Hepatitis C is not a 'silent disease'
...Metric, Inc. in Lincoln,Rhode Island. "The disease limits patients substantially in terms of what they are able to do and howthey feel," says Ware. Successful treatment improves quality of life and is likely to lead to areduced need for health care services and increased productivity at work, according to ...Electronic dental anesthesia helps allay needle injection pain
... were not outside the normal limits for children withor without the presence of EDA, the degree of discomfort seemed to be more controlled with EDA," Wilson said. "Administering a local anesthetic alone can incr...Fragment of AIDS virus may be used to deliver therapeutic proteins to cells
...cannot penetrate the fat-based cell membrane. The limits imposed by the bioavailability wall are stringent. For example,the cell membrane will not transduce proteins larger than about six amino acids.Yet even small human proteins contain about 150 amino acids. Beta-galactosidasecontains over 1,000 amino ac...USGS studies wildfire ecology in the western United States
...of the game." One major constraint is smoke, which limits the amount of prescribed burning that can be done. Fire managers must work to stay within the bounds of clear air standards, and limit the amount of smoke descending on local communities. Stephenson says that while only a few prescribed fires create ...Newly released satellite images of Antarctica a valuable scientific benchmark
...re a regionwhere life approaches its environmental limits and they stand in stark contrastto most of the world's other ecosystems, which exist under far more moderateenvironmental conditions. Less than two percent of the Antarctic continent is ice-free. The DryValleys region is the largest of seve...Global warming threatens state's quality of life
...ple listen. If California says it is going to put limits on automobile exhaust emissions, then people listen because it is a big market." The report has a list of places to begin. "We do think that there are steps which can be taken by Californians to reduce the risks," Davis said. "For example, we need ...Air pollution from Asia could violate new federal ozone standard
...allenge and hasnot yet taken effect, includes time limits for how long ozone levels can remain at or above 80 partsper billion. It would replace the current standard that allows concentrations of 120 parts perbillion. Eventually, air at 20,000 feet is likely to mix into the lower atmosphere, but it is unce...Team led by MSU biologist finds bacteria deep in Antarctic ice
... findings indicatethat the microbial world has few limits on our planet." Priscu's team, along with two other groups studying Vostok ice, will publish its findingsin the Dec. 10 issue of the journal Science. The team includes seven MSU scientists plus scientists from the University of Alabama,the U.S. G...Bacteria may thrive in Antarctic lake
...search shows us that the microbial world has few limits on our planet," said Priscu. He added that Lake Vostok "is one of the last unexplored oases for life" on Earth. The teams also conclude microbes could thrive in other, similarly hostile, places in the solar system. Lake Vostok is thought......eral kilometers below the ocean floor. Pressure limits the range of extremophiles less than temperature does. Most microorganisms can survive pressure 600 times atmospheric pressure, which corresponds to a depth of six kilometers. At that depth in most locations the temperature likely exceeds 120 degrees...Abgenix to become sole owner of Xenomouse fully human antibody technology
...echnology deals executed to date as well as remove limits on the number and form of deals Abgenix can do in the future. For example, our recently completed multi-product alliances with two leading genomics companies, Human Genome Sciences and CuraGen, will be facilitated by this transaction." Under the arr...Large air pollution center established at NYU School of Medicine
...when the EPA issued new regulations tightening the limits for particulate matter in the air to cover particles smaller than 2.5 microns (a human hair is 100 microns thick). Industry claimed that the rules, which covered ozone too, would be enormously costly and wouldn't significantly improve people's health...New technique shows scalability of DNA computing
...he silicon chips that power it, is approaching the limits of miniaturization. DNA computing, says Smith, is one potential way around that barrier. But current DNA computing technology, Smith emphasized, is still far from overtaking the silicon chip. The new method reported by the Wisconsin scientists, he s...Exposures to second-hand smoke lower than believed, ORNL study finds
...matter (RSP), for example, were considerably below limits established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for the workplace. Subjects, who were non-smokers, wore pumps that sampled the air they were breathing while at work for a minimum of four hours. Researchers recorded a maximum ...Playing the odds: Can you stop abusing alcohol at 10 years and be OK?
... to recognize in order to understand his scope and limits of what he can do in a day, in a joband for the rest of his life." She added: "They're also very important to help the rehabilitationtherapist guide rehabilitative efforts." Beatty's study compared the test results of recovering alcoholics who were ...Marine biology course uses Antarctica as its classroom
... and their strategies for surviving at the extreme limits of life on earth. "This is one of the frontiers left in biology," noted instructor Adam Marsh, of the University of Southern California, in an opening lecture. "There are a lot of interesting questions still unanswered about how these o...LDL receptor reduces LDL production, removes cholesterol from blood
...iscovering the mechanism by which the LDL receptor limits apoB and LDL production. The research was supported by state funding to the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and a grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.......sly. The larger question is: What are the ultimate limits on speed? Is it muscle power, or the strength of the bones and tendons? Kram hopes to learn principles that will tell him how large, extinct animals moved, including mammoths, mastodons and dinosaurs. Many of the principles discovered are now being c...Susan Okie receives microbiology communcations award
...come in combating pathogenic agents as well as the limits of modern science in fighting age-old scourges at the dawn of a new century," said The Washington Post Science Editor Rob Stein, who nominated her for the award. A native of Los Angeles, Okie has been reporting for The Washington Post since 1979. Sh......s in internationally agreed testing procedures and limits on contamination. Smith thinks a 01 per cent limit...ally feasible or defensible," he says. But such limits would raise another dilemma-who shoulders the responsibility if the threshold is breached? Farmers t...