Shuttle Mission's "Neurolab" To Study Nervous System
...eafness caused by hair cell damage. The electrode might alsosomeday be used as an interface to signal motor prostheses how and when to move. Tracking the progress of the snails and fish flying aboard Columbia willbe scientists on The Aquatic Team, as they're known to shuttle crewmembers. Resea...Adults Need To Increase Intake Of Folate; Some Women Should Take More
WASHINGTON -- Women who might become pregnant need 400 micrograms of folic acidper day to reduce their risk of having a child with neural tube defects,according to the latest report on Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) from theInstitute of Medicine. The report -- the second in a ...Scientists Discover A Secret Of Bacterial Communication
...chhas revealed a way in which the biofilm fortress might be attacked. Dr. E.P.Greenberg, University of Iowa...ed to other bacteria and if so, how theinformation might be used to dislodge or impair the biofilms. The scientistshope that this finding will lead to the pr...MSU Scientists Eavesdrop On Bacterial
...N, MT--If bacteria could talk, their conversations might go something likethis: "Stay with us , in this nice place, and make slime or we'll all floatoff and starve to death." Or, "It's too crowded here. Let's colonize somewhereelse." Bacteria, in fact, do speak a chemical language, and sc...Spinal Cord Injury Treatment May Improve With New Findings On Nervous System Damage
... oligodendrocytes after brain or spinalcord injury might keep intact axons in action. A chance observation ...icinein St. Louis to discover how oligodendrocytes might die after catastrophes inthe central nervous system and how this loss might be prevented. John W.Mc...Retinoic Acid Used In Cancer Treatment
...fective in chemotherapy. As a result, oncologists might be able to fine-tune the chemotherapy cocktails given not only to leukemia patients but also to patients with other types of cancer, Yen suggests. "In the meantime," he says, "I think we're adding evidence that an adequate supply of caroten...Human Bone Disorder Reproduced In Mice
...h. The investigators felt that the same principle might applyto individual lesions in MAS patients. If on...utant cells were present at aparticular site, they might not survive long enough to form even abnormaltissue. When the investigators examined stromal cells f...Researchers Discover How Ulcer Bug Becomes Antibiotic-Resistant
...pair differed significantly from each other, which might suggest that resistance was due to an extra piece ...sufficient to kill allthe H. pylori cells a person might carry. That person therefore would accumulate resistant strains, selected by the drug, and sensitive...Reduced Nutrients Still Cause Problems In The Neuse And Tar-Pamlico Rivers
... Contentnea Creek (a tributary of the Neuse River) might be necessary to attain the water-quality guidelines. "Mid- to late summer is usually when fishkills and nuisance algal blooms occur in rivers and estuaries because environmental conditions are more favorable for rapid algal growths at this time," sai...Purdue Herbarium -- A Noah's Ark For Egyptian Plants
...lping inventory and preserve plants that otherwise might be lost as the water flows in. Almost 90 percent of Egypt's 62 million people live on just 4 percent of its territory, a narrow swath of land along the Nile River. Population density along the water's edge is 5,000 people per square mile. Beyond them...Researchers Identify Protein Critical To Urine Concentration
...in mice is likely to be informative," he says, "as might the screening for aquaporin mutations in genetic diseases associated with abnormalities of fluid balance." ###...Fruits And Vegetables Protect Lungs
...uggested that beta carotene and other antioxidants might protect against lung cancer. Knowing the biology ...Cassano and Hu hypothesized that antioxidants also might protect lung function. Their study is the first to report the effects of beta carotene and selenium ...High Blood Pressure Caused By Salt Retention May Be Related To Oncogenes Implicated In Cancer
...and how kidney diseases begin and how hypertension might be controlledmore successfully. The research was supported by a grant from the National Institutes ofHealth....Florida Or Bust? Older Lab Rats Seek Heat To Fight Infection, UD Researchers Report
... as corticosterone, which inhibits fever. Or, they might have lowerlevels of interleukins, the immune-response factors that promote fever. Aninfection triggers the production of these and other chemicals in the brain,Satinoff notes, and complex neurological reactions may be mediated by exposureto heat. "Ou...Jefferson Scientists Link Some Cases Of Scleroderma To Damage From Lingering Fetal Cells
... is to try to determine whether the fetal cells might actually cause the GVHD, and in turn, systemic sclerosis. "We’re trying to isolate the cells that carry the male chromosome and see what kinds of cells they are," he says. "We would like to show that those cells are stimulating ...Biochemist Solves Riddle Of Collagen Stability
...hat must be destroyed," Raines said. "That process might be triggered when collagen begins to unfold." Collagen therapy could work much like bone or skin grafting, where new material replaces the lost or damaged tissue, he said. Some early, experimental studies are also looking at collagen as a raw materia...Scientists Find Further Global Warming Evidence In Temperature Reconstruction Study
...with morefrequent flooding. The planet as a whole might expect to see frequent extremeweather events, Mann... is, we don't really knowwhat the regional impacts might be," said Mann. Researchers' studies of certain individual years were particularlyintriguing...Duke Researchers Genetically Engineer Mice To Block Heart Enlargement
...roughout the body, to see if their molecular decoy might be aneffective anti-hypertension strategy, in addition to blocking enlargement of theheart.......if so, whether a human equivalent to Ndt80 orRad17 might be involved in progression through the pachytene stage of spermdevelopment. Other research groups have reported a burst in cyclin synthesis at thepachytene stage of meiosis in both fly and mouse that resembles the actions ofNdt80. This ...Aspirin's Preventive Action In Heart Attacks Tied To Genetics
... people at risk for heart attacksand heart disease might benefit mostly from daily doses ofaspirin and which people might need other non-aspirin drugs to gain the sameeffect. The study by Ohio State University researchers ...