Study links impulsive violence with brain's inability to regulate emotion
...ctivity. The inability of the two brain regions to effectively counteract the response of the amygdala may help explain how threatening situations can become explosive in some people. A major strength of the research is in the range of people studied and the consistency of the results, Davidson says. The researc...Scientists decipher structure of toxin responsible for botulism
...xiation. Now, in what could be a first step toward effectively disabling these deadly poisons, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have deciphered the structure of one of the toxins and learned how it binds to the nerve cells it attacks. "Since binding to the nerve cell i...Physicist says women could vault to new Olympic records
... as women who can run faster and use the pole more effectively enter the field. The reason this is possible is t...ity, other factors must be considered, such as how effectively the vaulter's horizontal running velocity is converted into vertical velocity, since this determines...Deadly for bacteria, great for consumers
...er solution - kills bacteria on fresh produce more effectively in some cases than heat or water containing chlorine, according to a research report presented here today at the 220th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Electrolyzed water could also be use......hat can be taken 15 minutes before training, which effectively block the bronchial constriction. But prevention still remains the best answer, and the lung experts warned especially against undertaking endurance training and competition while subject to respiratory infections....Research paves the way for faster, better, cheaper DNA detection method
...r was wrong. The fluorescence method was unable to effectively distinguish the two. "Fluorescence is the workhorse for doing DNA detection, but, with this new method, we now have a superior alternative," said Mirkin. "Our method appears to be better in almost every way sensitivity, selectivity, cost and conve...Advances in animal medicine increase quality of life for older pets
...tions for treating problems we couldn't treat very effectively as recently as five to 10 years ago," said Bill Fortney, a veterinarian at Kansas State University's Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. "In older animals in particular, although we may not be able to cure some of these problems, we can improve an ...Brown team looks for new ways to examine scientific data
...on tools that would portray huge amounts ofdata as effectively as possible. "We're looking for more effective pictures than the pictures that areavailable now," Laidlaw said. The researchers will use perceptual psychology to compare theeffectiveness of visualization tools in ...Bees deliver fungicide more effectively than sprays, study finds
...r a biological fungicide to strawberry blooms more effectively than can mechanical sprayers. The study involved placing a tray filled with the fungicide - composed of an anti-fungal microorganism - in front of bee hives. The bees walk through this "foot bath" while exiting the hive and deposit the fungicide on s......urage the growth of the more beneficial organisms, effectively creating a kind of organism farm. "This is an exploratory project, an inventory," Rouse said. "We want to know what organisms are out there and where and how abundant they are. We will be looking for organisms with known biotechnology potential....The human side of restoring nature
...ings about nature, and how that information can be effectively used to guide science and policy. The book originated in 1996, during a Chicago controversy that led to moratoriums on restoration activities in 2 counties and a lawsuit to halt a major restoration demonstration project. The protests also served as...Brain size in premature infants significantly smaller than full-term babies
...ated with prematurity, as well as to intervene and effectively treat the various cognitive and behavioral impairments."...Studies at UNC plumb tumor resistance to treatment
... resistance. The method may also help doctors more effectively predict the outcome of cancer therapies. "For many years it's been known that cancerous tumors that have low amounts of oxygen are relatively resistant to the effects of radiation treatment," said Mahesh Varia, MD, professor of radiation oncology a......nt. This resulting drug discovery platform, which effectively meets the needs of the research alliance with Bayer, serves all of Millenniums research programs, both internal and partnered, and contributes validated targets to the Companys own drug discovery pipeline. With the aid of Bayers high-throughput...Economic realities depleting arsenal of antiparasitic drugs
...developing countries that do not have the money to effectively support production of these drugs. In addition, many drugs that are available overseas are used to treat infections that are only found occasionally in the United States making them prohibitively expensive to continue domestic production despite the......to serve as guides, it would be quite difficult to effectively search these vast libraries," he said. Chemicals that closely match the shapes and structures in the NGF fragments will be gathered for further testing in nerve cell cultures. The most potent of these will then be tested in mouse models of Alzheim...Hopkins researchers develop method to predict response to chemotherapy
...ew drugs to be developed, rather we can begin more effectively tailoring the drugs we are using today," says Esteller. "We want to caution that testing for MGMT gene methylation in brain tumors is not yet widely available," according to Herman. Virco Lab Inc. (Great Britain) has licensed the technology from ...UF scientists discover novel mechanism underlying bone destruction
... invade bones, these cancer cells can't be treated effectively by conventional cancer therapies. When osteoclasts encounter bone, they attach themselves to it, forming a connection similar to a suction cup. Using tissues from mice and cows, UF researchers discovered that when the link takes place, microfilaments...UI researchers investigate regulation of immune system memory
...t has already defeated, and to respond rapidly and effectively to them during future exposures, is the basis of vaccination strategies. University of Iowa researchers, led by John Harty, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology, are making progress in understanding how these complicated aspects of the immune r...... dystrophin protein. Dr. Xiaos mini-gene construct effectively shortened the spring by removing some of the repea...ures for this series of repeats to remain anchored effectively on one end to the muscle cell membrane and on the other end to an actin filament. For many years, ad...