Center For Future Health Aims To Bring High-Tech, Low-Cost Health Care To The Home
...rity of people with spinal-cord injuries and are a constant threat to peoplewith diabetes. A "Digital Town Center," a high-tech box that will be dropped in rural areasof the United States and Latin America to give isolated people access to healthand other information. The first box will be tested this summe...Evolutionary genetic tools trace cancer clone lines
...t, such cellsaccumulate such errors at a rapid and constant rate. "This gives us a mutational clock, which we can use to keep track ofprogressions in the daughter cell lines," says Shibata. The frequency of thechanges allows current genetic technology to compare easily cell lines throughsuccessive generation...Protein studies reveal sophisticated control of nerve communication
... is prevented from enteringneurons at rest. That constant blockade may sound curious at first, Scott said, but hebelieves it's an important feature of signaling control. "Think of an electricalsignal traveling along a nerve, how rapidly the neuron needs to fire and thenget back to the resting state," he poi...Discovery sheds new light on species diversity in the ocean
... the poles, the water temperature is approximately constant with depthand zooplankton may be forced to stay near the surface in order to consistentlymeet each other and find abundant prey. At the equator, there is a shallowsurface layer of nearly uniform temperature and a deeper region of cooleruniform temper...USGS studies wildfire ecology in the western United States
...e guiding the evolution of local plant life, and a constant regulator of ecological communities. In many deser...l cost of fires today is more likely the result of constant urban expansion into areas subject to frequent burning. The Mojave and Sonoran Deserts In the ...Major grants support immunology, transplant and diabetes research at the University of Chicago
...the day when we will be free from dailyinjections, constant concern about blood sugar levels, and the dangers ofblindness and the other debilitating health effects of type 1 diabetes." The Collaborative Network forClinical Research on Immune Tolerance Immune-mediated diseases, such as type 1 diabetes or art...Clemson forum may help decide design of future space suits
...nd fix it." For example, the Mars suits will be in constant use during planet exploration, requiring them to be of unusually durable material that will withstand sharp edge abrasions, punctures, dust adhesion and even ultra-violet effects. And unlike the moon, Mars has an atmosphere and gravity, which means ...New tool provides major advance for understanding chronic Lyme disease and other illnesses
... 10 amino acids in length; one amino acid was held constant while the other nine were randomized. Next, they numerically ranked each amino acid according to the strength of the immune response it generated at each position in the peptide. Finally, they performed a computer search of three databanks-the huma...$500,000 gift launches new clinical research effort in peripheral neuropathy
...iabetic patients. It can result in pain, sometimes constant and quite severe. Although the causes can vary, peripheral neuropathies produce relatively similar symptoms including progressive numbness and weakness in the arms and legs and pain in the hands and arms, legs and feet. The goals of the research ef...Fall Meeting: updated press conferences and special events
...s rows of snow dunes that are subjected to fierce, constant winds, but hold their places for decades; and warped ice layers, hundreds of meters below ice ridges, which record the history of ice streams, some dynamic and some quite stable. Panel: Mark Fahnestock, glaciologist, Earth System Science Interdiscipl......MR spectra on the protein during catalysis using a constant stream of phosphate. Kern's co-authors on the paper are Brian F. Volkman of the University of Wisconsin, Sydney Kustu of the University of California at Berkeley, and Peter Luginbhl, Michael J. Nohaile, and David E. Wemmer of the Lawrence Berkeley...Researchers glimpse polio virus as it enters host cell
... there, into a public health disaster. Deprived of constant exposure to poliovirus, people lost their immunity to the pathogen. Hundreds of thousands were infected during the 1930s and 1940s. "In a very real sense it was the AIDS of that era," Hogle says. Poliovirus's foothold in the West was first loosened w......pell early in life but die sooner if they lived at constant room temperature, with no effect on males. "What's really exciting about the study is its relevance to the evolution of ageing," says John Tower, an expert on fruit fly ageing at the University of Southern California. It highlights the fact that mut...INEEL microbiologist joins Japanese on expedition to tap marine-methane deposits
...e very difficult and expensive to obtain and are a constant limiting factor in research. "The sampling process is one of the most important parts of this kind of research," said co-sponsor Hugh Guthrie, senior management and technical advisor for DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory. "Mark's partic...Study: exercise, even without weight loss, is good for the heart
...ght, researchers altered their diets to maintain a constant weight. The patients enrolled in the trial had body mass index (BMI) ranging from 25 to 35. It is estimated that about 55 percent of Americans have a BMI greater than 25, and half of them have a BMI greater than 30. BMI, because it takes into accou...... lack this seasonal cycle; their brains generate a constant yet tiny trickle of new neurons. This more limited ability resembles that of mammals, where scientists now agree that multipotent precursors line the brain's inner ventricles, but only two specific types of neurons, one in the olfactory bulb and one...Researchers identify unique circadian rhythm photoreceptor
...gene dCRY exhibit an aberrant response to intense, constant illumination. "A hallmark of every experimental ...organism from fruit flies to mice is that intense, constant light causes the normal circadian rhythm to go into arrhythmia, to essentially go whacko," said Rosb...Oxidants play major role in healing of damaged blood vessels
...r of these fibers. It is this constant assembly and disassembly that permits the cells to migrate to the site of an injury, Goldschmidt said. An increase in oxidants at the site of an injury stimulates this intracellular con...Scientists on scent of better coyote management
...ffspring, he explains. Coyotes with puppies have a constant need for food in order to provide energy for their pups. As a result, they seek out larger prey, especially lamb and sheep. Coyotes without puppies have a smaller need for food and tend to choose smaller prey, like rodents and rabbits. One of the ne......ugh delay. "People tend to think of mutations as constant -- as if you get a certain level a year," Loeb says. "You can manipulate the rates of mutation. In the case of cancer, the goal is to delay the rate of mutation. In the case of Taq, the goal is to increase mutations -- to put mutations in a cell, in ...