New Model Makes It Possible To Predict Emergence Of Antiviral Drug Resistance
...nent drug resistance during episodic treatment. As far as evaluating drug resistance in other infectious diseases, says Blower,"we suggest that the novel health policy analyses that we have presented andapplied to genital herpes should now be applied to other infectious diseases." The co-authors of the s...New Medication Means New Choices For Families Dealing With Alzheimers Disease
... in treatment decisions was determined more by how far thedisease had progressed. For patients who were in the early stages of the diseaseand often were cared for at home, families overwhelmingly chose to treat thepatient. For those patients who lived in a nursing home and the disease wasfairly advanced,......cal peculiarity of the brain are thus far unknown. Recent work from Hartmut Wekerle's ...ese results raise the question in how far immunological mechanisms might be involved in maintenance and progression of neurodegen......usecological consequences of the development would far outweigh any potentialbenefits, in part because the project would "add nearly 28 million tons ofcarbon to the national annual releases"-an increase of 25 percent over 1990levels. Moreover, SAVE members testified that construction of two dams needed t...... mildly oxygen-rich care available to thepublic at far lower costs. Sensors will permit automated or semiautomated monitoring for hospital nursesnot specifically trained for the task and, in a later stage of development,enough simplicity of operation for patients to use the equipment at home. Saf...... (see Graph). Allthe rats receiving OP-1 recovered far faster than those in the control group. New Scientist issue 20th June 1998, page 14 Author : Andy Coghlan PLEASE MENTION NEW SCIENTIST AS THE SOURCE OF THIS ARTICLE....Lower Temperature Increases Virus Production
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...as adrinking water reservoir and fishery. Since so far research has been limited to the deep-waterareas o... tomedical engineering and microtechnology, but so far it has not been possible to describe it in asatisfactory manner. This is why at the collaborative re...Taking The "Ouch" Out Of Needles: Arrays Of "Microneedles" Offer New Technique For Drug Delivery
...edfor integrated circuits, the researchers have so far built solid siliconmicroneedle arrays 10 millimeterssquare. The existing needles are 150 microns long and leave holes about onemicron in diameter when removed from the skin. Prausnitz and Allen expect further development will reduce the length andd...Ligand Scientists Discover Tissue-Selective Female Hormone Mimics
...e to offer women significantclinical advances with far fewer side effects." Ligand discovered (S)-LG120746 and (S)-LG120747 through the application of itsproprietary intracellular receptor (IR) technology. Hormones such asprogesterone are signaling molecules that influence and regulate certainfunctions...Scientists Develop New Computer Program To Speed Determination Of Gene Function
...allas has found the markers on all DNA sequencedso far in the international Human Genome Project, and the...ers in all the genes that have been sequenced thus far sowe have a list of 13,000 to 14,0000 markers on our Web site; we basically aregiving them away to t...A Synthetic Peptide Destroys Brain Plaque Implicated in Alzheimer's Disease
...ion in animal models of Alzheimer's disease. It is far too early to knowwhether the beta-sheet breaker could ever be used as a therapy in humans.Typically, a drug must be evaluated in animals before it reaches the earlieststages of human testing, a process that may take many years. Dr. Soto's compoundis ...Summer Science: Where Have All The Honeybees Gone? UD 'Bee Guy' Asks Why--From America To The Amazon
... for their aggressivebehavior, killer bees have so far spread from South America to Texas and thesouthwes...n, Caron wondered, if killer beesmade their way as far north as Delaware? After a 12-hour airplane ride, Caron's journey began at the headwaters ofBolivia'...Monogamy Has Its Rewards For Flies
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...e the fungus might haveplayed in these die-offs is far from clear, Rosen says, but "we're taking itvery seriously." The chytrid fungus first made headlines two weeks ago when an international teamof scientists fingered it as the culprit in die-offs of 19 species ofamphibians in apparently pristine st......tes that the survival of tropical forests could be far morecomplex than was known before and that new app...it shows that the impact of deforestation has been far moredevastating that the simple removal of individual trees. At least in thisspecies of tree, fragme...'Molecular' Computers? Munich/UD Researchers Report First Glimpse Of Artificial Molecule In Action
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... the curious,constantly active animals have proven far more destructive to their concreteblock wall enclosures. Tapping away at the hollow cinderblocks, the creaturesapparently believe they may harbor insects, and gnaw holes in the walls thatmust be covered with stainless steel sheeting. Also, since the ...