Human society remains dependent on environmental ingredients in order to produce food, fiber, and energy. These "ecosystem services" are the conditions and processes that sustain human life and provide the basis for meeting the challenges of a growing global human population. The public policy commu...
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The distribution of the four nucleotides along the DNA sequence encodes the genetic information in living systems. However, do nucleic acids possess other attributes that contribute to their biological functions? Recent work of a team led by Stoyno Stoynov, working at the Bulgarian Academy of Scienc...
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A new study sheds light on how some small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors, including two that are currently being used clinically to treat cancer, interact with wild-type and mutated forms of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). [click link for full article]
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Tyson N. Aflalo and Michael S. A. GrazianoIt comes as no surprise that movements in monkeys are accompanied by single neuronal activity in the motor cortex, but it is less clear which motor parameters are most critical. For example, is it spatial, joint-based, or muscle-based? To get at this questio...
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Amicus Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing small-molecule, orally administered pharmacological chaperones for the treatment of human genetic diseases, announced today that enrollment has been completed for all ongoing Phase 2 clinical trials of Amigal(TM) (migalastat hydrochloride,...
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By mapping the interlocking structures of small molecules and mutated protein "receptors" in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and their colleagues have energized efforts to design molecules that mesh with these receptors, potentially interfering wi...
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In order to differentiate and specialize, stem cells require very specific environmental cues in a very specific order, and scientists have so far been unable to prod them to go through each of the necessary steps. But now, for the first time, a study in mice by Rockefeller University scientists sho...
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BWF has named 11 physician-scientists as the 2007 recipients of its Clinical Scientist Awards in Translational Research. These $750,000 awards are intended to support established, independent physician-scientists who are dedicated to translational research - the two-way transfer between laboratory r...
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"Green" means "go," but what does "red" mean? Just about everybody says "stop" since we all have learned to imbue certain colors with meaning (or we would be road kill by now). Long thought to be limited to higher levels of information processing, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Stu...
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