Munching Microbes Make A Meal Out Of Toxic Substances
...the professional awareness of bioremediation as an option and help give engineers the knowledge they need to implement it. "We have standard practices for other areas of engineering, but not for bioremediation. We're trying to come up with a balance between a responsible environmental cleanup method and pro...'Rolling Circles' Provide New Way to Amplify and Detect DNA
...machinery will copy it. The third widely used option for making short strands ofDNA, computerized chemical synthesis, relies on a machine tosynthesize DNA sequences from free DNA nucleotides. But thereagents and solvents used in the synthesis create toxic byproducts, and machine-based synthesis is a...New Gene Alteration Find Points To Aggressive Leukemia Treatment
...ile in their first remission of the disease ifthat option is a possibility. The researchers are now beginning a larger, more comprehensive prospectivestudy intended to validate their retrospective study. Next, they will testthe effectiveness of aggressive therapy in patients with the ALL1 defect. Cal...Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
...ce the pointer more accurately when selected. This option is based on machine vision detection of edges and ...ne reason for doing so is that the feature grabber option works best when there are sufficient distinguishing features between points of interest and their su...UPMC Researchers Report On Gene Therapy Advances
...e child, a significantly more convenient treatment option for OIpatients," explained Dr. Niyibizi, presenter of a study that uses an animalmodel to test growth hormone gene expression. Researchers confirmed that both in laboratory cell cultures and in a mouse'sbody, engineered bone cells exhibited high e......th breast and ovarian cancers, making E1A a viable option to study astreatment for a broad range of cancers." The phase I dose-escalation study treated 12 patients with metastatic orrecurrent breast and ovarian cancers with weekly injections of an E1A geneincorporated into a liposome, which improved the gen...Agriculture and urban activities impact water quality in the South Platte River Basin
...Downstream from Denver, ground water is less of an option as a rural drinking-water supply because of the impacts to ground-water quality from the intensive application of agricultural fertilizers and manure, accompanied by widespread irrigation," Dennehy said. "We found that nitrate concentrations exceede...International Study Finds Mothers' Lifetime Lead Exposures May Put Breast-Fed Newborns At Risk
...oint out that breast feeding is still an important option forhealthy mothers," said Brian Gulson, Ph.D., a toxicologist with MacquarieUniversity in Sydney, Australia, and chief investigator for the project. "Whatwe are saying is that breast-fed infants are only at risk if the mother has beenpreviously expos...Researchers Grow Healthy Human Placental Cells For Drug Research
...ant, so they’re not very normal. The other option is to use abortion material, but there are ethical concerns about that, and more recently, legal concerns, so we avoided that altogether,” said Kniss. Kniss and Ma decided to grow only trophoblast cells, the placental cells resp...NASA Using Space Incubator To Understand Breast Cancer
...xample, hormonal therapy is an important treatment option for approximately a third of previously untreated breast cancer patients. It is well known that breast tissue responds to estrogens. However, normal breast tissue in a standard 2-dimensional culture does not demonstrate any estrogenic response. Ri......mposting is an increasingly popular trash disposal option for communitieslooking for alternatives to landfills and burning. But nearby residents oftencomplain about the smell of rotting refuse. Now, scientists and engineers atCornell University and the University of California, Davis, believe they haveide......ess optimal or high risk. For example, if the only option available to save a patient's life is totransplant a liver from a donor who tests positive for hepatitis B (anti-HBcpositive), a surgeon may do so even if it places the recipient at an increasedrisk for becoming infected with the virus. Post-transpl...Supernutrients Mean Super Health for Children
...l growth,"Squires said. "In the 1990s, we have the option of preventing neural-tubedefects. All women of child-bearing age should consume at least 0.4 milligramsof folic acid per day." This year the Food and Drug Administration began requiring that all flourproducts, including pasta and bread, be enriched w...Duke Study Finds More Genes May Be Affected By Toxic Cadmium
...s tools to define those pathways." Another option is to engineer living "biomarkers" that could be used tomonitor for cadmium contamination by testing for responses by certain genes, headded. Cadmium is ranked seventh on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency'sand Agency for Toxic Substanc...Allelix drug increases bone density and content in women with osteoporosis
...1 will offer osteoporosispatients an important new option to decrease their risk of experiencingincapacitating fractures." The Phase II trial was conducted in 18 centers in the United States and Canadaand involved 217 women with postmenopausal osteoporosis. The women, who rangedin age from 50-75, gave t...Bird Dads Suffer Infidelity But Bring Up Baby
...says. "The malejacana, however, doesn't have that option because female jacanas don't haveparental care in their behavior repertoire. Male jacanas seem to understandthat if they abandon mixed-parentage chicks, all the young -- including theirown -- will die." Simultaneous polyandry is beneficial for femal...How Super Are The "Super Aspirins"? -- New COX-2 Inhibitors May Elevate Cardiovascular Risk
...n through prostacyclin production. "One option may be for patients who are at particular risk for adversecardiovascular events to combine COX-2 therapies with low-dose aspirin,"FitzGerald suggests. "But this is a strategy that would need to be tested inclinical trials." The current stu...Nuclear power plants are a much safer option in terms of the effect on peopleshealth than tradi...the nuclear production of electricity a much safer option than coal interms of the direct influence on people's health caused by the waste productsfrom the tw...Experimental Drug Derived From Snake Venom Shows Promise In Reversing Effects Of Stroke
...OD is approved is that the physician would havethe option of using either TPA or ANCROD, based on what would be best for thatparticular patient," says Sherman. "Overall, TPA has been shown to be a littlebit more effective than ANCROD, but it also carries a little bit more dangerwith the possibility of blee...Radioactive Beads Latest Weapon In Fighting Cancer In Dogs, Cats
...eceive the implant, but that it is a goodtreatment option for a lot of different tumors. "It seems to be as successful as more conventional forms of therapy," Chun said."But we need two or three years from now before we can say our dogs havesurvived as long as, if not longer than, dogs treated with other fo...