

UCLA Study Shows One-Third of Drug Ads in Medical Journals Do Not Contain References Supporting Medical Claims

...rovided upon request; and the majority of original research cited in the ads was funded by or had authors affi...Researchers also determined the funding sources of research cited in the ads. The study is published in the Feb. 15 issue of the Canadian Medical Association J...

Mouse brain cells rapidly recover after Alzheimer's plaques are cleared

...alInvestigation.Lead author Robert Brendza, Ph.D., research instructor, began theexperiment with one key quest... antibodies cleared the plaques, confirmingearlier research results. Then Brendza closely monitored the swellingsfor three days."We thought that clearing the pl...

Genome of deadly amoeba shows surprising complexity, evidence of lateral gene transfer

...ll actually develop the disease. "Every aspect of research is changed by having the genome sequenced," says D...te for Genomic Research (TIGR) is a not-for-profit research institute based in Rockville, Maryland. TIGR, which sequenced the first complete genome of a free-li...

Key molecule in plant photo-protection identified

...alInvestigation.Lead author Robert Brendza, Ph.D., research instructor, began theexperiment with one key quest... antibodies cleared the plaques, confirmingearlier research results. Then Brendza closely monitored the swellingsfor three days."We thought that clearing the pl...

Antarctic ice shelf retreats happened before

...t of Antarctic ice shelves is not new according to research published this week (24 Feb) in the journal Geology by scientists from Universities of Durham, Edinburgh and British Antarctic Survey (BAS). A study of George VI Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula is the first to show that this currently 'healthy'...

Anti-bacterial additive widespread in U.S. waterways

...plants. From the samples, Dr. Halden and hissummer research intern, Daniel H. Paull, now a graduate student in theChemistry department at Johns Hopkins University, observed theoccurrence of triclocarban in the environment correlated strongly withthat of triclosan, another commonly used antimicrobial chemical ...

Newly-discovered class of genes determines ?and restricts ?stem cell fate

...ties of Pan and Peter Pan Epstein notes that this research is conceptually new since he suggests that a single gene can both tell a cell what it should become and restrict its fate by preventing differentiation. The ability of a single biochemical factor or complex of factors to have this dual role may repre...

Timing is everything: First step in protein building revealed

...tly how eIF1 regulates the ribosome's activity.The research team has demonstrated that eIF1's mere presence on theyeast ribosome prevents the machinery from getting started. Only afterits release from the complex can the ribosome start making proteins."No one had any idea when eIF1 was released from the ribos...

Tiny particles could solve billion-dollar problem

New research from Rice University's Center for Biological and E...Technology and a co-leader of CBEN's environmental research programs. "The scale of TCE contamination is enormous, so any new scheme for TCE remediation has got...

UW's Rosetta software to unlock secrets of many human proteins

... database,which scientists can then use to conduct research into new drugs andtreatments.Rosetta works by virtually folding protein sequences into thousands ofpossible shapes, based on certain protein folding "rules" known byscientists. These rules are summarized in the program and are termedthe "Rosetta scor...

Plants, animals share molecular growth mechanisms

...ymanski's team used a deformed version of a common research plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, and specifically look...h WAVE protein was the actual switch. Their latest research showed that a WAVE protein they've dubbed DISTORTED3 (DIS3) turns on APR 2/3, which in turn triggers...

Researchers find how protein allows insects to detect and respond to pheromones

... database,which scientists can then use to conduct research into new drugs andtreatments.Rosetta works by virtually folding protein sequences into thousands ofpossible shapes, based on certain protein folding "rules" known byscientists. These rules are summarized in the program and are termedthe "Rosetta scor...

Recent breakthroughs in common adult leukemia highlighted in New England Journal of Medicine

...ai and others at North Shore-LIJ, as well as other research groups in Bethesda, MD, San Diego, CA, and Barcelona, Spain, have identified genetic and protein markers that can predict whether a CLL patient will follow the benign or aggressive course. Some markers are not yet available for clinical use, however ...

Researchers Uncover Key Step In Manufacture of Memory Protein

...titute of Child Health and Human Development. The research team was led by Y.Peng Loh Ph.D, of NICHD’s Sectio...ormal CPE due to mutations in the CPE gene. Future research may determine if the CPE mutation affects these individuals?long-term memory. ...

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