Old Bone Collection Reveals Basis For Some Dizziness
...e bone. One of Minor's first SCDS patients described seeing stationary objectsmove back and forth when he sang in the shower. Eye tests showed that tonesplayed in his ear stimulated circular and upward eye motion. (A video of the eyemovements can be seen on the Center for Hearing and Balance Web site,w...Ancient Volcanic Cataclysms Discovered In The Indian Ocean
... is one-thirdthe size of the United States, and is described as a large igneous province(LIP). LIPs are areas where magma wells up from deep beneath Earth's surfaceand forms molten rock. The major objectives of the ODP expedition, explainsBruce Malfait, director of ODP at NSF, were to determine through drill...Researchers Report Emergence Of Antibiotic Resistance During Vancomycin Therapy
...kefeller University's Alexander Tomasz,Ph.D., have described the case of a 79-year-old patient whose death in a...nd head of the Laboratory ofMicrobiology. The case described in the NEJM article was the fourth in the world associatedwith infections caused by multiresistant s...UCSD And NIH Researchers Isolate Candidates For Genetic Basis Of Human Taste
...molecular basis of taste perception.Scientists had described the nature of the basic taste modalities and theoverall function of the taste receptor cells, but a mystery remained of theidentification of the specific genes encoding taste receptors. In the paper published in Cell, Hoon and the research team addre...Mechanism For Fungal Adherence Found, Possible Key To Disease
...valentadhesion has not been described previously in any viruses,bacteria, fungi or other microorganisms. Several years ago, S.D. Bradway, a former assistant professor of periodontology at Ohio State and co-authoron ......provals, product commercialization and other risks described fromtime to time in the SEC reports filed by Immunex, including the most recentlyfiled Form 10K and 10-Q. CONTACT: Pam Rabe (media)(206) 470-4131 Mark Leahy (investors)(206) 389-4363...New Drug Shown Effective Against Vancomycin-Resistant Bacteria
... medicine, and his colleagues at theMedical School described their experience with linezolid in an article in theMarch issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Disease. Following chemotherapy for lymphoma, the patient had a decreased levelof neutrophils, cells that play an important role in fighting infection....Important New Fossil Animal Discovered By Wits Scientists
...throughout all its members. The specimen has been described in the February 22 issue of theprestige publication Proceedings of the Royal Society of London,Britain's oldest scientific journal. Said Professor Rubidge: "Before this discovery, it was thought thatAnomodonts and other creatures with the group known...Millennium Clones Diet-Induced Obesity Gene
...affect the performanceof Millennium are more fully described in filings by Millennium with theSecurities and Exchange Commission including but not limited to the factors set forth under the heading ``Business - Factors That May AffectResults'' in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Millennium for the year endedD...Powerful Anti-AIDS Agent Found In Tears And In Urine Of Pregnant Women
... and otherviruses." Lysozyme, an enzyme first described in 1922 by Alexander Fleming, thediscoverer of penicillin, breaks down the cell wall of bacteria, causingbacterial cells to burst and die. The enzyme, which Fleming also discovered wasabundant in tears, is produced in especially high levels during pr...Ironing Out Cotton Wrinkles Without An Iron
... Textiles at the University of Georgia,Athens. He described his research here today at a national meeting of theAmerican Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. While the market-place demand for durable press finishes used on today's 100percent cotton apparel continues to increase, the forma...Artificial Gels Could Speed DNA Sequencing
...nell professor of applied and engineering physics, described his biochip research in a talk, "DNA Motion in Nanofabricated Artificial Gels," today (March 25) at the centennial meeting of the American Physical Society in the Georgia World Congress Center. The global scientific community has set itself the goal...USGS Finds That Mysterious Arkansas Bald Eagle Disease Has Spread To Ducks In Eastern States
.... Dr. Nancy Thomas, the USGS pathologist whofirst described the lesion, explained that "In affected birds the diseaseappears as open spaces in the white matter of the brain." When the coatingsurrounding the myelin is damaged, Thomas said, "Communication in the nervoussystem is impaired, causing a bird to be...Genetic Research Boosts Understanding Of Iron's Path Through Body, Diseases Of Iron Metabolism
...to the 1920s and '30s that had defects socarefully described by hematologists that she could tell they likely hadmutations in iron transport genes. This work led her group to identify theintestinal iron transporter. At the same time, it raised doubts about the current dogma regarding thetransferrin cy...UV Radiation Induces Vitamin A Deficiency In Skin
...e---can proceed unchecked. This process was first described by Voorhees,Fisher and their colleagues, in a series of articles published in Nature, NewEngland Journal of Medicine, and Journal of Clinical Investigation. "In this process, UV activates a protein complex called AP-1, which causesproduction of large...Montana Scientist Returns From Dinosaur Nesting Site In Patagonia
... she brought back to MSU tostudy in facilities she described as "second to none." MSU paleontologist MarySchweitzer visited the site for a week and plans to do some follow-up researchas well. All the fossils ultimately will be housed in a museum in Argentina. "The hardest thing we still have to under......caused by 2percent beryllium copper alloy was last described in the U.S. medical literaturemore than 40 years ago. "From the 1930s to the present, there have been people in industry and academicswho have implied that these types of alloys with less than 2 percent berylliumcontent are safe," said Ron Balkissoon...UC Davis Researchers Get First Look At A Working Cellular Motor
...funded by the National Institutes of Health and is described incorrespondence to this Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. The authors areJose Orozco, postgraduate researcher and technician; Karen Wedaman, seniorresearch associate and technician; graduate student Dawn Signor; postgraduateresearcher Heather ......enter.Dr. Graham reports new cases of a previously described disorder, Bosma ArhiniaMicrophthalmia Syndrome. Although these individuals are of normal intelligence,they have a number of physical abnormalities, including abnormally small eyes,lack of a nose, failure of the testicles to descend into the scrotum, ......als from the ionic liquids. In experiments described in the Nature article, Brennecke and hercolleague, Eric J. Beckman of the University of Pittsburgh, forced supercriticalcarbon dioxide through a solution of naphthelene (moth balls) dissolved in anionic liquid, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexaflourop...