Actor in Biological News

University of Texas at Austin engineer elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

... Texas at Austin, has been elected a fellow into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS), along with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nelson Mandela, actor James Earl Jones, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and singer/ humanitarian Bono. "Dr. Heller is an outstanding scientist who translates his ...

TGen helps promote cancer awareness for vast Navajo Nation

...or the first conference in October, has pledged $10,000 to fund the upcoming conference in July. The foundation is named for the Academy Award-winning actor who is famous for such movie classics as Stagecoach and The Searchers, both filmed in the Navajo Nation's Monument Valley. Kavanagh said the amount of...

Blood test predicts chance of dementia

...igns of FTD are changes in behavior and personality, and then, in a later stage of the disease, the loss of memory functions. Progranulin: a main actor Genetic research has shown previously that there is a genetic defect in chromosome 17 in a large percentage of the families with FTD. There are two...

Research elucidates way lungs fight bacteria and prevent infection

... NEW YORK (Jan. 23, 2009) actor and pancreatic cancer patient Patrick Swayze's recent hospitalization with pneumonia as a result of his compromised immune system underscores the sens...

Boffinry and Baftas: Brothers' double doctorates

...he Emmy award-winning The Lost Prince. Stephen Poliakoffs latest TV films Capturing Mary and A Real Summer (BBC TV November 2007) starred talented actor and recent Nottingham graduate Ruth Wilson. His play Breaking the Silence, based loosely on the brothers Russian grandfather, opens at Nottingham ...

Visual technology enables brain to learn in new ways

...gineers collaborating with faculty from the arts or humanities. Boghosian brings up the example of the character Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings." actor Andy Serkis' movements were tracked and translated to the digital rendering of the creature in the film. Similar technology is now available through t...

Life-threatening gene defect located by UT-Houston researchers

...ically thoracic aortic aneurysms leading to aortic dissections, is the 15th leading cause of death in the country, killing up to 20,000 people a year. actor John Ritter (age 54 years) and Rent creator Jonathan Larson (age 35 years) both died from the disease. Cardiac surgeons in the Texas Medical Center ...

MIT aids creation of neural prosthetic devices

...mally controls movement and the mechanisms of disease, he hopes these devices could one day allow for a level of dexterity depicted in movies, such as actor Will Smith's mechanical arm in the movie I Robot. The gap between existing prototypes and that final goal is wide. Translating an algorithm into...

UCLA study uncovers clues for why Graves' disease attacks the eyes

...ay explain why Graves?disease (GD) attacks the muscle tissue behind the eyes, often causing them to bulge painfully from their sockets, as in the late actor Marty Feldman. Scientists at UCLA’s Jules Stein Eye Institute and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center discovered defects in the infection-fighting T-cells of...

Newly discovered killer cell fights cancer

...ritic cells, but we were wrong - they were some type of NK-dendritic cell blend," says Housseau. The blended cell turned out to be a newly identified actor on the immune system stage that retains all the molecular characteristics of both NK and dendritic cells. Probing further, Housseau scoured the s...

New brain hormone puts brakes on reproduction

... University of California, Berkeley, researchers have discovered a new actor in the mammalian reproductive system, a hormone that fills a role long suspected, but until now undetected. The hormone, a small protein, or peptide...

MIT researcher finds neuron growth in adult brain

...ns that it may one day be possible to grow new cells to replace ones damaged by disease or spinal cord injury, such as the one that paralyzed the late actor Christopher Reeve. "Knowing that neurons are able to grow in the adult brain gives us a chance to enhance the process and explore under what condi...

Scientists devise way to measure RNA synthesis on the fly in a live cell

... to what extent some RNA molecules help control the blueprint of life. "The standard assumption has been that DNA encoding for proteins was the sole actor to control the blueprint for all of life," said Philippe Cluzel, an Assistant Professor in Physics at the University of Chicago. "After announcing the...

Automatic extraction of gene/protein biological functions from biomedical text

...) from text using a shallow parser and sentence structure analysis techniques. When the gene/protein/family names and their functions are described in actor (doer of action) and OBJECT (receiver of action) relationships, the corresponding GO-IDs are assigned to the genes/proteins/families. The gene/protein...