Virginia Tech Engineers Help Mother Nature Clean Up
...nowledge about what is going on down there." He adds that "poplar trees have provento be efficient in a... "and the treesare growing like wild fire." She adds that they have also been successfulin using the trees as part of a wastewater treatment process.A la......ial diagnoses to determine appropriatemedication," adds Mohler. "Most importantly, this research lays the groundworkfor a study that will determine the safety of this data. This work represents aunique marriage between cardiac cell biology, medical imaging, and clinical ERtriage." The University o...Short-Course TB Prophylaxis Effective In HIV-Infected Individuals
... reduce the cost of TB prevention programs," adds Dr. Gordin, who notes that personnel and ...eople with infectious TB." Dr. Gayle adds that although preventive therapy for infected individuals in these high-risk groups can ...Women Younger Than 30 Need To Be Screened For Chlamydia
...efore theyprogress topelvic inflammatory disease," adds Quinn. The screening was done with a new, simple urine test that is more sensitivethan previoustests for the microbe that causes the disease, Chlamydia trachomatis, saysQuinn. In their studyof 7,699 women at two family planning clinics in Bal...Jefferson Researchers First To Create Genetically Engineered Mouse To Study Photoaging
...d UVA rays." "The transgenic model adds a molecular component to the evaluation ofsunscreen efficacy," added Dr. Gasparro. "Prior to this look at molecularassay, efficacy was based solely on physiological responses. Molecular assaysare important because they can provide information about...PEBBLEs Help U-M Scientists Open A Window On Cell Chemistry
...er spheres contain many surface pores. When Clark adds dyes to a polymer microemulsion suspension during pebble fabrication, the dyes are naturally taken up by the PEBBLE's pores. According to Clark, each dye is specific for, or will bind to, just one type of ion or molecule. So far, she has produce...Dog Blindness Gene May Help Humans
...ng prcd, a possibility that did not exist before," adds co-author Kunal Ray, a molecular geneticist at Cornell. Recent advances in genetic therapy may allow doctors to treat retinitis pigmentosa (as well as rod-cone degeneration indogs) by cloning the normal gene, inserting a copy into a transfer vector s...Mouse Gene Reveals Clues To Human Deafness
...ge of 80. "The identification of this gene adds a piece to the increasingly wellunderstood, intricate function of the inner ear," said King. "The next step isto determine whether this gene is involved in congenital or age-related hearingloss in other deaf individuals, and how knowledge of the gene...Scientists Find Further Global Warming Evidence In Temperature Reconstruction Study
...t issue of the journal Nature. "This study adds solid information to the growing base of data whichpoints to the warming of our planet by human-related activities," says HermanZimmerman, program director in NSF's division of atmospheric sciences, whichfunded the research. "The balance of evidence...Bison Grazing Increases Biodiversity In Grasslands
...cy have disrupted grassland ecosystems worldwide," adds Collins. "Although burning is essential to maintaining tallgrass prairies, fire alone is not a sufficient management solution for restoring prairie diversity, as some have proposed." Whereas fire is used as a conservation tool throughout much of th...Ulcer-Causing Bacteria Also May Be Associated With Heart Disease
...iation between h. pylori and heart disease, but he adds that there isincreasing evidence that several chro...e. The two may not be related, Ridker says.Ridker adds that while the data are "provocative and interesting," additionalresearch is needed before any defin...Pediatric Academic Societies Report Progress In Children's Health
...n ratesand shortened labor. The support of a doula adds to labor and delivery arisk-free, human element that can have a positive medical impact as well, theresearchers said. Gene therapy successfully administered through bloodstreamA breakthrough study on in vivo gene therapy may someday provide the me...Does Mountain Living Slow Rate Of Molecular Evolution?
...lf. "This adds elevation to the mix of factors that one might consider as contributors to rates of molecular evolution," says Robert Bleiweiss, professor of zoology and the author ...Peptic Ulcers: Stress Does Matter, After All
...ss has an influence on the development of ulcers," adds Levenstein, "but it also strongly influences how well you do under treatment once you have an ulcer." Panelists included Howard Spiro, M.D., of Yale, one of the most eminent gastroenterologists in the nation; Andre Dubois, M.D., of the Unif...International Research Team Announces Discovery Of Two Species Of Feathered Dinosaurs
...-blooded. The discovery of the feathered dinosaurs adds momentum to a shift away from thebelief in the primacy of the famous fossil Archaeopteryx as the key tounderstanding the origin of birds. Numerous significant fossil finds in thepast decade, including the discoveries announced this week, have caused...Evidence From Old Tumors Foretells Which New Breast Cancer Patients Will RequireAdditional Treatment
...that is too muchfor most and too little for some," adds co-author Samuel Hellman, M.D., the A.N.Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of radiation and cellular oncology. The study used tumor tissue from 163 <AHREF="http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/jnci/iss8823/88-1764.htm">patients ,median age 57,...Scientists ID A Protein With Punch As Infection-Inflammation Fighter
...ers have repeated our work andextended our results adds a great deal to the credibility of this project. Theirefforts make it a collaborative study involving some very well-known scientistsfrom across the country." Experiments carried out by Dr. Ron Korthuis at the Louisiana State UniversitySchool of Medi...Pool Of Latently Infected, "Resting" Cells Established Early In HIV Infection
...controlled by the immune defenses of the patient," adds Dr. Fauci. The NIAID investigators and others are pursuing studies to identify peoplerecently exposed to HIV and to treat them before the viral burst, which probablydisseminates the virus widely throughout the body. Such studies will helpdetermine......e importance of the group's findings: The study adds a new regulatory process to our understanding of synaptic transmission, Brose says "and it's going to rattle a few cages". Hundreds of published studies on protein kinase C function employed pharmacological reagents that do not allow t......s theacetate group off the Acetyl CoA molecule and adds it to the histones. One reason the Workman group was able to make so many discoveries atonce is that it is the first lab to isolate and purify the individual HATcomplexes, and then the individual proteins within each complex, and tomake enough of the...