Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent disease that affects 5% to 10% of all women, causing pain and infertility. This disease occurs when uterine tissue grows outside of the uterus in the body cavity. It is unknown what ...

The American elderberry (Sambucus nigra L. subsp. canadensis R. Bolli) is an attractive shrub native to central and eastern North America that produces edible flowers and berries. In Europe, tea made from flowers of the ...

Stars like the sun will evolve into objects that are comprised of a very hot white dwarf central star surrounded by a cloud of gas and dust, known as planetary nebulae. In PNe, UV radiation from the star creates an ionized ...

Credit card debt is continually on the rise within the student population. This study utilizes a sample drawn from the students of the University of Missouri - Columbia to determine how financial behaviors vary by student ...

We investigate the energetics and the underlying physical mechanism of sugar molecule (glucose and maltodextrin) transport in the highly asymmetric maltoporin (LamB) outer membrane channel, from E. coli, by employing a ...

Digestion rate of feed ingredients in ruminant diets highly influences nutrient utilization by affecting intake, digestibility, microbial efficiency, and other parameters key to animal performance. It is critical to have ...

RNA local secondary structures can act as RNA structural motifs, which are involved in various biological functions including gene regulation, genetic control, and gene replication. Thus, prediction of these RNA local ...

American dog ticks (Dermacentor variabilis) can have profound direct and indirect effects on human and wildlife hosts. In Missouri, raccoons (Procyon lotor) are the principal host of dog ticks, with tick prevalence reaching ...

Columbia is situated roughly 90 nautical miles from the National Weather Service radar in Weldon Springs, MO (Saint Louis) and 105 nautical miles from the National Weather Service radar in Pleasant Hill, MO (Kansas City). ...

Type I collagen is the most abundant structural protein in the body, playing a major role in the strength and integrity of connective tissues. Alterations in the synthesis and structure of type I collagen result in a number ...

To acquire the necessary iron against harsh competition in the environment, iron starved bacteria synthesize, excrete and retrieve iron scavenging molecules termed siderophores, one of which is enterobactin. TolC protein ...

The mechanism of transcriptional activation of Polymerase II (Pol II) can be studied in a unique way by using a model transcriptional activator, TFIIIA-VP16, whose DNA-binding domain is derived from the zinc finger protein ...

Due to research in low-power, cheap wireless communications, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has become one of the most exciting new fields of interest within computer science and engineering. Just as the Internet has made ...

DNA methylation alteration, in correlation with gene expression, is involved in development and progression of many cancers. Using a microarray based method, mouse-DMH (Differential Methylation Hybridization), our lab is ...

Each year approximately 40,000 people are hospitalized due to burn injuries. The majority of our population is familiar with the superficial burns that result from overexposure to the sun, commonly known as sunburn. These ...

Many studies have shown that the estrogen in oral hormonal contraceptives (HC) increases serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D 25(OH)D concentrations in women. As a hormone that regulates gene transcription estrogen is known to increase ...

Spermatid Specific Thioredoxin (SPTRX3) is a protein that accumulates in the superfluous cytoplasm of defective human spermatozoa. We researched the relationship between SPTRX3 and male infertility in men from 239 couples ...

Dengue virus kills 25,000 people annually in affected tropical regions. Non-structural protein 5 of the virus has RNA-dependent-RNA-polymerase and methyltransferase activity in separate domains. Since genome duplication ...

We will be doing experiments ex vivo using pig skin, which is very similar and much more attainable than human skin, to test the stress vs. strain relationship, elasticity (Young's Modulus) and research skin mechanics. ...

The subject of this research project was to determine if the menu position of an item influences the number of times it is ordered. In this particular study, one-page menus were examined. A new menu was designed where each ...