Gender issues related to spaceflight: A NASA perspective
..., in a study of 124 men and 186 women during basic combat training, the women had a 51 percent injury rate compared with 27 percent for the men. The average woman is less active and less fit than the average man. Therefore, when exercise data are normalized for fitness, the gender differences often are gr...Ancient Chinese folk remedy may hold key to non-toxic cancer treatment
...usands of years ago by the Chinese, who used it to combat malaria. However, the treatment was lost over time. Artemisinin was rediscovered during an archaeological dig in the 1970s that unearthed recipes for ancient medical remedies, and has become widely used in modern Asia and Africa to fight the mosqui...Assaulting the mosquitos sense of smell
... Health Organization and other groups are using to combat this scourge, says Zwiebel.Vanderbilt University has filed for a patent on the newly discovered genes because there is considerable commercial interest. While malaria has been largely eliminated in industrialized countries like the United States, the...Hidden toxin gene in chlamydia linked to chronic illnesses
...equencing can help scientists identify new ways to combat disabling or deadly infections. Unlike most bacteria, C. trachomatis lives inside cells. Chronic infections of the eyelids can scar the eyes and lead to trachoma, the most common cause of preventable blindness worldwide. In the United States, C. t...Typhoid fever bug sequence raises hope of complete eradication
...reely available on the web, to design new drugs to combat the disease and improve understanding of the way the bacteria spreads in communities and the mechanisms by which it causes disease. The researchers unravelled the sequence of a strain of Salmonella typhi known as 'CT18', which is resistant to all che...Congressman Nick Smith (R-MI) receives commendation
...that would provide critical funding needed to help combat plant diseases that routinely cause billions of dollars in crop loss each year as the reason for their official Commendation. "Food seems very plentiful in this country so people dont often realize that plant diseases are still a real threat to our a...Parasite offers natural way to control leaf-eating slugs
... This work may give Americans a new way to combat slugs, which destroy corn, soybeans, and other key food crops every spring and fall across the Midwest. Parwinder Grewal, professor of entomology at Ohio State ...Handling stress: life and death decisions at the cellular level
...regulated and potential ways of manipulating it to combat disease.......ve developed an intriguing therapeutic approach to combat prevalent genetic disorders. We dont realize the full extent of our genetic mutations. Nonsense-mediated mRNA degradation (NMD), or mRNA surveillance, is one of the pathways that masks the effect of DNA mutations. Certain DNA sequence mutations cause...Fight between GMOS and the bugs they repel may not be over
...aid precautions should be taken to explore ways to combat resistance to genetically modified organism (GMO) crops before the bugs develop it. Wed like to think that science could manage resistance, but in truth, historically weve been pretty ineffective, Whalon said. I think whats going on in the big GMO c...Top environment scientist calls for early warning system for global change.
...vironmental change and taking appropriate steps to combat any adverse or detrimental effects on humans, other species and habitats. Speaking about the challenges posed by the creation of an early warning system, Dr Steffen will say; 'The challenges to deve...Murine model of human hyperinsulinism
...he design and testing of therapeutic strategies to combat familial hyperinsulinism....Virus found to carry antibiotic against E. coli
...ing provides a new approach for designing drugs to combat many serious bacterial diseases, including E. coli, pneumonia, staph infection, ear infections, Lyme's disease and cholera in humans, as well as bacterial diseases in pets, livestock and crops, according to Tom Bernhardt, biochemistry doctoral studen...Researchers identify protein important for beginning gene-activation process
...o promises potential applications in the effort to combat diseases such as cancer and leukemia because a comparable protein exists in humans. The research findings will be published in the 22 June 2001 edition of Science. "We had known that proteins were attracted to the end of a gene in order to st...Biotechnology promises major advances for U.S. Army
...all kinds, bio-electronics components could enable combat systems to survive in high-radiation environments, biologically inspired materials could provide light protective armor for soldiers, and therapies for shock trauma from excessive bleeding could be developed." Biotechnology uses organisms, tissues, c...Military foods could enhance soldiers' performance by 2025
... Ladisch says. One of the most serious problems in combat is the potential for what the military calls unint...s, that would be used to identify U.S. soldiers in combat or in peacekeeping actions. The report states: "The presence of particular biological organisms or a...Worlds largest scientific society convenes its regional meeting June 11-13 in Grand Rapids, Mich.
...ife cycle will be examined as well as the drugs to combat the virus. (T. Andrew Mobley, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, and Jerry R Mohrig, Carleton College, Northfield, Minn) Wednesday, June 13, 2001 1:30 5:00 p.m. Contaminants in the Great Lakes — The researchers will present an overvi...Scary study: Selenium deficiency causes flu virus to mutate into more dangerous forms
...ase (GPX), an anti-oxidant enzyme the body uses to combat oxidative stress, she said. Without selenium, GPX activity, which she and her colleagues can measure in mice, declines or ceases. One result is a greatly exaggerated, defective immune response. Sources of selenium include grains such as wheat an......rculosis, or pumping up the supply of Th2 cells to combat autoimmune diseases and extracellular microbes such as intestinal worms. In their work, Reiner and his colleagues scrutinized the cascade of events that follow when uncommitted cells are exposed to a protein factor called interleukin 12 (IL-12). It...Ohio State chemists synthesize possible new anti-tumor agent
...for scientists to test whether it could be used to combat cancer cells in the body. Now that Ohio State researchers have completed their quest to build an exact copy of azinomycin A atom ...