Europes population has developed new tendency to shrink, Science study reports
...duces the number of children born in a given year, boosting the average age at which women have children. Using data from the European Demographic Observatory, the researchers estimated how these two factors might affect Europe's population in future decades. They found that approximately 40 percent of potent...Key to hepatitis virus persistence found
...rapeutic approaches to viral disease could involve boosting the activity of any key host enzymes that are found. "Understanding the tricks that the hepatitis C virus employs to impair the immune system represents an important advance with potential implications for successful cure of those suffering from liv...Team jams bacteria 'talk' to boost bio-product yields
...dds. The experimental techniques are applicable to boosting production of many other products in E. coli cultures. However, the researchers say they are only beginning to understand and control the communications circuitry of E. coli and other bacterial cells. E. coli is a common enteric bacterium that is on...Study finds potential way to improve cancer immunotherapy
...owa may help make the antibodies more effective by boosting the power of white blood cells, which play a role in fighting cancer. One way that antibodies ideally function is to stick to cancer cells and signal various types of white blood cells to kill the cancer cells. The UI Holden Center team and colleague...An apple a day keeps the doctor away . . . but so may a cigarette
...hes and therapeutic agents that run the gamut from boosting memory to treating hypothyroidism. Even greater are the implications for such devastating diseases as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's that could be helped once safe approaches are designed to mimic the beneficial effect of nicotine on stress. Next on ...New pathway discovered at Stanford provides insight into heart disease
...ctors to intervene in heart disease by blocking or boosting levels of critical proteins. "The thing that's clear is that apelin is increased in heart failure," said Euan Ashley, MD, PhD, a clinical fellow in cardiovascular medicine and one of the lead authors of the study, which is being presented at a Nov. 1...The common cold as cancer fighter? SLU prof's lifetime work moving into clinical trials
...n grow in cancer cells but NOT normal cells and by boosting the activity of another gene that the virus normally uses to disrupt the cells it has infected. "When the virus infects cells, it takes the altered genes with it, and those genes attack cancer cells while leaving normal cells intact," Wold explained....Scientists identify genes that regulate allergic response to diesel fumes
...ple drugs that replace the role of the genes or by boosting the body's natural defenses." NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. NIAID supports basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose and treat infectious and ...Death-defying approach devised by Penn scientists to prevent cell apoptosis
...prevent such stress, and thereby treat disease, by boosting the amount of MSRA in the body so its protein-repair properties are unleashed."...MIT team discovers memory mechanism
...ught that long-term memory formation involved only boosting the synthesis of a very limited set of proteins," said Tonegawa. "But to our surprise, this process involves 'up-regulating' the synthesis of a very large number of proteins." An immediate question that Tonegawa and colleagues are pursuing is how neu...New reactor puts hydrogen from renewable fuels within reach
...action is stored in the next year's corn crop) and boosting rural economies. Hydrogen is now produced exclusively by a process called steam reforming, which requires very high temperatures and large furnaces--in other words, a huge input of energy. It's unsuitable for any application except large-scale refine...UT Southwestern research halts narcolepsy symptoms
...ight also be applied in the treatment of insomnia, boosting energy and wakefulness during the daytime," he said. Other UT Southwestern researchers contributing to the orexin study were Dr. Christopher Sinton, assistant professor of internal medicine, and first authors Dr. Michihiro Mieda, a postdoctoral resea...Oil exploitation in Ecuador's Amazon basin produces a 'public health emergency'
...gs and of the national government's budget. While boosting the Ecuadorian economy, oil production has also had serious consequences for the environment. For example, in just the period of 1972 through 1993, more than 30 billion gallons (114 billion liters) of toxic wastes and crude oil were discharged into t...Purdue scientists finding ways to outsmart crop-damaging bugs
... LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A new screening method aimed at boosting pesticide effectiveness may be commercially viable, according to Purdue University researchers. The process is designed to identify chemical compounds that could be added to current pesticides to overcome resistance insects have developed to them. In...Cutting back on cigarettes: when less is more
...r less exposure ironically, in the process, often boosting their consumption of smoke, carbon monoxide, nicotine and other cancer-causing agents. The findings hold important implications for smokers as well as the clinicians who are trying to help them quit. "The human body really is a miracle. It knows when...First genetic comparison of purebred domestic dogs produces surprises
...ion and insights that may improve canine health by boosting understanding of the more than 350 inherited disorders, including cancer, heart disease, epilepsy, blindness and deafness, which affect dogs. In analyzing and carefully comparing the genetic information from dogs representing 85 breeds, the researche...Cranberry breeding program may soon bear fruit for growers
...e Midwest," says McCown. The scientists decided on boosting the color, or pigment content, of the berries as their first target because color is an easy trait to measure and growers identified it as a key issue. In fact, one grower from Pittsville, Wis., became so involved in developing ideas for the research...Inadequate vaccines can help breed more vicious malaria strains
...Africa. Vaccines are designed to protect people by boosting the immune system to kill parasites but, unless a malaria vaccine leads to the death of every single parasite, the ones that survive are likely to be the nastiest. The new research by Dr Margaret Mackinnon and Professor Andrew Read, of the University...Herpes tool allows researchers to customize Alzheimer's vaccine
...ate a vaccine without the harmful side effects, by boosting part of the immune system not responsible for the side effects. And they succeeded: While a vaccine most like the previous form proved lethal to four out of six mice, a modified form of the vaccine, additionally equipped with a tetanus toxin to alter......response, attacking any invader in the same way by boosting blood flow and recruiting specialized cells to attack and destroy the invading organisms. In some diseases, however, the immune system misfires and attacks the body, inflaming nerve, liver, muscle and other cells. Because of its central rol...