Aluminium Study Puts Drinking Water In The Clear
... that is left in treateddrinking water may be more readily taken up by the body than aluminium fromother sources. "Aluminium is the Earth's third most common element and occurs naturally in foodand water. Most of the aluminium we consume in our food and drinking water isnot absorbed and goes straight through...Mouse Study Trumpets New Way To Preserve Species
...immune-compromised mice, a strain of mice that can readily accept foreign tissues because its immune system has been suppressed. In those experiments, cryopreserved ovarian tissues from outbred mice or sheep were transplanted into immune-compromised mice. After hormone production was established, those ...Duke Study Finds More Genes May Be Affected By Toxic Cadmium
...luding humans. C. elegans' simplicity, its readily available DNA data, and its sharedtraits with the human genome made it an ideal test animal to hunt for additionalcadmium-responsive genes. "C. elegans and humans share between 3,000 and 5,000genes," noted Freedman, whose specialty is environmental t...New Findings On Receptor Regulation May Lead To Better Drugs For Diabetes
...ivates PPAR-gamma, fat cells not only respond more readily to insulin -- theyalso increase at an accelerated rate. And, TZDs further encourage obesity byrepressing the gene for leptin, an important weight-regulation factor. Despitethese drawbacks, Lazar concludes, "it may be possible to find drugs thatselect...UC Scientists Search For Alternatives For Methyl Bromide
... a gas, which dissipates in the atmosphere more readily and is more difficult to contain than a liquid. The ozone depletion potential of methyl iodide is insignificant compared to that of methyl bromide because ultraviolet light in the atmosphere decomposes nearly all methyl iodide before it can ...UI Researchers Find Potential Gene Therapy For Cystic Fibrosis
...that difficulty, the team found that theretrovirus readily enters cells from the basolateral, or bottom, side of thecells. The study results suggest that the bottom surface of the cells hasreceptors that accept the retrovirus. In addition, the team studied whether disrupting the tight junctions between thece......that never really induces an immune responsenor is readily reached by immune effector mechanisms," the authors say. Elaborating on both of their work, the two authors identify four closelylinked steps required for completely successful organ engraftment. The processbegins once the donor leukocytes h...Americans Urged To Consume More Folic Acid
...ry. Folic acid from cereal grain products is more readily absorbed than naturallyoccurring folate found in fruits and vegetables, which lose vitamin contentafter storage and cooking, the AHA said. "Prolonged heating or boiling followed by discardingof water or microwave heating may reduce folate content of ...A Woman's Egg Can Be Freezer Friendly, If You Go Easy On The Salt
...ry a solutioncontaining choline ions, which do not readily cross cell membranes. Choline isan organic molecule found in many plant and animal tissues, and is a constituentof B-complex vitamins. Cryopreservation experiments on other types of cellsusing choline solutions had produced promising results. ...Offshore DDT Deposit Spreading, Research Suggests
...ssolved in water, Zeng found that DDT and PCBs are readily transported from sediment into the water column, even in the absence of any physical disturbance. The scientist's model also predicts that ocean currents may be transporting significant quantities of DDT and PCBs from the PVS to adjacent estuaries an...New "Restaurant" For Bacteria May Improve Pollution Clean-Up
...s. The first uses a solvent thatthe scientistssay readily dissolves high concentrations of toxic chemicals s...as then put through the bioreactor, "the bacteria readily used up all of theBTX,"according to Daugulis. "So we used the solvent again to recover another 'spil...Household Fungus Contributes To "Sick Building Syndrome"
...ng areas, the fungusmay grow profusely, but not be readily visible," says Nelson. When seen, thefungus generally has a black appearance and will be slightly shiny if wet; apowdery appearance if dry. If you suspect that the fungus, Stachybotrys chartarum could be in your home,follow these steps: Begin with ...A Real Smart Asp: Snakes Show Surprising Ability To Learn
...at given a nudge inthe right direction, snakes are readily taught to find the exits-- and then recall how to use cues to find them in successivetrials. Simply stumbling into a hole isn't the only proof that thesnakes are learning something, though. "Speed to find that goalis one of the measures which sh...Human/Insect/Jellyfish Genes Team To Quiet "Hyper" Nerve Cells
...of rat spinal tissue using non-harmfulviruses that readily infect nerve cells. Once turned on inside the spinal nerve cells, the genes generated finechannels in the cells' outer membranes. Potassium ions then flowed through thechannels into cells, changing their electrical state to the equivalent o...UF Researchers Show Common Compound Can Reduce Air Pollution
...milar to combustion exhaust. "Alumina is a readily available thing, and the nice thing is it'savailable in various forms such as highly durable pellets," Allen said. Lee also found the pellets could be cleaned and then used again, hesaid. "The main advantage of this technique is that......nger downstream signal in place, theengineered L1s readily picked up neighboring DNA for retrotransposition. "Overall, we found that, not only can these retrotransposons jump intogenes, but readthrough events that pick up flanking DNA are not uncommon," Moransays. In addition to Kazazian and ...New Gene May Help Scientists Understand More About How the Body Grows
...de the mother--usually in astill pond, but just as readily in a petri dish. By studying the growth and development of frog embryos in the laboratory, Dr.Sive and her associates have gained valuable information about the molecularsignals that control one of the earliest stages of vertebrate development,esta...Popular Diet Supplement May Be A Cancer Risk
.... Chromium picolinate, on the other hand, is more readily taken in duringdigestiveprocesses. Furthermore, U...enic potentials. In addition, development ofother readily absorbable sources of chromium that lack the DNA-damaging abilityof chromium picolinate seems warran...Osiris Therapeutics Reports Key Findings in SCIENCE Verifying Existence of Adult Stem Cells
...ls derived from fetal tissue -- our stem cells are readily available from a small sample of patient-derived or donor-derived marrow. Burns continues, "We are developing multiple products based on adult mesenchymal stem cells. In addition, we are already conducting a clinical trial for our first product, Stro...... to stop the action of pollutants very readily by sucha process." Hatcher and Zang fed a rare isotope of nitrogen toalgae in the laboratory, and then exposed protein extracts ofthe algae to a samp...