Studies show success of Mectizan partnerships
...nation Program. "The Mectizan Donation Program is really one of the great public health success stories. It is the benchmark for all other disease prevention efforts in the developing world," said Gilbert Burnham, MD, one of the study authors and an associate professor in the School's Department of Interna...Fire ant killing protozoa found in 120 Texas counties
...trial animal biomass is not out of line. "No one really knows for sure what percentage ants constitute of ...imal biomass. But one thing is for certain. If you really want to disrupt the ecosystem, disrupt the ants," Mitchell said....Latest findings on PCBs to be subject of June workshop at Illinois
...niversity of California-Davis; Break 4. Are fish really brain food? The neurochemical effects of fish-borne contaminants, Rich Seegal, New York State Department of Health; 5. Neurotoxicity of developmental exposure to PCBs and PBDEs: Evidence for interaction, Per Eriksson, Uppsala University; 6. Round t...Tiny beetle wreaks havoc on Texas ornamental tree nurseries
...ts water and nutrients to the plant cells. "It's really the ambrosia fungus that kills the tree, not the beetle," Ludwig said. No one knows why the insect made such an impact this year, but Ludwig said it's suspected that mild winters have played a big role. The adult beetles over-winter in leaf litter, ...Analysis uncovers critical stretches of human genome
...elements that they called "ultra-conserved." "What really surprised us was that the regions of conservation ...y are often far away from the gene itself." "What really surprised us was that when we included the chicken genome in this comparison, we found that nearly a...Insulin-producing pancreatic cells are replenished by duplication
...nappreciated capability of beta cells. "No one has really paid much attention to the replicative capacity of the beta cell," he said. "And this work shows the cells to have a significant proliferative capacity that could be clinically useful." According to Melton, the findings might have implications for de...Human brain works heavy statistics learning language
...ision between spoken words when spoken language is really a stream of unbroken syllables. They wanted to know how it is that we perceive breaks between spoken words, when in fact there are no pauses. This is why it often seems as if speakers of foreign languages are talking very quickly; we don't perceive p...Laser technique used to build micro-polymeric structure on a human hair, without harming it
... is akin to plexiglass," said Fourkas. "One of the really exciting and unexpected things about this is that we found that we could make this structure on the hair without harming it in any way. This suggests that we could accomplish the same with other biological materials. One could imagine, for instance...Kinase backgrounder: Iressa discovery part of major kinase project at Dana-Farber
...rence. "We were talking about the fact that if you really want to understand cancer, you need to understand the complete pattern of genetic changes in cancer cells that accounts for their malevolent behavior," recalls Meyerson, a molecular and cellular oncology researcher whose chief interest is lung cancer...Researchers describe long-perplexing 'magic spot' on bacteria
...t may lead to better-targeted antibiotics that can really be effective against these diseases."...Cellular problems found behind complex obesity syndrome
... "But our experiments also revealed something really interesting about pleiotropy -- genetic diseases that severely impact only a smattering of tissues," says Nicholas Katsanis, Ph.D., head of the team's contingent from the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins. "Once we knew ...Inflammation, hypertension are focus of major new MCG research program
...e new grant. "These things correlate, but there is really not good, direct, cause-and-effect evidence saying... hypertension, cause cardiovascular disease. There really has not been a comprehensive program to study that. That's what led to this," Dr. Brands said of the...Elusive but ubiquitous microbe fingered as gum disease culprit in Stanford study
...ar organisms. "It's not surprising that no one has really heard about them; archaea have still not even penetrated mainstream biology textbooks," said David Relman, MD, associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases) and of microbiology and immunology. There are, however, at least as many of them as t...Citizens asked to monitor impact of invasive bird species
...ive species," says Phillips. She also adds that to really make a difference for the birds, becoming part of TBN and sharing observations with researchers is essential....The Hunter's Breath tells a story of adventure and discovery in Antarctica
...ts, Williams said. "The problem now is we really don't know what big predators need to survive--not just Weddell seals, but dolphins, killer whales, sea lions--it's appalling what we don't know about big predators, and we're going to lose them if we don't learn enough about their biology to say wha...Research bank makes good use of umbilical cords
...velopment of future treatments," Goldman said. "We really appreciate the willingness of expectant mothers to consider making this donation." To date, nearly 20 mothers have donated their child's umbilical cord blood. The bank coordinates with staff in the UI Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology to inform...Crowding stem cells' personal space directs their future
...ease the amount of fat cells, no one knew why. To really understand whether it was the cells' shape or some aspect of their neighbors that directed differentiation, M.D./Ph.D. candidate Rowena McBeath used a special technique, developed in Chen's lab, that restricts individual cells to small spaces without...Vanderbilt doctors find citrus soda interacts with cyclosporine, maybe statins
...rner was eating or drinking hoping for a clue. "We really struggled with this," Hoy said. "I started thinking about strange things in my diet," Turner said. "That's when I thought about Sun Drop. Since it's a citrus soda I wondered if it had grapefruits in it." Sun Drop is a popular citrus soft drink, intro...Phytoplankton may stimulate uptake of CO2
...hat the food web is based upon by adding iron. We really have no idea what sort of positive or negative eff...season changes, so we don't know if the carbon was really being exported to the deep oceans or not," Hales said. "A longer term study would be necessary to dr...MCG pursues markers to improve ovarian cancer treatment, diagnosis
...pecific biomarkers and that's our strength. No one really has been able to take a lot of serum from the same patients." The researchers will use the proteomics facility to also compare proteins expressed by different women with ovarian cancer and by healthy women without it to help identify the best biomar...