Drugs limit deadly side effects of graft-versus-host disease
...roylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA) to one group of experimental mice that received allogeneic transplants. When re...a second series of experiments. This time, he gave experimental mice a lethal dose of leukemia cells, in addition to either an allogeneic or syngeneic bone marrow t...New study seeks to establish mechanism between areas of the brain and continence
...known mostly addresses its contraction response to experimental electrical or magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex, the region of the cerebral cortex most nearly immediately influencing movements of the face, neck and trunk, and arm and leg. Past studies have shown that the contracting of the EAS or pelvic f...Embryonic pig cell transplants halt rat diabetes
St. Louis, Feb. 25, 2004 -- An experimental cross-species transplant to treat diabetes has pas...School of Medicine in St. Louis set up control and experimental groups of rats with diabetes. The experimental group received embryonic pig pancreas cell transplant...Cell cycle research earns biologist Virginia's top scientist award
...By comparing the computer simulations to a host of experimental observations, Tyson said, computational biologists provide new insights into the integrated behavior of complex regulatory systems. This rigorous, quantitative, computational approach to molecular cell biology provides a new method to understand and...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...patients were able to tolerate bread made from the experimental sourdough, offering new hope for increasing tolerance levels of wheat flour products. "These results showed that a bread biotechnology that uses selected lactobacilli, nontoxic flours, and a long fermentation time is a novel tool for decreasing t...Discovery could lead to better treatment for cryptosporidum infections
...is research is that it combines bioinformatics and experimental testing in the laboratory," said Striepen. "Using both approaches, we got to solid conclusions fast." What Striepen, in close collaboration with Jessica Kissinger's bioinformatics group, discovered in the genome of the parasite was somewhat unexpecte...New, non-radioactive screen for antimalarial compounds
...id and safe." The Panama ICBG is one of several experimental efforts funded by the United States National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Agriculture to promote drug discovery and technology transfer between nations. "A major goal of the Panama ICBG program is the...A shrinking sink? Carbon fertilization may be flimsy weapon against warming
...an of the late 21st century. He described some new experimental techniques that should make it possible to extend these types of experiments, making them both spatially larger and longer-lasting. "It's the only way to find out how coral reefs, deep-sea fisheries and other marine environments will react to a chang...Duke open-air experiment results could deflate hopes that forests can alleviate global warming
...imilar test plots but emit no gas, thus serving as experimental "controls." Scientists measure effects of the extra carbon dioxide by comparing results from the active and control sites. The FACE tower rings are located in Duke Forest, a research reserve created out of former agricultural land that was replanted ...National ocean commissioners & scientists call for overhaul of ocean policies & management
... require a network of high seas marine reserves as experimental controls and insurance against our ignorance and failures. Ecosystem-based management offers muchneeded hope."...Planning effective bioterror responses
...colleagues describe a statistical model used in an experimental system, funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, which collects data from several large physician practices, HMOs and a national nurse call center. "Our results indicate that there is great value to using surveillance and statistical modeling...Targeting hard-to-kill fungal infections
...ge of Medicine, Bronx. "The results provide strong experimental support for the concept of using RIT as a method to target not only fungal infections but also other microorganisms especially multi-drug resistant ones." Susceptibility of the Human Pathogenic Fungi Cryptococcus neoformans and Histoplasma capsulatu...Human embryonic stem cells may promise medical advances
... or enucleated egg of the same woman. This unusual experimental design may be more effective than person-to-person transfers because it offered greater compatibility between the genetic components that were fused together. But, were the stem cells truly derived from the transferred nucleus, or were they the resul...Researchers-again-pinpoint why stress kills
...an opportunity to examine a potential link between experimental anhedonia (absence of pleasure from the performanc...ine whether rats with CMS-induced anhedonia (i.e., experimental depression) were more susceptible than control rats to experimentally induced cardiac arrhythmias. B...Story tips from the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 2004
...ng researchers who applied their computational and experimental support to work published in a paper by Arizona State University. The new models help explain why the white dwarf gathers the hydrogen from its companion instead of blowing off the material as it arrives. White-dwarf supernovae interest researchers b...Kidney injury's harmful effects on bones blocked in mice
... and structures. Hruska plans further tests of the experimental mice skeletons. He also hopes to look into BMP-7's effects on an even more harmful side effect of kidney injury: heart disease. "Kidney damage decreases mineral storage in the bones, and minerals not stored in the bones are stored elsewhere," he expl...Looking beyond biodiversity to explain community invasibility
Most existing experimental and theoretical studies suggest that diversity is ...sampling old field succession. In contrast to the experimental literature, they found that when richness was related to invasion dynamics, it enhanced rather than ...Do we perceive using 'mindsight'?
...ot everyone seems to sense something, and that the experimental setting might encourage people to simply guess. But he also thinks that people who don't experience mindsight may be screening out what appear to be gut feelings in favour of what appears to be more rational information, while those who do are happy ...Inherent mistrust of research institutions limits minority representation
...or fear of becoming unsuspecting test subjects for experimental drugs. The absence or under representation of such a significant racial group can be detrimental to research. Studying racial and ethnic health disparities might, for example, help unravel the role of genetics in diseases such as cancers. Another cau...Two-drug approach might shorten painful labor, reduce Caesarean sections
...abor and Caesarean deliveries could be eased by an experimental dual drug approach that not only safely jump-start...hen relaxin is needed the most, Sherwood said. The experimental rats used in the study were treated with antibodies to block relaxin's actions in the late stages of...