Chlamydia in men now also linked to infertility new findings
... in the men and TFI in their partners there may be alternative or additional mechanisms involved that are reducing fertility. It is possible that decreased sperm motility or concurrent or undetected infection may play a role, but that is speculative as we did not look at these possibilities in the present study,...Experimental smallpox DNA vaccine protects primates from lethal monkeypox
...e of the Journal of Virology, suggests a promising alternative approach to conventional smallpox vaccination. Smallpox, a devastating disease caused by the variola virus, was eradicated in 1979 through the efforts of the World Health Organization (WHO). Currently, infectious variola (one of a class of viruses c......ding to UC Davis researchers who are suggesting an alternative strategy. Other scientists have proposed controll... extra DNA, Hahn said. Hahn and Nuzhdin propose an alternative strategy. They suggest designing a transposon that gives an advantage to mosquitoes that already car...Vanderbilt doctors use Viagra to treat infants with pulmonary hyptertension
...Moore said. "But I felt it was the most reasonable alternative we could offer given the circumstances." A small dose of Viagra was begun and then the nitric oxide was slowly weaned away. Hartley's pressures stayed low. That was months ago. Hartley's pulmonary pressure began to rise again several weeks ago and ...Study reveals poor Houston air quality
...nd a way to curb its emissions. What is needed are alternative energy sources and more efficient means of transportation. If these high readings continue, it poses all sorts of potential health problems for people and the ecological systems in the area."...Keck Futures Initiative announces grant recipients
...ompensation. Dunlap's project proposes to test an alternative model where autocatalysis plays a role equally as important as the existing negative feedback loop in generating a robust biochemical oscillator. This model incorporates a hysteresis driven by the positive feedback loop, along with a stable limit c...Invasive species: A few bucks and a click away
...r regulation, including listing native and/or safe alternative aquarium and ornamental species to encourage the trade of less invasive and aggressive species. They also suggest a trade-off using bonds equal to the estimated cost of repairing future damage that could occur in the worst-case scenario of a particu...Biosensor-regulated gene therapy reduces heart attack damage in mice
...lips said, this new concept might eventually be an alternative to stents and bypass surgery. People who suffer one heart attack are at higher risk for subsequent attacks. Often lack of blood flow to the heart muscle, known as cardiac ischemia, does not cause pain or other symptoms. This asymptomatic or "silent"...JCI table of contents, 2 April 2004
...hese clotting factors, neutralizing treatment. An alternative treatment is the infusion of a recombinant Factor VII (FVII), a procoagulant reaction activator that is independent of FVIII and FIX. But this treatment is extremely costly and the recombinant FVII has a very short half-life, translating into more tr...Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prizes 2004
...ans, in particular with the conditions under which alternative stable states of higher or lower species diversity develop. One specific field of investigation has been the effects of industrial fishing practices on marine ecosystems. Together with Canadian colleagues, he analysed data on the changes in predatory...Bioreactor boosts chemical fermentation by 50 percent: study
...ang designed the bioreactor as a three-dimensional alternative to the flat petri dishes and trays that scientists traditionally use to culture cells. The fibers anchor living cells in place as they grow and reproduce. For this latest study, the engineers grew P. acidipropionici in a sugar solution, and...Five Marine Conservation leaders receive world's top award from Pew Institute for Ocean Science
... Marine Living Resources Program, who will develop alternative technology to save seabirds from becoming entangled in commercial fishing lines. Craig Smith, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii, who will design marine protected areas to protect fragile Pacific Ocean ec...Aeras partners with Crucell to develop TB vaccine
...f 10-15 years after the vaccination. A need for an alternative vaccination approach has emerged in the last two decades. ...Should Roundup Ready soybeans be managed differently than conventional soybeans?
...s and intermediate rows, suggesting this may be an alternative for producers with disease concerns. In general, soybean yield increased when populations were raised from low to optimum, but did not increase from optimum to high. This would suggest that current seeding rate recommendations are adequate and simila...Oregon Stem Cell Center result of OHSU research strides
...Northwest, is studying cell and gene therapy as an alternative to organ transplantation for pancreatic and liver ...cell therapy for liver and pancreas diseases as an alternative to organ transplantation. Last year, Grompe published a study showing that bone marrow-derived stem ...Activity of calcium-handling gene appears to prevent cardiac arrhythmias
...d in humans, this kind of gene therapy could be an alternative to defibrillator implantation for some patients," say Hajjar, an HMS associate professor of Medicine. These types of experiments are currently being pursued in large animals that more closely mimic the human condition. In addition to Hajjar and del...Rockefeller University scientists take on controversial 'vibration theory' of smell
..., and that is why scientists have been looking for alternative theories for a very long time," Vosshall says. Turin, who is a physiologist by training and a recognized expert on perfumes, expanded upon a theory first offered in the 1930s that smell depends on intramolecular vibrations of the odor molecule - basi...New toxicity test could cut animal testing
...sing cultured liver cancer cell lines, the current alternative to cultured primary cells. Over time, liver cells in culture are known to alter their patterns of gene expression and no longer behave like liver cells in vivo. For example they often lose the ability to produce drug-activating and modifying enzymes....Preoperative treatment with Arimidex(TM) allows patients to undergo less extensive surgery
...ry, nearly half (47%) of women then opted for this alternative in preference to mastectomy. Furthermore, the survey highlighted the immense psychological impact of breast cancer - the fear of losing a breast was among the most common concerns voiced by these women. Summarising the significance of these results......ding is noteworthy. The authors conclude that this alternative approach, the false positive report probability, helps formalize what investigators have always been performing informally that is, tempering enthusiasm for surprising findings with consideration of plausibility. Hypermethylation and transcriptional...