High resolution satellite imagery assists hunt for infectious 'kissing bugs'
... because they emerge from their hiding places each night to bite human skin where it is thinnest around the mouth and eyes. Growing up to five centimetres long, the kissing bugs are harmless by themselves, but carry a microscopic protozoan parasite that causes the wasting and eventually lethal Chagas dis...Veterans with Gulf War syndrome have damage in specific, primitive portion of nervous system
...e up," Dr. Haley said. "Its failure to increase at night in ill Gulf War veterans may explain their unrefreshing sleep." The tests were conducted on 40 members of a Naval Reserve construction battalion, also known as Seabees. Both ill and healthy veterans from the same battalion were tested for com...Integrative biology of exercise APS Intersociety meeting October 6-9, 2004 in Austin
...wards banquet Terjung announced that the Saturday night awards banquet speaker will be Bengt Saltin, recipient of the International Olympic Committee 2002 Olympic Prize in Sport Sciences. Dr. Saltin is Director of the Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre. Dr. Saltin's research has covered a broad range of ar...Enzyme activation appears key in helping internal clock tell night from day
...t tells our biological clock to proceed by putting night behind and journeying into a new day. In their research, the scientists blocked the phosphorylation action of PKG-II during the normal cycling of the clock. By doing so, they disrupted the key activity of this kinase enzyme that adds phosphates to p......not with a single small step taken on one summer's night but with thousands of small steps spread out over ..., shift workers who feel wiped out after working a night shift, and people with more serious sleep disorders, many of which are related to circadian rhythms,...New diagnostic technology helps justify earlier cataract surgery
...nts are often in the position of having to curtail night driving because cataracts have made it dangerous or they have to cut back participation in other activities that enrich their lives, but they can't seek treatment because insurance testing criteria exclude them from coverage until their vision degrad...K-State professor combines love of teaching, research to examine eye development
... have to be ready to put out good, new stuff every night before constantly-changing crowds. It is always stimulating." In April, a 31-year continuing research project of Conrad's was renewed for another five-year period for $1.825 million. The research is funded by the National Eye Institute of the Nationa...Long-term heart damage may result from constant confrontation and defeat
...nsequences on chronobiological parameters, average night and day values of heart rate rose significantly in the first days of chronic stress and were associated with a reduction in the amplitude of day-night oscillation. In addition, physical activity was significantly depressed in both circadian phases an...Living at home helps young mothers stay in school
...offer them respite and support, like "grandparents night out" or up-to-date information on nutrition. Young mothers at risk of poor parenting may benefit from interventions that help them deal with the challenge of caring for a newborn. While this study seems to confirm the benefit lawmakers had in mind i...UW study: Migrating birds offer insight into sleep
...owned sparrows, songbirds that normally migrate at night between Alaska and Southern California twice a year. When in captivity in laboratory cages during periods when they would normally be migrating, the birds become active and restless at night, moving around and flapping their wings. Brain sensors meas...Professor and student among tops in technology at UH
... Kathi Bowles Scholarship. "This was a big night for UH with two prestigious honors bestowed on both the faculty and student levels," said John Bear, dean of UH's College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. "It represents UH's commitment to fostering research across the board and reflects the cha...Lowly weeds may hold promise for curing host of common health woes
...ropical weather, the mountainous area gets cold at night and experiences frequent rain. While some weed compounds are crushed up into a tea-like substance to drink, other plants, like brugmansia or "angel's trumpet," are mashed up into a paste used topically to reduce swelling, aches and pains, Stepp said......ornia) explain the potential dangers of artificial night lighting in "Ecological light pollution." Possible pitfalls include altering natural patterns of night and day, new advantages for predators, and death of some migrating birds. The sources of ecological...Mouse study yields clue to why liver is less prone to rejection, say Pitt researchers
...eptor known as TLR-4. Toll-like receptors are like night watchmen that look for suspicious activity characterized by unusual patterns of other molecules. TLR-4 is known to react to lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a component found in the cell wall of bacteria. Reacting to LPS sets in motion a cascade of immune e...Artificial light-dark cycles expose circadian clocks at odds with each other
...ytime activity began to expand into the artificial night hours, and that enabled them to look at the interplay of two genes in the rats' brain clocks. One gene, called Per1, is active during the day and the other, Bmal1, is active at night. The scientists found that when a rat behaved as expected, its sup...Unnatural light-dark cycles expose duelling circadian clocks
... followed the artificially short 11-hr. day/11-hr. night schedule, while the other followed a longer cycle (>24 hrs.), but both clocks controlled behavioral rhythms within an individual animal. The researchers, Horacio de la Iglesia and William Schwartz of the University of Massachusetts Medical Sch...Researchers report definitive evidence that HIV-AIDS is not from oral polio vaccine
...ed with a team of hunters that track the chimps at night using their calls. The team carefully stored small samples of feces in little screw-capped vials filled with a preservative. The 2000 trip met with some calamities. Worobey contracted blood poisoning from a rattan palm spike that stabbed his hand. He...Is a single bout of exercise helpful or harmful in getting a good night's sleep?
...neficial or harmful in obtaining restful sleep the night following the exercise. A New Study The author...ry the two nights before the exercise bout and the night after the exercise bout. An objective measure of sleep was obtained by using a wrist-worn actigraph...New research explores 'early bird' and 'night owl' sleep patterns
...ses these disorders is important -- getting a good night sleep is now a challenge for some 50 to 70 million...understand the complex basis of the early bird and night owl pattern of sleep that is observed in our society. This research would be important in establish...UF researcher: Animals think in their own way, but unlike humans
... bats that don't get a blood meal once every third night die, he said, so if a bat goes back to the roost without one, it will beg from another, which will regurgitate blood to share. "People have studied this in great detail, hanging around at the bottom of the roost, getting covered with bat guano," W...