Sequence provides insights into a pathogen's virulence mechanism allowing for vaccine development
...sive infection in susceptible hosts, which include newborn infants, pregnant women, and adults with underlying chronic illnesses. The number of neonatal S. agalactiae infections has dropped since physicians began prescribing antibiotics during delivery for high-risk pregnant women in 1996, but invasive infec...A unique hemoglobin may help the baby kangaroo's journey to the mothers pouch
...ayers it will need in adulthood. In many ways, the newborn Tammar is equivalent to a human embryo at seven weeks of gestation. The blood of the newborn Tammar is embryonic in type and this persists for several days after birth. The red blood cells are ...A thermodynamic history traces temperature's effect on Universe, Earth and humans
...Along the way, the warm interstellar dust near our newborn sun condensed into moderately sized planets, while much lower temperatures further afield froze the primordial soup into giants like Saturn and Jupiter. Segr, a Penn professor since 1967, describes physics as his "family business." Nephew of particl...Mice become first animals to produce other species' sperm
...ith pinhead-sized grafts of testicular tissue from newborn mammals, scientists at the University of Pennsylva... one cubic millimeter of tissue from the testes of newborn mice, goats and pigs onto the backs of mice. As many as eight miniature testes developed, and in vi...US Women scientists from Latin America to encourage colleagues from south
...biology. But her parents disagreed. It was as if a newborn bird had been put in a cage with kangaroos, she said of her efforts to study mathematicsher parents choice. I was strong enough to move toward what I wanted, rather than doing what my parents wanted me to do. I believe that my story might help some o...NIA makes second novel clone set available
...sed in a variety of stem cells, early embryos, and newborn organs, such as the heart and brain. It thus provides a unique collection of genes that are normally underrepresented in cDNA collections and microarrays, Dr. Ko said. We are enthusiastic about using this new clone set to do some exciting biology, an...... display a peculiar hair phenotype. Whereas normal newborn mice develop their characteristic fur coat within 3-7 days after birth, a portion of newborn K17-deficient mice do not grow fur at all within the first few weeks of their lives. Dr. Coulombe a...Unique population of muscle stem cells found in mice
...nique population of muscle stem cells from healthy newborn mice delivers dystrophin, a key protein for muscle...ny, isolated stem cells from the muscle of healthy newborn mice that had been grown in culture. Using a technique called pre-plating, the dividing cells were ...Vitamin C transporter gene discovery in mice
...helps to mature and protect the lungs and brain of newborn infants, said Dr. Robert Nussbaum, chief of the Ge... These severe health problems occurred whether the newborn mice were delivered normally after 21 days gestation, or delivered early at 18.5 to 19.5 days by Cae...Making meningiomas: Scientists pioneer animal model of human meningioma
...nactivate the NF2 gene in the arachnoidal cells of newborn mice. The researchers generated a strain of mice ...taining adenovirus into the cerebrospinal fluid of newborn mice, they were able to infect arachnoidal cells with the engineered virus and thereby introduce the...Of 101 neonates at a New Jersey hospital, 40 percent test positive for drugs of abuse
...onth period conducted in 1998. The identity of the newborn was coded to assure complete anonymity, even to th... costs associated with delivering and caring for a newborn that has not been exposed to drugs of abuse are significantly less than the costs associated with th...Fox Chase Cancer Center receives grant to study possible link between measles vaccine and autism
...plore the hypothesis that the immune response of a newborn mouse is directly influenced by the exposure histo...trast, weve found in our preliminary research that newborn mice nursed on mothers who were previously exposed to measles were protected from central nervous di...Scientists trace recently found genes to the evolution of big brains
...ons that control muscle movement. As a result, the newborn mice were totally paralyzed. The findings show that Olig genes serve pivotal functions in the organization of the developing central nervous system, said Rowitch. The work has important implications for understanding diseases of newborns in which mot...Neural stem cells move to damaged areas of brain after injury
...loped into neurons. Most importantly, some of the newborn neurons that migrated to the injured striatum, a motor control area of the brain affected by the stroke, appeared to develop into neurons specific to the striatum, Parent adds. Our results show that injury definitely induces proliferation of neurobla...New research sheds light on earth's largest animals
...m waters in these areas help conserve body heat of newborn calves, but neither location has much in the way of food for the adults. Much of these data about blue whales is new, Mate said. Despite being the planets largest animals, little was known about the migration and winter habits of blue whales until s...Predicting preterm birth still nearly impossible, study in New England Journal finds
...irthweight account for more than 90 percent of all newborn deaths in the United States. If we truly want to help more babies be born healthy and lead healthy lives, we need more research aimed at preventing prematurity from occurring in the first place, Dr. Green says. Dr. Green said that since 1998, the Mar...Blood markers may reflect newborns' potential of contracting HIV
... virus in check, the risk of transmitting HIV to a newborn is only about 1 percent to 2 percent. A new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins and the National Institutes of Health demonstrates that uncomplicated labor and vaginal delivery does not stimulate the babies' immune systems. Results are scheduled t...Stem cells, forged into neurons, show promise for brain repair
...an stem cells were transplanted into the brains of newborn mice to co-opt the developmental cues that occur as the animal grows and the brain develops. "These transplanted cells had no experience in the brain, and we wanted to see if they would mirror the development of the mouse brain," Zhang says. "And the...APS August/September journal hot picks
...a 200-million year old vertebrate for research on newborn liver disease, asthma and allergy sufferers and their bronchial responses, exercise studies on elite athletes, differences among black and white females exercisers, and effective techniques for teaching science are among the current research highligh...First evidence of gene therapy for abnormal blood vessel growth in newborns
...'s immune system response. The researchers studied newborn rats with induced retinopathy of prematurity. This is a disease which is on the increase as a result of the rising numbers of surviving premature babies. It is a leading cause of blindness and defective vision in children, and despite surgical advanc...