American Red Cross Launches New Genetic Screening Technology To Directly Detect Viruses
...rand sample, to validate the processes and systems newly created for NAT. RedCross tested more than 180,000 samples during unlinked testing. Based on favorable test outcomes, the Red Cross began screening blood donationswith NAT at the National Genome Testing Laboratory under the FDA-approved IND inearly ...New Evidence On How Prions Turn Fatal
...ease' University of California researchers say a newly determined structure of thebiological particles called prions may help explain how they cause infectiousdeadly diseases. Aberrant prions cause scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiformencephalopathy (BSE or "mad cow disease") in cows, and various afflicti...Tumor Oxygen Level And Blood Flow Fluctuate, Duke Scientists Discover
...xanthine oxidase produces oxygen radicals from the newly supplied oxygen,leading to tissue damage. This hypoxia-reoxygenation injury can occur inconditions such as a stroke: a brain region already damaged by low-oxygen fromthe cutoff of blood flow can suffer additional damage when oxygen is restored,due to..."Protect Wild Dolphins" License Plate Sales To Fund Wild Dolphin Research Efforts Throughout Florida
FT. PIERCE, FL -The newly created "Protect Wild Dolphins" specialty licenseplate, approved by the state legislature last year is now available statewide.Revenues collected from the sale of the plate will be used to help fund ongoingwild dolphin research and education programs...The Largest Bacterium: Scientist Discovers New Bacterial Life Form Off The African Coast
Even visible to the naked eye, newly discovered bacteria named Thiomargaritanamibiensis...ioploca, are ten times smaller in diameter thanthe newly discovered Thiomargarita. They live in vertical sheaths in thesediment and shuttle up and down betwe......tmosphere, and eventually to other organisms. The newly identified giant Thiomargarita bacteria join Thioploca ina small class of microbes now known to link the sulfur and nitrogen cycles.Given that sulfide is abundant in the plankton-rich upwelling regions where themicrobes have been found, Schulz wo...In Logged Forests, Hunting of Wildlife Becomes Deadly 'Second Harvest'
...rams. "Animals are now being sucked out along the newly constructed roads." Hunting by the logging companies themselves has also contributed to theslaughter of wild game, according to WCS. In 1996, workers in just one loggingcamp in Sarawak killed over 1,100 animals totaling 29 metric tons. This......ed strongcandidates for the Gona tool-makers. The newly identified hominid fossils provide much-needed information about whatmay have been happening in Africa two to three million years ago, a crucialjuncture in human evolutionary history. "You go into this period with, inessence, bipedal big-toothed chim...A 'Missing Link' Fossil Adds 'Foliage' To The Early Human Ancestor Family Tree
... The cranial, leg, and arm bone fossils of this newly discovered specieswere unearthed in Ethiopia by a team of scientists led by NSF-supportedanthropologist Tim White of the University of California-Berkeley and BerhaneAsfaw of Ethiopia, and are publicized in the April 23 issue of Science magazine. Sig......the rise at all, just more frequently reportedby a newly alert public. In fact, Sessions speculates that parasite-induced infections may actually be asign that all is well in the frog environment. Only robust cells in the limb budcan divide and form multiple limbs. This rigorous response to local infection......nd features ofautism, and researchers believe this newly recognized behavioral manifestationmay also be a part of Cole-Hughes syndrome. One of several macrocephalic disorders, Cole-Hughes was first differentiatedfrom similar syndromes in 1991 by researchers in the United Kingdom. It ismarked by a large hea...Rockefeller University Scientists Receive Prestigious Awards For Cancer Research
...er Scientists DETROIT - Arnold J. Levine, Ph.D., newly appointed president of The RockefellerUniversity, and Robert G. Roeder, Ph.D., professor and head of the Laboratory ofBiochemistry and Molecular Biology, have been recognized by the General MotorsCancer Research Foundation for their major contributio......mon? Ineach case, the serious adverse effects of a newly approved treatment only cametolight after the drugs entered the marketplace. And in each case, the currentclinical trial and drug approval system was put under scrutiny. Unexpected adverse reactions to recently approved prescription and over thecount...Melatonin: More Than You Bargain For?
...ding to Louisiana StateUniversity chemists. Their newly released findings show melatonin reacts withchemicals in the body to form compounds that could alter behavior. Details about the research will appear in the peer-reviewed journal ChemicalResearch in Toxicology, published by the American Chemical Soci...New Anti-HIV Therapies Needed To Eradicate HIV
...s that the rate at which cells becomeinfected with newly made virus is approximately equal to the rate at which olderinfected cells die. "Unless this quasi-steady state eventually disappears withlonger periods of therapy or can be overcome by the use of more potent therapiesor alternative approaches that ...'Cousin' Of Snake Venom Toxin Found In Mice
.... Further experiments showed thatexpression of the newly found gene was restricted to certain classes of neuronsin the brain, suggesting a specialized and perhaps unique role for the protein. Heintz and Miwa, however, did not realize the full impact of their discoveryuntil they identified the family to wh...Where the wild ones are: origins of staple crop found
...ants that are more resistant to disease. With the newly found genetic information, there are greater possibilities now to transform cassava from an "orphan" crop to a more commercially viable one that could be used as a fiber source. Cassava ranks sixth among crops in global production. Denizens of the ...Newly discovered gene family may regulate important biological processes
DALLAS - June 11, 1999 - A newly discovered gene defines a family that appearsintegral to the creation of cells, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallasresearchers reported in the July issue of Human Molecular Genetics. Theirfinding may lead to breakthrough treatments for male infe...Under the hood of a cellular transport machine
...n Great Britain,Italy, and Harvard has developed a newly detailed view of one of the cell'smajor transport ...assembly, or recycling. In a growing lattice, each newly added molecule must fit precisely into thetight space of the pre-existing structure to make the hexa...... end of the respiratory chain, Complex V uses this newly created energy toproduce adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Cells in the body use ATP for fuel bychemically breaking its bonds, which produces energy the cells need to performtheir many functions. "Now that we have a picture of Complex II, we can use thi...