NYU School of Medicine pathology researchers solve another mystery in B lymphocyte development
New York May 18, 2009: A new study published online in Nature Immunology ahead of the June 2009 print issue has found that homologous immunoglobulin (lg) alleles pair up in the nucleus at stages that coincide with V(D)J recombination of the heavy and light chain (Igh and Igk) loci. Researche...Maryland Mystery Author Organizes Fundraising Ride for Rare Neurological Disorder
LAUREL, Md., April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by Dystonia Medical Research Foundation: WHAT: Freedom Ride for Dystonia - Debbi Mack and the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF) -- www.dystonia-foundation.org -- host the first Freedom Rid...NEWSWEEK Cover: The Mystery of Epilepsy
Why We Must Find a Cure for Epilepsy The Toll of Epilepsy Has Been Overlooked - and the Research Underfunded -For Too Long NEW YORK, April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- "Put harshly, we need more of a cancerlike sensibility around epilepsy," Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham writes in the April 20 co...What Causes Mystery Heart Condition?
Stress cardiomyopathy linked to common drugs, study finds THURSDAY, March 26 (HealthDay News) -- The unusual heart syndrome called stress cardiomyopathy can be triggered by some commonly used heart medications, Johns Hopkins University researchers report. Nine cases of the condition...DNA Testing Lays Romanov Murder Mystery to Rest
Bodies found near rest of Tsar Nicholas II's family identified as 2 missing children WEDNESDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- An enduring mystery has been laid to rest with the DNA identification of the bodies of two children of the last Tsar of Russia. The bones of the siblings, Tsa...Muscular dystrophy mystery solved; Mizzou scientist moves closer to MD solution
COLUMBIA, Mo. Muscular dystrophy, which affects approximately 250,000 people in the United States, occurs when damaged muscle tissue is replaced with fibrous, bony or fatty tissue and loses function. While scientists have identified one protein, dystrophin, as an important piece to curing the dis...Researchers solve mystery of deep-sea fish with tubular eyes and transparent head
MOSS LANDING, CA Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently solved the half-century-old mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a transparent head. Ever since the "barreleye" fish Macropinna microstoma was first described in 1939, marine biologists have known that it's...DNA Solves Switched at Birth Mystery ... After 57 Years
DNA solves another mystery when 57 year old Fred George discovered he was switched at birth. Fred's father, John George, occasionally - sometimes in fun and sometimes more seriously - accused his wife of having had an affair after Fred was born since he looked nothing like the rest of the family....From mother to daughters: A central mystery in cell division solved
Researchers from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a key step required for cell division in a study that could help improve therapies to treat cancer. Their work describing the mechanism of the contractile ring ...Scientists Unravel Mystery of Tamoxifen Resistance
Some breast tumors produce a protein that defeats the drug WEDNESDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- As many as 35 percent of women who take tamoxifen to prevent the return of breast cancer do not respond to the drug -- and now scientists think they know why. A battle between proteins ...Gene Findings Unlocking Reasons for Neuroblastoma Risk
...ohn M. Maris, M.D., chief of Oncology and director of the Cancer Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Now we have unlocked a lot of the mystery of why neuroblastoma arises in some children and not in others." In the largest gene study to date in pediatric oncology, Maris's study team per...St. Jude Study Shows How T Cell's Machinery Dials Down Autoimmunity
..."The ITAMs we studied are little molecular tags inside the cell by which the T cell receptor communicates to the rest of the cell," Vignali said. "The mystery we wanted to address was why the T cell receptor needs 10 ITAMs to do its job. Why not just have a simple on/off switch?" To explore the role of m...St. Jude Defines Eye Cancer Gene's Role in Retinal Development
... Tenn., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A genetic discovery led by scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital helps answer a long-standing mystery about the eyes of vertebrates, and may translate into a deeper understanding of how genes coordinate the complex process of eye formation and how a ra...Baylor researchers unravel mystery of DNA conformation
HOUSTON An iconic photograph ( http://img.timeinc.net/time/80days/images/530228.jpg ) of Nobel laureates Drs. Francis Crick and James Watson show the pair discussing with a rigid model of the famous double helix. The interaction represented produced the famous explanation of the structure of ...Harvard scientists solve mystery about why HIV patients are more susceptible to TB infection
A team of Harvard scientists has taken an important first step toward the development of new treatments to help people with HIV battle Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) infection. In their report, appearing in the July 2009 print issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology ( http://www.jleukbio.or...Scientists tackle the mystery of white-nose syndrome in bats
KNOXVILLE -- The mysterious disease that has killed more than 90 percent of wintering bats in some caves and mines from Vermont to Virginia during the last three years has raised numerous questions about the nature of the disease and how to control it. Leading experts in the fields of bat physi...Scientists unravel the mystery of white-nose syndrome
KNOXVILLE -- The mysterious disease that has killed more than 90 percent of wintering bats in some caves and mines from Vermont to Virginia during the last three years has raised numerous questions about the nature of the disease and how to control it. Leading experts in the fields of bat physi...Life secret exposed: Scientists unlock mystery of molecular machine
This release is available in French . Montreal, February 19, 2009 A major mystery about the origins of life has been resolved. According to a study published in the journal Nature , two Universit de Montral scientists have proposed a new theory for how a universal molecular machine, the ...Biologists solve mystery of black wolves
Why do nearly half of North American wolves have black coats while European wolves are overwhelmingly gray or white? The surprising answer, according to teams of biologists and molecular geneticists from Stanford University, UCLA, Sweden, Canada and Italy, is that the black coats are the result of...MIT researchers explain mystery of gravity fingers
Researchers at MIT recently found an elegant solution to a sticky scientific problem in basic fluid mechanics: why water doesn't soak into soil at an even rate, but instead forms what look like fingers of fluid flowing downward. Scientists call these rivulets "gravity fingers," and the explana...Yale researchers unravel mystery of brain aneurysms
Yale researchers have taken the first critical steps in unraveling the mysteries of brain aneurysms, the often fatal rupturing of blood vessels that afflicts 500,000 people worldwide each year and nearly killed Vice President-elect Joseph Biden two decades ago. An international team led by Mur...Sophisticated monitoring array to address mystery of uranium plume
RICHLAND, Wash. Scientists have puzzled for years about why uranium contamination in groundwater continues to exceed drinking water standards in an area located at the south end of the Hanford Site. The Department of Energy wants answers to why the uranium persists. Now, an innovative system ...Scientists peel away the mystery behind gold's catalytic prowess
Few materials have exercised as much of a hold on the human imagination, or on human history, as has gold. But for all of its popular uses money, medals, jewelry and more gold's potential as a catalyst lay hidden until the 1980s, when Masatake Haruta and Graham Hutchings independently discove...DNA Study Unlocks Mystery to Diverse Traits in Dogs
Discovery Offers Potential Benefits for Dogs and their Owners ROCKVILLE, Md., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- What makes a pointer point, a sheep dog herd, and a retriever retrieve? Why do Yorkshire terriers live longer than Great Danes? And how can a tiny Chihuahua possibly be related to a Great...Collaboration yields 'the right glasses' for observing mystery behavior in electrons
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, December 13, 2007In collaboration with the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos, an international team of researchers has, for the first time, viewed on a nanoscale the formation of mysterious metallic puddles that facilitate the transition of an electricall...Researchers solve 'bloodcurdling' mystery
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 4, 2009 By applying cutting-edge techniques in single-molecule manipulation, researchers at Harvard University have uncovered a fundamental feedback mechanism that the body uses to regulate the clotting of blood. The finding, which could lead to a new physical, quantitative...How to solve the salary mystery
Its just like Mick Jagger said: I cant get no satisfaction. As soon as one need is met, another one crops up to bug you. Old Maslow must have had this in mind when he set up that hierarchy of needs to illustrate that getting one set of needs taken care of (like food, shelter and a CTA bus card...Babies Learn Music While Sleeping
... perception has been extensively researched, how, or even if, the brains of newborn babies perceive patterns in the world remained a mystery. That mystery has been at least partially solved by an EU-funded research project, EmCAP , which brought together what many would consider an unlikely consortium...Use it or lose it? Researchers investigate the dispensability of our DNA
...oing, and do we really need them at all? In a study published online today in Genome Research ( www.genome.org ), researchers have delved into this mystery and found that evolution has actively kept them in our genome. Before the human genome was sequenced, researchers estimated the genome might contai...Tsunami invisibility cloak, dark energy v. the void, sorting nanotubes with light, and more
... The maverick physicists at Oxford conclude their paper by pointing out that forthcoming tests of the Copernican principle should help us sort out the mystery in the next few years. -JR Meta-Screens: Squeezing Light into Sub-Wavelength Spots Loic Markley, Alex M.H. Wong, Yan Wong, and George V. El...