Genetically-engineered 'marathon mouse' keeps on running
...in skeletal muscle fibers. The mice showed a major enhancement of so-called "slow-twitch" muscle fibers and a decrease in "fast-twitch" muscle fibers. Slow-twitch fibers are by far the more fatigue resistant of the muscle fibers. This is due to their large numbers of mitochondria the cell's metabolic power pla...Study shows that ultrasound accreditation improves the quality of ultrasound practice
... et al, "This improvement should translate into an enhancement of the quality of ultrasound practice." The AIUM established voluntary accreditation of ultrasound practices in the United States and Canada in 1996. Ultrasound practices seeking AIUM accreditation must show evidence of physicians' ...When male fish hum, females swim in, thanks to hormones, adaptable hearing
...strogen receptor in the female inner ear where the enhancement begins. "This was especially important since estrogen receptors are also present in the human inner ear but no one know why they might be there. Our study now suggests a possible function," said Deitcher....Hormone helps fish to mate, may affect human hearing
...strogen receptor in the female inner ear where the enhancement of the males' cues begins. As Forlano notes: "This was especially important since estrogen receptors are also present in the human inner ear but no one knows why they might be there. Our study now suggests a possible function." The research, he note...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...l antibody responses against FNZ and EAG. Further enhancement of the antibody response resulted from the addition of EtxB, a form of Escherichia coli enterotoxin and the horses showed no adverse effects to either vaccine combination. "We found that vaccination with FNZ, SFS, and EAG together gives ...Nanoparticles illuminate brain tumors for days under MRI
... provides a completely different way of looking at enhancement patterns on MRI," Nesbit added. There are distinct...e need to find out is what the specific pattern of enhancement with this contrast agent means." Because ferumoxtran-10 can stay in brain lesions for days - it can ...Bay area to get unique x-ray microscopy resource
...lution of better than 50 nanometers. "No contrast enhancement reagents were used, the cells were not embedded or sectioned, and collection of the entire data set took less than an hour," says Larabell. "While our resolution was not quite as good as that from cryo-electron tomography, it was more than sufficien...National Academies news: Report on EPA's particulate matter research
...n sources. The government's continued support and enhancement of particulate matter research would "undoubtedly yield substantial benefits for years to come," the report concludes. "Much has been learned in the last five years, and the evidence gained is already being used by decision-makers," said committe...Athletics, genetic enhancement and ethics
...e-A-S) Annual Meeting on potential uses of genetic enhancement in competitive sports, from the perspective of ath...ions, athletes, scientists, and ethicists. Genetic enhancement of skeletal muscles could potentially benefit elite athletes, patients rehabilitating from injury-in...Small amounts of alcohol or anesthetics may damage the developing brain
...i used usually produces a lasting 40 to 50 percent enhancement of glutamate transmission. But rats exposed to alcohol and anesthetics had decreases in LTP ranging from 75 to 100 percent. In other words, some of the exposed animals had a complete loss of LTP. His team also tested a related process called long-te...Adolescent rodents experience milder hangover effects than do adult rodents
...s associated with drinking. An alcohol-associated enhancement of social interactions, both during a drinking episode and during the post-alcohol recovery period, could help establish a persisting cycle of drinking in at-risk adolescent individuals which may lead to dependency and a life-long history of alcohol-...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November 2003
...s Dan Shapira and Felix Liang have demonstrated an enhancement of the tunneling effect that permits two colliding nuclei to fuse into one nucleus at long distances. They accomplish this feat by increasing the number of neutrons, the "glue" that holds nuclei together, in the beam. In this case it was unstable nuc...Research grants program closing
...-making, the foundation supported the creation and enhancement of biomedical engineering departments, including building construction and renovation projects. The foundation supported the creation of 38 new departments of biomedical engineering and supported major enhancements to dozens of other biomedical engin...Von Liebig Center awards funding to six projects to commercialize UCSD faculty research
...l-time video coding algorithms as well as decoding enhancement algorithms. He expects that the prototype will attract sponsors including service providers, consumer electronics companies, chip manufacturers, mobile phone and PDA manufacturers. Paul Yu, Professor and Chair "Electro-optic Waveguide Modulation us...Estrogens as antioxidants reducing heart disease in younger postmenopausal women
...h, write, "The inhibition of HDL oxidation and the enhancement provided by estrogens toward the inhibition of LDL oxidation may be another way in which estrogens reduce the risk of coronary heart disease in healthy young postmenopausal women." Although recent randomised control trials have shown that HRT in old...American Society of Plant Biologists Annual Meeting 2003
... related to genetically modified traits, including enhancement of the nutritional value of soybean, research leading to high-protein flour and increased crop yields. For more information on Plant Biology 2003, visit the ASPB web page at http://www.aspb.org/meetings/pb-2003/ Press registration can be made by co...Hebrew University researcher studies 'reorganization' of brain in blind people
... that this work could open a window towards future enhancement of the quality of life for blind people. Humans, like other primates, rely primarily on vision to direct their behavior. The areas devoted to vision constitute some 25 percent of the human brain. The prevailing thought up to now was that the loss of ...The area where carcinogens settle may be a key factor in developing lung cancer
...e of the bifurcation was scanned. Local deposition enhancement factors were determined as the ratio of local to a...ion of division. The distribution of deposition enhancement factors revealed that the degree of inhomogeneity of particle deposition in bronchial airway bifurca...Remote sub can patrol Shores. Sound Fishy? It is, but not like you think.
...ural networks (ANNs). The team combined the use of enhancement algorithms and image processing, in conjunction with the ANNs, to "teach" the computer to recognize the characteristics of various fish species. As reported in the latest edition of New Scientist (vol. 177 issue 2382 - 15 February 2003, page 16) the......"Many health claims exist for kefir, including the enhancement of the immune system and improved digestive health, particularly with regard to lactose digestion," said Steven Hertzler, a study co-author and an assistant professor of medical dietetics at Ohio State University. "We wanted to find out if kefir woul...