Bacteria From Gum Infections Associated With Diabetes, Chronic Lung Disease, UB Studies Find
... and chroniclung disease was designed to follow up earlier reports of a link between poororal hygiene, gum disease and chronic lung disease, also using data from NHANESIII. Frank Scannapieco, D.M.D, Ph.D., assistant professor of oral biology, analyzeddata from 13,792 adults concerning the incidence of pneu...Whitehead Receives $35 Million Grant From National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
...ing draft" form by the spring of2000, considerably earlier than expected. The five major sequence producers in the international consortium will be threeU.S. laboratories funded by NHGRI (the Whitehead Institute, WashingtonUniversity School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and the Baylor College ofMedici......lateral organisms began makingtheir debut on Earth earlier than previously thought. The finding is reported inthe 19 March issue of Science . Researchers agree that the first multicellular animals had circular shapes thatwere "radially symmetrical," just like the jellyfish or sea anemones of today. Acrucial...Maggots Could Help Address Problems Of Antibiotic Resistance
...ics have failed. They conclude that using maggots earlier in the management of infection may often obviate the need for antibiotics. Contact: Dr Steve Thomas, Director, Biosurgical Research Unit, Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend, WalesEmail: steve@smtl.co.uk...Investigators Identify Suspect In Search For Stress-Sniffles Link
...hD, ofCarnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh had earlier found a clear link betweenpsychological stress and a propensity to be infected by respiratory viruses. The new work by Cohen and colleagues (William Doyle, PhD, and David Skoner, MD,of The Children's' Hospital of Pittsburgh) finds that the cytokine ...Artificial Gels Could Speed DNA Sequencing
...meter.) They are smaller, Craighead believes, than earlier versions of artificial sieves, an achievement made possible by using the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility's electron-beam lithography tools, which can lay out features much smaller than those used so far in commercial integrated circuits. Ordinarily...Risks For Heart Disease Associated With Size Of LDL Particles
...rcent greater. Among a third group studied earlier -- more than 400 Japanese-Americanmen with an average age of 65 -- the association was also found but was not asstrong. A one-nanometer decrease in LDL size predicted a 30 percent increase inrisk of heart disease, and was not present after taking tri......iday in April, but activities in many stateshappen earlier in April], the USGS thought that the following story might be oftimely interest -- with apologies to its sponsors, the popular advertisingslogan "Got Milk?," may have a whole new audience -- trees in the eastern UnitedStates, which don't have enough ...Researchers Find Vaginal Bacteria Imbalance Might Boost AIDS Risk
...cks than in whites. A paper describing the earlier work appeared in the February issue ofthe journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases....American Red Cross Launches New Genetic Screening Technology To Directly Detect Viruses
...est can detect an infectious agent's presence much earlier thancurrent screening tests. Most available tests detect the antibodies formed aspart of the immune response to a virus, often 20 days to 11.5 weeks afterinfection. NAT may decrease the time after initial donor exposure to whendetection is possible...UCSF Lab Makes Observation That Could Explain Ability Of Modified Cold Virus To Kill Cancer Cells
...lving p53. Specifically, he adds evidence to the earlier finding that, while some tumorcells with defects in p53 function have mutations in the gene itself, othershave a defect in p14ARF, and that this defect indirectly disables p53 function. "We have some very nice images that show that when normal cells...Scientists Discover Important Molecular Link That Allows Cells To Form Blood Vessels
...cell attachment, integrin alpha 5 beta 3, whichhad earlier been implicated in angiogenesis. These Vanderbilt researchers proposed in an earlier report in the journal Genesand Development that EphB1 is an important, if not dominant, player inend......ls, simulate the human situation a lot better than earlier models did,"McIlwraith said. "For example, osteoarthritis can develop in a horse inone-tenth the time that it takes to develop in humans." Prior to 1995, McIlwraith and a team at Colorado State's VeterinaryTeaching Hospital conducted clinica...First North Americans Had Chance To Be Avid Birders
..., theheight of the last glacial period contradicts earlier ideas that the region wasa marginal habitat. "The richness of the avian fauna reflects an environmental richness," saysMcCuaig-Balkwill. "For example, there was not just one species of shorebird butfour different ones indicating a variety of feeding ...A 'Missing Link' Fossil Adds 'Foliage' To The Early Human Ancestor Family Tree
...p betweenthe 1.8-million-year-old Homo habilis and earlier ape-like Australopithecusafricanus. Increasingly, the focus on African early hominid fossil wealth hascentered on Ethiopian sites in contrast to the last few decades' focus onbetter-known productive sites in Tanzania, Kenya and elsewhere. "W......id Sessions. Sessions and his colleagues drew upon earlier laboratory studies showing thatburrowing parasites cause a different type of limb deformation than the chemicaleffects of retinoids. Retinoids turn a limb bud topsy-turvy, the most commonresult being that cells that would normally develop at the end ......milar proteins may regulate genes that were active earlier inthe cell cycle, "down-regulating" actions that now need to be turned off. "If we could use this knowledge about the transcriptional regulation of thenormal cell division cycle to stimulate myocardial cells to proliferate, thereare experimental meth...Suppression Of Natural Fires Harms Squirrels
...makeup, suggesting that they probably intermingled earlier inthe century, before dense conifer forests closed in, but that intermixing nolonger occurs. -- Squirrel populations as close as two miles apart are no longermixing. -- The farther apart populations are geographically, the more diff...Plant-Based Fat Inhibits Growth Of Breast-Cancer Cell Line, UB Researchers Show
...ation of AmericanSocieties of Experimental Biology earlier this month, showed that thephytosterol B-sitostero...ing system that inhibits cell division. An earlier study by Awad published in 1998 in the Journal of NutritionalBiochemistry reported that plant-based ...Key Peptides Found That Stop -- Even Reverse -- Kidney Disease In Lupus
...bodies to wipe out the invaders. Datta had earlier discovered that in lupus, specific T helper cellsreact to nucleosomes, a complex of DNA and histone proteins that forms a cell'snuclear material. Nucleosomes are a natural byproduct of cell death and arenormally cleared by the system without causing ...