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Giant Lego Man may soon be released from custody

(AP) ? The 100-pound, 8-foot-tall mysterious Lego man that was found on a Florida beach may soon be sprung from a holding room.

Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight said Thursday that Lego-man could be freed from the shed where he's been kept for two days.

The giant Lego appeared on Siesta Key beach Tuesday morning. "No Real Than You Are" was written on its shirt, along with "Ego Leonard" and the number 8. Local newspapers report the name "Ego Leonard" is the name of a Netherlands artist, but it wasn't immediately clear who was behind the work. The story of the Lego man has gotten worldwide attention.

Knight says the Lego man is being well kept and hopes the giant fiberglass man can be placed on display somewhere in the community.

Associated Press

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Stem cells repair lung damage after flu infection

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Researchers have now identified and characterized adult stem cells that have the capacity to regenerate lung tissue. The findings, which come from studies of isolated human stem cells and of mice infected with a particularly nasty strain of H1N1 influenza virus, could lead to new regenerative therapies for acute and chronic airway diseases, according to the report published in the October 28th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.

"This virus is as close as you can get to the one responsible for the 1918 influenza pandemic," said Frank McKeon of the Genome Institute of Singapore and the Harvard Medical School in Boston. "You get massive lung damage, infiltration of white cells, and loss of lung tissues. Two months out, the lungs miraculously look normal again."

Infections with this H1N1 strain cause acute respiratory distress syndrome, marked by extensive lung damage and low levels of oxygen in the blood. What hasn't been clear is what happens to the lungs of those who manage to survive.

The current findings in mice provide evidence that our lungs are capable of true regeneration. Stem cells found along the surfaces of the airways (in the bronchiolar epithelium) proliferate rapidly in mice after viral infection and migrate to sites of damage. Once there, the cells assemble into "pods" and switch on genes that identify them as alveoli, small hollow structures that are the sites of gas exchange in the lung.

McKeon and Wa Xian of the Institute of Medical Biology in Singapore and the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston were able to clone these same stem cells from human tissue. Even in a laboratory dish, they show that the human cells form into alveolar-like structures. That's despite the fact that a gene expression profile of those cells shows little difference between them and stem cells with alternate fates isolated from the upper airways.

The findings point to adult airway stem cells as an important and perhaps underappreciated ingredient in regenerative medicine, the researchers say. That's even if stem cells per se are unlikely to help much in the case of emergent infectious diseases such as influenza.

"The problem in the case of a pandemic is that people die quickly," McKeon says. "It is hard to imagine how a cell-based treatment will play in those time constraints." On the other hand, stem cell-based therapies or secreted factors identified by this study as important for lung regeneration have the potential to enhance the speed of lung regeneration. It is also possible that such regenerative therapies could aid in those with hard-to-treat conditionpulmonary fibrosis, in which lung tissue becomes scarred.

"Pulmonary fibrosis is a bad disease," McKeon said. "The question is: could you get rid of the fibrosis and replace it with real lung tissue?"

A second study in the same issue of Cell identifies molecular pathways in the lung that may also lead to new strategies for encouraging lung regeneration. In that case, researchers led by Shahin Rafii at Weill Cornell Medical College studied mice with one lung removed, a treatment that causes the remaining lung to produce more alveoli.

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617-386-2121
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Researchers have now identified and characterized adult stem cells that have the capacity to regenerate lung tissue. The findings, which come from studies of isolated human stem cells and of mice infected with a particularly nasty strain of H1N1 influenza virus, could lead to new regenerative therapies for acute and chronic airway diseases, according to the report published in the October 28th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.

"This virus is as close as you can get to the one responsible for the 1918 influenza pandemic," said Frank McKeon of the Genome Institute of Singapore and the Harvard Medical School in Boston. "You get massive lung damage, infiltration of white cells, and loss of lung tissues. Two months out, the lungs miraculously look normal again."

Infections with this H1N1 strain cause acute respiratory distress syndrome, marked by extensive lung damage and low levels of oxygen in the blood. What hasn't been clear is what happens to the lungs of those who manage to survive.

The current findings in mice provide evidence that our lungs are capable of true regeneration. Stem cells found along the surfaces of the airways (in the bronchiolar epithelium) proliferate rapidly in mice after viral infection and migrate to sites of damage. Once there, the cells assemble into "pods" and switch on genes that identify them as alveoli, small hollow structures that are the sites of gas exchange in the lung.

McKeon and Wa Xian of the Institute of Medical Biology in Singapore and the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston were able to clone these same stem cells from human tissue. Even in a laboratory dish, they show that the human cells form into alveolar-like structures. That's despite the fact that a gene expression profile of those cells shows little difference between them and stem cells with alternate fates isolated from the upper airways.

The findings point to adult airway stem cells as an important and perhaps underappreciated ingredient in regenerative medicine, the researchers say. That's even if stem cells per se are unlikely to help much in the case of emergent infectious diseases such as influenza.

"The problem in the case of a pandemic is that people die quickly," McKeon says. "It is hard to imagine how a cell-based treatment will play in those time constraints." On the other hand, stem cell-based therapies or secreted factors identified by this study as important for lung regeneration have the potential to enhance the speed of lung regeneration. It is also possible that such regenerative therapies could aid in those with hard-to-treat conditionpulmonary fibrosis, in which lung tissue becomes scarred.

"Pulmonary fibrosis is a bad disease," McKeon said. "The question is: could you get rid of the fibrosis and replace it with real lung tissue?"

A second study in the same issue of Cell identifies molecular pathways in the lung that may also lead to new strategies for encouraging lung regeneration. In that case, researchers led by Shahin Rafii at Weill Cornell Medical College studied mice with one lung removed, a treatment that causes the remaining lung to produce more alveoli.

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PetroChina 3Q profit up 7.8 pct on strong output (AP)

SHANGHAI ? PetroChina Ltd., China's biggest oil and gas company, saw its third-quarter profit jump 7.8 percent as higher crude oil prices and output helped to offset losses in its refining business.

The Beijing-based company reported Thursday a profit of 37.4 billion yuan ($5.9 billion) in July-September, compared with 34.7 billion yuan a year earlier.

PetroChina reported a refining loss of 41.5 billion yuan ($6.5 billion) as higher costs for imported crude oil outpaced the gains in prices for its products.

But weakness in the refining sector was offset by a 45 percent increase in crude oil prices over the same period a year earlier, to $103.78 per barrel. The company's output in the first nine months of the year rose 5.1 percent, to 959.3 million barrels of oil equivalent.

Like other Chinese energy and resource companies, it has actively sought access to resources overseas to help diversify its risks and ensure a steady supply of oil and gas needed to power China's fast-growing economy.

PetroChina increased its refining by 10 percent in January-September, or about 2.7 million barrels a day. But it derives a larger share of its revenues from oil and gas production than rival Sinopec, which is mainly a refiner, helping to shield it from losses due to government controls on fuel prices.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Stocks briefly added to gains in afternoon trading on Wednesday as a draft statement obtained by Reuters said the euro zone aims to leverage its 440 billion euro bailout fund, the EFSF, "several fold."

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The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) was up 113.41 points, or 0.97 percent, at 11,820.03. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (.SPX) was up 7.86 points, or 0.64 percent, at 1,236.91. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) was up 5.17 points, or 0.20 percent, at 2,643.59.

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For certain orchids, relatives more important than pollinators in shaping floral attractants

For certain orchids, relatives more important than pollinators in shaping floral attractants

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
This is an inflorescence close-up of Pterygodium cooperi, an orchid indigenous to the grasslands of the Drakensberg Mountains in eastern South Africa. This flower secretes non-volatile oil as a pollinator reward and is pollinated by specialized solitary bees in the genus Rediviva (Melittidae). To collect the oil, the bee pushes back on the upper lip with its head while simultaneously inserting its forelegs into the central cup-like lip appendage that curves back into the flower. Using its forelegs with their specialized scraping and absorptive trichomes, it scrapes and wicks up the oil. The oil is transported back to the nest and used for provisioning and construction of the bee?s nest cells. The waxy projections of the lower lip cause the bee to slip as it positions itself on the flower and this results in the bee contacting and extracting the pollen sacs (pollinaria) with its hind legs. Unlike many orchids, this species provides a distinctive scent as well as a food reward to attract its specialized pollinators. The floral scent is dominated by the unusual benzenoid ketone 2-Methoxy-6-methyl-acetophenone (64.6%), as well as a variety of the aliphatic compounds including (E)-3-Methyl-4-Decenoic acid (9.1%), Heneicosane (5.0%), (E)-3-Methyl-4-decenal (2.9%), (E,Z)-2,6-Dodecadienal (2.8%), and Decanal (1.1 %). The dominance of benzenoids and/or aliphatic compounds is typical of the scents of the oil-secreting orchids in both Summer and Winter Rainfall regions despite the presence of different pollinator species. Thus phylogeny appears to be more important than pollinators in determining scent constituents of oil-secreting orchids in southern Africa. This is especially true for P. cooperi and other species in the Ommatodium clade that are dominated by 2-Methoxy-6-methyl-acetophenone regardless of pollinator or region of occurrence. Credit: Kim Steiner

Bees, bats, and moths all follow their noses in search of food from flowers. Plants that rely on such animals for pollination often produce particular chemical scents that attract specific pollinators. However, the ability to produce certain chemicals is also determined by a plant's genetics, or phylogenetic history, which can potentially limit its ability to respond to pollinator pressures. So which is more important in the evolution of floral scents: pollinator-induced natural selection or phylogenetic constraints?

While pollinators are often thought to be the driving force behind the type of chemicals plants produce to attract them, no matter how closely related the plants are to each other, a new study by Kim Steiner and colleagues published in the October issue of the American Journal of Botany (http://www.amjbot.org/content/98/10/1663.full) reveals that phylogeny may be more important than pollinators in determining floral scent characteristics in a group of specialized South African orchids.

"The evolution of any plant or animal character, be it morphological or something as seemingly intangible as a floral scent composed of many specific compounds, is a product of the balancing forces of natural selection and phylogenetic constraint," notes Steiner (University of Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa).

"While the results of natural selection, or pollinator-mediated selection, generally produce the most fascinating examples of evolution -- such as the extraordinarily long spurs of the Angraecum orchid (Darwin's orchid) and the equally extraordinarily long proboscis of its hawkmoth pollinator -- many characteristics are shared between closely related species simply as the result of their common ancestry, and it is important to be aware that this common ancestry can have a strong influence on the outcome of natural selection," Steiner says.

While Steiner was conducting fieldwork in South Africa, he noticed that the Redivia bees he was catching had small yellow objects attached to their legs. These turned out to be pollen packets (pollinaria) from orchid flowers. "By matching up the varied shapes and sizes of the different pollinaria found on the bees with those I extracted from the various orchid flowers I encountered, I was able to determine which orchid species these bees were visiting and what the attractant might be," Steiner comments. "For each orchid whose pollinaria the oil-collecting bees carried, I found that the flowers secreted a non-volatile oil rather than nectar as a reward. And, by examining as many orchid flowers as I could find, I discovered that over 100 orchid species in southern Africa produce oil as a pollinator reward and that these species are pollinated by oil-collecting bees."

The scents of these orchids, which are usually described as unpleasant, pungent, cloying, or smelling like soap, fascinated Steiner, and he sent as many scents as he could collect to a well-known authority on orchid scents, Roman Kaiser. According to Steiner, "Once we had a good sample of scents from the different oil-secreting orchids, we could begin to compare them and ask questions regarding whether closely related species had more similar scents than distantly related species and whether species pollinated by the same bee species also shared the same floral scent, even when they were not closely related. In other words, is phylogeny more important than natural selection in determining the composition of floral scents in this group of orchids?"

Steiner and his colleagues, Kaiser and D?tterl, predicted that because these oil-secreting orchids seem so specialized, the scent profiles of species pollinated by the same bee species would be similar regardless of phylogeny. They also predicted that the scents of orchids within a rainfall region (winter vs. summer) would be more similar to each other than to related species found in other regions.

Using a method called headspace adsorption, the authors sampled the scents of 39 oil-secreting Coryciinae orchids. Flowering stems for each species were enclosed in a glass vessel, and air was pumped through the vessel forcing scents to pass through a glass capillary tube, after which their distinct chemical compound signatures were captured via gas chromatography.

While 257 compounds from nine different compound classes were identified, each orchid species on average had 26 different compounds?more than 60% of the compounds were found in only one or two orchid species, and only 3% were found in more than half of the taxa.

Contrary to Steiner et al.'s expectations, in the winter rainfall region, phylogenetics seems to play a significantly greater role than pollinator selection pressure. Here the scent profiles fell along phylogenetic lines?related taxa had similar scents, while specific bee species pollinated taxa with different scents, and taxa with similar scents were pollinated by different bee species. Similarly, in the summer rainfall region, scent profiles also fell along phylogenetic lines, although the authors could not examine pollinator effects because most of the orchids in this region shared the same pollinators.

Interestingly, almost all the orchids in the two regions emitted similar scent compounds even though the Rediviva bee pollinator species differed between the two regions. This was also contrary to the authors' expectations.

Overall Steiner et al. found overwhelming support for the fact that phylogeny played a more important role in scent variation than pollinator selection, even in a group of closely related plant species pollinated by a single class of pollinator.

"We have shown that although there is evidence for pollinator-mediated selection in the chemical composition of some of the scents we analyzed," concludes Steiner, "for the group of oil-secreting orchids as a whole, the role of phylogenetic constraint is more important for determining overall scent composition of the fragrances than natural selection."

The authors are still hot on the trail of this flower/bee puzzle and are currently working on identifying the compounds that stimulate the olfactory sensilla of the bee's antennae. As Steiner notes, "We still need to examine the individual chemical constituents in the fragrances of oil-secreting orchids and to test which of these compounds can be detected physiologically by the oil-collecting bees. Then we can determine which of the myriad of compounds in the scents we have already analyzed are attractive to the oil-collecting bees."

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Gene variation predicts rate of age-related decline in mental performance, study finds

ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2011) ? A tiny difference in the coding pattern of a single gene significantly affects the rate at which men's intellectual function drops with advancing age, investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System have learned.

In a study to be published online Oct. 25 in Translational Psychiatry, the researchers tested the skills of experienced airplane pilots and found that having one version of the gene versus the other version doubled the rate at which the participants' performance declined over time.

The particular genetic variation, or polymorphism, implicated in the study has been linked in previous studies to several psychiatric disorders. But this is the first demonstration of its impact on skilled task performance in the healthy, aging brain, said the study's senior author, Ahmad Salehi, MD, PhD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford.

The study also showed a significant age-related decline in the size of a key brain region called the hippocampus, which is crucial to memory and spatial reasoning, in pilots carrying this polymorphism.

"This gene-associated difference may apply not only to pilots but also to the general public, for example in the ability to operate complex machinery," said Salehi, who is also a health-science specialist at the VA-Palo Alto.

The gene in question codes for a well-studied protein called brain-derived neurotropic factor, or BDNF, which is critical to the development and maintenance of the central nervous system. BDNF levels decline gradually with age even in healthy individuals; researchers such as Salehi have suspected that this decline may be linked with age-related losses of mental function.

Genes, which are blueprints for proteins, are linear sequences of DNA composed of four different chemical units all connected like beads on a string. The most common version of the BDNF gene dictates that a particular building block for proteins, called valine, be present at a particular place on the protein. A less common -- though far from rare -- variation of the BDNF gene results in the substitution of another building block, methionine, in that same spot on the protein. That so-called "val/met" substitution occurs in about one in three Asians, roughly one in four Europeans and Americans, and about one in 200 sub-Saharan Africans. Such a change can affect a protein's shape, activity, level of production, or distribution within or secretion by cells in which it is made.

It appears that the alternative "met" version of BDNF doesn't work as well as the "val" version. This variant has been linked to higher likelihood of depression, stroke, anorexia nervosa, anxiety-related disorders, suicidal behavior and schizophrenia.

So Salehi and his colleagues decided to look at whether this polymorphism actually affected human cognitive function. To do this, they turned to an ongoing Stanford study of airplane pilots being conducted by two of the paper's co-authors -- Joy Taylor, PhD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and Jerome Yesavage, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences -examining a wide array of neurological and psychiatric questions.

For this new research, Salehi and his colleagues followed 144 pilots, all healthy Caucasian males over the age of 40, who showed up for three visits, spaced a year apart, spanning a two-year period. During each visit, participants -- recreational pilots, certified flight instructors or civilian air-transport pilots -- underwent an exam called the Standard Flight Simulator Score, a Federal Aviation Administration-approved flight simulator for pilots.

This test session employs a setup that simulates flying a small, single-engine aircraft. Each participant went through a half-dozen practice sessions and a three-week break before his first visit. Each annual visit consisted of morning and afternoon 75-minute "flights," during which pilots confronted flight scenarios with emergency situations, such as engine malfunctions and/or incoming air traffic. Resulting test scores pooled several variables, such as pilots' reaction times and their virtual planes' deviations from ideal altitudes, directions and speed. A pilot's score represented the overall skill with which he executed air-traffic control commands, avoided airborne traffic, detected engine emergencies and approached landing strips.

Blood and saliva samples collected on the pilots' first visits allowed the Stanford investigators to genotype all 144 pilots, of whom 55 (38.2 percent) turned out to have at least one copy of a BDNF gene that contained the "met" variant. In their analysis, the researchers also corrected for pilots' degree of experience and the presence of certain other confounding genetic influences.

Inevitably, performance dropped in both groups. But the rate of decline in the "met" group was much steeper.

"We saw a doubling of the rate of decline in performance on the exam among met carriers during the first two years of follow-up," said Salehi.

About one-third of the pilots also underwent at least one round of magnetic resonance imaging over the course of a few years, allowing the scientists to measure the size of their hippocampi. "Although we found no significant correlation between age and hippocampal size in the non-met carriers, we did detect a significant inverse relationship between age and hippocampal size in the met carriers," Salehi said.

Salehi cautioned that the research covered only two years and that the findings need to be confirmed by following participants over a multiyear period. This is now being done, he added.

No known drugs exist that mimic BDNF's action in the brain, but there is one well-established way to get around that: Stay active. "The one clearly established way to ensure increased BDNF levels in your brain is physical activity," Salehi said.

The National Institute of Aging and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs funded the study. First authorship was shared by Martha Millan Sanchez, MD, postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Devsmita Das, MD, a VA-Palo Alto visiting scholar. VA-Palo Alto health-science specialist Arthur Noda also was a co-author.

Information about Stanford's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, which also supported this work, is available at http://psychiatry.stanford.edu.

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Early in the project, in fact, Disney became so frustrated with Collodi?s story that he halted production. It was unsuitable for children, Disney concluded: Pinocchio was too cocky, too much of a wiseguy, and too puppetlike to be sympathetic. Finally a compromise was reached. Pinocchio?s wish would be fulfilled from the start. He would not be depicted as a puppet after all but as a real boy, and a gentle, winsome one at that. Similarly the ?Talking-Cricket,? a minor nameless character, became Jiminy Cricket, a tiny bald-headed man who serves as the puppet?s voice of conscience. (In the book, when the cricket scolds Pinocchio for rebelling against his father, Pinocchio bashes the insect?s brains out with a hammer.) And Disney turned a single scene?in which Pinocchio?s nose grows when he tells a lie?into a central motif. The moral of the film is that if you are brave and truthful, and you listen to your conscience, you will find salvation. Collodi?s moral is that you if you behave badly and do not obey adults, you will be bound, tortured, and killed.

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