Duke researchers find existing drugs can stop fungus that attacks AIDS patients
...ive anti-fungal drug, called fluconazole, requires lifetime therapyin AIDS patients and has side effects such as nausea and kidney disease. The researchers found the immunosuppressive drugs cyclosporin and FK506,which are used to treat organ transplant recipients, prevent C. neoformansfrom growing at bo...Stopping "Cellular Suicide" Could Boost Production In Biotech Labs
...roductive lives. "Ideally, we'd like to extend the lifetime of these cells andincreasetheir efficiency in making biotech products that save people'slives," saysBetenbaugh, an associate professor in the Department of ChemicalEngineering. His research has important implications. If scientists find a wayto stopc...Long-Time NIH Grantee Wins Nobel Prize In Chemistry
... "The Nobel Prize recognizes Dr. Boyer for a lifetime spent investigating the molecular mechanism by which ATP--the cellular energy that drives all biological reactions--is formed," said Dr. Marvin Cassman, NIGMS Director. "Determining how ATP is synthesized has...Biogenic Emissions Higher Than Expected Over African Savanna
...ow-altitude ozone formation and in the atmospheric lifetime of methane -- a greenhouse gas. Isoprene fluxes from the African forest are lower than those reported for a tropical rain forest in the Amazon basin. EXPRESSO gathered data during the dry season in November and December 1996 along a 800-kilomet...Duke Researchers Develop First Treatment For Rare Muscle Disease
... generate its ownenzyme and eliminate the need for lifetime injections of the enzyme. "We are hopeful that eventually we will be able to provide a child bornwith Pompe disease several options for treatment, and even a cure, within ourlifetime," Chen said....Population Growth Costs Include Global Warming Impact
...ve taken the concept a step further byfiguring the lifetime cost to society of each person in terms of impact onliving standards and the environment. Costs are substantial, ranging from morethan $100,000 per person in high-income countries to about $2,500 per person inthe lowest-income countries. "Th...Study Finds Some People Are 'Born To Smoke'
...ne in three kids who sample acigarette will become lifetime tobacco customers, and vulnerable to tobacco'sadverse health effects. For that reason, he says, it's critical to reduce thenumber of teens who smoke that "first" cigarette. Previous studies have indicated the propensity to smoke is transmittedgenet...Stanford Microbiologist Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
...h is given tohonor a distinguished scientist for a lifetime of outstanding contributions infundamental biomedical research in any of the microbiological sciences, will bepresented at the General Meeting of the ASM, May 17-21, 1998 in Atlanta,Georgia. Dr. Yanofsky, who is being recognized for his discoveries i...Comprehensive Nutritional Status In Patients With Long-Standing Crohn Disease Currently In Remission
...remission, especially in male patients with a high lifetime prednisone dose. A comprehensive nutritional assessment seems superior to the assessment of a single dimension of nutritional status. Am J Clin Nutr 1998;67:919-26....Schmidt-Nielsen Autobiography Details Scientific Adventures
...h the Emperor and Empress of Japan. He alsoholds a lifetime investigatorship from the National Institutes of Health. These honors came because of the success of his life's work on the studyof how animals adapt to environmental extremes that would seem impossible.For example, he and his colleagues discovered ...COGA Genome Scan Suggests Linkage On Chromosomes 1,2,4, And 7
... Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism (SSAGA) lifetime psychiatric interview designed for this study. They then examined 291 DNA markers at an average interval of 13.8 centiMorgans using state-of-the-art statistical methods to detect alcoholism susceptibility loci across affected, unaffected, and discord...Duke Researchers Finds That Moderate Caffeine Use Boosts Blood Pressure, Potential For Heart Disease
... a person's riskof developing heart disease over a lifetime of moderate caffeine consumption,according to a Duke University researcher. In a study of 19 habitual coffee drinkers who wore "ambulatory"blood-pressure monitors throughout their daily jobs, the researcher found thatthe equivalent of four ...Relatives Of People with Colorectal Polyps Face Increased Risk For Colorectal Cancer
...lation risk of developing colorectal cancer over a lifetime is 6 percent to7 percent. If a person has a relative with adenoma, the risk rises to about 10percent to 12 percent. The study also found that therisk was higher if the affected relative was diagnosed with polyps at a youngerage. The relatives were no...Research Shows That If One Identical Twin Is Prey To Nightmares, Often The Other Is Too
...re likely to be hospitalised at least oncein their lifetime for mental illness, the researchers reported last week at ameeting on sleep research in New Orleans. "We don't know if it's causative orco-occurring," says Hublin. Author: Alison Motluk PLEASE MENTION NEW SCIENTIST AS THE SOURCE OF THIS ARTIC...Fatal Frog Fungus Found In The United States
...ically find few dead animals lying uneatenduring a lifetime of fieldwork, yet Lips collected some 50 during one trip. Shesent samples to D. Earl Green, now at the National Institutes of Health. Hefound odd, microscopic round bodies in the skin. "These were quite a conundrum," he says. Pathologist Lee Berger ...Ecological Consequences Of Jasmonate-Induced Responses For Plants In Native Populations
...induction on nicotine production, herbivory and lifetime viable seed production was determined. The roo...e of the tobacco specialist, Manduca sexta).The lifetime production of viable seed was measured from all plants to determine the fitness consequences o......ish descent,which translates to about a 15 percent lifetime breast cancer risk for thisgroup of women with the APC mutation as compared to a breast cancer risk ofabout 10 percent for all women in the general population. The current study estimateis based on blood samples drawn from a group of women of Ashke...NASA Using Space Incubator To Understand Breast Cancer
...trip to Mars is predicted to provide approximately lifetime cancer risk for 30 year-old males of about 28% as compared to 20% on Earth. This is unacceptably high, and scientists are trying to reduce it to about 23%. Because the radiation cancer risk to women is projected to be substantially greater - largely ......isability of losing an arm or leg are followedby a lifetime of other disturbing effects. For them, a touch on the face feelslike a touch on the lost limb; the missing fingers or toes seem to be movingtoward the remaining stump; and pain can persist in the limb that is long gone. Many people are at risk for t...