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...ain may find it well worth the extra money," Carr said. A drawback to all topical anesthetics is that they don't work well on the lower jaw. While each tooth in the upper jaw has its own nerve pathway, the teeth in the lower j...... and then try to clone the few that integrate the extra DNA. But this isn't very efficient either. Tosk's...dious manipulation, New Scientist has learned. The extra DNA is simply injected into an animal's bloodstream. Within a couple of weeks, it is integrated into...Enzyme once thought harmful to Alzheimers patients now appears key to future treatment
...hen a nerve is cut or injured, the neuron produces extra galanin, possibly to repair or modulate the damage. The production of galanin may be one way that the body tries to repair nerve damage. Unfortunately, accepted literature states when the onset of AD occurs, galanin hyperinnervation (excessive suppl...Muscle gene influences fat storage in mice; may be target to prevent or treat obesity and diabetes
...n, in addition to having less fat, may have enough extra muscle mass to make up for decreasing sensitivity to insulin as they gain weight. In type 2 diabetes, tissues, especially muscle, stop responding to insulin and hence don't soak up sugar from the blood. Uncontrolled type 2 diabetes can lead to bl...Mating molds provide new insights into speciation and human reproduction
...mined that, if one chromosome in a pair carries an extra copy of a gene not found in its partner chromosome...parents that doesn`t belong there," he added. The extra gene may be from a virus that jumped into the chromosome or from an insertion sequence - a mobile se...Chemical evidence proves the old adage, Birds of a feather flock together
...trons. A small percentage of carbon atoms carry an extra neutron and therefore are known as carbon 13. Hydrogen 1 (the most common hydrogen isotope) only has one proton and no neutrons, but a rarer form deuterium contains both a proton and neutron. When Chamberlain and his co-workers analyzed warbler fe...Rapid weight gain in infancy may lead to obesity at age 7
... with even a modest increase in weight gain of 100 extra grams per month during infancy, the risk of being ...ith a birth weight of 7 pounds (3.2 kg), those 100 extra grams per month would result in a weight at age four months of approximately 14 pounds (6.4 kg), com......s cloud harvesters which add billions of litres of extra flow into tropical river systems, says CSIROs Dr P...uge and throughfall plus stemflow is the amount of extra water stripped by the forest. The team are now looking at developing gauges that can be used to esti...Stem cell study provides new clues to origin of Down syndrome
...people in the United States alone, results from an extra chromosome, chromosome 21, in the cells of those w...ve a complementary source of human stem cells with extra chromosome 21, and which can be grown indefinitely and used by a large number of scientists." Althou......ageing, there seems to be no price to pay for this extra time. The flies are as healthy and fecund as their untreated peers. Kyung-Tai Min and a team of researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the California Institute of Technology made the discovery by accident when they were testing a drug ...Potato technology may help move mail
...both its bane and balm. The instability causes the extra oxygen atom to want to attach to something, and ca...ia such as anthrax are virtually all carbon, those extra oxygen molecules attach themselves and create carbon dioxide. This oxidation cremates the bacteria. ...Cell-surface molecules have possible role in development and birth defects
...ged head and body, in bone abnormalities including extra or fused fingers and toes, and in certain childhood cancers. His laboratory research seeks to understand how defects in HSPGs cause the syndrome. His study revealed that HSPGs help regulate the presence of another group of proteins called morphogens....Thyroid disease raises risk for birth defects
...other anomalies, including cleft lip or palate, or extra fingers. In addition, infants born to women with ... systems and other disorders such as sunken chest, extra fingers, cleft lip and palate, and ear deformities. Two fetuses died before being delivered. Among...Researchers call herbs rich source of healthy antioxidants; oregano ranks highest
...ncentrated source of antioxidants without all the extra calories of whole foods, Wang says. She recently compared the antioxidant activity of herbs to a few select spices, including paprika, garlic, curry, chili, and black pepper. Herbs came out on top, she says. Herbs can be consumed in a variety of ways...Study shows how plant cells spin cotton
...p, the enzymes can make the chain longer by adding extra glucose units to the end away from the sterol. The...tside of the cell. In some plants, such as cotton, extra cellulose provides the strength and other properties that make cotton fibers so valuable to the text......ction had more heart damage, and mice treated with extra interferon-gamma had less damage than normal mice. Extra interferon-gamma prevented heart damage completely in seven of the 11 mice studied, says Rose, whose studies were funded by the National Institutes of Health. "Scientists generally thought th...Researchers identify gene required for marking DNA as having come from the mother
...omosomes, some 100 to 200 genes in humans carry an extra mark, or imprint, that identifies them as having come from either mom or dad. The mark is usually in the form of the addition to the DNA of a chemical substance, called a methyl group. Methylation increases the information content of DNA and can be u...Beware of leap year when predicting climate change, warns researcher
... and night are of equal length. In leap years, an extra day is added to February, so the vernal equinox comes a day later on the calendar. As a result, the date of the calendar equinox and the true equinox diverge as the years progress. Over the course of a century, the average calendar year consists of 3...Natural protein helps prevent cancers from spreading to other organs
...e than three times as much as the p22 groups. The extra weight was due to cancerous growths, they said. The researchers showed that p22 is a natural compound released by cancerous cells themselves to control blood vessel growth. Cancer cells must force new blood vessels to grow so they can obtain the nutr...Mice with human protein, COX-2, exhibit age-related memory loss similar to Alzheimer's disease
...n affected by a stroke is much larger in mice with extra COX-2, but importantly, the study also shows it might be possible to save a large part of that affected area. "In a stroke, a core part of the affected brain is destroyed, but there's a region around the core that isn't immediately destroyed, but i...