Biological Clocks No Longer Found Only In The Brain
...lifornia -- sought to determine whether individual body parts would respond to changes in the light/dark c... According to Kay, "Our findings confirm that body clocks run independently in many tissues outside the brain, and are reset by light, implying that ce...UF Researcher Designs Pill To Control Mosquitoes
...it into a pill, then place the pill into any water body where mosquitoes are known to breed. Then watch the larvaefeast on the chlorella. Famine follows. Borovsky said when he first pulled out mosquito ovaries, homogenized them and inserted them back into mosquitoes, he found that the mosquitoes produced ...Dendritic Cell Therapy For The Treatment Of Cancer
Dendritic cells help the body to switch on an immune response by seeking outfore...nd B cells. They arenormally present all over the body but only in very small numbers, which meansthat they are difficult to isolate and study. At the Bri...Green Tea Ingredient Can Kill Cancer Cells
...ll death which is a normal process going on in the body all the time. It is a preferential way of elimination of unwanted cells from the body," said Mukhtar. Polyphenols induce the demise of cancer cells, but scientists do not yet know why this happens, said Mukhtar. "It is likely that this compound conv...Human Breast Milk Contains Obesity Hormone
... hormone that appears to play an important role in body metabolism and obesity, has been found for the fir...n in the breast milk correlates with the amount of body fat of the mother; obese mothers produce large amounts of leptin, thin mothers produce almost no lep...Regulator Of Fat Thermostat Found
...ed jigsaw puzzle depicting the pathways regulating body weight."This one piece of the puzzle should lead to other areas worthy of examination,"he says. ### Note: For more information, refer to: Dagogo-Jack, Samuel, et. al., "RobustLeptin Secretory Responses to Dexamethasone in Obese Subjects," Journal of...Pitt Researchers Construct Novel Delivery System For Gene Therapy Of Liver Disorders
... have structures that are easily recognized by the body asforeign substances and are either rejected or destroyed by the body's immunecells. Non-viral vectors, like the RCRs, can overcome these problems, but inthe past, these types of vectors have proven only marginally effective intransferring their car......erology to a rather sophisticated view of thehuman body as a microcosm of the universe," said Parker. "Whi...the male fetus achievedmotion and formation of the body around 40 days, while femalesquickened and achieved full formation in 90. The manuscript of the Dama...Wake Forest University Study Takes Students In Flight With The Albatross
...n the study by typing "subscribe albatross" in the body of an e-mail message to listserv@wfu.edu. Or they can click on "Join the Project" at The Albatross Project's Web site . The project began Jan. 22 when one of Anderson's biologists placed small radio transmitters on a dozen Laysan and black-f...Cellular Engineers Design Custom Cell Surfaces Able To Adhere To Synthetic Materials
...itions, such as a watery environment and mammalian body temperature. They chose the ketone group. Rarely found on cell surfaces, ketonesreact strongly with a functional group called the hydrazide; the specialreactivity of the ketone could allow a selective affinity for materials that hadbeen outf...Chlamydia Vaccine Developed At UMass
... seen as "foreign" by the recipient, prompting the body to generate specific antibodies, which result in i...rect antibody and reproduces itself endlessly. The body recognizes this antibody as the original GLXA itself. "Essentially, weve created an easy-to-......may converseusing a sophisticated array of facial, body and hand gestures, perhaps augmentedwith grunting or other vocalizations. Patrick Gannon, assistant professor and director of the PaleoneurologyResearch Laboratory in the Department of Otolaryngology at Mount Sinai, firstsuspected that chimp......ey found nearly 1,000 receptors, which inthe human body number second only to the receptors in the immune system. Yetresearchers had been unable to pair any single receptor or group of receptorswith any particular odor until Professor Firestein's team reported theirresults. If humans can make 1,...Tiger Beetles Go Blind At High Speeds
...r than Michael Johnson. If we scale the speed for body length, we get a much different picture." Consider...3 meters), his 10.35 meters per second becomes 5.6 body lengths per second -- "Obviously impressive," Gilbert said. He then explained the tiger beetle has ...Genetic Risk Factors For Anorexia Nervosa Sought
...society puts powerful pressure on women to control body weight,penalizing obesity and rewarding thinness i...es of food tomaintain 85 percent or more of normal body weight, an irrational fear ofobesity, and a distorted body image of being overweight when emaciated....STS-89 Will Carry Five Science Payloads From NASA/Marshall
...tion of the thousands of proteins usedin the human body and in valuable plants and animals. The Diffusion-controlledCrystallization Apparatus for Microgravity (DCAM) and the Proteincrystal growth nitrogen Dewar will be placed aboard Mir wherethey will slowly grow crystals of various proteins over the n...UF Researchers Identify Virus That May Cause Epidemic Disease In Sea Turtles
... known as fibropapillomas, erupt on a turtle'ssoft body tissue and its shell, frequently appearing on or a.... "All of us may harbor allkinds of viruses in our body at any one time, and most of thoseviruses are harmless. So animals may harbor viruses in tumorsthat ......as more to do with the makeup of fatty acids inhis body than being scared by his own shadow. Colo... for hibernation is a slow decrease in theanimals' body temperature from about 37 degrees to 5 degrees. With their bodiesnearly frozen in this state, metabo...Infants, Toddlers Should Not Restrict Fat Intake, Experts Say
...reast milk may suppress the enzyme that causes the body to synthesize cholesterol early in life. The reaso...ld be that if dietary fat is high enough, then the body would not need to produce more of its own. But if the fat isn't there early in life, the body begins......ign. In comparison with the old manipulator, whole body vibration was reduced, noise was reduced by 18 db,...machine setup and operation, safety principles and body mechanics, CTDs, and monthly safety meetings; (b) a stretching, exercise and conditioning program; (...