First Salmonella Vaccine For Poultry To Be On The Market Soon
...newborn chicks, breeders and laying hens develop a lifelong immunity to salmonella. The immunity is transferred to offspring and eggs that people consume. The vaccine is in its final stage of testing by scientists at Megan Health Inc. in St. Louis, a company licensed by Washington University to develop and ...Second Gene Responsible For Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Identified
...e moderately to severelyaffected, and this creates lifelong worry for parents and physicians alike,"said Dr. Kwiatkowski, of Harvard Medical School and the paper's lead author. "We plan to now turn our efforts toward comprehensive analysis of the mutationsthat occur in TSC1 and TSC2, understanding the functio...MGH-Led Team Finds Gene For Crippling Neurologic Disorder
...ay be confined to a wheel-chair or bedridden. The lifelong condition is more prevalent than Huntington's disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) among the general population and has a higher frequency among Ashkenazi Jews, those of Eastern European ancestry. "We look on dyston...Life-Saving Dr. Mueller Selected To Get Top Sports Medicine Award
... four minutes, and a physician who hasmaintained a lifelong interest in sports medicine and physiology. Mueller was selected because for many years he has maintained anationwide system for collecting information on catastrophic sports injuries anddeaths. Statistics he compiled, first with Dr. Carl Bly...Extra Choline During Pregnancy Enhances Memory In Offspring
...ngle nutrient for a few days during gestation hasa lifelong effect on brain function," Swartzwelder said. "In theory, we coulddevelop ways to significantly reduce age-related memory deficits." Swartzwelder said the amount of choline the pregnant rats received waswell within normal limits -- about thr...Cystic Fibrosis Gene Protects Against Typhoid Fever
...ng, it does not bind and ingest thisbacterium, and lifelong infections are thus established in many individuals withcystic fibrosis. The researchers hypothesized that other bacteria might interact with CFTR in asimilar manner. Finding no other lung pathogens that use the CFTR entrypathway, Dr. Pier and his c...Fetal Lead Exposure May Reduce Immunity
...ould help explain why some babies are born with a lifelong predisposition to asthma and other allergies, as well as cancers, say Cornell scientists who report the discovery in the current issue of the journal Toxicological Sciences (Vol. 42, pp. 129-135). "We found that low levels of lead in embryos -- lev...Persistent Organic Pollutants, The Danger Is Not Over
...ven very small doses of toxic pollutants can cause lifelong neurological disturbances in laboratory animals. Ten day-old mice exposed to a few micrograms of DDT will suffer permanent damage to the central nervous system. There are no external changes, but for the rest of their life they will en...Wisconsin Scientists Culture Elusive Embryonic Stem Cells
...ltypes. The replacement of those cells would offer lifelong treatment. To treatheart disease, heart muscle cells could be injected directly to shore up failingheart tissue. Such clinical applications are years - perhaps more than a decade - away. The embryonic stem cells were derived from the inner cell masse...Discovery: Chromosomes Found To End In Big Loops
...s play some unexplained central role in the body's lifelong biologicclock, Griffith said. Thus, telomeres may be some kind of regulator of celldeath. "Very rarely these days in science does a new result emerge from ongoingresearch, loop around, bite you from behind and make you say - Hey!" wrote Dr.Ca...New unified dietary guidelines offer nutritional protection against wide range of killer diseases
...d for research into how thefood we eat affects our lifelong patterns of health and disease."...Drug users, Native Americans susceptible to infectious diseases
...ple have to live with the knowledge of having this lifelong virus." The study also showed that HTLV-I caused statistically higher rates of bladderand kidney infections compared to controls (18 percent versus 8 percent).Both HTLV-I and HTLV-II can be transmitted through the sharing of contaminatedneedles, sexu...Pioneering evolutionist Ledyard Stebbins dies at age 94
...on University in St. Louis. The seeds of Stebbins' lifelong passion for nature were planted on walks with his mother, whotaught her children the names and songs of birds, and with his father, who took the childrenprowling through Atlantic tide pools. At Harvard University in 1925, Stebbins was introduced toDa...New institute formed to distribute human stem cells
... to revolutionize transplant medicine and underpin lifelong treatment for a host of debilitating diseases, especially cell-based disorders such as diabetes mellitus, Parkinson's disease and some forms of leukemia. The primary mission of the new non-profit institute, to be known as WiCell Research Institute, I...Gene therapy halts HIV replication in cells from infected patients
...y to other infections. Furthermore, HAART requires lifelong use. If treatment is interrupted, the latent HIV infection rebounds into active infection. "The antitat gene offers the possibility of prolonging the latency period indefinitely without the need for long-term antiretroviral treatment," said Stuart ......s if they were objects. "This may be a result of a lifelong disinterest in people, and a failure to develop normal expertise for faces," said Robert Schultz, the study's principal investigator and director of the Neuroimaging Research Program in Autism at Yale. The three-year study resulted in the discovery o...New $35.5 million center for mind, brain and learning created at UW
...ms of change has profound long-range potential for lifelong adult education in such areas as learning a second language. Brain-behavior links - A basic goal in neuroscience is to link mind and brain, connecting changes in behavior with changes in the brain. Advanced brain mapping technology will permit non...With an eye on safety, UF experts explore cellular mechanisms of gene therapy
...has inherited a faulty version of a critical gene, lifelong disease may result. In gene therapy, researchers seek to reduce or eliminate disease symptoms by providing a patient with working copies of a corrective gene so that cells in the affected tissues may begin following a new set of marching orders. At U......itical role of the cerebral cortex in establishing lifelong memories. But the neurobiology underlying memory s...r information to be converted from short-term into lifelong memories." In a healthy brain, the hippocampal area stores information on a temporary basis, somewha......fers another way of encouraging a healthy diet for lifelong health-eating healthy foods helps you be a good parent by being a role model for your children. The study was published in the May issue of the Journal of The American Dietetic Association. "Parents who value being a good role model are more likely ...