11/21/2008
Research Conferences Pick UA Undergraduate Researchers (Newswise)
Traditionally, it has not been common for undergraduate students to present their work at conferences that draw national and international researchers, but a number of UA students are doing just that.
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11/21/2008
Researchers At IRB Barcelona Produce More Data On Key Genes In Diabetes (Medical News Today)
One of the most reliable indicators to predict that a person will develop type 2 diabetes is the presence of insulin resistance. Insulin is produced in the pancreas and is the hormone responsible for ensuring that glucose reaches several tissues and organs in the body, such as muscles.
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11/20/2008
More data released on key diabetes genes (News-Medical-Net)
One of the most reliable indicators to predict that a person will develop type 2 diabetes is the presence of insulin resistance.
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11/19/2008
Scientists Sequence Half the Woolly Mammoth's Genome (Scientific American)
Editor's note: This story will appear in our January issue but is being posted early because of a publication in today's Nature. Thousands of years after the last woolly mammoth lumbered across the tundra, scientists have sequenced a whopping 50 percent of the beast’s nuclear genome, they report in a new study. Earlier attempts to sequence the DNA of these icons of the Ice Age produced only ...
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11/19/2008
Darwin 200: Let's make a mammoth (Nature)
Evolution assumes that extinction is forever. Maybe not. Henry Nicholls asks what it would take to bring the woolly mammoth back from the dead.
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11/18/2008
Tunnelling nanotubes: Life's secret network (New Scientist)
A recently discovered system that directly connects the interiors of distant cells could be the key to life – and death. investigates
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11/18/2008
Researchers Identify Toehold For HIV's Assault On Brain (Science Daily)
Scientists have unraveled in unprecedented detail the cascade of events that go wrong in brain cells affected by HIV, a virus whose assault on the nervous system continues unabated despite antiviral medications that can keep the virus at bay for years in the rest of the body.
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11/16/2008
School briefs (West Bloomfield Eccentric)
Groves Honor Alumnus sought
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11/02/2008
Surprising Results Of Complete Mitochondrial Genome Of 5,000-Year-Old Mummy (Medical News Today)
Researchers have revealed the complete mitochondrial genome of one of the world's most celebrated mummies, known as the Tyrolean Iceman or Otzi. The sequence represents the oldest complete DNA sequence of modern humans' mitochondria, according to the report published online on October 30th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.
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10/31/2008
Virtual Screening Leads To Real Progress In Drug Design (BioresearchOnline)
Around 150,000 people per year get African sleeping sickness, a disease spread by the biting tsetse fly and caused by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei. Unless treated, the illness is invariably fatal. And the only available medicines are either difficult to administer, expensive, or toxic.
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