Saving the whales -- how scientists measure success
...and conservation resources. "Social dysfunction," failure to find a mate, and to reproduce successfully may ...n part, due to the "Allee" effect, or reproductive failure due to low population density, report the researchers. They explain that biologists are currently de......iable fitness measure for heart disease and kidney failure patients. The conventional treadmill exercise t...l fitness of patients with heart disease or kidney failure who, like the elderly, often can't run a long time on a treadmill, Hollenberg said. "We now have a ...Rosetta Inpharmatics approach enables identification of gene functions
...c index early drives up both costs and the rate of failure for new drug candidates." Rosetta Inpharmatics offers solutions to the emerging field of informational genomics. By combining the power of informatics and genomics, Rosetta has created a proprietary platform that accelerates and enhances the drug dis...Heart failure patients with worst heart function are good candidates for pacemakers
...egular heart rhythms, it is now in favor for heart failure patients as a way to "resynchronize" a weak and st...em we set out to solve was determining which heart failure patients would respond best topacemakers," says David A. Kass, M.D., lead author of the study and pr...Gene discovered for primary pulmonary hypertension
...essels. The resulting hypertension leads to heart failure and death, generally within 3 years of diagnosis. Current treatments require continuous administration of intravenous or inhaled medication, and they prolong survival but do not cure the disorder. Sporadic cases of PPH are more common than familia......t is likely that many diseases will be traced to a failure of some aspect of synaptic communication. "Our job is to understand the molecular and atomic events that underlie this behavior -- that is, the machinery of the brain," Auerbach said. "Why is the receptor so quiet before it comes into contact with...Physicians have seen a rise in the number of infants suffering from rickets
...ge of 12.5 months. The infants were suffering from failure to thrive, bone fractures and bow legs, all common problems with a vitamin D deficiency if left untreated. "Rickets, can cause severe health problems including seizures from low calcium levels," Schwartz said. "We found that the number of women who...Canine leishmaniasis cases are confirmed in 21 states
...ease that leads to chronic debilitation and kidney failure in dogs, and can lead to their death. Unfortunatel...h glands, weight loss, seizures, hair loss, kidney failure and swollen limbs and joints. The disease is potentially fatal in humans, but can be treated. Whil...More than 300 regularly prescribed medicines can damage the lungs
...me (ACE) inhibitors used to treat congestive heart failure or hypertension, and Cordarone amiodarone administered in the treatment of ventricular arryhthmias. But some antibiotics are well up the list, as are antirheumatics (including methotrexate and several nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories), or ergot deriv......Company (NYSE: LLY), Millennium's partner in heart failure research, will pursue the development of potential...ypertension and morbidity and mortality from heart failure by blocking the production of angiotensin II. In contrast to ACE, ACE2 is specifically expressed in...Feeling nauseous? Research suggests your brain plays a role
...e result could be nausea and a failure of normal digestion.......edict disease susceptibility, understand treatment failure and gauge vaccine response. A cluster of nearly 220 genes known as the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) gene complex holds clues to many unsolved medical questions: why do transplants sometimes fail despite close donor-recipient matches? What makes cer...Bio-X grant recipient explores link between molecular chaperones and serious diseases
...art and various tissues) that may be caused by the failure of key proteins to fold. ``Understanding how proteins fold in the cell is a central problem in modern biology,`` she observes, ``yet surprisingly little is known about how the process occurs.`` Stanford's Bio-X program agreed, this week awarding...Hopkins wins $14 million NIH grant for genetic cardiopulmonary disease research
...o heart conditions: ischemic cardiomyopathy (heart failure after heart attack) and transplanted heart. The researchers hope to have useful results for at least two or three of the diseases in six months. "There may be genes common to many of these conditions, or we may wind up at the same final pathway by ...UK scientists make major advance with novel chromosome testing technique
...e to a very high incidence of very early pregnancy failure (usually occurring before a woman is even aware sh...romosomal abnormalities play a major role in early failure and miscarriage. Being able to detect which embryos are chromosomally 'normal' will eventually allow...Adult stem cell therapy for heart failure proves promising
...new heart muscle in 20 of 22 rats treated. "Heart failure is the death of functioning heart muscle," says se...die, they are permanently lost," Chiu says. Heart failure stems from damage to the heart that leaves it unable to pump enough blood to meet the body's needs. ...Clinton names a diverse group of researchers to receive the 2000 National Medals Of Science
...to drugs that treat hypertension, congestive heart failure and severe infection. Research bioengineer Yuan-Cheng Fung of the University of California at San Diego made major contributions to the field of aeroelasticity, which formed the defining ideas in an important area of aerospace engineering. In the ...Carolina scientists the first to identify and purify liver stem cells
...d into the liver or spleen of patients with liver failure and should reconstitute the patient's liver functions. "Thus, each donated liver can be used to treat many patients, and the surgical procedures will be much safer and easier on the patient and much more economical than whole-organ transplantation,"...Zinc supplementation reduces duration of diarrheal episodes in infants in developing countries
...n a given day, and a 42% lower rate of treatment failure or death. The positive effect was especially significant in male children 12 months old who were also malnourished. A 29% overall reduction in duration of diarrhea was evident when all 7 studies were pooled. Zinc supplementation with oral reh......ng the physics of faulting and earthquakes. Mass failure of the North Atlantic margin triggered by the Cret...eters, making them easily the most widespread mass failure deposits on Earth. Regional warming: Pliocene (3 Ma) paleoclimate of Europe and the Mediterranean...