Sepsis drug fights infection, decreases hospital care over two year study
... had "significant increases" in the number of days alive and off of the ventilator and out of the ICU and hospital. They had lower 28-day all-cause mortality (33.7 percent vs. 49.2 percent on placebo) and lower in-hospital mortality (36.9 percent vs. 52.5 percent on placebo), which translates into one life...Purdue developing less costly model for studying human disease
...o keep altered embryonic stem cells from zebrafish alive long enough to pass on specific genetic changes. However they have not yet made a knockout using this technique. They currently are working to introduce a specific alteration into embryonic stem cells. It takes two generations to produce an adult fis...Discovery may help in war against fire ants
...sts, Kathirithamby recently identified the female alive in crickets in Mexico. "These are really basic q...swer," Johnston said. "We've never had the females alive before, we've always had them caught in alcohol traps. With the discovery of the females and using ...Scientists celebrate a sea turtles homecoming
...pper tags, scientists were unsure if she was still alive until her return to the nesting beach this year. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) supplied several transmitters in a cooperative effort to protect hawksbills, which sometimes venture into U.S. waters. Attached to the turtle's carapace,...Physiologists findings make fishing tournaments safer for fish!
... have moved toward the practice of releasing fish, alive and unharmed, at the end of each event. But until now there has been little scientific evidence for designing the most effective "live release" procedures. With funding from Shimano Canada Ltd. and a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ...Live seafood trade linked to species invasions
...s that "fresh" shellfish sold in markets are still alive enough to feed and so presumably to spawn. This s...ecies sold in Pacific Northwest markets were still alive enough to feed a day after being returned to seawater. Spawning can be triggered by eating, stress o...Roderick MacKinnon wins 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...work is exquisite, but he also makes the data come alive with very thoughtful and clear explanations." In 1998, much to the surprise of colleagues, MacKinnon and his colleagues determined the three-dimensional structure of a pore that allows cells to control their intake of potassium ions. By determining t...Relatives of Parkinson's patients have higher risk for action tremor
... for gender, education, race and whether they were alive or deceased....New medicines at risk from biodiversity loss
...ieve all internationally traded organisms (whether alive or dead) must be monitored, regardless of whether they are currently listed as threatened. This would allow countries to identify emerging markets and act early enough to prevent depletion." This could be achieved, say the authors, by extending CITES...Dietary ginger may work against cancer growth
...ontrast, 12 of the 20 [6]-gingerol mice were still alive on that day, and their average tumor size was about 0.5 cubic centimeter, or half the maximum allowable size. "These results strongly suggest that ginger compounds may be effective chemopreventive and/or chemotherapeutic agents for colorectal carcino...Excellent survival rates for liver cancer patients undergoing transplant
...lant patients with advanced liver cancer are still alive after five years, compared to nearly zero survival for those patients who did not undergo transplant, according to a study by Johns Hopkins researchers. "This is good news for patients with liver cancer. If diagnosed early, transplantation is the ...Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
...tch live juvenile squid in an attempt to keep them alive for observation in a portable holding tank. "We hi...quid possible," he says. "Our goal is to keep them alive in the lab and to conduct studies on their respiration, physiology and neurophysiology. This has nev......cryopegella, can grow at -10 Celsius and can stay alive and even keep metabolizing at an astonishing -20 Celsius. While it isn't able to replicate itself at that extreme temperature, it maintains the minimal metabolism needed to repair and maintain its cell structures. "This organism can exist at colder t...Endurance of plants under quartz rocks possible model for life on early Earth, Mars
...ife," Schlesinger said. "But if Mars had something alive two billion years ago, when it is believed to have been slightly wetter, this might have been where that something lived." ...Gene essential for development of normal brain connections resulting from sensory input discovered
...shoot. In addition, when individual neurons kept alive in a Petri dish are stimulated with calcium ions, they respond by developing highly branched dendrites, but neurons taken from mice lacking CREST fail to branch in response to calcium. "CREST is the first example of a transcription factor-a protein ...Lion attacks on livestock in Africa are significant but manageable
... as 22,600 African lions remain 10% of the number alive just 25 years ago. "Most of this decline can be attributed to conflicts with an expanding human population, specifically to ranchers killing lions that attack their livestock," said Bruce Patterson, PhD, MacArthur Curator of Mammals at Chicago's Fi...Oregon Stem Cell Center result of OHSU research strides
...rter, "fishes out living stem cells and keeps them alive for transplantation and study," Grompe said. -- A cell isolation core to culture, store and distribute specific stem cells. This will allow many researchers at OHSU rapid and easy access to professionally isolated and maintained, high-quality stem ce...Vascular access vital to pump up tissue engineering
...Analyst Katherine Austin." A construct can be kept alive in a bioreactor by constantly supplying it with nutrients and oxygen, but once it is implanted in the patient, it has to be well supplied by capillaries. You have to have sufficient perfusion reaching all of the cells or they'll die." Significant re...Dietary supplement shows promise for improving immune function in the elderly
...lf of all humans who have ever lived to age 65 are alive today and one out of every 26 Baby Boomers will live to be 100 years old. As the percentage of elderly Americans increases the impact on future health care costs also increases. Aging is associated with a decline in a large number of bodily function......alies or cancer with those of 7,740 children still alive at one year. Children who were breastfed had 20% lower risk of dying between 28 days and one year than children who weren't breastfed. Longer breastfeeding was associated with lower risk. The effect was the same in both black and white children. Br...