Life Science Weekly back issues from November 2008:
Bio-Pharma Industry Improves Patient Outcomes Through Continuing Medical Education (CME).(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... With limited information on actual return on investment for expenditures toward support of Continuing Medical Education activities, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industry executives are anxious to understand the value of CME support and strategies for ensuring ...
CFO of China Yingxia Emphasizes Growth in Organic and Health Food Segment in Interview by the Wall Street Transcript.
Nov 04, 2008 ... China Yingxia International, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: CYXI) ("China Yingxia" or "the Company"), a leading provider in the health and nutritional food industry engaged in the development, manufacture and distribution of nutritional food products, dietary supplements, and raw cactus plants in ...
Depression During Pregnancy Can Double Risk of Preterm Delivery.
Nov 04, 2008 ... Depressed pregnant women have twice the risk of preterm delivery than pregnant women with no symptoms of depression, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research. The study is published online in the Oxford University Press's journal Human Reproduction on behalf ...
Ecolab Partners with Nation's Restaurant News to Sponsor Food Safety Symposium.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... Ecolab Inc. demonstrated its ongoing commitment to food safety by co-sponsoring the third annual Nation's Restaurant News' Food Safety Symposium (see also Ecolab Inc.). The Food Safety Symposium, held in September at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, N.C., provided a ...
New CHARISMA Outcome Study Results Validate Aspirin Effect.
Nov 04, 2008 ... Corgenix Medical Corporation (BULLETIN BOARD: CONX) announces that new CHARISMA trial findings published in Circulation confirm that elevated urinary levels of the biomarker 11-dehydro thromboxane B2 (11dhTxB2) indicate an increased risk of heart attack, stroke and cardiac death (see also ...
SurgiCount's Safety-Sponge System Reaches 200,000th Procedure Milestone Without a Reported Retained Sponge.
Nov 04, 2008 ... SurgiCount Medical, Inc., a division of Patient Safety Technologies, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: PSTX) , announced that over 6 million Safety-Sponges(TM) have been successfully used in over 200,000 procedures without a single retained sponge incident reported. The average incidence of a retained ...
Why Law Enforcement Supports Proposition 4.
Nov 04, 2008 ... Four years after their 12-year-old daughter was impregnated by a 24-year-old man who took her for a secret abortion to cover up his crime, a San Bernardino County couple found out what happened and reported it to police. Without the parents' involvement, the abuser would never have been ...
New animal endocrinology research from Tohoku University discussed.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Sendai, Japan, "Neuropeptide Y (NPY), a 36-amino acid member of the pancreatic polypeptide family, was found to be present by immunohistochemistry in the bovine adenohypophysis. NPY mRNA expression was confirmed in the adenohypophysis by RT-PCR." "NPY ...
New findings from University of Minnesota describe advances in animal endocrinology.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... "Androgenic and estrogenic steroids enhance muscle growth in animals and humans. Estradiol-17 beta (E2) and trenbolone acetate (TBA) (a synthetic testosterone analog) increased IGF-I mRNA expression in bovine muscle satellite cell (BSC) cultures," scientists writing in the journal Domestic ...
Data on animal science published by researchers at Hiroshima University.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Japan, "In the current study, we carried out assignment tests applying the Bayesian and distance-based methods, using 20 microsatellite genotypes in four chicken lines." "The Bayesian method showed slightly higher performance of assignment than the ...
New animal science study results reported from Aarhus University.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Aarhus, Denmark, "A genetic analysis was performed on three indigenous Danish horse breeds using 12 microsatellite markers from a standard kit for parental testing. These three breeds are all considered endangered based on their small population sizes." ...
New findings from Department of Agriculture in the area of animal science described.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Animal Genetics, "Ovulation rate is an important phenotypic trait that is a critical component of litter size in pigs. Despite being moderately heritable in pigs, selection for increased ovulation rate is difficult because it is ...
Reports on animal science findings from E. Baruch and co-researchers provide new insights.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Bet Dagan, Israel, "Formulae were developed to compute exclusion probabilities for parentage confirmation for any number of diallelic markers under the assumption that the minor allele frequency (MAF) varied among markers, but has a uniform distribution. Three ...
Research from P.C. Andrade et al has provided new information about animal science.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Jaboticabal, Brazil, "A population of 1398 Canchim (CA) cattle was genotyped to assess the association of an insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) gene microsatellite with phenotypic variation and estimated breeding values of pre-weaning, weaning and ...
Research from University of Barcelona in animal science provides new insights.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Animal Genetics, "Fatty acid binding protein 5 (FABP5) is a major positional and physiological candidate gene for the porcine FAT1 QTL on SSC4. Here we characterize the nucleotide polymorphism and haplotype variability of FABP5 and we ...
Research from University of Edinburgh provide new insights into animal science.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... "The BoLA-DRB3 gene is a highly polymorphic major histocompatibility complex class II gene of cattle with over one hundred alleles reported. Most of the polymorphisms are located in exon 2, which encodes the peptide-binding cleft, and these sequence differences play a role in variability ...
Researchers at Utah State University release new data on animal science.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... "In this study, we constructed high-resolution radiation hybrid (RH) and comparative maps of ovine chromosomes or chromosomal segments that are homologous to human chromosome 6 (HSA6). A total of 251 markers were successfully genotyped across the recently developed USUoRH5000 whole-genome ...
Researchers from University of Edinburgh report on findings in animal science.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Scotland, "Combined analysis of data from two or more resource populations can improve the power and accuracy of QTL mapping and allow some cross-validation of results. In this study, we performed a genome-wide scan using combined data from two F-2 ...
Studies from Complutense University update current data on animal science.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Animal Genetics, "Hispano-Breton (HB) is a horse breed with a recent mixed ancestry. It was developed in the 1930s by crossing local mares with Breton draught horses imported from France." "Nowadays it is considered to be in ...
Studies from S.N. Meyers and co-researchers in the area of animal science published.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "A quantitative trait locus (QTL) affecting pork tenderness was recently detected within the Illinois Meat Quality Pedigree (IMQP) and fine-mapped to the region of porcine chromosome 2 (SSC2) harbouring the functional candidate gene calpastatin (CAST). To identify molecular variation that ...
Data from M. Jaubert et al provide new insights into bacteriology.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from France, "The recent sequence analysis of the photosynthetic and plant-symbiotic Bradyrhizobium sp. strain BTAi1 revealed the unexpected presence of a pucBA operon encoding the apoproteins of peripheral light-harvesting (LH) complexes. This pucBA operon is ...
New bacteriology research from University of Edinburgh outlined.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Scotland, "The pathogenic actinomycete Rhodococcus equi harbors different types of virulence plasmids associated with specific nonhuman hosts. We determined the complete DNA sequence of a vapB(+) plasmid, typically associated with pig isolates, and compared it ...
New bacteriology research reported from University of Illinois.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to a study from the United States, "The temperate bacteriophages lambda and P22 share similarities in their site-specific recombination reactions. Both require phage-encoded integrase (Int) proteins for integrative recombination and excisionase (Xis) proteins for excision." ...
New bacteriology study results from University of Vermont described.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "Gram-negative bacteria display either a flat or an irregular outer membrane. The periodontal pathogen Aggregatibacter (Actinobacillus) actinomycetemcomitans has an irregular outer membrane," researchers in the United States report (see also Bacteriology). "We have identified a ...
Recent findings from University of Rostock highlight research in bacteriology.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "The rhizobacterium Stenotrophomonas rhizophila accumulates the compatible solutes glucosylglycerol (GG) and trehalose under salt stress conditions. The complete gene for the GG synthesis enzyme was cloned and sequenced," investigators in Rostock, Germany report (see also Bacteriology). ...
Reports on bacteriology findings from J. Klumpp and co-researchers provide new insights.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "Only little information on a particular class of myoviruses, the SPO1-like bacteriophages infecting low-G+C-content, gram-positive host bacteria (Firmicutes), is available. We present the genome analysis and molecular characterization of the large, virulent, broad-host-range Listeria ...
Research from McMaster University has provided new information about bacteriology.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "The chaplins are a family of eight secreted proteins that are critical for raising aerial hyphae in Streptomyces coelicolor. These eight chaplins can be separated into two main groups: the long chaplins (ChpA to -C) and the short chaplins (ChpD to -H)," scientists writing in the Journal ...
Research on bacteriology described by scientists at University of Texas.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to a study from the United States, "Vibrio cholerae uses a variety of strategies for obtaining iron in its diverse environments. In this study we report the identification of a novel iron utilization protein in V. cholerae, VciB." "The vciB gene and its linked gene, ...
Scientists at Cornell University discuss research in bacteriology.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to a study from the United States, "OhrR proteins can be divided into two groups based on their inactivation mechanism: 1-Cys (represented by Bacillus subtilis OhrR) and 2-Cys (represented by Xanthomonas campestris OhrR). A conserved cysteine residue near the amino terminus is ...
Investigators at Kyushu University target biological and pharmaceutical sciences.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Fukuoka, Japan, "The suitability of an F-18-iabeled form of N-(piperidin-1-yl)-1-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)-5-{4'-(5-fluoropentyl)phenyl }-4-methyl-1H-pyrazole-3-carboxamide (1), a CB1 cannabinoid ligand with high binding affinity (K-i=0.91 nM) and moderate lipophilicity ...
New biology research has been reported by scientists at Concordia University.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... "This study reports new information on interactions between two sympatric ant species, the plant-ant Azteca alfari (Dolichoderinae) living in association with the myrmecophyte Cecropia obtusa (Cecropiaceae) and Camponotus blandus (Formicinae), a ground-nesting, arboreal-foraging species ....
Reports from B. Saleh and colleagues advance knowledge in biology.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "Citrus trees are subject to several abiotic constraints such as salinity. Providing new rootstocks more tolerant is thus a requirement," investigators in Valencia, Spain report (see also Biology). "In this article, we investigated salt stress tolerance of three tetraploid ...
Research in the area of biology reported from F. Gomez and colleagues.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Case, France, "The phytoplankton composition was investigated at two fixed stations in the north-eastern English Channel from November 1997 to December 2005. The warmest temperatures in European historical records were recorded in August 2003." ...
Studies from E. Bonnaud et al provide new data on biology.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to a study from France, "Non-invasive diet studies, which are a simple but important tool to understand trophic interactions inside ecosystems, need to be as detailed as possible. Determining the precise biomass of ingested prey is a key to obtaining not only a better ...
Data from Wake Forest University advance knowledge in botany.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from the United States, "A red/purple coloration of lower (abaxial) leaf surfaces is commonly observed in deeply-shaded understorey plants, especially in the tropics. However, the functional significance of red abaxial coloration, including its role in ...
Data on botany described by C. Dubos et al.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "In Arabidopsis thaliana, several MYB and basic helix-loop-helix (BHLH) proteins form ternary complexes with TTG1 (WD-Repeats) and regulate the transcription of genes involved in anthocyanin and proanthocyanidin (PA) biosynthesis. Similar MYB-BHLH-WDR (MBW) complexes control epidermal ...
Data on botany published by researchers at University of Adelaide.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Australia, "In the South Australian wheat belt, cyclic drought is a frequent event represented by intermittent periods of rainfall which can occur around anthesis and post-anthesis in wheat. Three South Australian bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) ...
Findings from A. Pou and co-researchers advance knowledge in botany.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "The hybrid Richter-110 (Vitis berlandieri x Vitis rupestris) (R-110) has the reputation of being a genotype strongly adapted to drought. A study was performed with plants of R-110 subjected to water withholding followed by re-watering," scientists writing in the journal Physiologia ...
Investigators at Osaka University publish new data on botany.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "It is widely believed that growth coefficient [g, respiratory cost consumed for synthesis of a unit dry weight (DW)] is independent of growth temperature. However, some studies using regression analysis indicated an increase in g at high temperatures," investigators in Osaka, Japan report ...
Investigators at Shandong University release new data on botany.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the Plant Journal, "Low phosphorus (P) availability is a major limitation for plant growth. To better understand the molecular mechanism of P efficiency in maize, comparative proteome analyses were performed on the roots of the low-P-tolerant ...
New botany data have been reported by C.X. Gao and co-authors.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Plant Cell Reports, "Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and particle bombardment are the two most widely used methods for genetically modifying grasses. Here, these two systems are compared for transformation efficiency, transgene ...
New botany findings from G. Pasquali and co-researchers published.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Milan, Italy, "Constitutive expression of the rice cold-inducible Osmyb4 gene in transgenic Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants improves adaptive responses to cold and drought stress, most likely due to the constitutive activation of several ...
New botany research from A. Rival and colleagues discussed.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "In oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.), 5% of somatic embryo-derived regenerants show homeotic changes during floral development, involving an apparent feminization of male parts in flowers of both sexes, called the 'mantled' phenotype. This variant phenotype is associated with a reduction ...
New botany research from New Mexico State University discussed.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from the United States, "Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) marker system has had broad applications in biology. However, the anonymous AFLP markers are mainly amplified from non-coding regions, limiting their usefulness as a functional marker ...
New botany research reported from Madurai Kamaraj University.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "Co-transformation of Oryza sativa L. var. Pusa Basmati1 was done using an Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain harbouring a single-copy cointegrate vector and a multi-copy binary vector in the same cell," scientists in Madurai, India report (see also Botany). "The T-DNA of the ...
New botany study findings have been reported by E. Bianucci and co-researchers.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Rio Cuarto, Argentina, "GSH appears to be essential for proper development of the root nodules during the symbiotic association of legume-rhizobia in which the entry of rhizobia involves the formation of infection threads. In the particular case of ...
New botany study findings have been reported from University of Toronto.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Toronto, Canada, "The disruption of K+ transport and accumulation is symptomatic of NH4+ toxicity in plants. In this study, the influence of K+ supply (0.02-40 mM) and nitrogen source (10 mM NH4+ or NO3-) on root plasma membrane K+ fluxes and cytosolic K+ pools, ...
New botany study findings reported from University of Hawaii.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... "Disruption of the protein-folding capacity in the ER induces the accumulation of unfolded proteins and ER stress, which activate the unfolded protein response (UPR). Although UPR has been extensively studied in yeast and mammals, much less is known about UPR and its relationship with ...
Recent findings from B.L. Duan and co-authors highlight research in botany.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "To test whether drought and ABA application alter the effects of enhanced UV-B on the growth and biomass allocation of Populus yunnanensis Dode, cuttings were grown in pots at two ABA levels, two watering regimes and two UV-B levels for one growth season. Exposure to enhanced UV-B ...
Recent studies by G.Q. Huang and co-authors add new data to botany findings.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "Fasciclin-like arabinogalactan proteins (FLAs), a subclass of arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs), are usually involved in cell development in plants. To investigate the expression profiling as well as the role of FLA genes in fiber development, 19 GhFLA genes (cDNAs) were isolated from ...
Reports from China Agricultural University add new data to research in botany.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... "Actin filaments in guard cells and their dynamics function in regulating stomatal movement. In this study, the array and distribution of actin filaments in guard cells during stomatal movement were studied with two vital labeling, microinjection of alexa-phalloidin in Vicia faba and ...
Reports outline botany study results from Cornell University.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from the United States, "Developmental changes of photochemical and non-photochemical processes and the antioxidant system in the shaded peel vs the sun-exposed peel of 'Gala' apple and their responses to sudden exposure of high light were determined to ...
Reports summarize botany research from Z. Xu and co-authors.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "Responses of plant leaf stomatal conductance and photosynthesis to water deficit have been extensively reported; however, little is known concerning the relationships of stomatal density with regard to water status and gas exchange. The responses of stomatal density to leaf water status ...
Reports summarize botany study results from University of Hong Kong.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... "Brassica juncea BjCHI1 is a plant chitinase with two chitin-binding domains. Its expression, induced in response to wounding, methyl jasmonate treatment, Aspergillus niger infection, and caterpillar Pieris rapae feeding, suggests that it plays a role in defence," scientists in Hong Kong, ...
Research conducted at H. Fallahi and co-authors has provided new information about botany.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Canberra, Australia, "This study investigated the roles of sucrose synthase (SUS) in developing seeds and siliques of Arabidopsis thaliana. Enzyme activity assays showed that SUS activity was highest in developing whole siliques and young rosette leaves compared ...
Research conducted at J. Einset and co-authors has provided new information about botany.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "FRO2 (At1g01580) codes for an NADPH-dependent ferric reductase in plasma membranes of root epidermal cells with a demonstrated role in iron uptake by plants. Ferric reductase activity has been shown to be the rate-limiting step for iron uptake in strategy I plants like Arabidopsis and in ...
Research findings from F. Grimaud et al update understanding of botany.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from France, "In addition to the exclusively granule-bound starch synthase GBSSI, starch granules also bind significant proportions of other starch biosynthetic enzymes, particularly starch synthases (SS) SSI and SSIIa, and starch branching enzyme (BE) BEIIb ....
Research findings from University of Tokyo update understanding of botany.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... "The Arabidopsis genome has six families of dynamin-related proteins. One of these families includes DRP2A and DRP2B," scientists writing in the journal Plant Cell Reports report (see also Botany). "The domain structures of proteins of this family are most similar to those of ...
Research from K. Guo and co-researchers in the area of botany described.(Report)
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Nanjing, People's Republic of China, "Carbon monoxide (CO) is an endogenous gaseous molecule in organisms. Despite its reputation as a lethal gas, recent studies have shown that it is one of the most essential cellular components regulating a variety of ...
Research from Kwansei Gakuin University provides new data on botany.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the Plant Journal, "In higher plants, multiple nuclear-encoded sigma factors activate select subsets of plastid gene promoters in a partially redundant manner. We analysed the light induction profiles of transcripts from six Arabidopsis sigma ...
Research from Linkoping University in the area of botany published.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the Journal of Experimental Botany, "The Arabidopsis thaliana sterol carrier protein-2 (AtSCP2) is a small, basic and peroxisomal protein that in vitro enhances the transfer of lipids between membranes. AtSCP2 and all other plant SCP-2 that have ...
Research from S. Faragebarhom and co-researchers in the area of botany published.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Bet Dagan, Israel, "Little is known about the biological role of nucleases induced during plant senescence and programmed cell death (PCD). Arabidopsis BFN1 has been identified as a senescence-associated type I nuclease, whose protein sequence shares high ...
Research from T.J.W. Yang and colleagues has provided new data on botany.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Taipei, Taiwan, "Manganese (Mn) is the second most prevalent transition metal in the Earth's crust but its availability is often limited due to rapid oxidation and low mobility of the oxidized forms. Acclimation to low Mn availability was studied in Arabidopsis ...
Research from U. Lehmann and co-researchers in the area of botany published.
Nov 04, 2008 ... "Sucrose-phosphate synthase (SPS) has attracted the interest of plant scientists for decades. It is the key enzyme in sucrose metabolism and is under investigation in various plant species, e.g. spinach, tobacco, poplar, resurrection plants, maize, rice, kiwi and Arabidopsis thaliana. In ...
Research on botany described by D. Chakraborti and colleagues.
Nov 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Calcutta, India, "A binary expression vector was constructed containing the insecticidal gene Allium sativum leaf agglutinin (ASAL), and a selectable nptII marker gene cassette, flanked by lox sites. Similarly, another binary vector was developed with the ...