High risk of mental health problems in adoptees from other countries
...m children who were born in 1970-79 who were still alive and residents of Sweden in 1985. The investigators compared mental health problems, suicide, and drug or alcohol abuse between the intercountry adoptees; children born in Sweden to two Swedish-born parents (general population); Swedish-born siblings ...UCSD researchers fabricate tiny 'smart dust' particles
...mportant advance in the effort to keep liver cells alive outside of the human body. Further information on these developments can be obtained at: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mcnerve.htm (nerve gas detector) http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mctnt.htm (TNT detector) http://ucsdnews....Researchers isolate key part of cells death signals
...nd becoming cancerous. "Many cancer cells may stay alive due to the overexpression of anti-death proteins,"... BCL-2 molecules that are trying to keep the cells alive ('BAD-like' peptides)." Since dependence for survival on overexpressed BCL-2 is likely to be restri...Duke ecologist's book offers hopeful view of Earth's plight
...est," Jackson wrote. "Although most of us won't be alive to see it, our descendants will be thankful that w...in 50 or 500 years and meet the people who will be alive then, I would leap at the chance," he wrote....Planting time for forest trees branches out to new seasons
...is a runt. The containterized trees are almost all alive and have about the same height." Uniformity is important for timber companies that seek trees of similar size for ease of processing, he explained. "When the forest products industry finds a good performing tree, they want its offspring to be just ...Researchers create DNA 'nanocircles' to probe the mystery of aging in human cells
... has decided that the best way to keep an organism alive is to keep telomerase turned off, because otherwise you can get mutations and cancer too easily." Because researchers need to study cells that live a long time, many labs rely on tumor-derived cells, which continuously divide and therefore are immort...Wistar-developed antibody shows promise against brain tumors in Drexel trial
...ctions, three patients with high-grade tumors were alive after five years and longer. Of the patients with the less aggressive tumor, eight were alive after five years and longer, and 50 percent of those patients were alive after 56 months. "It's grat...Early mammals used pelvic bones to trot, study finds
...mammals opossums, one of the few types of animals alive today that still has the bones in question, called epipubic bones. In opossums and a few other marsupials, the epipubic bones are attached to the pelvis and jut into muscles of the stomach. "Kind of like you had two pencils in your belly wall coming...Genebanks: Preserving genetic diversity for Earths future
...nts in cryobiology, it is possible to keep tissues alive and unchanged for hundreds of thousands of years. Using cryopreservation technologies, the Zoological Society of San Diego has created a "Frozen Zoo," which stores viable cell lines from more than 3,200 individual mammals, birds, and reptiles, repre...New proteomic techniques reveal workings of bacteria linked to cystic fibrosis
...of the method that Pseudomonas uses to keep itself alive in the lung, before it transforms its genome and mutates into a killer," Guina says. In some cases, PQS production diminishes in samples from patients who are older than 3. "It may be that PQS has already done its damage by the time the patient reac...Hitchhiking bacteria could compromise the detection of life on Mars
...ysis of the soil showed that endospores were still alive below a depth of 5mm, suggesting that life is possible in these hostile conditions. The authors speculate, "that if entities resembling bacterial endospores were produced at some point by life forms on Mars, they might still be present and viable, gi...DNA-based vaccine triples survival for dogs with melanoma
... for over 400 days with the longest survivor still alive after more than 615 days. The median survival was 389 days. "Like humans, dogs develop melanoma spontaneously through an interaction of their genes with the environment," said Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD, an oncologist on the Clinical Immunology Servic...Scientists discover unique source of stem cells
...portant implications because the stem cells remain alive inside the tooth for a short time after it falls out of a child's mouth, suggesting the cells could be readily harvested for research. According to the scientists, who published their findings online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy...Georgia Tech researchers use lab cultures to control robotic device
...rray of 60 micro-electrodes. The neurons are kept alive in an incubator for up to two years using a new sealed-dish culture system that Potter developed and patented. The neural activity recorded by the electrodes is transmitted to the robot, the Khepera, made by K-Team S.A, which serves as the body of th...3-D imaging inside living organism, using quantum dots
... However, mice used in the Cornell study are still alive and apparently healthy, months later, and are being monitored for long-term effects of their treatments.The Cornell researchers used quantum dots for fluorescence imaging microscopy because when excited by light, they emit bright fluorescence in diff...Researchers combine electronics with living cell to create potential toxicity sensor
... that rely upon the knowledge of whether a cell is alive or dead," said Huang, lead author of the current s...fluorescent dye assay only tells whether cells are alive or dead, shedding little light on what happens to the cell as it dies. The dyes also lack the sensit...Silent DNA architecture helps block cancer cell growth
...t they are abnormal and kill themselves, or remain alive indefinitely but cease proliferating, through two ... cells into a permanent state in which they remain alive but can no longer proliferate, cellular senescence contributes to successful outcomes following canc...Artificial organ research findings presented by University of Pittsburgh researchers
...kidney dialysis has kept patients in liver failure alive until donor organs have become available, according to Jrg Gerlach, M.D., Ph.D., professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "We have treated eight patients in acute liver failure some of whom were in a coma who were ab...Human stem cells improve movement in paralyzed rats
...sinking ship," says Kerr. "Simply keeping a neuron alive can't improve physical abilities if it's not connected to other neurons. It must be part of a circuit. "In some ways our results reduce stem cells to the non-glamorous role of protein factories, but the cells still do some amazing, glamorous things w...Researchers identify clotting protein which causes hepatitis B
...s infection and 40 per cent of the mice were still alive 14 days after being infected. IMPLICATIONS A new clotting factor has been found which is important in viral infection; This clotting protein is important in human hepatitis B as well as in mice where it is triggered by the corona virus. It may ...