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Intrinsic eye protein halts angiogenesis

...tissues to produce the protein on their own. "We want to know what it is in the cornea that produces so much of this protein which inhibits angiogenesis. With that knowledge we will be closer to fighting the growth of everything from vision-obscuring blood vessels in the eye to cancers," said Jayakrish...

On the golf tee or pitcher's mound, brain dooms motion to inconsistency

...cience," Shenoy says. "We ask questions because we want to know." The study could help resolve a question about human nature, however. Which is more true, "nobody's perfect" or "practice makes perfect"" If complete consistency is the standard of perfection, then it seems that nobody will ever be perfect...

Ancient birds flew on all-fours

...ason for this is that people tend to see what they want or expect to see. Everybody knows that birds don't have four wings, so we overlooked them even when they were right under our noses." Under the supervision of professor Anthony Russell, Longrich examined Archaeopteryx fossils and determined that the...

Study offers window into human behavior, brain disease

...s me to work everyday, and as a neurologist what I want is to help cure the disease." ...

Honey bee genome holds clues to social behavior

...hange jobs in response to needs of the hive. "We want to learn how the honey bee society influences behavior in individual honey bees," said Sinha, who is lead author of a paper that will be posted online this week ahead of regular publication by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "By ...

Why Popeye only has eyes for spinach

...igment provides some protection against AMD but we want to discover whether eating vegetables rich in these chemicals will have a direct impact on the disease. "Since macular pigment is wholly derived from our diet we would expect that eating foods containing high levels of these compounds increases mac...

Ocean temperature predicts spread of marine species

...erstand how a fish population is replenished if we want to attempt to manage or conserve it." Using data from 72 marine species, including cod, herring, American lobster, horseshoe crabs and clams, O'Connor and her colleagues developed a model that predicts how far larvae travel at a certain temperatur...

'Mindless autopilot' drives people to underestimate food decisions

...your calories: Skip the appetizers if you know you want to save room -- and enjoy -- the upcoming dessert. You'll also be more accurate at estimating the number of calories you consumed. Sit next to the slowest eater at the table: Use that person as a benchmark as to how slow you should eat. Always be...

When nerve cells can't make contact

...athy." The Max Planck researchers in Göttingen now want to carry out an analysis of the behavioural biology of mutant mice lacking not all of the neuroligins, but just neuroligin-3 or neuroligin-4, as is the case of autistic patients with neuroligin mutations. The relevant mutant mice have been available ...

Save the whales? Sure, but how many?

...beginning, not the end, of conservation. 'People want much more from wild animals than to see them just persist: we want animals to interact with their environment, evolve over time, be beautiful and useful to us, and to ...

What animals can tell us about hemorrhage, organ transplants and aging

...ogram.) If you can't make it to the conference but want to review the program and conduct interviews from ...r more program summaries. Members of the media who want to obtain a complete set of conference abstracts can contact Christine Guilfoy, cguilfoy@the-aps.org...

Got inexpensive contrast agent? Milk plays new role in imaging

...eople who refuse imaging tests because they do not want to drink the oral contrast, especially children.?...

Jumping gene could provide non-viral alternative for gene therapy

...n cell lines, including three human ones. "If we want to add a therapeutic gene, we can put it within the transposon and use it to deliver the gene into the cell," says Dr. Joseph M. Kaminski, radiation oncologist at the Medical College of Georgia Cancer Center and a corresponding author on research pub...

Scientists' cell discovery unearths evolutionary clues

...eco-system depends on single cell organisms. If we want to look at the fundamentals of life we have to look at single cell organisms. "Amoebas are some of the closest single cell relatives of animals so understanding how they work and evolve is important because it helps us to understand how animals ev...

With record resolution and sensitivity, tool images how life organizes in a cell membrane

...als. ''We're looking at mixtures of things, and we want to be able to say that we've got one molecule in 2... swimmers are in the pool. What scientists really want to know is what membrane components are near what other components, how that organization changes ov...

Major cancer study aims to identify protein markers for early-stage disease

... cancer cells decorate proteins very sloppily. "We want to use this knowledge against cancer cells," she says, "working to purify these poorly decorated proteins so that we can identify them as biomarkers in blood samples." Analyzing the complex data produced by mass spectrometry using advanced computing...

Study challenges myth that sex late in pregnancy hastens birth

...le signs of earlier delivery ?won't be inclined to want to have sex. Schaffir also said that because of the highly personal nature of sexual behavior, the study does not address specific components of sexual behavior that might have varying effects on the onset of labor. ...

Important gene controlling tree growth and development found

...bud set in the fall. This knowledge is vital if we want to adopt plants and trees to new climates. ...

The appearance of your hands can reveal your age, study finds

...by the appearance of your hands, you may seriously want to consider hand rejuvenation." In the study, people examined unaltered photographs of female hands and were asked to estimate the women's ages, i.e., younger than 20 years, 20 to 30 years, 30 to 40 years, etc. In the majority of cases, participan...

Researchers find protein that silences genes

... choice is made," Pikaard said. "Another thing we want to know is how all these activities for histone modification and DNA methylation are working together. At some point the various proteins must be interacting. The long term goal, though, is finding the choice mechanism." ...

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