Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
...s from tainted hamburger, forcing the largest meat recall in history. Several thousand people come down with listeriosis each year, and several hundred die from it. But the disease kills primarily those with compromised immune systems; in most people, it is quickly knocked down by the immune system. The ch...Wrapping a memory with an experience, capacity for recollection detected in non-human species
...h as that which is experienced when you eventually recall the prior encounter with that familiar person. The researchers devised a memory test that capitalized on rats' highly developed sense of smell as well as instinctual foraging behavior. Initially, the rats explored a "list" of 10 common household od...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
...s small sample size and its reliance on individual recall for reporting factors such as milk-consumption patterns that were used to estimate radiation dose. Efforts are under way to investigate a larger population in a similar fashion to see if these findings can be replicated, Davis said.For his contributi...Regular physical activity really does boost immune system in older men
...ch typically utilized in vitro tests or vaccine or recall antigens to elicit an immune response. In the first stage, all subjects were "immunized" with KLH with blood collected on day one and then each week for a month. The samples were comprehensively tested by ELISA (enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay) f...Alzheimer's may leave some forms of memory intact
...h implicit memory from the explicit memory used to recall past associations and events, the neurobiology underpinning of implicit memory remains a mystery. In anatomical terms, the kind of explicit memory that is severely impaired in Alzheimer's disease depends on the condition of the medial temporal lobe, ...Memory fails you after severe stress
... Numerous studies have questioned the accuracy of recall of traumatic events, but the research is often dismissed as artificial and not intense enough to simulate real-life trauma. Other studies have suggested that intense, personal experiences might produce near photographic recollection, something that ...New research shows that the seasons may be involved in onset of menopause
...at their menstrual periods stopped, while 30 could recall only the season. The results for the seasonal distribution of the first missed bleeding in the peri-menopause [3] were: Said Dr Garai: "Seasonal variations of reproductive functions in wild animals are well known, and ...UCLA scientists decipher how the brain retrieves and stores our oldest memories
... called kinase II, which eliminates the ability to recall old memories. The animals were trained to recognize a cage, then tested for their memory of the cage at one, three, 18 and 36 days after training. "We found that the mutant mice recognized the cage for up to three days after training, but their me...Only half of recalled meat and poultry is recovered, study finds
... the most effect. Hooker and Teratanavat collected recall information from the federal Food Safety and Inspe...ccept more product than was actually included in a recall just for good customer relations." Hooker hopes policy-makers can use the study in examining current...... The participants were encouraged to recall the events through a mix of guided imagery and "mental context re-instatement"--the mental equivalent of putting themselves back in their grade-school shoes. Half of the participants were also given their real grade one class photo, supplied by their...Research reveals brain has biological mechanism to block unwanted memories
...e first word in the pair (presented by itself) and recall and think about the second word. In the second set...sked to look at the first word of the pair and not recall or think of the second word. The third set of 12 word pairs served as a baseline and was not used du...One-third of women feel distant from partner post-miscarriage
...e their miscarriage as a significant loss, recall, recall the actual miscarriage as a devastating event, claim they had "lost a baby," and feel more isolated. "Those whose interpersonal relationship was more distant feared trying [to get pregnant] again, were unable to share the loss with their partners and...Study shows brain activity influences immune function
...During these tasks, the participants were asked to recall two events - one that made them feel intensely happy and another that left them feeling intensely sad, fearful or angry. As the respondents focused on the emotion experienced for one minute, the researchers measured the electrical activity in both th...New principle guides memory dynamics
...his is true, it means that it would be possible to recall a memory and, immediately after the act of remembering, to activate a "memory eraser" and wipe it out, even though years may have passed since the original memory was formed. Research into the subject took place in leading labs around the world, but ...Breastfeeding may compensate for harmful effects of smoking during pregnancy
...were 9 and again when they were 25, to ensure that recall was reliable. Children who were breastfed for only a couple of weeks, or who were fed both breast and formula milk, were not included in the final analysis. Only those children whose mothers had smoked during pregnancy and who had been bottle fed per...Memory for music: Musicians don't have to hear themselves perform after they learn a song
...ar during learning and during recall of the information. In this ...terference tasks caused worse recall than did the arithmetic task. "This suggests that the memories are truly musica...Pregnant African American teens need more calcium for healthy fetal bone development
...who entered prenatal care. Using a 24-hour dietary recall to estimate the number of dairy products the girls consumed daily, the dietician ranked their calcium intake as either "adequate" (4 or more servings per day), "fair" (2-3 servings per day) or "poor" (0-1 serving per day), with each serving contribut...Fruit consumption related to increased risk of Parkinson's?
...imarily retrospective in design and are subject to recall bias. The current study is longitudinal, in which risk factor data was collected before onset of Parkinson's among more than 8,000 study subjects. Incidence of Parkinson's cases was noted over 34 years of observation. Results of the study show that i...Rockefeller, Weill Cornell researchers find link between estrogen, brain structure changes
...o store new memories, retrieve older ones and even recall location of an object or event in space. A second study, published in the same journal by Weill Cornell Medical College scientists, led by Teresa Milner, Ph.D., in collaboration with Rockefeller University investigators, finds the same results in ani...Braille found to be essential, regardless of age of blindness
...aging, or inadequate performance on post-fMRI scan recall testing. Early blind subjects had no sight at birth or by age three. The average age at onset of blindness in the late blind group was age 19.2 (range, seven to 36). All blind subjects, but no sighted subjects, were fluent Braille readers. Average ...