New hope for neurodegenerative disease sufferers
...gene is either activated or deactivated, flies are asked to perform two different tasks. In the first task, flies are asked to recognize two smells. One smell is associated with an electric shock, the other not. While moving...Low-income, hungry children sick more often
...00 children ages 1-16, and, among other questions, asked a family head to describe the food eaten by the family. During the study period, more than 15 percent of low-income children lived in families that sometimes or often did not get enough to eat---that equates to about 4 million American children. Chi...So just how many genes do we have?
...eferred not to be named, says his funders recently asked him why he was continuing to look for genes when the "genome was finished". "People should not give up the gene count," warns Haseltine. Meanwhile, the rival parties are heading for a showdown. "There's a simple way to settle the question," says Er...WWII landmark becomes a wildlife sanctuary
...tion. In fact, the Forest Department has recently asked WCS to survey a remote area beyond the Hukuang Valley, to see if it could potentially link to Hkakabo Razi National Park, the nation's second largest protected area, which WCS also helped create. "When WCS first began working in this isolated country...Milk drinkers at no increased risk of coronary heart disease
... the men was given a full physical examination and asked to provide details of their milk consumption. Just over half of the men drank more than a third of a pint (0.57 litres) a day; 46 per cent drank less than a third of a pint daily. The remainder drank over a pint of milk a day. Of the 2350 deaths rec......ffects to be either harmful or benign -- it wasn't asked by EPA to make that judgement -- it found evidence that increases in prostate weight and/or changes in female reproductive organs can occur in rodents or other test animals from low doses of estrogen, the so-called female hormone, and from several ot...The true return on the dollar: No clean bill of health
...eria." Patrons at each of the study locations were asked to exchange a one-dollar bill for a new bill, and contamination on the used bills was analyzed using standard microbiologic techniques. Five bills were contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumoniae, which can cause infections in h...Dopamine-dampening gene linked to prefrontal inefficiency, schizophrenia
... prefrontal functioning When healthy siblings were asked to perform another working memory task (N-back) while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the prefrontal brain activity of those with two copies of val was least efficient; there was excessive activity for a given level of perfor...UF researchers reverse metabolic disorder in mice
...Roberto T. Zori. The patient, who has the disease, asked him point blank several years ago: "Why don't you try gene therapy for PKU?" Laipis and his colleagues recognized that the disease, caused by a single gene mutation, was a good target for an approach involving the delivery of corrective genes to th...Glucose deficit affects young and old, could impact school schedules
...part of the brain involved with what the animal is asked to do is affected by changes in glucose usage," Gold said. "This is not simply a reflection of changes in circulating blood levels or drainage in other areas." In Mays Journal of Gerontology, McNay, a postdoctoral researcher in psychology, and Gold ...Toxic compound opens potentially important cell gates
... of a calcium ion channel, Scharenberg and Bessman asked Reinhold Penner of the University of Hawaii at Honolulu to use a special "patch-clamp" technique to test whether LTRPC2 created a channel and whether that channel could be regulated with ADP-ribose. He found that the answer to both questions was yes...... medicine at Johns Hopkins University. The FDA has asked for evidence that such allergens are present in pharmaceutical vials and that they can induce reactions in individuals already allergic to latex. Now we can provide it to them. Until the FDA requires all vials to be labeled as "containing natural rub...Wildlife officials to consider ban on caviar exports from major Caspian Sea nations
...n Federation, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have been asked by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to slash their caviar exports by 80 percent to protect remaining sturgeon populations. If the nations do not agree to reduce quotas and adopt other measures to improve management...UC Santa Cruz Public Forum on the Human Genome
...of completing the genome sequence. Project leaders asked David Haussler, professor of computer science at UCSC and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, to help with the analysis of the human genome. Before that work could get started, however, the genome sequence had to be assembled from fragmen...Healing the waters: A holistic Native American Indian approach
...attle's Tribe) and the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe asked geologists to help them manage water quality through a long-term approach. These tribes have reservations on a large peninsula in the central portion of Puget Sound. Their vision is to implement programs to protect their water resources for at least...Research team unlocks secrets of the firefly flash
...rn. "How do they do that?" is a frequent question asked by firefly watchers young and old. The firefly lantern contains thousands of specialized cells known as photocytes. In flashing fireflies, these photocytes are subdivided into an inner region rich in organelles containing luceriferin and luciferase, ...Healing the waters: a holistic native American Indian approach
...attle's Tribe) and the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe asked geologists to help them manage water quality through a long-term approach. These tribes have reservations on a large peninsula in the central portion of Puget Sound. Their vision is to implement programs to protect their water resources for at least...Study allays fears about the physical and psychological development of ICSI children
...ge was similar for each group. The questionnaires asked about the pregnancy, the childrens behaviour, social skills and development, and parental stress levels. Previous studies of ICSI children had brought up a number of concerns about the nature of the ICSI technique itself, the effects it might have on......tute of Reproduction and Development in Australia, asked questions of couples who were seeking treatment fo...ryo to them is regarded as a potential baby." When asked whether the couples, if given a choice, would accept the transfer of an embryo identified as being a......s ofAmericans in need. We understand that you have asked Secretary Thompson and the Department of Health andHuman Services to undertake a review of government policy regarding stem cell research. Wesupport such a review, and would welcome the opportunity to assist the Secretary in securing themost up-to-da...