New RNA Repair May Lead To More Successful Gene Therapy
... produced." The new gene therapy technique might work with many other geneticillnesses as well, he said. Co-authors of the report are Drs. Victoria Emerick of SmithKlineBeecham in Collegetown, Pa., and Drs. Daniel Suter and Daniel Schumperli of BernUniversity's Zoological Institute. ......ology and molecular biology & pharmacology. "Or it might beprotective in the setting of brain diseases by p...culate that such an effecton structural plasticity might provide a common mechanism for thedisadvantageous effects of apoE4 in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson...Social Stress Shortens Lives Of Monkeys With AIDS
...ilability of support services for people with AIDS might buffer some of the negative effects of socially induced stresses," Capitanio said. Details of Capitanio's earlier, retrospective study of social separation, housing and simian AIDS will appear in the May 22 issue of the journal Psychosomatic Medicine...Research Into Cockroach Behavior Could Lead To Better Baits
...seem to go hungry, so she theorized a chemical cue might guide their forays into the kitchens of the world....helps them find safe haven. Miller thought roaches might also use pheromones in scavenging for food. She developed an extract from roach feces and began test...Inhibitor Shows Potential To Protect Infant Brain
... the idea that compounds called caspase inhibitors might minimize the brain damage that results from blood and oxygen shortage. Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that one such compound protects newborn rats from damage. "To our knowledge, this is the fir...The First Rejection: Eggs Sequester Bits Of Sperm For Later Elimination
...he egg!" says Karr. "It became clear that the tail might be involved in the embryo's early development." Now, using fluorescence staining, Karr and Pitnick have tracked the fate of the giant sperm tails of two species of fruit fly, D. melanogaster and D. pachea, throughout embryogenesis. They noticed th...Birds Sing The 'Story Of Their Lives,' Theorize Duke Biologists
...ds sing to attract mates, the qualityof their song might directly portray their fitness, say Duke Universit...kelyto undergo stress." Such stress, Nowicki said, might consist of the nutritionalstress a nestling faces during the rapid growth period songbirds typically...Eating Less Fat At One Meal May Lead To Higher Fat Intake Later
...or carbohydrate intakein an attempt to lose weight might be in for a bigger battle than they expected. A new study found that people who ate low-fat or low-carbohydrate lunchescompensated by eating more fat or carbohydrates at other meals. The resultwas that participants consumed similar levels of fat a...Wistar Research Yields Information About Colorectal Cancer Cell Invasion
...giveinsight into the immunological mechanisms that might underlie the possibleclinical effects of the vaccine. Both humoral and cellular immune responseshave been shown to play important roles in the control of tumor growth. The Wistar Institute, established in 1892, was the first independent medicalrese...Some AIDS Patients May Show Resistance To Sulfa Drugs
...ausing the mutations and exactly how the mutations might interfere with sulfa. Kazanjian and Meshnick say study results indicate that the mutations are a recent occurrence. The research team found no evidence of mutations in any of the samples prior to 1995. Sulfa targets pneumocystis at the genetic level...Cystic Fibrosis Gene Protects Against Typhoid Fever
.... The researchers hypothesized that other bacteria might interact with CFTR in asimilar manner. Finding no...stinal pathogen would bedelivered orally, and thus might be useful for stimulating immunity at themucosal surfaces that line the stomach and gut. AIDS resea...New Machine Slashes Time, Cost To Make Unique Lenses
...endoscopes to see inside the body. The new machine might alsoprovide a cheaper way to produce aspheric elements that are foundin the $500,000 lenses now used to make computer chips by tracingout integrated circuits on wafers of silicon. "Aspheres are better than spherical lenses in theseapplications b...Perkin-Elmer To Introduce New Instrument Based On Breakthrough DNA Analysis Technology
...rrency exchange rates; and (11) other factors that might be describedfrom time to time in Perkin-Elmer's filings with the Securities and ExchangeCommission.......rs could determine at what bloodpressure a patient might be a risk of stroke or "silent stroke" -- a gradua...ave strokes," he said. "Part of the reason might be we don't know how low they can go safelyand we haven't had a way to measure that risk," Absher sa...High-pressure Oxygen Therapy Could Offer Widespread Benefits
...here is clinical and animal data to suggest thatit might help, but the studies are not conclusive. So it's ...round forresearch. There's reason to think that it might help but it's yet to be proven.It needs more research." Thom has been studying HBOT to under...ACE Gene Linked To High Blood Pressure In Men But Not Women
...op better-targeted treatments. "In thefuture, we might be able to tailor therapy differently for someone with agenetic predisposition," or even find ways to prevent the disease, saysO'Donnell. He and other scientists from the Framingham Heart Study of the National Heart,Lung, and Blood Institute examine...Schmidt-Nielsen Autobiography Details Scientific Adventures
...d Press, 1998). While his students and colleagues might think of the distinguished, soft-spokenSchmidt-Nielsen as a much-honored researcher and teacher, he spins talesin his book of daring round-the-world scientific adventures from Saigonto the Sahara, from the Arctic to the Amazon, during which he conduc...Biggest Acoustics Meeting Ever
...hsynthesis technology, including how conversations might be held between machines and humans in thefuture (June 22); Neville Fletcher of the Australian National Institute ( neville.fletcher@anu.edu.a ) willexplain how one can tinker with the rich mathematical properties of musical instruments such as clari...Fetal Lead Exposure May Reduce Immunity
...the rats' lower body weight, to levels that humans might receive in water from old buildings with lead pipes and lead-based solder in pipe connections, and other sources. The fetuses and newborn rats exposed to lead grew just as fast as those without lead exposure, the Cornell scientists reported. But w......gnition sites blocked, the T cells that attack PLP might be unable to bindto and destroy myelin. Patients therefore might remain in remission. "We wouldlike to perform a pilot study in five to six years," Trotter says. A g...