Rescuing brain cells in stroke patients from the brink of suicide
... As one step toward such a drug, Federoff's team asked the question: Whatbrings a brain cell to suicide? Through a series of painstaking experimentsfunded by the National Institutes of Health, Halterman showed that two genesthat help make cancerous tumor cells tough to kill are also involved in causingbr......ifferent type of brain circuitry. The third test asked whether the gene modification helped mice learn moreeffectively, in addition to just having improved memory. The researchersrepeated the process of conditioning the mice with either a shock chamber ortone, then placed the animals back into the fear-c......on, DC. Some industry representatives have asked that their experts be involvedearlier in the multi-year process and have repeated opportunities to comment andcritique the data on which decisions are reached. Another suggestion is thatmore time be allowed for oral comments by the public, outside s...Air pollution hits children with asthma hardest, USC study finds
...cipate inthe study. The parents of each child were asked to fill out a questionnaireabout their child's chest symptoms in the past 12 months. They were also askedquestions about their home environment, including the presence of smokers in thehome, cockroaches, pets, gas stoves, bedroom carpets, and mildew....Clemson researchers link federal flood insurance program to accelerated coastal development
...rs changed after 1972, wesaid, 'Wow!' And then we asked what was causing the change." According to Robert Becker, director of the Thurmond Institute, theflood insurance program is a major reason the South Carolina coast has beendeveloped. "The federal flood insurance program fueled a specu...Physicians who acknowledge abuse and confirm patient's worth are most helpful
...th care interactions. In some instancesphysicians asked directly about the abuse and patients directly disclosed. Inmost cases, physicians either probed about the abuse, dropped hints, or ignoredor failed to recognize signs of abuse while patients either dropped hints ofabuse, lied, changed their story, ......leaving questionnaires under windshield wipers. He asked three simplequestions: Why did you put this emblem on your car? What audience did you hope to reach? What does the Darwin fish mean to you? Out of nearly 140 surveys put on cars, he received 51 completed questionnairesthat we...... percent--said they had heard of Pfiesteria. When asked to describe Pfiesteria by selecting one offive d...waters would reduce their seafood consumption.When asked if seafood from affected waters is safe to eat if it's properlyhandled and prepared, nearly half of ...Molecular muscle motor found to move backwards
... onlysingle-orientation actin filaments. They then asked what the simplest strategymight be for creating a backwards-moving myosin, deciding on an approach thatconserved the basic motor region shared by the myosins but that altered theattachment of the part of the molecule that undergoes large movements, r...Suggested changes in federal report on carcinogens to be aired Oct. 21 and 22 at public meeting
...ryland. Some industry representatives have asked that their experts be involvedearlier in the multi-year process and have repeated opportunities to comment andcritique the data on which decisions are reached. Another suggestion is thatmore time be allowed for oral comments by the public, outside s...Futurist research highlights chemists' national meeting March 26-30 in San Francisco
...CS meeting in the next millennium, the society has asked researchers to present information about what the future holds for their area of chemistry. More than 6,000 papers are expected to be presented to the 14,000 members expected to attend. The 219th national meeting will be held at the Moscone Conventio...Breast-feeding plays second fiddle to work, study finds
...ving birth. Each mother was asked to complete 11 questionnaires at various times throughout late pregnancy until 12 months postpartum. The researchers used data from the surveys to calculate the duration of both bre...Moderate caffeine use does not increase miscarriage risk but high caffeine use doubles risk
...ow for statistically valid results. Other studies asked the women to recall how muchcaffeine they consumed when they were pregnant. In many such cases, volunteers may either overestimate or underestimate theircaffeine intake. In their study, Dr. Klebanoff and his colleagues measured paraxanthine levels ...High percentage of Hepatitis C patients take herbs and vitamins, according to Rush survey
...al therapy for their condition. In response, Rush asked 60 patients between April and June 1999 about their use of alternativetherapies. Half of those patients indicated they take vitamins or minerals, with 55 percent reportingregular use of folic acid, 52 percent taking multivitamins, 28 percent using v...Big brother has a lot to answer for
...patients and 31 male hospital employees. They were asked about how many older and younger siblings they had, and whether they were brothers or sisters. They also looked for random differences between one side of the body and the other. If our development in the womb were flawless, we would be perfectly ...Sexual fantasies increase pain tolerance
...itical care medicine. Forty college students were asked to plunge one of their hands in a tank of ice wate...randomlyassigned to one of four groups. Some were asked to think of a preferred sexual fantasy such askissing, flirting and other enjoyable activities with ...Millenium bug found by CSIRO scientists
...nges we face in the new Millennium." "The reason I asked Dr Andersen, who is the world authority on this group of insects, and Mr Weir to work on water striders is so we can use them to monitor the quality of freshwater all over Australia. "Insects are very fine instruments for indicating the biological he...American Psychiatric Association January 2000 tipsheet
...ychiatry at the University of New Mexico, directly asked patients with schizophrenia how they felt about ethically important aspects of research with mentally ill patients; half the respondents had themselves been research subjects. The patients strongly supported such research, and many cited a sense of h...Cooperation, not competition, to usher in new era of federally funded cancer research
...19 groups make up the consortium, and Klausner has asked me and Dr. Tyler Jacks of MIT to serve as co-chairs." Dr. Dinah Singer, director of NCI's Division of Cancer Biology, says the consortium "is an extraordinary opportunity that should greatly improve our ability to understand the process of malignan......versity of California at Irvine and his colleagues asked 32 volunteers to sniff eight common odours, including lemon and peppermint. The volunteers had to smell the odours through one nostril and rate them for pleasantness on a scale of -5 to +5, and also try to identify them. They came back later to repea...