Immune cells may help deliver cancer vaccines for children
... The finding reported today does not yet have an immediate clinical application. "What we know now is that we may have found a useful delivery system for the time when cancer vaccines are tested in children," said Dr. Coughlin, who is a research fellow from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, working in...Seal pups recognize mother's voices within days of birth
...ys after giving birth it is important to have that immediate recognition." During her time on Amsterdam Island, Charrier recorded the signals and then modified them to determine which parts of the acoustic parameters support the recognition process. When a mother returns from a foraging trip, she is confronted...Borrowing from Ebola virus could aid cystic fibrosis gene therapy
...h the modified Ebola protein binds. However, their immediate next step is to see how the hybrid virus functions in airway cells taken from people with cystic fibrosis....Researchers discover method of predicting drug resistance in hepatitis-B patients
..., predictive system in place, we can give patients immediate and targeted treatment rather than forcing them to wait until they become very ill." Gerin, along with Dr. Brent Korba, professor of microbiology at Georgetown, and colleagues from Ospedale S. Giovanni Battista in Torino, Italy, followed 26 hepati...Advances in prosthetic, orthopedic, and audiologic diagnostic tools
...machine that provides the user with continuous and immediate feedback in lights and sounds to make strength training enjoyable. Within the Isopad is a novel force sensor, which is accurate and reliable. Although volunteers who used the Isopad successfully had reduced symptoms, a larger study is needed to test ...Biology breakthrough could aid understanding of cancer
...merged from this basic research program could have immediate value to suggest new types of cancer research, Karplus said, and eventually therapies....Diet study focus of TAES research in effort to help save giant panda
...Researchers hope it will lead to more accurate and immediate information about the giant panda diet. Field work will be done in the Qinling Mountains in China. Researchers there will try to understand why the panda's diet is so strict. The pandas have teeth capable of eating not just the leafy stems that ext...Study suggests ovarian cancer cells can alter surroundings to promote chemotherapy resistance
...suggests cancer cells can trigger changes in their immediate surroundings that promote self-preservation. Collagen VI, a protein produced by ovarian cancer cells, appears to help these cells alter their microenvironment so they are more resistant to chemotherapeutic drugs commonly used to treat the disease, ac...Q Fever microbe's genome is deciphered
... this pathogen, said Samuel of Texas A&M. The most immediate application of the genome sequence will be testing of the predicted essential genes for Coxiellas survival. Samuel said the genome sequence coupled with NIAIDs heightened emphasis on vaccine development for Q Fever and other Category B potential bio...Mother-infant bed sharing is associated with an increase in infant heart rate
...oth groups, allowing an assessment of the acute or immediate effects, while the across-subject comparison was b...he mothers' heart rate data revealed a significant immediate effect for light non-REM sleep where the bed sharing night was associated with a slower heart rate t......ay not save reefs in time. Now there may be a more immediate remedy. In the late 1990s, Yossi Loya and Eugene Rosenberg led a team from Tel Aviv University that found a bacterium that causes coral bleaching. Crucially, it turns out to be more virulent at higher temperatures. "Coral biologists are not microbio...Wild ape population undergoing 'catastrophic' decline
...d other institutions. The study authors called for immediate improvements in anti-hunting law enforcement and i...cking in the past." The Ebola problem also demands immediate financial support for rigorous studies of the forces driving the epidemic, Walsh said. He recommende...Catastrophic decline of Africa's apes, Nature says
...brink of extinction during the next decade without immediate protective measures, scientists warn. Looking at populations in the central African nation of Gabon, which still retains 80 percent of its forest cover, scientists discovered a 56 percent drop in chimpanzee and gorilla numbers had taken place between...Cincinnati engineering study finds clue to Bangladesh's poisoned water
... takes several thousand parts per billion to cause immediate death. The cumulative impact of the tainted water supply, however, can lead to skin cancers and other disorders. Islam and his colleagues find that these elevated arsenic levels appear to be linked to dry-season irrigation pumping, which carries wat...Study provides new insights into the functional neuroanatomy of motor imagery
...ly or explicitly. Motor imagery as preparation for immediate movement likely involves the motor executive brain regions including M1, since M1 plays a significant role in sensory processing for the purpose of upcoming movement generation. Implicit mental operations of sensorimotor representations, on the other...Screening technique streamlines search for anticancer drugs
...he cancer cell by an unknown mechanism. "The most immediate thing is to figure out how erastin works and try to understand that molecular mechanism in detail," Stockwell added. The engineered cancer cells used in this study were created by William Hahn and Stephen Lessnick at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. The...Study of insecticide neurotoxicity yields clues to onset of Parkinson's Disease
...ising is that high-level exposures resulted in few immediate effects that we could observe, but in the longer term there was a delayed effect." The Virginia Tech researchers studied the levels of dopamine, dopamine transporter protein expression, and the levels of a synaptic protein (alpha-synuclein) in mice e...Embryonic facial development subject to insult or repair longer than expected
...an embryos facial tissues remain responsive to its immediate environment for about nine weeks, or through most of the first trimester. Researchers had thought that human facial form was established and unalterable by about five weeks. The new findings may explain the puzzling fact that a single kind of enviro...Rutgers researchers test polymer reliability for medical implants
... presentation focused on how changes in a polymers immediate environment and alterations in its glass transition temperature might affect the materials stability once it becomes part of a medical implant. Abramson said that traditionally polymer testing has often been done on dry materials. The point I am...'One-stop' approach works well for cervical cancer prevention
...e when exposed to the solution. They then offered immediate treatment to women with positive tests (possible precancerous lesions). Treatment consisted of cryotherapy, using compressed carbon dioxide to freeze and destroy abnormal tissue. Women with more advanced lesions, suspected cancers or other problem...