High resolution satellite imagery assists hunt for infectious 'kissing bugs'
...ts, generally known as 'kissing bugs' because they emerge from their hiding places each night to bite human ... bugs can hide in cracks and cavities by day, then emerge to climb walls, jump and glide to land on exposed flesh. Infected children respond best to treatmen...Students build submarine to track Octopuses
...set up the robot to wait quietly for an octopus to emerge from its den. Then the submarine could become their eyes and ears underwater, recording the octopus' movements for later retrieval. With that goal in mind, Vincent figures there's plenty of engineering work to keep senior design teams occupied for se...Ecology of infectious diseases grants awarded
...breaks; and improved understanding of how diseases emerge and re-emerge. Previous research looked only at diseases after they reached humans or only at non-human animals. The EID program links those different components to produce a comprehensive understanding of disease transmission. "We're trying to put...Peering inside the body, with a new spinliterally
...odent-adventurer and her cohorts are put under and emerge from the experience no worse for the wear. This technique, in turn, called slow-magic-angle spinning magnetic resonance spectroscopy, or "slow MAS" for short, has provided researchers a new glimpse inside living tissue and cells that other biomedical...Missing genes may help explain why plague bacteria are so deadly
...a highly virulent epidemic (pathogen) can suddenly emerge from a less virulent, closely related progenitor." "This work is seminal because it has enabled us for the first time to follow the precise molecular events that led to the emergence of this highly virulent bacterium," said LLNL biologist Emilio Gar...Genuine stem cells found in skin might treat hair loss, wounds
...t make up an organism. Embryonic stem cells, which emerge in the first days of an embryo's development, have the potential to differentiate, or specialize, into each of the 200 types of tissue in the body. In contrast, adult stem cells found in tissues throughout the body--including bone marrow, muscle, and...Battle between bubbles might have started evolution
... It's just based on a physical principle and would emerge spontaneously," he said. According to Szostak, the next step in the research will depend on another major effort under way in his laboratory to create artificial, replicating RNA molecules. "If we can get self-replicating RNAs, then we can put them......o indicate that Stat3, which has recently begun to emerge as a target for cancer therapy, may also be important for developing cancer prevention strategies. ...JCI table of contents: 1 September, 2004
...o indicate that Stat3, which has recently begun to emerge as a target for cancer therapy, may also be important for developing cancer prevention strategies. An accompanying commentary by Jacqueline Bromberg and colleagues, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, provides an overview of Stat3 function...Endangered turtles' trek along ocean currents revealed by satellite
...ntic Ocean. Around nine weeks later the hatchlings emerge en masse and head into the sea, one day to return when they reach maturity and lay eggs themselves. However each turtle's return is by no means certain. While in open water the turtles have been known to dive as deep as 1,230 metres in search o...Babies with DiGeorge syndrome saved by immune supression, thymus transplant
... four months after transplantation, mature T cells emerge -- the final step toward a functioning immune system. The transplant recipients stay in isolation rooms in Duke Hospital, either on the pediatric floor or at Duke's General Clinical Research Center, funded by the National Center for Research Resource...Patients' cells from tumors, the immune system merged for customized cancer therapy
...nary, hold promise that fusion cell technology may emerge as an effective immunotherapeutic strategy allowing patients to use their own immune system to fight their cancer," Avigan said. While the results were not universal to all the study participants, Avigan said that that further development of the vac...Growth study of wild chimpanzees challenges assumptions about early humans
...t molars of both wild chimpanzees and Homo erectus emerge at about four years of age, and the second molars emerge at about eight years of age. "Our data suggest that wild chimpanzees and Homo erectus growth...New public policy & aging report highlights facts and fiction about anti-aging medicine
...t in recent years - remarking on issues that would emerge in a society populated by the "prolonged old." Eminent biogerontologist Leonard Hayflick, of the University of California, San Francisco, shares the front page spotlight with Binstock by arguing that the key to longevity is not so much a matter of re...A gene that keeps species apart
...ies, biologists are still debating how new species emerge from old--and even the definition of species itself. Darwin demurred from offering a hard and fast definition, suggesting that such a thing was "undiscoverable." In this issue of PLoS Biology, Daniel Barbash and colleagues identify a true speciatio......so important for how those nerves behave once they emerge from the brain," Capecchi says. "The important part of this paper is the same thing could be happening along the whole body." Capecchi is well-known for developing a method known as gene targeting that allows the breeding of "knockout mice," which...Four tourist destinations named best worldwide
...o awe-inspiring waterfalls and crater valleys, and emerge from the forest canopy to enjoy an amazing panoramic ocean view. The Rinjani program is exemplary for its strong partnership among local community groups, local tourism office staff and the local national park, and has successfully withstood the rece...Tiny tango: Device sorts microscopic particles with speed and precision
...particles into different paths. When the particles emerge from the array, they have been sorted into any number of "channels" according to size. A device less than 1 square inch could easily yield hundreds of channels, each just 1 percent different in size. The device works in a unique way becaus...Chronic respiratory symptoms prevalent among Alaska natives
...toms in children. "Other reports are beginning to emerge from Australia and New Zealand of native children having difficulties with chronic productive cough. This seems to be an issue that extends beyond Alaska." "More than five million children in the United States are currently diagnosed with asthma, a......are at first, and only a few resistant adult moths emerge from Bt corn fields. But refuges of non-Bt corn produce oodles of susceptible moths. The idea is that the uncommon resistant moths will mate with the more abundant susceptible moths. Their hybrid progeny would be killed by feeding on Bt corn. Thus, B...