Plants - Factories Of The Future
...s transferred the genes into Arabidopsis - a plant often used as a model by scientists because of its short life cycle and well understood genetics - and produced plants containing significant levels of either epoxy or acetylenic fatty acids in their seeds. "We now need to incorporate other genes whi...Northwestern Researchers Develop Rapid Diagnostic Test To Detect Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
...ever, a drawback to the olderPCR method is that it often replicates other nonspecific strands of DNA. Thenewer hot-start method not only cut down on nonspecific binding, but alsoincreased the yield of the PCR, Stosor reported. The standard method of identifying bacteria requires patient samples tobe...Wistar Scientist Awarded US Army Prostate Cancer Research Program Grant
...potential of Myc, a cancer causing protein that is often activatedin a wide variety of human cancers, including prostate carcinoma. Myc is ofparticular interest because it not only promotes malignant cell growth, butalso, under certain conditions, can activate cell suicide. "We identified Bin1 as part of ...Peas With Built-In Weevil Resistance
...nt, Africa and South America. Subsistence farmers often need to store their harvested crops under poor conditions," he says. "In these countries, a small weevil infestation in a storage bin can lead to near-total crop losses six months later," says Dr Higgins. The CSIRO scientists are working in ...40% Of Developing World Infants Stunted
... broad spectrum of nutritional deficiencies and is often linked to poor mental development. Stunting is a cumulative process of poor growth that primarily occurs before the age of 3 years and is not easily reversed. "It is very disturbing that in most of the developing world, a large proportion of child...Gene Therapy May Suppress Uterine Fibroids
...-are benign growths that develop in the uterus and often cause pelvic pain, abnormal uterine bleeding, excessive urinary pressure, decreased fertility, and increased chance of miscarriage. Treatment typically involves a hysterectomy that excises the tumors along with the patient's uterus. The U-M research...University Of Pittsburgh Scientist Discovers How A Novel Vitamin K Stops Cancer Cell Growth
... one. However,liver transplantation is costly and often unavailable due to the scarcity ofdonated organs, or due to the advanced nature of the cancer at diagnosis. "By providing this modified vitamin K to individuals at known risk ofdeveloping liver cancer, we might be able to reduce the incidence...New Model Makes It Possible To Predict Emergence Of Antiviral Drug Resistance
..." he said,"provides a way to challenge the inertia often seen in public health decisionsin which the overwhelming cost and timing required by empirical studies renderssuch analyses unfeasible, leading by default to decisions not to promote drugtreatment when there is a risk of drug resistance developing." ...Mouse Model Of Down Syndrome Offers Glimpse Into Role Of Specific Genes In TheDisorder
...tardation, major and minor physical abnormalities, often including heartdisorders, and, in later life, Alzheimer's disease. The new mouse model, called Ts1Cje, includes a partial third segment of mousechromosome 16, the equivalent of a region on chromosome 21 in humans that isassociated with Down syndrome....University Of Georgia Researchers Help Design Decision Support System For Forest Managers And Owners
...ve college money for your kids? The answer often lies in the use of decision support systems (DSS),computer programs that help managers make decisions in situations where humanjudgment is important but where limitations on the ability of judgment impededecision-making. These systems have been in us...New Medication Means New Choices For Families Dealing With Alzheimers Disease
...nts who were in the early stages of the diseaseand often were cared for at home, families overwhelmingly chose to treat thepatient. For those patients who lived in a nursing home and the disease wasfairly advanced, families chose to withhold the treatment." Kettl says these kinds of difficult ethic...Researchers Show Mechanism And Similarities Of Biological Clocks
...clockmay also explain why heart attacks occur more often in the morning and asthmaflare-ups more often at night. Some neurobiologists believe that higher species evolved morespecialized mechanism...Duke Researchers Call Gene Therapy A Promising Strategy For Sickle Cell Anemia
...nization. Patients with severe sickle cell disease often require blood transfusions toreplenish their supply of healthy red blood cells. Some of these people developantibodies to elements in transfused blood, making further transfusionsdangerous to the patient. Sullenger envisions taking some of a patient'...The Shape Of Life: How Does The Computer "Know" When It Sees It?
...trained tosimultaneously acquire and classify new, often ambiguous images. Noever and hiscolleagues will also throw themachine some curve balls with artificial data to test its performance. The goal of the third phase is for the D'Arcy machine to automatically acquireand classify images with minimalhuman s...Circulatory Device -- A Bridge To Recovery For Heart Failure?
...ention causing swollen tissues. Heart failure is often progressive withworsening symptoms and gradual deterioration of heart function. Current therapies for heart failure include drugs -- which reduce the heart'sworkload to slow the progression of the disease -- and heart transplantation. However, heart...Excess Thiamine May Help Tumor Growth, Research Shows
...he blood. Thiamine supplementation is therefore often essential for cancer patients. However, total thiamine levels in a patient’s diet can be 250 to 20,000percent of the normal daily recommended allowance. The government recommendsthat men consume 1.4 mg and women 1.0 mg of thiamine per day, amou...Edible Lily Plant Yields A Natural Pesticide
...t important vegetables grown in Hokkaido,Japan, is often threatened by a a fungus that develops lesions in the bulbs. But the stress caused by the attack of the plant pathogen triggers a series ofchemical reactions that causes the plant to make some natural pesticides,according to a research group led by K...Peptic Ulcers: Stress Does Matter, After All
... the bacteria multiply. Also, people under stress often smoke more, drink heavily, and skip meals, behaviors that make it more likely they will get ulcers. "I have a suspicion that one reason the medical establishment wiped stress off the charts so fast," Levenstein says, "was that it didn't feel ...Relapsing Fever Spirochete Switches Surface Proteins When It Changes Hosts
...e disease isunderrecognized and underreported, and often mistaken for Lyme disease. People with tick-borne ...the ticks look for other hosts. In winter, people often will stayin these cabins and warm them up for a week. The rodents are not active, theticks get warm...... extractionof compounds for commercialization, are often economically unfeasible andenvironmentally destructive. PHI has recently solved the riddle of how toproduce large quantities of unique valuable compounds from nature's own chemicalfactories, literally "milking" plants via the Rhizosecretion process,...