http://www.generef.com/ GeneRef - Science News, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Nanotechnology, A Global Resource en-us Fri, 16 May 2008 2:35 PDT kcowing@reston.com mkboucher@spaceref.com Copyright 2007, SpaceRef Interactive Inc. http://www.generef.com/images/generef.sm.jpg http://www.generef.com/ 100 25 GeneRef - Science News, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Nanotechnology, A Global Resource Carnegie Mellon computational biologist Dannie Durand and colleagues have for the first time tackled the dilemma of how to study the ancestry of multidomain genes, which encode an important class of proteins called multidomain proteins that are crucial to http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51272 A team of Penn State University researchers has developed a simple artificial cell with which to investigate the organization and function of two of the most basic cell components: the cell membrane and the cytoplasm -- the gelatinous fluid that surrounds http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51265 A Tel Aviv University mathematician finds humanity was genetically divided for as much as 100,000 years http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51262 Stowers Institute researchers Karen Staehling-Hampton, Ph.D., Managing Director of Molecular Biology, and Olivier Pourquié, Ph.D., Investigator, collaborated with colleagues from around the world to show that genes known to cause spinal mutations in chick http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51250 Catching a football. Maneuvering through a room full of people. Jumping out of the way when a golfer yells "fore." Most would agree these seemingly simple actions require us to perceive and quickly respond to a situation. Assistant professor of cognitive http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51248 When it comes to winning mates, larger horns are an asset for male Soay sheep. But those that grow them may be putting their young lives on the line. http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51249 T cells can initiate cellular suicide, also known as apoptosis, by a previously unrecognized pathway that starts with the destruction of a key enzyme in mitochondria, the power plant of the cell. http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51247 Researchers from the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History sequenced the entire genetic code of 23 strains of Flavivirus, the virus that causes St. Louis encephalitis, to understand its evolutionary history. http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51236 Scientists with UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and the Department of Urology have showed that lowering intake of the type of fat common in a Western diet helps prevent prostate cancer in mice, the first finding of its kind in a mouse model that closely mim http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51220 In the May 15 issue of G&D, Dr. Bruce Spiegelman and colleagues elucidate the molecular pathway that induces cells to become energy-burning brown fat cells as opposed to energy-storing white fat cells. http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51209 The genetic profile of two large Georgia families with high rates of late-onset Alzheimer's disease points to a gene that may cause the disease, researchers say. http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51193 The mouse is a stalwart stand-in for humans in medical research, thanks to genomes that are 85 percent identical. But identical genes may behave differently in mouse and man, a study by University of Michigan evolutionary biologists Ben-Yang Liao and Jian http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51192 RNA is best known as a working copy of the DNA sequence of genes. In this role, it's a carrier of the genes' instructions to the cell, which manufactures proteins according to information in the RNA molecule. But molecular biologists have increasingly r http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51160 Researchers at the University of New Hampshire Glycomics Center have helped identify a specific carbohydrate structure that confers anti-inflammatory activity to a glycoprotein antibody that could lead to improved treatment of autoimmune diseases like lup http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51159 Cell division is essential to life, but the mechanism by which emerging daughter cells organize and divvy up their genetic endowments is little understood. In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois and Columbia University report on how a k http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51150 Gene therapy to replace the faulty CLN2 gene, which causes a neurodegenerative disease that is fatal by age 8-12 years, was able to slow significantly the rate of neurologic decline in treated children, according to a paper published online ahead of print http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51144 Promising results from a team of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center physician-scientists show that gene therapy is both safe and effective at slowing the progression of Batten disease, or Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinos http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51137 There exists much ethical controversy brought about by advances in biology and medicine and the relationship to religion. http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51116 While it has long been known that embryonic stem cells have the ability to develop into any kind of tissue-specific cells, the exact mechanism as to how this occurs has heretofore not been demonstrated. Now, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusal http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51108 A study, led by University of Iowa researchers, reveals a new dimension for a key heart enzyme and sheds light on an important biological pathway involved in cell death in heart disease. The study, published in the May 2 issue of Cell, has implications fo http://www.generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=51104