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Researchers track down cause of a disfiguring bone disorder

...(gene) mutations." "Human genetic diseases of the skeleton such as sclerosteosis and Van Buchem disease provide a starting point for understanding the modulation of anabolic bone formation," noted team members Michaela Kneissel and Hansjoerg Keller of Novartis, "and ultimately have the potential to identify ...

Scientists discover stem cell origin of neck and shoulders

...he researchers believe their results show that the skeleton and muscles of vertebrates should not be seen as s...d, "Anatomists and everyone else would look at the skeleton and assume that the bone structures are uniform and are the basic components of vertebrate organisat...

Agilent Technologies introduces high-capacity human protein removal system for proteomics research

The fossilized skeleton of a small crocodile relative excavated last year ...tion could not be made. The newly discovered full skeleton of a Revueltosaurus makes it clear that the teeth are not of a plant-eating dinosaur, but of a herbi...

Revueltosaurus skeleton unearthed at Petrified Forest upsets dinosaur tale

The fossilized skeleton of a small crocodile relative excavated last year ...tion could not be made. The newly discovered full skeleton of a Revueltosaurus makes it clear that the teeth are not of a plant-eating dinosaur, but of a herbi...

Scientists use manufacturing methods to reconstruct mastodon

...Natural history are reconstructing a male mastodon skeleton for an exhibit that opens to the public May 21. M...ar face respirators. That was unforgettable." The skeleton in the exhibit will be assembled from the fiberglass casts so that researchers can continue studying...

Whole-body MRI Takes Less Than 20 Min To Scan A Patient's Entire Body For Cancer Spread To Bone

...oving table is effective for evaluating the entire skeleton in patients with suspected bone metastasis (cancer that has spread to the bone from other parts of the body) in a single imaging scan-and it only takes between 15 and 18 minutes, say two different European studies. For one study, researchers from th...

Oldest cranial, dental and postcranial fossils of early modern European humans confirmed

...umans in Europe which retains many portions of the skeleton plus archaeological objects from the Aurignacian period. Only two modern human specimens from a site in Romania, dated to ~35,000 years ago, are older. At Mladec there are multiple individuals - at least 5 or 6 represented. The dating shows that the ...

Marine sponge yields nanoscale secrets

...es as fine as spun glass or cotton. This primitive skeleton supports the structure of the sponge, and we've discovered how this glass is made biologically." The newly reported research describes an important step forward in translating nature's production methods in the biological world into practical method...

The secret lives of whales

...ith and his colleagues first happened upon a whale skeleton in 1987 while doing a deep-sea survey using the su...ere described only a few months ago from one whale skeleton off California, Craig and co-workers have just found another species off Sweden and now think these ...

Novel Enzyme Shows Potential As An Anti-HIV Target

...t establish a foothold without the services of its skeleton crew. The HIV transcription factor Tat (“transactivator of transcription?, for example, is an essential regulator of HIV gene expression. Without Tat, HIV transcripts don’t reach full length and can’t effect viral replication. In a new study, Melanie...

Cytoplasm affects the number of vertebrae in carp-goldfish clones

...ransplanted nucleus, influenced this aspect of the skeleton as the cloned fish developed. They speculate that a so-called "segmentation clock" early in embryonic development is controlled by the egg cytoplasm. Thus the egg cytoplasm of the recipient goldfish directs segmentation of the body and hence the num...

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