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... both groups, however T. forsythensis was detected more frequently in children without gingivitis appearing in 65% of the samples as opposed to 45% of the samples from kids with gingivitis. "The results of this study have shown that the three pathogens can be detected in the plaqu...Cockroach-like robot leads new research effort
..."Now we can ask questions like, 'What if you had a more compliant leg? What if you had two joints in that leg, what does that give you versus one joint?' We can start putting artificial muscles in. Of course, that will make a better robot, but that is not the goal of this program." Full has studied...NSF announces six 'FIBR' awards to tackle some of biology's most challenging questions
...y include the following (see separate profiles for more detail): "BeeSpace -- An Interactive Envir...niversity (Japan) Separate profiles below provide more details on each of the awards, along with principal investigators, team members and university media...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
.... A half billion years ago cyanobacteria predated more complex organisms like multi-cellular plants and functioned in a world where the oxygen level of the biosphere was much less than it is today. Over its very long life span, cyanobacteria has evolved a system to survive a gradually increasing oxidizi...Joslin researchers clarify mechanisms for beta-cell formation
...of clinical type 2 diabetes: The pancreas secretes more insulin and, in fact, more insulin-producing beta cells form within the pancreas. This formation of new beta cells is the focus...Wiley publishes Welcome to the Genome: A User's Guide to the Genetic Past, Present, and Future
...DNA is destiny may have spoken too soon; it is far more likely that we cannot even imagine the full ends of the discoveries we have started to make. WELCOME TO THE GENOME: A USER'S GUIDE TO THE GENETIC PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE is an essential guide for anyone interested in better understanding and parti...Folic acid vitamin use by women reaches all-time high, March of Dimes survey finds
...r. Howse said the March of Dimes survey found that more women seem to understand the importance of folic acid to the health of babies. A comparison of the eight previous surveys shows that 12 percent of women know that, to be effective, folic acid must be consumed before pregnancy -- up from only 2 perce...JCI table of contents September 15, 2004
... apoE/IP/ mice also demonstrated other mark-ers of more severe disease, compared with apoE/ mice. apoE/TP/...ted that low doses of aspirin, which inhibits TXA2 more than PGI2, has been used as anti-platelet therapy for the prevention of myocardial infarction and re...9/11 search-and-rescue dogs exhibit few effects from exposure to disaster sites
...'s School of Veterinary Medicine. "Since dogs age more rapidly than humans, they can serve as sentinels for human disease. We are encouraged that we do not see significant increases in cancer and respiratory diseases."The Penn researchers compared the dogs to a control group of search-and-rescue dogs th...Human chromosome 5 final sequence analysis released to public
...ome 5 is the 12th chromosome polished off, with 12 more to go. As the new sequence reveals, this chromosom...ay from chimpanzees. On average, the chromosome is more than 99 percent similar between chimpanzees and humans, with the greatest similarity found in genes ...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...els were only able to support slow oscillations at more depolarized potentials. 2.The Who's Who Signal in Electric Fish Bruce A. Carlson and Masashi Kawasaki The African fish Gymnarchus niloticus uses a weak, quasisinusoidal electric organ discharge (EOD) to both communicate and navigate. The p...Picking prostanoids to provide protection
... apoE/IP/ mice also demonstrated other mark-ers of more severe disease, compared with apoE/ mice. apoE/TP/...ted that low doses of aspirin, which inhibits TXA2 more than PGI2, has been used as anti-platelet therapy for the prevention of myocardial infarction and re...Protein is key to fatal disorder and normal cell function
...tured skin cells from patients, as these cells die more rapidly than their normal counterparts. Persaud-Sawin found that the normal cln3 protein resides in the Golgi, a cellular body that packages proteins for use and transport within a cell. Cln3 also appears in complex fat platforms, or lipid rafts, wit...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
... 84 percent of all clutches had been fertilized by more than one male. In addition, numerous male frogs ty...h animals that undergo internal fertilization, for more than one male to impregnate a female. And unlike the females of some frog species, the common frog w...Simian virus 40 not associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, study shows
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) patients are no more likely than healthy people to have been exposed to or infected by simian virus 40 (SV40), a macaque polyomavirus that contaminated poliovirus vaccines in the mid-20th century, according to a new study in the September 15 issue of the Journal of the ...Peering inside the body, with a new spinliterally
...e in a strong magnetic field. NMR pioneers noticed more than a half-century ago that they could get better...sample oriented in this so-called magic angle, the more structural detail they obtained. "This was very fast spinning, an ultra-centrifuge, thousands of rot...Genetically modified bacterium as remedy for intestinal diseases
...lmost exclusively in the industrialized world, and more often in cities than in the country. Genetically modified Lactococcus In its natural form, the Lactococcus lactis bacterium is a house, garden, and kitchen bacterium. Dairy product manufacturers use large quantities of the bacterium to ferment milk...Byproduct of water-disinfection process found to be highly toxic
...f new DBPs, and these unregulated DBPs may be much more toxic, by orders of magnitude, than the regulated ... to chlorine disinfectant, which has been used for more than 100 years. Other alternatives are chlorine-dioxide and ozone. All treatments react to compoun...Pioneering AIDS researcher to speak at UH
...eached phase-I human trial, as well as discuss two more vaccines under development. These vaccines under ...o UH by C-100, a national organization composed of more than 100 of the most influential Chinese Americans in the United States, Hos lecture is also sponsor...TANGO: towards faster prognosis of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases?
...VIB researchers also expect that TANGO will enable more efficient production of proteins for medical or industrial applications. The yield of these production processes is often low, because the proteins stick to each other and are therefore difficult to purify. With TANGO, one can determine under what co...