Vaccine put into tomatoes shows promise fighting virus in lab tests
... system -- immune cells along the nose, throat and mouth -- where the RSV virus first enters. The antibodies created by the immune response go after the F glycoprotein, which is responsible for the initial attachment of RSV to its target cells in the body. "This paper establishes a vaccine approach to th......illies occurs because the nervous receptors in the mouth that send pain signals when burnt are also stimula...you eat a lot of chillies, some nerve cells in the mouth die, " said Dr Klieber. "You then need more spice to get the same effect, which explains why some pe...Searching for new medications to treat alcoholism
Naltrexone is a prescription medication taken by mouth that helps reduce drinking in alcoholics. Naltrex...ce drinking in alcoholics. Naltrexone is taken by mouth and quickly metabolized in the liver to a number of different compounds or metabolites that can be m...December Geology and GSA Today highlights
...as former productivity: Two trillion shells at the mouth of the Colorado River. Michal Kowalewski et al. Biological productivity of the Colorado River delta is about 5% of what it was before the mighty Colorado's water was diverted for human uses. Since the 1930's theres been a drastic reduction in the n...NASA space technology shines light on healing
...ight-emitting diodes to promote healing of painful mouth ulcers caused by cancer therapies such as radiation and chemotherapy. The treatment is quick and painless. The wound-healing device is a small, 3.5-inch by 4.5-inch (89-millimeter by 114-millimeter), portable flat array of LEDs, arranged in rows ...Scientists study life of economically important blue crab
... Chesapeake Bay head for the salty waters near the mouth of the estuary to spawn the next generation of their species. But exactly when and where they go and how they get there is a mystery. Such questions are no small matter, because blue crabs are one of the most economically and ecologically important...Sea grant study indicates potentially harmful human viruses in coastal waters
... mouths. Of these four only the Los Angeles river mouth also registered as having high fecal bacteria levels, the standard criteria for evaluating water quality, closing beaches and monitoring compliance with federal clean water laws. Because the presence of the virus did not correspond with high bacteria...Nanopore detector shows discriminating taste in DNA molecules
...ho heads the nanopore project in Deamer's lab. The mouth of the pore in the alpha-hemolysin ion channel is ... a single atom.) Double-stranded DNA can enter the mouth of the pore, but the channel then narrows to less than 2 nanometers, so that only single-stranded DN...Saline solution a serious threat to wetlands
... and one of our important wetlands lies around the mouth of the Murray River. For years, Dr David Paton of ...husband Peninsula runs for 150 kilometres from the mouth to Kingston," said Dr Paton. "Behind it is this great lagoonal system like a big appendix. About 50 ...Scientists determine how chemistry keeps weird worms "out of hot water" at steaming deep-sea vents
... seafloor near hydrothermal vents. It has no eyes, mouth or stomach. Instead, this worm relies on the billions of bacteria that live inside it to make food. Using the analyzer in a tubeworm colony, the scientists confirmed that this animal resides in waters up to 30C (86F), and its bacteria require hydroge...Researchers pinpoint how tubeworm babies are dispersed to colonize new vent sites
...ntists found that tubeworm larvae do not develop a mouth in the first 34 days of development, so they cant obtain energy from food during this period to help them weather their ride on the currents.Instead, they must rely on an internal fuel supply. To determine how much energy the babies have, the scienti...Neuroscientist studies brains of bizarre-looking mammals
...ed entirely outside of their mouththey close their mouth tightly when they are using their teeth for digging. They also can move each front tooth independently. Fully 30 percent of the mole rats cortex is devoted to processing information from the region where the teeth are located, Catania says....Leptospirosis raising health concern among companion animal owners
...your veterinarian knows for sure. While foot and mouth and mad cow diseases have dominated news headlines in recent months, another disease is raising health concerns among owners of companion animals across the country, according to a Kansas State University veterinarian. Leptospirosis is a bacterial i...Device liberates quadriplegic from ventilator
...ventilator fills his lungs with air, bypassing the mouth and nose and depriving him of the sense of smell. And he breathes when the machine forces him to take a breath. Conlan, 36, of Valley City, Ohio, is now the first person in the world to have a revolutionary electrical stimulation device that activat......This marine relative of earthworms does not have a mouth or gut, and harbors sulfide-oxidizing bacteria as its primary symbiotic partner. These symbionts use sulfide as an energy source for the fixation of carbon dioxide into organic compounds, which are passed on to the host. Sulfide concentrations in the...Nature sights and sounds can ease pain of common lung procedure
...and anxiety of inserting tubes through the nose or mouth to see the lungs," reports Noah Lechtzin, M.D., a ...bout the diameter of a pencil, through the nose or mouth through which doctors can see the throat and lungs and collect lung secretions or tissue specimens. ...Tea fights cavities, reduces plaque
...nterfering with the harmful plaque bacteria in the mouth that cause gum disease and cavities. They report ...ts an earlier Swedish study that found rinsing the mouth with black tea significantly reduced plaque build-up. "It is our belief of these researchers that t...Earliest chewing herbivore ever found spurred vertebrate life on land, scientists find
...dwelling herbivores started processing food in the mouth and a great increase in animal diversity," he notes. "So you can say that the evolution of the modern terrestrial ecosystem with lots of herbivores supporting a few top predators is based on animals efficiently eating the greenery on land." This ty...Scientists sequence genome of major periodontal disease bacterium
...han 35 million Americans have periodontitis. The mouth is teeming with bacteria, most of which do not cause disease. But when the largely gram-positive community of bacteria that normally live in the spaces between the gums and teeth are displaced by gram-negative anaerobic bacteria, periodontitis sets ......gen fixation in spirochetes that inhabit the human mouth and the intestinal tract of cows, but those spirochetes did not perform nitrogen fixation - either because the genes no longer function that way or only do so under yet unknown conditions. Most people think of termites in terms of their destructivepo...