Bacteria's natural foe fights drug-resistant infections
...at they strike out and cause infections, including ear infections, pneumonia and bacterial meningitis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this pathogen is among the leading causes worldwide of illness and death in young children, persons with underlying medical conditions ...Thyroid disease raises risk for birth defects
...en chest, extra fingers, cleft lip and palate, and ear deformities. Two fetuses died before being delivered. Among a subset of 86 women who had a test of their thyroid function performed during the first trimester of pregnancy (52 with hypothyroidism and 34 with hyperthyroidism), 17 babies (20 percent)...New mouse model enables studies of heart, brain and spinal cord
...ust the heart, or just in the skin, or just during ear development and so on?'" said Dr. Simon J. Conway, developmental biologist, geneticist and principal author on the research published in a special February issue of Genesis: The Journal of Genetics and Development. The journal features 43 papers docu...Prenatal alcohol exposure affects visual processing
...zed task. A stimulus was presented, either to the ear or the eye, that was identical in all ways except for the medium (visual or auditory). For example, the letter "X" would flash on the computer screen (for 85 milliseconds) in a random manner. The adolescent was instructed to press the space bar onl...Lizards and salamanders may use lungs to hear, study says
... by air from the lungs to the animal's inner ear where it is processed as sound. The experiments make clear the importance of the lungs for hearing - one species of salamander that lacked lungs did not show the chest v...Anthrax drugs used to treat adults can treat children, too
...intended to treat respiratory tract infections and ear infections. Several studies in children and animals linked tooth discoloration to tetracycline, particularly in children younger than 2. Studies on doxycycline found fewer instances of tooth...Setting the stage for limb development
...5/6 knockout mice displayed defects in bone, inner ear and craniofacial development. But most interestingly, the mice were also born with the claw-like limb deformities characteristic of SHFM. This work is the first demonstration that Dlx genes function in mammalian limb development, and it establishes ...Hopkins scientists reveal how sound becomes electric
...opkins have discovered how tiny cells in the inner ear change sound into an electrical signal the brain c... Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "When the inner ear detects this wave, a burst of chemicals is released and a nerve sends an electrical signal to the br...Researchers discover clues to whale evolution
... Medicine (NEOUCOM), has discovered that the inner ear of whales evolved much more quickly than expected, allowing the animals to become fully aquatic early in their evolution. The teams research, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), shows that the semicircular canals, the organ responsible ...Noggin mutation causes rare congenital hearing loss
...ung adulthood. It occurs when a bone in the middle ear called the stapes becomes immobilized or fixed, wh...und vibrations from the outside world to the inner ear and brain. "About 1 percent of Americans have been diagnosed with otosclerosis, but it may affect...Reversing the sounds of silence
...g the inner ear's antioxidant defenses, making the ear more resistant to noise or toxins or infection," D... also exploring strategies to regenerate the inner ear sensory hair cells and nerve endings. We've had some initial success at the basic science level, an...Natural-born killers enlisted to fight anthrax
... infectious pathogen responsible for most cases of ear infections, pneumonia and bacterial meningitis. They again demonstrated the potential of the enzyme to prevent infections by using a nasal spray containing the enzyme to rid mice of populations of the bug behind the nose and throat ( http://www.rocke...Of mice and men: Deaf mouse leads scientists to new human hearing loss gene
...mouse strain, called 'spinner' because their inner ear problems cause them to spin madly in circles, was ...tereocilia that coat the "hair cells" of the inner ear and are crucial to hearing. Recently, Kohrman shared this knowledge with colleagues at the Universi...Needle-free blood and tissue measurements
...tion, employs a small clip placed on the finger or ear to measure the amount of oxygen carried by the blood, along with pulse rate. "Light in the near infrared region has slightly longer wavelengths than red light. It is important for medicine because those wavelengths, for the most part, actually pass t...Beyond patches and pills: the remarkable future of drug delivery
...erhaps you've heard about the mouse with the human ear -- a tissue engineering triumph where researchers grew a human ear in the lab, attached it to the back of a mouse and watched it thrive. Or how about the boy with a la...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...logy, 69: 634-640.) Microbes harmful to inner ear potentially normal in outer ear canal Organisms commonly associated with middle ear infections may exist as normal microbes in ...American Physical Society March Meeting 2003
...as well as differences in the volume level in each ear both affect our ability to pinpoint sounds. Surpri... when the volume controls on hearing aids for each ear are independently adjusted. In effect, the adjustments that hearing impaired people make on their he...Braille found to be essential, regardless of age of blindness
...Braille reading, detecting a deviant tone in one ear while ignoring distracting sounds in the other, and sustaining attention to binaural sound localization in the azimuth domain. Braille literacy requires associative coupling between phonics and the tactile experience of Braille. All of the subjec...Why we are what we eat: New links between our biology and food choices
...ound a correlation between weight and a history of ear infections that seems to be related to taste sensi.... The men in her study that reported histories of ear infections were heavier, which Bartoshuk thinks may be related connections between taste and the per...... the previously invisible movements of larvae. The ear bones or otoliths of many marine fish show distinct chemical signatures reflecting their movements through the water. Acting like mini-flight recorders, the bones offer the potential of tracing the pathways of individual larvae as they move from spaw...