Dangerous Chemical Combination Presents Possible Scenario For Gulf War Illnesses
...than-recommended doses of PB as anadded precaution against nerve gas attacks may have caused nerve-cell overstimulation,contributing to tremors, muscle spasms and other symptoms of increased nerve-cellactivity. The research team is conducting a follow-up study analyzing blood samplesfrom veterans with and w...Computer Program For Quicker, More Detailed Mapping
...ed to scaleit up. We found that we were bumping up against its limitations -- thenwe'd change it. Eventually, the original program just dropped out of thepicture," said McKusick. So far Mapper is performing well, she said. The researchers have testedMapper's accuracy by comparing its results with genetic ma...Duke Researchers Discover Candidate Susceptibility Gene For Autoimmune Disease
...ned that the animals had characteristic antibodies against theirown tissues that represent an inflammatory autoimmune response. By comparingtheir mice with other animals that had similar clinical signs, the researchershypothesized the animals were producing too much of a potent inflammatoryprotein called tum...Rosemary May Have Anti-Cancer Properties
...ner. "We have found a spice that offers protection against a classicmodel of breast cancer," he says. Rosem...searchers also found that rosemary's effectiveness against tumor formationincreased with the amount of fat in the diet. "It suggests that people who eat high...Children Become Gorillas In VR Zoo
...arges thejuvenile, screaming and beating his fists against his chest. Wisely, sheflees. Excited and a little...st's Gorillas of the Cameroon Interpretive Center, against thebackdrop of the home of Zoo Atlanta's most famous gorilla, Willie B. In the future, researchers ...Transgenic Rice Plants Resist Insects, Drought And Salt Damage
... enhance the rice plant's ability to defend itself against pests and stresses, without the use of expensive a...istance gene to rice, Wu predicted, it should work against any lepidopteran (or caterpillar type) insect that eats plants in the larval stage -- and that is ab......encies maybe an organism's key weapon in the fight against cancer and autoimmune diseases:cells that wander too far from their source of molecular signals naturallyself-destruct. When the self-destruction mechanism is disrupted, though,cancerous tumors made up of rapidly reproducing cells can result....Florida Researchers Discover Gene For Fatal Childhood Disease
...at mice with Chediak-Higashisyndrome are protected against some forms of autoimmune disease, especiallythe complications many lupus patients develop. "This discovery has the potential to be a treatment for lupus as itrelates to kidney problems," said Dr. Doyt Conn, the national ArthritisFoundation's ...Researchers Find Possible New Route to Making Cancer Cells Vulnerable
... thecell. Normally, the MDR pump protects the cell against poisons, but resistantcancer cells have many times the normal amount of MDR protein to protectthem from chemotherapy drugs. These cells work overtime, expelling chemotherapydrugs that would normally kill a cancerous tumor and allowing runaway cellgro...Bee Sting Treatment Should Emphasize Speed, Not Method Of Removal
...emoved as quickly as possible." The finding goes against conventional advice that bee stings should be scrapedout -- using a knife blade, credit card or fingernail -- and never pluckedout by pinching with tweezers or fingernails. Visscher was skeptical ofthis advice because, although the sting remains in t...Nitric Oxide May Hold Key To First Treatment For Deadly Form Of Malaria, Duke Scientists Report
...ctor. In human cells, constant vigilance against excess oxygen and NO takes atoll over time. When the system is out of balance, perhaps when a transcriptionfactor is mutated, disease can result, the scientists say. "It is a parallel process to what is known as oxidative stress, inwhich an...Salvage Gene Is At The Root Of Many Mutations
...precancerous cells to overcome the geneticdefenses against unlimited cell proliferation and migration." The Rochester researchers believe the findings could open a major new avenue of cancer prevention. People withgenetic predispositions to cancer could be given drugs to knock out the REV1 enzyme, stopp...Nitric Oxide Found To Control Cells By Turning On Genes; Suggests New Role In Health And Disease
...ctor. In human cells, constant vigilance against excess oxygen and NO takes atoll over time. When the system is out of balance, perhaps when a transcriptionfactor is mutated, disease can result, the scientists say. "It is a parallel process to what is known as oxidative stress, inwhich an...Duke Ecologist Says Logging Is Creating 'Mahogany Deserts'
...that resist wind damage, plus thick barkto protect against flames, she said. Those older trees can then provide sources of seed to grow new mahoganiesin the clearings opened up by wind and fire. The regeneration process may be even more complicated. In a recent revisitto Quintana Roo, Snook found that maho...NCAR Scientist Models Earth's Climate and Vegetation Patterns At Last Glacial Peak
...rica and Southest Asia. Felzer checked his results against earlier LGM vegetation scenarios based on data from fossilized pollen retrieved from lake cores. His simulated vegetation matched up fairly well with these geological reconstructions of plant life. Where differences exist, a colder simulation might h...Animal Studies Indicate Aging Brain Responsive To Estrogen
...heimer'spatients with estrogens might help protect against neuronal death that leadsto the cognitive decline.... findingssuggest that estrogens might help protect against neuronal death in Alzheimer'sdisease, said Einstein. The researchers believe that such findings as ...Researchers Corral Millions Of Microscopic Membranes
...n use electric fields to concentrate such proteins against two-dimensional membrane boundaries. They suggest that it should be possible to both concentrate and crystallize such proteins by applying an intense electrical field. If they are correct, the method could be used along with existing techniques for d...... The plants that did not lack vitamin C stood firm against those environmental stresses, much like humans stand up well against external stresses when they consume vitamin C. Last believes this research shows that ascorbic acid...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
...hBlair. "We have been searching for a vaccine against liver cancerbecause the disease is so relentless g... beckon thebody's immune system to mount an attack against a foreignsubstance. Doctors also injected the rats with gamma-interferon,another cytokine now used c...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
...Sarah Blair. "We have been searching for a vaccine against liver cancer because the disease is so relentless ...beckon the body's immune system to mount an attack against a foreign substance. Doctors also injected the rats with gamma-interferon, another cytokine now used...