Study of flu patients reveals virus outsmarting key drug
...ays. At present, there are only two strategies for stemming the spread of influenza: vaccines and antiviral drugs. Vaccines use inactivated forms of a virus to ramp up the immune system and thwart infection. Antiviral drugs such as oseltamivir work by inhibiting key proteins on the surface of the virus, effec...UIC researchers discover gene that causes liver cancer in animals
...ng because it suggests we might have a therapy for stemming the spread of liver cancer." Costa, who has made a career of studying the Fox family of genes, has long puzzled over why Foxm1b is not active in old age. When the gene is out of commission, tissues can't regenerate, muscles atrophy, and bones thin. F...Best way to clean up toxic plumes? Give 'em a pill
...nts, and is sometimes also used to treat pollution stemming from industrial-grade solvents that were buried 30 to 40 years ago. "But most people who use potassium permanganate to treat pollution pump it into a well in liquid form every day for a couple of months," said Frank Schwartz, a study co-author and a ......ercent of all infectious diseases affecting humans stemming from non-human vertebrates. Modes of transmission include swallowing or inhaling waste products from an infected animal, eating or being bitten by an infected animal, or via parasites such as mosquitoes, fleas, or ticks....Gretchen Daily named Nature Conservancy senior scholar
...reate a conservation research program dedicated to stemming the decline in global biodiversity. By Klas Bergman...OXiGENE announces commencement of Phase I/II clinical trial of Combretastatin A4 Prodrug
...ized Axial Tomography to measure CA4P's success in stemming blood flow to the tumor. Phase I/II studies are designed to assess the safety, short- and long-term toxicity, maximum tolerated dose and tumor response of the combination therapy. According to the American Cancer Society, in 2002: -- Lung ca...Kiss mistletoe goodbye this season for better tree health
...sts have a decided lack of love for this parasite, stemming from the fact that mistletoe is especially hard to kill without harming the tree in the process, Watson explained. "One can repeatedly cut off mistletoe to prevent it from making seed and therefore spreading, but that is very labor intensive," he not...Even in middle age, cutting calories slows aging of the heart
..., the study identifies genetic pressure points for stemming age-related heart disease, long the number one cause of death in the United States. Such knowledge can help pharmaceutical companies identify medicines that may be able to prevent the genetic changes that underlie heart disease. Caloric restriction,...A Magic Web: The Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado
...es tropical forest matter and what hopes exist for stemming the tide of forest destruction? Whereas it is urgent that we get off intellectual and physical islands to save what remains of tropical forest worldwide, Barro Colorado has been, and continues to be, a teacher and a starting point for journeys of bi...Acid rain threatens forests in more ways than previously thought
...sium deficiency, this magnesium loss from the soil stemming from leaching by acid rain. Such leaching results in the loss of topsoil nutrients to groundwater and eventually to rivers. Kennedy noted that plant roots cannot access all nutrient elements in the soil; some elements are bound in minerals and roc...Vessel reporting a weak link in national strategy to stem the flow of alien organisms to the U.S.
...rocess deemed effective by the U.S. Coast Guard in stemming the tide of non-native species invasions. "It is notable that in California, where state law authorizes monetary and criminal penalties for non-compliance with federal ballast water reporting requirements, rates of reporting were much higher," said e...Amazonian devastation: Common sense quantified to predict disaster
... specific causes of forest destruction in hopes of stemming the tide. Human population density, distance to the nearest highway and dry season severity best predict the extent of deforestation, the group reports in a Journal of Biogeography article released today. Human populations in the Amazon have grown fr...American Chemical Society meeting features cutting-edge research August 26-30 in Chicago
...ed foods to cause allergies, reduced pesticide use stemming from the use of biotech crops, and evidence that biotech corn may not threaten the monarch butterfly. ( AGFD 53-58, 99-103; AGRO 87-92, 107-112 ; Monday-Wednesday, August 27-29. Embargoed until 1:30 p.m., August 27. ) Flaxseed may protect older...Dopamine-dampening gene linked to prefrontal inefficiency, schizophrenia
...idence suggests that it is at least 80% heritable, stemming from complex interactions among several genes and non-genetic influences. Several chromosomal regions have been implicated, but none have been definitely confirmed and no genes have yet been linked to the disorder. Given the syndrome's daunting comp...Brain gene implicated in autism
...hat the disorder is at least 90 percent heritable, stemming from complex interactions among 3 to 15, or more, genes. The WNT2 gene attracted the investigators' attention because of its suspect location on chromosome 7 (7q31-33); three recent genome scans had pointed to the region as likely harboring an au...National Science Foundation awards research grant for $1.1 million to UA Museum
...ain hands-on research experience areother benefits stemming from the NSF grant. The funds will support several new graduate research positions,boosting opportunities for students to study environmental change and, in turn, help educate the public aboutissues affecting Alaska. More than 60 doctoral and master'...Rapid size change in introduced fruit fly indicates it is evolving as it invades North America
...trategy used by invading species. But new evidence stemming from the accidental introduction into North and South America of an Old World fruit fly, which has exhibited one of fastest evolutionary changes ever recorded, may alter that perception. Writing in this week's issue of the journal Science, a team of...Climate change and greenhouse gases: The scientific literature reviewed
...poses that add carbon to the atmosphere beyondthat stemming from natural processes, global temperatures have increased onaverage by 0.5 to 1.0 degrees Fahrenheit (0.3-0.6 degrees Celsius). The authors predict that further increases in greenhouse gases will causechanges in the climate system. These include inc...... impact on climate processes of pollutionparticles stemming from Asia appears to be fundamentally different from thoseoriginating in the United States and Europe. The measurements taken in theIndian Ocean are also important because they characterize emissions from therapidly emerging economies in this region......chanistic ideas about the function of this protein stemming from the authors' fundamental structural and biochemical studies of the related protein p120GAP (Mittal et al., 1996, <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/">Science 273, 115-117; Scheffzek et al., 1996, Nature 384, 591-596; Sc...