Mayo Clinic study shows dietary supplement may help fight heart disease
...an enhancer for everything from athletic to sexual performance -- improves chestpain symptoms in patients with early heart disease. "Our study showed that patients who took an L-arginine pill every day for sixmonths had significantly less chest pain and improved coronary blood flow thanthose who took a placebo,"...DFG releases statement on possibilities and limitations of genetic diagnosis
... the extent of obligations of employees totolerate performance of genetic tests currently do not exist in Germany. The SenateCommission recommends that predictive genetic tests be carried out in connection with thework place only if it is concerned with a certain foreseeable manifestation of a geneticdisease or ...Scientists clear hurdle in effort to destroy experimental brain cancers with viruses
...s could hold up in the clinic, he says the virus's performance in this severemodel of brain cancer makes him hopeful. "This is the first time, to my knowledge, that someone has effectively infected threelarge tumors in a rat brain with this virus through the vasculature and caused all three to shrink," he says. ...National Science Board selects leading chemists to establish new Science and Technology Center
... friendly and energy efficientand have significant performance advantages over competing processes using wateror organic liquid solvents," DeSimone said. "Many other potential applicationsfor carbon dioxide as a solvent remain to be developed." The industrially funded Kenan Center for the Utilization of ......ronmental Research Corporation recently tested the performance of theafterburner when used with a modified Golar ...when the afterburner wasoperating. The afterburner performance can be improved further withreal-time, closed-loop control to vary auxiliary fuel injection during w...Universities to compete in second annual autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) competition
... Panama City, Fla. The AUVswill be judged on their performance in a timed underwater coursethat tests their ability to maneuver through a series of gates, drop a marker ona designated target and return to a specified recovery zone. The press isinvited to static judging on Saturday, and Sunday's competition is op...Images of enzyme suggest way to improve DNA sequencing
...images anduncovered the anomaly that hampers Taq's performance in the lab. Then they usedthis structural information to fine-tune the enzyme. Taq is shaped like a hand with fingers, a thumb and a palm. Dideoxynucleotidesinteract with the fingers. By comparing the images of the fourenzyme-DNA-dideoxynucleotide co......the phytase enzyme," Malone says."Overall, poultry performance on the reduced, nonphytate phosphorus diets wascomparable or better than the control diet in the winter and spring flocks." In addition to making phosphorus more available in feeds, researchers also wantto know the minimum amount of phosphorus needed...Common drug associated with improved performance in race horses
...e effect of furosemide on performance was generally assumed -- it hadn't been clearly demonstrated," Hinchcliff said.......gh test scores Tsien's research group tested the performance of the transgenic mice in avariety of situations that addressed different aspects of learning and memory.First, they tested one of the most basic aspects of memory, the ability torecognize an object. They put the mice into a space and let them explor....... Attempts to monitor changes in cognitive performance throughout themenstrual cycle have proved inconclusive, says Barbara Sherwin of McGillUniversity in Montreal, possibly because oestrogen levels only fluctuateslightly and never fall below a certain threshold. Now Sherwin and hercolleagues have follow...New textbook is first comprehensive guide to horse dentistry
...ven to horses soon afterbirth, during the youthful performance years, as young adults, in maturity andin old age. They cover equipment, techniques, diseases and treatment, as wellas the four types of teeth, how they develop and how they have evolved from asmall horse-like animal living in South America more tha...Old brains can learn new tricks!
...which brain areas are'lighting up' during a memory performance task. Participants were shown pairs of vertical gr...ell, but the neural systems or pathways supporting performance differed betweenyoung and old. While there was some overlap in the brain regions supportingperforman...Drinking during pregnancy has yet another consequence: premature delivery
... than are infants of normal birthweight. The poor performance of the United States in the international ranking of infant mortality rates is mainly due to high rates of premature birth and associated low birth weight, according to the December 1995 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. These rates have...Evergreens help block pesticide from crop fields
...nel so they can gauge the performance of plant species and non-target organisms under an extended range of environmental conditions. The researchers recommend that the government create a task force to review win...Magnetic resonance imaging of sexual intercourse is both possible and useful...
...the male participants had more problems withsexual performance (specifically, maintaining an erection) than the women in the scanner. All thewomen had a complete sexual response, but those who reached orgasm described it as "superficial". Despite these drawbacks for participants, the research team was still ab...NIH conference to assess state of medical implants
...ssary to evaluate and improve implant and material performance and device design? What future research and institutional support is necessary to ensure continuing advances in implantable devices? The lead NIH agencies sponsoring the conference are the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) an...Creatine may improve performance during short bursts of activity
... dietary supplement creatine may enhance the performance of elite male swimmers d... Leenders and her colleagues evaluated the performance of 18 men and 14 women who were members of Ohio States ......ssary to evaluate and improve implant and material performance and device design? What future research and institutional support is necessary to ensure continuing advances in implantable devices? The lead NIH agencies sponsoring the conference are the Office of Medical Applications of Research (OMAR) and...Awareness, quick action key to battling canine bacterial disease
...e is no reason to stop showing or participating in performance sports." Also, although Fenwick is conducting rese...oused in large groups or participating in shows or performance events. Like in humans, the reason for the emergence/re-emergence of canine STSS/NF is unclear and v...