Make a splash for public health this summer
...use their senses - sight, touch, smell, sound, and common sense, too - to help protect themselves and each other from swimming pool-related illness."Recognizing that there can be health issues associated with swimming pools, though, remains a challenge to making improvements. Golodner points to a recent NCL...ALL survivors bear genetic damage from life-saving chemotherapy
...otherapies genotoxicity." ALL is the most common pediatric malignancy, but many ALL patients respond well to chemotherapeutic interventions. Since the 1960s, the five-year survival rate for children with ALL has increased to almost 80 percent. Patient remission and long-term survival is credited to...Bacterial protein recycling factor possible key to new class of antibiotics
...cule called ribosome recycling factor (RRF) in the common bacteria Escherichia coli. This image reported in the June 15 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may help guide the design of new antibiotics aimed at inhibiting RRF-related steps of protein synthesis. "Every living organi...Design competition for new Antarctic Research Station
...place to live and work. Both BAS and RIBA share a common mission to pursue excellence. This project will be a fusion of science, architecture, technology and engineering that lends itself perfectly to an international design competition.' The competition begins with a call for Expressions of Interest fro...In the obese, metabolic adaptations post-weight loss lead to regaining of shed pounds
...is caused by metabolic or behavioral changes. The common belief is that the metabolic state after weight loss promotes weight regain. However, data germane to this supposition has been controversial and equivocal. The failure to reach definitive conclusions in between these studies is linked to the way m...Deserts and rainforests are equally productive during drought
...nt growth per unit of precipitation converges to a common value. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the International Biological Program (IBP) began to study how water affects productivity in different ecosystems. It was not until this current group of scientists pooled long-term data in a workshop at...The first domesticated donkey was born in Africa
...n of these two lineages coming from a hypothetical common ancestral line took place between 303,000 and 91,000 years ago, a time quite earlier than the first domestication events of other livestock species, which corroborates two different maternal origins for domesticated donkeys from two different wild po...RSV can increase the risk of asthma, UT Southwestern researchers find
...LLAS June 28, 2004 A viral respiratory infection common in children increases the risk of developing asthm...nter and the study's senior author. "RSV is a very common virus and one of the most frequent respiratory illnesses. Most babies will get over the infection, b...Earliest evidence of hereditary genetic disorder discovered by Hebrew University researchers
...Israel, one in 8,000 in the U.S.). It is much more common in one area of Sweden (one in 700)....Mice with hyperactive Wnt10b gene eat all they want, but have half the body fat of normal mice
...f diabetes or other metabolic disorders, which are common in animals with too little fat. But don't stock up on potato chips and ice cream just yet. The genetically altered mice are leaner than normal mice, but they also have some less-than-desirable characteristics such as underdeveloped mammary glands, a...Kaposi's sarcoma virus 'reprograms' blood vessel cells into lymphatic cells
...t and 'switches off' blood vessel genes." The most common malignant tumor seen in patients with AIDS, KS also develops in other patients in whom the immune system is suppressed. Characterized by lesions that may look red or purple on the skin or tissues lining areas like the nose and mouth, KS can seriousl...Biologists ID defense mechanism of leading fungal pathogen
...stem. This chink in the armor of Candida, the most common human fungal pathogen, could be exploited with new... useful target for new drug therapies." Candida is common in humans. It's estimated that 70 percent of people have Candida colonies in their intestines, mouth...Mutant mice lead to memory insights
...icient in "CREB binding protein" (CBP), which is a common target in patients with RTS. CBP is so named because it binds a key gene-regulating protein called CREB that is important for many functions including memory in animals from mollusks to humans. CBP is a particularly hard-working protein. It serves a...COPD is forgotten killer, says University of Toronto professor
... more women this year in Canada." COPD is the only common cause of death that continues to increase in preva...structive pulmonary disease will be the third most common cause of death around the world and women will suffer from it twice as often as men," says Chapman. ...Jefferson researchers develop microchip to track genetic signature of cancer and normal tissue
...-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most common adult leukemia in the Western world. They also had reported that human miRNA genes are frequently located in "fragile" areas of the genome that are vulnerable to mutation. "We think the miRNA genes are in fact involved in many human cancers," he says...Scientists discover new role for tiny RNA in plant development
...hain of phosphate, sugar and nucleotides. The most common type of RNA, messenger RNA, contains thousands of ...ical and agricultural technologies. Arabidopsis, a common genetic model that is one of the most widely studied of all plant species, is the first plant in whi...Researchers show 'clot-busting' at stroke site is viable option
...so had the same median admission score based on a common stroke severity analysis tool as the NINDS patients. The intra-arterial treatment involves first obtaining X-rays of the affected blood vessels, or angiograms, by introducing a contrast agent to the bloodstream. Once the blockage is identified, phy...Harmless virus helps slow HIV by boosting immune proteins
...ed with the virus. "The fact that GBV-C is such a common infection, and that's it's been so extensively studied and not shown to cause any diseases, distinguishes it from other live viruses and makes it a more realistic option," said Stapleton. He pointed out that the Food and Drug Administration does not ......port in the June 18 issue of Science that the most common adjuvant, alum, provokes a previously unrecognized group of immune-system cells to secrete the protein interleukin-4, which primes B cells for a better response to the vaccine. "Adjuvants have been included in vaccines given to hundreds of millions ......ks and for those elsewhere who are struggling with common questions and have something to learn from these experiences," said Bill Weber, director of both WCS's North America Program and the atlas project. "It is a great gift," said Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature--which shed light on the iss...