Blood vessels found to signal chain of destruction in bone diseases
...cipal of interrupting the work of the cytokines to ease inflammation. Vioxx and Celebrex interrupt a similar cascade of events by preventing IL-1 from generating prostaglandins at inflammatory sites. Enbrel suppresses the work of TNF. However, something more is needed to avoid bone and cartilage destru...New technology reduces noxious emissions
...able. One surprising result has been the relative ease with which we have been able to move from the laboratory bench to actual engine testing. This gives us confidence in the soundness of our approach. Recent prototype reactor tests conducted on a diesel engine at DOEs Oak Ridge National Laboratory s...Small streams contribute far more than previously thought to cleaning waterways
... example, small streams are often covered to allow ease of access for tilling and working fields. The covering, in effect, creates a dark pipe that inhibits the stream's ability to scrub excess nutrients. While excess nitrogen has many sources, including runoff from residential lawns and byproduc......'t eat much, moves omni-directionally, climbs with ease and alacrity over hills and rocks and prickly things, and defends itself in no uncertain terms. Building a scorpion based on biologically derived design principles is the basis of a new discipline called biomimetics - mimicking nature. If you could g...Cats comforted by synthetic chemical, research suggests
... may be what it takes to put kitty at ease in unfamiliar territory, a new study suggests. Researchers at Ohio State University found that when stressed cats were exposed to a synthetic form of a feline facial phe...AIDS vaccine study harnesses 'killer' immune cells to control virus, prevent disease in animals
...apeutic level. In vaccine development, economy and ease of delivery are critical factors, because the ultimate test will be how widely and efficiently the vaccine can be administered in undeveloped or remote areas of the world....Gene barrier in corn may boost trade, environment
...ancestor. Despite this genetic affinity -- and the ease with which cultivated corn plants exchanges genes through cross pollination -- the teosinte strains that grow as weeds within Mexican corn fields only rarely acquire genes from cultivated corn. The reason, according to Kermicle, is that teosinte has...Beware the frozen vegetable ice pack to ease pain
...-4 Reaching for that bag of frozen vegetables to ease bruising and inflammation could end up giving you ...used a bag of frozen chips, wrapped in a towel, to ease pain in her right foot. She left the vegetable ice pack on for at least 40 minutes. Although the pai...Whitehead Institute receives National Science Foundation grant to sequence Neurospora
...that one gene makes one corresponding protein. The ease of growth and the extensive genetic tools available for Neurospora make it a convenient system for the study of many processes found in higher organisms. It is the most intensively investigated member of the filamentous fungi, a group of organisms th...Research paves the way for faster, better, cheaper DNA detection method
...ity in the detection of target DNA, in addition to ease of use and low cost. "Our method, which we call scanometric DNA array detection, may become a truly disruptive technology," said Chad Mirkin, George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry and one of the paper's lead authors. "PCR was a disruptive techn...Gene 'shaving' could help doctors predict the efficacy of cancer treatments
...istics is more important that ever, because of the ease with which we can collect large amounts of data," says Tibshirani, "The challenge is to sort through all of this data and separate out the consistent patterns from the noise." The gene shaving article is one of the first to be published by Genome B...Artificial chromosomes could cure diseases
...artificial chromosomes which produces a protein to ease the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. The team inserts the chromosome into the cultured cells of a rat with arthritis and then injects them into the rat's joints. If the system works in rats, then trials could begin in people....Alleviating and managing pain in animals is focus of new guidebook
...ategies is central to this philosophy and helps to ease the concern of the owner." The 125-page guidebook, "Pain Management for the Small Animal Practitioner," was co-written by Tranquilli and colleagues Kurt A. Grimm and Leigh A. Lamont, who are residents of the UI veterinary anesthesiology program. The...Nurses, alert janitors boost seniors' mental health
...ticular population," Rabins says, "both because of ease of access and because we knew from earlier studies that people in public housing tend to be in greater need of psychiatric help." The PATCH project involved an unusually tight collaboration between an academic center and state and city agencies --in...Nerve protein shown crucial to sensations of pain from heat, injury
...boosts confidence that blocking the receptor would ease some kinds of pain. The research, led by molecular... while drugs that targetthe capsaicin receptor may ease visceral pain conditions. In the UCSF-based research, the team used "knockout mice" lacking the gene......rary for all scientists in the research network to ease collaborative research in this critical emerging field and to speed applications. Other institutions supported in the NIH initiative, and the funding for their first year, are: . Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston: $2.6 million for a multicenter ...Mutations not the only gene defect that leads to cancer
...etic instability refers to the ease with which malignant cells can develop additional mutations. The researchers also found that the pattern of methylation was very specific for some types of tumors. "Thi...Lung ailments come with the paycheck for wide swath of workers
...a working adult, and they should check if symptoms ease after work or during weekends or vacations. Even so, oftentimes a person's illness has nothing to do with the work place, even though circumstances might make a doctor suspect a link. One patient Beckett saw had developed a serious lung ailment cause...