When To Reproduce? It's All In The Timing
... carbon dioxide and bicarbonate, theyhypothesized, might provide a key. While the sun is shining, plants take up carbon as they carry outphotosynthesis. Brawley and her team reasoned that when water is being churnedby waves or tidal currents, the plants are constantly receiving new supplies ofcar...Jefferson Researchers First To Create Genetically Engineered Mouse To Study Photoaging
...ive means of studyingphotoaging and compounds that might protect against sun damage in livingtissue," explained Dr. Uitto. "When we exposed the mice to controlled solarsimulating irradiation in the lab we learned from the CAT reporter gene that thelight acts as a switch, resulting in up to a 30-fold incre...... tests such asMRIs, a test for the E4 form of ApoE might be a helpful supplemental tool forphysicians trying to make clinical diagnoses of different types of dementias.According to Dr. Creighton Phelps of the NIA, "we cannot underestimate theusefulness of increasing a physician's confidence in diagnosing a...Leftover Fetal Cells May Affect Development Of Scleroderma
...f very low levelsof non-self cells with one's own, might be involved in scleroderma, they did asecond substudy. Here they investigated whether a women who has given birth toa child with "compatible" immune cell markers known as human leukocyte antigens(HLA) class II has a greater risk of developing scler......ssay] to screen for small moleculeinhibitors which might be very useful in anticancer and antiproliferationdrugs," says Kirschner. The study was funded by two grants from the National Institutes ofHealth....Studies Underscore Link Between Nutrition And Nonmelanoma Skin Cancers
...said. "Another recommendation for persons at risk might be to increase theirintake of foods rich in Vitamin C to consume 500 milligrams per day. They alsomay benefit from increasing their intake of foods containing beta carotene, suchas carrots, sweet potatoes and broccoli." Vitamin E has been s...Study Links Viruses And Vascular Diseases
... that it may be possible, and we know whichviruses might be involved." The discovery at the School of Medic...'s entirely possible that both viruses andbacteria might be capable of damaging blood vessels and triggering disease."It's highly unlikely that one single ag...Wistar Scientists Identify New Tumor Suppressor Gene For Breast And Lung Cancer
...can better explain how mutations of the BRCA1 gene might alter thatprocess. Laboratory studies have revealed that BRCA1 and BAP1 form a complex inthe cell that controls BRCA1's activities, including its deterioration. The Wistar investigators have also learned that, like BRCA1, the BAP1 gene is acancer ...Intake Of Acetaminophen Increases Risk Of Excessive Anticoagulation In Patients Taking Warfarin
...nteffect and the patient could develop a clot that might travel to the brain andcause a stroke, too much an...ome previous research suggested that acetaminophen might increasewarfarin's blood-thinning effect, Hylek notes, this is the first largedemonstration of its i...University At Buffalo Energy-Conservation Projects Record Highest Savings Among Campuses
...nservation services andavoids rate structures that might compromise UB's energy-conservation efforts. A "green computing" awareness campaign aimed at reducing by nearly half the$400,000 the university spends each year to power computers, many of which areturned on -- but not in use -- for most of the day...GCTE/LUCC Open Science Conference:
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...ow researchers to look at other how other proteins might bind to DNA. Robinson and Wang teamed with Yi-Gui Gao, a research specialist in the U. of I. department of cell and structural biology, and Bradford S. McCrary, Stephen P. Edmonson and John W. Shriver, all of the department of medical biochemistry ...Dog Blindness Gene May Help Humans
...nsfer of the normal gene to diseased retinal cells might prevent orreverse the disease. Aguirre, Acland and Ray form the core of the Cornell team that has been responsible for most of the research to date on theunderlying causes of canine progressive retinal atrophy (PRA), a group of at least seven clinic...UPMC Researchers Report On Gene Therapy Advances
...ts of both IL-1 and TNFa, suggestthat gene therapy might treat not only local, but systemic diseases, includingosteoporosis and RA. Research using muscle cells to treat a variety of musculoskeletal problems isalso underway at the University of Pittsburgh. "Skeletal muscle cells have great potential for t...Heart and Soul: The Blood Vessels And Brain Use Common Guide
...ressed KDR. This suggests that neuropilin might impart a sense of direction to thegrowth of capill... movement, muchlike it repels neurons, he says, it might become a candidate angiogenesisinhibitor for cancer therapy. Klagsbrun seems to have a knack...New Gene Therapy Technique Results In 60 Percent Tumor Regression Rate
... to the tumor cells. "In some tumors, you might only need gene expression in 10 percent ofthe cells to be effective. But in other tumors, you might need expression in 25percent of the cells," he says. "Some cells take up the DNA very easily butothe...Wake Forest Study Shows Soy Containing A Key Ingredient Is What Lowers Cholesterol
... Western countries. Theysuspected that the soybean might be part of the difference, since soyconsumption is high in the Pacific Rim countries and uncommon in the West.Naturally occurring soy contains high concentrations of isoflavones, also knownas phytoestrogens. Studies in monkeys, mostly conduc...Soy Phytoestrogens Reduce Carotid Atherosclerosis As Much As Premarin
...nd a third hintedthat estrogen replacement therapy might actually be making strokes more severe. "Given the uncertainties about the effect of estrogens on stroke andstroke risk, it seemed to us important to place a major focus on the evaluationof internal carotid artery atherosclerosis, the lesion ...UNC-CH Researchers Discover Key Cancer Control Mechanism
...pment, the scientists say. After more research, it might bemanipulated to treat cancer more successfully or... Soon after the body detects damage to DNA that might lead to cancer,normally low levels of P53 skyrocket and halt cell proliferation similar to howa fire...... a way of limiting the number of children a couple might have and of providing more adequately for their needs. More recently, Price suggests, Malthus has come to be seen as a demographer. "In his own day, few censuses had been taken and little hard data were available. "Malthus could only guess at the ...