Preclinical safety study shows adipose-derived stem cells improve heart function after heart attack
...d in 13 juvenile swine by balloon occlusion of the mid left anterior descending artery. Forty-eight hours after the infarction, adipose cells were harvested through a lipectomy, autologous regenerative cells were isolated, and the pigs were randomized to either an intracoronary infusion of saline (contro...XsalF comes to the fore in brain regionalization
...he gene's expression was required in the early and mid neurula stages, when the developing brain undergoes regionalization. They then confirmed the specificity of this requirement for XsalF by injecting morpholinos (short nucleotide chains that block the function of a targeted gene), which gave similar r...'Trap' crop saves Texas cross timbers melon production
...unt for the cause of yellow vine disease since the mid 1990s. In 1991, yellow vine disease made its premier performance in Texas and Oklahoma, striking melon and cantaloupe fields with a vengeance. Some fields were completely wiped out. By the mid-1990s, it was clear the melon industry throughout the re...New research finds summer-born women have fewer children
...rn women in Canada, which found that women born in mid to late summer and early autumn had below average ...men that showed fewer children among women born in mid to late summer and early autumn," said Dr Huber. "We found that the women born in July had 0.3 few...East Texas feral hog numbers skyrocketed in last decade
...were rapidly rising in East Texas starting in the mid 1980s. But the survey indicated the rate of increase since the mid 1990s was nearly double of that of the early 1990s. This rapid increase came as a surprise, said Dr....Gene-rich human Chromosome 19 sequence completed
...d by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the mid 1990s led to the mapping of multiple DNA-repair genes on chromosome 19. In 1999, the sequencing and finishing projects were transferred to the JGI and the Stanford Human Genome Center, respectively. Unlike earlier draft human genome sequences, this v...Survey reports fall in stem cell transplants for breast cancer
...in breast cancer treatment soared in the early and mid 1990s but the dramatic fall that begin in 1997 as clinical trials showed it appeared to be of little benefit continues, according to new figures published in the April edition of Annals of Oncology[1]. Nearly 28,000 stem cell transplants were carrie...A picture is worth a thousand miles not traveled to measure the fossil of an ancient sea creature
...become abundant in scientific literature since the mid 1800s, a team of Virginia Tech researchers is determining whether measuring photos of fossils collected worldwide would be a reliable way to compile body size data. Richard A. Krause Jr. of Greenfield, Wis., a PhD. student in the Department of Geosci...The biological clock: What really makes us tick
...ak time for heart attacks and strokes is typically mid morning. The mystery behind biological clocks also is key to understanding how sleep-wake cycle disruptions lead to various types of depression and may ultimately uncover ways to better cope with shift work and jet lag. Hardin's enthusiasm for th...Collapse of seals, sea lions & sea otters in North Pacific triggered by overfishing of great whales
...arly 70's - early 80's) then fur seals (mid 70's - mid 80's), sea lions (late 70's - 90 's) and finally sea otters (90's - today), the killer whales targeted populations of small, coastal marine mammals. The authors surmise that killer whales may have preferred harbor seals and fur seals to sea lions be...Development of hair depends on development of the hair channel
...ew research comes with a surprising twist. In the mid 1990s, at the University of Chicago, Fuchs and col...dentifying Lef1 as a hair precursor protein in the mid 1990s, the researchers found last March that the inhibition of an extracellular signaling protein ca...Warming temperatures put tufted puffin at risk
... appear to be closer to the warm period during the mid 90s. St. Clair said that it is certain that human activities are contributing to the global warming. "The first thing we can do as a society is be aware of how important seemingly small differences in the environment may be to other organisms," she s...Lead poisoning still threatens albatross chicks on Midway Atoll
...U.S. Naval Air Facility until it was closed in the mid 1990s. The decommissioned military base, which was designated a National Wildlife Refuge in 1988, is home to the world's largest breeding population of Laysan albatrosses, or "gooney birds," so-named for their awkward crash landings. A 1994 study sho...NASA biotechnology activities enhancing quality of life
...sis. Amgen discovered osteoprotegerin (OPG) in the mid 1990s, and is conducting human clinical trials to evaluate its safety and effectiveness in treating osteoporosis and its ability to maintain bone density in cancer that has metastasized to bone. "OPG appears to prevent bone loss in a variety of disea...Solid management, natural resilience both key to sockeye success
...k of rivers and lakes. Through the 1950s, '60s and mid '70s, when conditions tended to be cooler and drier because of the influence of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, the Naknek and Kvichak network far exceeded the other two districts. The dominant contribution was from Lake Iliamna, the United State's ...Virginia Tech inventions, creations can improve lives
...thern California, can produce large, firm fruit by mid spring. The large, elongated fruit has a narrow cavity, making it structurally more sound than other cultivars. Emily has small red thorns and a moderate ability to produce subordinate shoots from the root (suckering). The University of Maryland, Col......was a co-founder of this branch of research in the mid nineteen eighties as a result of his activities with what is known as medium curvature flow. Since that time he has constantly been at the forefront of research in this area. The theory of surface evolution developed by Gerhard Huisken not only lead...Leatherback sea turtles careening towards extinction
...turtle whose numbers became dangerously low in the mid 1980's. Kemp's ridleys sank to about 300 nesting females per year before their decline was reversed by an international effort, protecting them on their nesting beaches in Mexico and by requiring turtle excluder devices (TEDs) in U.S. and Mexican tr...CWRU researcher reveals differences in high-altitude living
...ibetan highlanders at similar altitudes was in the mid to high 80s. "This raised the question of how did they achieve this? We looked to see if they had normal hemoglobin or a special form of hemoglobin, but they did not," explains Beall. "It seems that people living at high altitude in Ethiopia ha......th global oceanic anoxia, extinction events in the mid Maastrichtian (69 Ma) and at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary (65 Ma), a biotic event in the late Paleocene (58.4 Ma) that may be associated with rapid climate change, an abrupt warming event at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary (55.5 Ma), and a ra...