Hurricanes impact carbon sequestration by forests
...ined the long-term impacts of hurricanes on forest regeneration and productivity. McNulty found that even though hurricanes do not immediately change the state of carbon in a downed tree, a large amount of accumulated forest carbon is lost in the years following a major storm. For economic reasons, most of the wo...Undergrad probes regeneration of nerve cell branches
...always do so. He did this by testing rates of axon regeneration in the sciatic nerves of rats. Other scientists had shown that regeneration rates of axons outside the central nervous system could be increased by physically squashing another...Study to help solve health problems by understanding gene, protein behavior in cells
... molecular mechanisms behind wound healing and the regeneration of nerve tissue, he said. About 15 other universities, including the University of California at Berkeley, Caltech, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and Boston University, plus private companies, are involved in the program. The teams will c...UNC neuroscience center awarded $1.7 million for nerve growth and regeneration studies
... work, we might be able to exploit them to promote regeneration of the spinal cord."...Next-generation biomaterials to help body heal itself
...sed to create a new generation of biomaterials for regeneration and repair of tissue. The authors also signal a ne...for research emphasis to shift from replacement to regeneration of tissues. Professor Hench, discoverer of Bioglass (R) and author of a 1980 Science review of the f...Scientists use llama droppings to help combat water pollution
...It has been adapted from a community-based natural regeneration technique which uses waste materials to treat poll...he surrounding areas. The scientific basis for the regeneration technique, which involves the creation of 'low-tech' bioreactors constructed in the form of wetlands...Recovery from spinal cord injury seen in mice when scarring is minimized
...us in recent years. Might there be ways to promote regeneration of the cells in the spinal cord or otherwise encourage a restoration of function following injury? A new study conducted in mice by researchers at The Wistar Institute suggests that the key to recovery from severe spinal-cord injury may lie in limit...Scientists describe structures of protein molecules that enable two-way signaling between cells
...pathways and perhaps accelerate nerve regrowth and regeneration as therapies for brain or spinal-cord injuries. Drs. Dimitar Nikolov and Juha-Pekka Himanen were the structural studys lead researchers in cellular biochemistry and biophysics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. Also participating were scientists at the Bro...Delayed treatment of spinal cord injury may improve recovery
...he new study is the first to show that spinal cord regeneration is actually improved when treatment is postponed u...e imagined. Future studies should investigate how regeneration and activity may be combined to improve recovery, says Dr. Bregman....Scientists design molecules that mimic nanostructure of bone
...bone cancer patients and have implications for the regeneration of other tissues and organs. "Recreating natural bone structure at the nanoscale level the first level of bone structural hierarchy is what we set out to do with our experiments, and we succeeded," said Northwestern postdoctoral fellow Jeffrey D. H...UT Southwestern scientists explain how the injured brain remodels itself
...em-cell regulators might accelerate or prolong the regeneration of neurons in humans, said Kernie, who collaborated with Dr. Luis F. Parada, director of the Center for Developmental Biology and the Kent Waldrep Foundation Center for Basic Research on Nerve Growth and Regeneration. We wanted to answer some basic q......d by a molecule called cyclic AMP in affecting the regeneration of nerve axons after injury. Both scientists will...nd nerves are damaged, MAG and other inhibitors of regeneration become exposed to the nerves that are trying to re-grow and stops them. "The rush w...Experiments offer major clue to repairing diseased nerves
...on nerves in their brains and then observed myelin regeneration indicative of nerve repair. Normal mice recovered completely, but those lacking the functioning tumor necrosis factor-alpha gene did not, which indicated how critical the protein was to the repair process. "Weve found that these tumor necrosis facto...Controlled nerve growth factor aids brain cell transplant
...has a variety of natural ways to resist nerve cell regeneration or transplantation. For example, the adult brain produces molecules that inhibit cell migration and the growth of axons (the part of the nerve cell that carries the nerve impulse) that could connect nerve cells, while scars that form on the glial (o...Science features Fox Chase Cancer Center findings on promotion of organ growth
...n various biological contextsorganogenesis, tissue regeneration and tumor growth.""Understanding how endothelial cells promote early organ development may enhance our understanding of these other processes," Zaret noted. "The new embryonic cell culture techniques we describe may further future efforts to reconsti...Survival of quaking aspen groves a complex problem
...ons with evidence of self replacement and 3 showed regeneration of both aspen and conifers. The researchers warn that the history of the Lake Tahoe Basin is unique. Most of the forests were clear-cut in the 1870s to supply wood to the miners of the Comstock Lode. The Basin's aspen stands are mostly around 120 to...Regeneration in the mammalian heart demonstrated by Wistar researchers
...onal Academy of Sciences on August 7. Importantly, regeneration of heart tissue in the mice was achieved without t...pecies known to demonstrate similar capacities for regeneration are non-mammalian species - certain reptiles and amphibians - able to replace limbs and other body p......ons play an important role in controlling neuronal regeneration and may lead to new approaches for treating damage... first to examine the critical missing half of the regeneration equation: the properties of adult neurons, rather than the environment of the adult brain, says st...A new marker for schizophrenia?
...his protein, S100B, promotes neuronal survival and regeneration at normal levels. At abnormally high levels, it is neurotoxic and induces the apoptosis of neurons and glial cells. ARTICLE: "Increased S100B blood levels in unmedicated and treated schizophrenia patients are correlated with negative symptomatology A...Scientists find that heart muscle cells regenerate after a heart attack
... and clear-cut demonstration to date of heart cell regeneration after cardiac injury," says Claude Lenfant, M.D., director of the NHLBI, a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "With this landmark study, we have a new understanding of the heart that opens up the possibility of repairing heart ...