Reducing allergens in the home helps inner-city children with asthma
...minate these allergens." Researchers followed more than 900 children ages 5 to 11 with asthma who live in inner-city areas in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle/Tacoma, Wash., and Tucson, Ariz. Research teams went to individual households and initiated measures to decrease levels of dust...New research suggests link between maternal diet and childhood leukemia risk
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...needed to grow forage for livestock may leave much more water available for human consumption, as well as ... Conditions for economic viability also need to be more fully explored. Thus, Mexican researchers take a keen interest in the U.S. project, taking pla...UCLA molecular biologists uproot the tree of life
...andparents." The research, based on an analysis of more than 30 genomes, was federally funded by the Natio... the fusion of organisms," Lake said. "As we learn more about the organisms that came together, we will learn more about their genetic background. The ring ......irs. That dimer, Compound 3, turned out to be much more active." The scientists believe the twinned molecule is more active because the Smac protein itself is a combination of two identical proteins, although the reas...Pneumococcal vaccine reduces ear infections, pneumonia, new study shows
...monia are common infections in children; there are more than seven million cases of ear infection and more than one half million cases of pneumonia each year. Poehling and colleagues studied data from Tenne...New evidence of radiation risk in childhood leukaemia
...nder-five age group, in whom the risk increased by more than 50 per cent during the second half of the cen...rease remain unclear and it is only by finding out more about the causes that we can establish whether it is possible to take preventive measures and halt t...Extreme stretch-growth of axons
...ved. To mimic extreme examples in nature and learn more about neuronal physiology, they have mechanically ...e inferred that axons in a blue whale's spine grow more than three centimeters a day and in a giraffe's neck at two centimeters a day at peak growth." The...For imitative parrots, wagging tongues may be key to vocalization
...own ability of parrots to mimic human speech. Even more intriguingly, lingual articulation may also underlie a speech-like formant system in the natural vocalizations of parrots....Heart gene yields insights into evolution, disease risk
...icated that the men would have suffered 43 percent more heart attacks had the positive selection for the g...utionary biologists, is directing us toward a new, more nuanced view of genetic variants which is that, in fact, variation is part of what it means to be hu...Imitative parrots just might tell you it's all in the tongue
... parrots, Beckers, Suthers andNelson hope to learn more about what structures are responsible for thatvariation in both birds and humans....Rising childhood leukaemia incidence prompts conference
...gestions that part of the increase has been due to more children surviving infancy to reach the peak age o...hairman of CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA) To announce more research funding by the charity Professor Michel Coleman (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medi...Genetic map of important tree genes outlined
...fore." Ultimately, the researchers believe that a more comprehensive understanding of tree genetics shoul...e with trees for centuries but control the process more scientifically, modifying the expression of specific natural or native genes for desired purposes. F...Research suggests unborn children may be at risk from environmental pollution
...nder five age group, in whom the risk increased by more than 50 per cent in the second half of the century alone. The causes of leukaemia in children are not well understood and the reasons for the increasing incidence are unknown. This is the driving force behind the conference Childhood leukaemia: inc...Recent evolution at a single gene may have brought down heart disease risk in some human groups
...he low-expression version of the gene are slightly more prone to atherosclerosis, the narrowing of the art...events among modern European males would have been more than 40% higher than it is had there not been selection for the high-expression variant. The cause o...Mitochondrial genes cause nuclear mischief
...kely to be found in non-coding "junk" DNA and much more likely to insert themselves within highly active genes. Such insertions can cause disease, as shown by the recent discovery of a hemophilia patient with a NUMT interrupting his clotting factor gene. Much remains to be learned about the functional an...'Defensive' action by influenza viruses demonstrated by Hebrew university researcher
...ces in leading drug researchers to develop new and more effective means to block influenza and other virus...channel. Arkin notes that the latter action is the more surprising and unexpected one. While counteraction of the virus to the drug has been previously note...As informatics grows, Indiana University helps set 'research agenda'
...new School of Informatics faculty members, and for more information about the conference "Informatics: Defining the Research Agenda," contact David Bricker at 812-856-9035 or brickerd@indiana.edu ....Long-term effects of carbon monoxide poisoning are an autoimmune reaction
... overall this work suggests that the 50 percent or more of patients who develop brain damage following severe CO poisoning may do so, in large part, due to an autoimmune reaction. The body simply does not know when to stop attacking what it now views as an invader. "This opens up a lot of possibilities, s...