Experimental Drug Derived From Snake Venom Shows Promise In Reversing Effects Of Stroke
... with ANCRODwithin three hours of stroke onset had recovered the physical and mentalabilities that they had prior to the stroke. In comparison, 34 percent of those receiving an inert substance, orplacebo, regained their previous faculties. However, stroke patients whoreceived ANCROD were also at a hig...Deaths of Zoo Elephants Explained -- New Virus Identified
...recovered in a few days. The Florida elephant also recovered after the sametreatment. "We were able to cure these elephants, which is promising. If caughtearly, the infection appears to be treatable," said Richman. To see if the virus exists in the wild, the researchers worked withscientists in...Findings Challenge Notion Of Withholding Food To Fight Rotavirus
...ea 16 days after infection, while nourishedpiglets recovered in nine days. Using cellularand molecular techniques, researchers watched the epithelial cells, which absorbnutrients when healthy, as they becameinfected and began producing rotavirus. They also monitored the progress ofT-cells and other immune resp...Immune Response To Hepatitis B Spares Liver Cells
...mp HBV infections ran their course and the animals recovered withoutfurther complications. Most HBV infections in adult humans are similarlyuncomplicated. However, between 5 and 10 percent of the estimated 320,000 newHBV infections in the United States each year become persistent, chronicinfections. Annuall...Invasion of alien parasite halted; California coast cleared of African worm in abalone
...positive. For twoyears no sabellid worms have been recovered from the formerly heavily infestedsite. Kuris says, "Most broadly, as the first successful eradication of awell-established marine pest, this study breaches the defeatist fatalismassociated with introduced marine species. Early detection and...Researchers find high levels of mercury in native ore deposits
...eninsula, native copper and silver washistorically recovered from the parent rock by stamping--crushing the rock usingsteam-driven stamp heads followed by sluicing the crushed rock to separate outthe native metals and to remove the waste rock or stamp sands. Approximately ahalf billion tons of stamp sands were...Huge Antarctic ice sheet could be in its death throes
...t. Fragments of tiny algae called diatomshave been recovered from cores drilled through the ice and into the landbeneath. It is believed diatoms require open water to build their colonies,which suggests the region once was free of ice, perhaps as recently as 130,000years ago between the last two ice ages, Conw...... Streptococcus mitus discovered inside a TV camera recovered by the Apollo 12 crew from the Surveyor 3 spacecraft on the Moon. To everyone's amazement, the bacteria were viable and quickly revived in a culture on Earth. But that was after just a three-year stay. "The restraints become temporal, too," Richmond...Past climate change effects on mammals may mirror global warming impact
...alysis of more than 184,000 mammal bones and teeth recovered in stratified layers from Homestead Cave in north-central Utah, near the eastern edge of the Bonneville Salt Flats. It is the largest sample of small mammal fossils from the western U.S. ever studied. The bones and teeth were deposited over a perio...Common pesticide product reduces testosterone levels
...see whether testosterone production in these cells recovered to the levels observed in control cells. When treated for three hours, testosterone production by immature and adult Leydig cells rebounded within the 18-hour recovery period, but remained significantly inhibited within progenitor Leydig cells. When ...Biological legacies a key of ecological rebirth after Mount St. Helens eruption
...foresters every year since 1981. While young trees recovered in as little as two seasons, the old-growth silver firs in the area are still in decline. Silver firs, with their stiff needles and rigid branches, kept their coatings of volcanic ash, which reduces the amount of sunlight that reaches their needles...Study contradicts assumption that ulcer bug has always plagued humans
...e infected with at least certain H. pylori strains recovered from human patients." In another paper in the same issue of the Journal of Bacteriology, Berg and collaborators describe genetic differences between strains isolated from patients in Calcutta, India, and those from Europe and elsewhere in Asia....New fossils may be first human ancestors out of Africa, say Science authors
...r date. More than 1000 stone artifacts have been recovered from the Dmanisi fossil layers, providing further support to the 1.7 million year-old date for the site. Despite the ready availability of raw material suitable for making Acheulean tools, the authors say, all of the Dmanisi artifacts are of a pre-Ac...Gene found responsible for social amnesia
... in time spent investigating familiar females, and recovered interest when a new female entered the cage. Virtually all forms of psychopathology, which include some of man's most debilitating clinical disorders, are characterized by abnormal social attachments. Yet very little is known about the normal proce...Wisconsin lake study shows persistence of acid rain effects
...een taken to chemical hell and back, and seemingly recovered from the trip. The University of Wisconsin-Madison study, spanning two decades, found that while the chemistry of the lake corrected itself naturally - and fairly quickly -- the biological changes took much longer to bounce back. This year, the n...Study provides direct evidence of cannibalism in the Southwest
...tion of flesh defecated into a hearth. Researchers recovered human feces from the hearth and tested it for biochemical evidence of human tissue. Extensive analysis of the three prehistoric dwellings known as pithouses at the site, and the human bones and tools found inside, along with laboratory tests, showe...LabNotes -- Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...ency improvements. For example, Gostomel now uses recovered heat waste to provide space heat required in administrative and production buildings. Energy upgrades implemented to date have resulted in a 20 to 53 percent rate of return on capital investments. More upgrades are planned. PNNL has worked wi...Stem cells graft in spinal cord, restore movement in paralyzed mice
...percent of the stem-cell treated rodents, however, recovered the ability to place the soles of one or both of their hind feet on the ground. "This research may lead most immediately to improved treatments for patients with paralyzing motor neuron diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and anot...