'Mighty mouse' gene works the same way in people
... Cambridge, Mass., analyzed samples of the child's blood for evidence of the myostatin protein and found none. "Both copies of the child's myostatin gene have this mutation, so little if any of the myostatin protein is made," says Schuelke. "As a result, he has about twice the muscle mass of other children...Common chemicals morphing into potential toxins in Arctic
... have suggested that a form of PFCAs in a mother's blood may pose developmental risks. The study was funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Danish Research Council....New York City study shows newborns more susceptible to pollution than their mothers
...ental barrier. In the study, researchers collected blood samples from 265 pairs of mothers and newborns living in New York City. The mothers were non-smoking African American or Latina women in Washington Heights, Central Harlem and the South Bronx. The researchers then analyzed the samples for the presenc...Device that rapidly detects nerve agents named one of 'greatest army inventions' for 2003
...titute in Silver Spring, Md., which transports red blood cells without the need for batteries, ice or electricity....Gestational diabetes not found to alter the metabolic processes in obese pregnant women
...estational diabetes is a type of diabetes, or high blood sugar, that only pregnant women get. If a woman is found to have high blood sugar when she's pregnant, but she never had high blood sugar before, she has gestational diabetes. ...Biocompatibility to widen scope of biomaterial applications
... biomaterials' applications. "Thrombosis involving blood coagulation and adhesion of blood platelets to biomaterial surfaces as well as fibrous-tissue encapsulation of biomaterials that are i...North Shore-LIJ research collaboration with Correlogic Systems to advance ovarian cancer blood test
...ollaboration to advance the final development of a blood test for the early detection of ovarian cancer. Th...der this initiative, researchers expect to collect blood samples from several hundred women over the next two years. Samples will be analyzed immediately to ...Newly grown kidneys can sustain life in rats
...responses, the body's immune system recognizes the blood vessels of transplanted tissue as foreign and atta...oid this by transplanting embryonic kidneys before blood vessels develop." The primordia are small enough that survival can be maintained after transplantati...Protein stops blood-vessel growth, holds promise as cancer therapy
...ified a protein that inhibits the formation of new blood vessels. Combined with previous findings that the... more effective at inhibiting the sprouting of new blood vessels." Cancer tumors need nutrients and oxygen supplied by blood vessels in order to grow. They a...Researchers show 'clot-busting' at stroke site is viable option
...ublished evidence that aggressively treating brain blood clots at their source soon after symptoms start ca...ghly 80 percent of strokes caused by blockage of a blood vessel. The two Ohio centers treated hundreds of stroke patients using the intra-arterial (IA) metho...Antioxidants during pregnancy may help prevent birth defects tied to alcohol
...ded, equivalent to the amount that would raise the blood alcohol level of a person up to 0.4 or 0.5. This is a level that can be achieved by chronic alcoholics, people who have acquired a tolerance for alcohol."Virtually all children born with full-blown fetal alcohol syndrome, with major malformations cau...Harmless virus helps slow HIV by boosting immune proteins
...new study, the Iowa City scientists infected white blood cells with GBV-C and HIV and compared them to cell...m of hepatitis. Rather, like HIV, it infects white blood cells-specifically, helper T cells. It is also contracted in the same way as HIV-through bodily flui......icial chromosome, and added the gene for the human blood hormone erythropoietin to the chromosome. Cells w... animals showed significant increases in their red blood cell counts compared with others injected with cells carrying the artificial chromosome without the ...Lupus Research Institute awards $3 million in novel research grants to further new science in lupus
...process by which this protein is released into the blood when cells die and the mechanisms by which HMGB1 c... Roubey's study will investigate the mechanisms of blood clotting in antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), a condition present in one-third of lupus patients that...Abnormal chromosomes forecast leukemia relapse
...somes early during remission will relapse, even if blood counts and other parameters are favorable," says f...in complete remission following treatment if their blood count was normal, and their bone marrow contained fewer than 5 percent of immature cells known as bl......aging this process. Following a heart attack, new blood vessels are formed during the healing and remodeli... have focused on enhancing factors that induce new blood vessel growth, but evaluation of the efficacy of these strategies is difficult due to the lack of ac...Stanford researchers go from heaven to Earth in 'lifeguard' test
... body orientation and acceleration, pulse rate and blood oxygen level and supports a plug-in blood pressure monitor. Once the device gathers the information, it can either stream or downl...JCI table of contents, 15 June 2004
...maging this process. Following a heart attack, new blood vessels are formed during the healing and remodeli... have focused on enhancing factors that induce new blood vessel growth, but evaluation of the efficacy of these strategies is difficult due to the lack of ac...Conflicting views on embryonic and adult stem cells complicate research in stem cell therapeutics
...proach, differentiating small numbers of ESCs into blood cells and injecting them into the patient creates ...tic stem cells give rise only to neural tissue and blood cells, respectively. ASCs' presence in several mature tissues, including bone marrow, blood, adipose...UNC scientists uncover crucial mechanism for blood vessel development
...sights into the fundamental mechanisms controlling blood vessel formation and may have implications for the...alled the vascular plexus, which is assembled from blood vessel precursor cells. This is followed by increased cell division of specific cells, endothelial c...