Technology could enhance accuracy of breast biopsy
...e women who have biopsies must have the procedures repeated because the results are inconclusive. Ramanujam and graduate students Carmalyn Lubawy and Changfang Zhu are harnessing the power of light to add another dimension of information about the tissue properties at the needle tip. Light can provide struct...JCI table of contents, 1 July 2004
...e a new means of therapy for women who suffer such repeated and early pregnancy loss by targeting the mediators of such inflammatory responses. An accompanying commentary, by Jane Salmon at the Hospital for Special Surgery, provides an overview of the immune response system, the reproductive hormone system, a...Microscopy scans show how brain cells process energy
...ls above or below the plane are not affected. When repeated scans at different focal planes are "stacked" by computer processing, a brilliant, three-dimensional picture emerges. And when a series of scans are "pasted" together, a movie of split-second changes at the cellular or subcellular level results. Kas...A pregnant pause for unexpected interactions
...e a new means of therapy for women who suffer such repeated and early pregnancy loss by targeting the mediators of such inflammatory responses. ...Protein believed to control formation of memory identified by Scripps & UCSD scientists
...prediction has since been borne out in experiments repeated in many different species -- from mice to fruit flies. After this fact was established, a number of scientists around the country began looking for the specific genes and proteins that could stabilize long-term memory. One such signal had already ...Existing drug may prevent brain injury and seizures in newborns
... deficits, as well as brain injury associated with repeated seizures in adulthood." While therapeutic doses of the drug do not appear to alter normal brain development in the rat, topiramate's safety in children under age three has not been studied. Taken together, results from these studies sugge...UCLA researchers recreate patterns formed by mammalian cells
...ommunicate with each other to form symmetrical and repeated patterns such as zebra stripes or leopard spots? For the first time, UCLA researchers have recreated the ability of mammalian cells to self-organize, forming evenly spaced patterns in a test tube. Published in the June 22, 2004 issue of the Proceedi...Researchers develop blood test that can detect genetic changes in progressive breast cancer
...western and senior author of the study. "Obtaining repeated blood samples is a safe and routine procedure, and this test can help the oncologist determine whether a new genetic change has become dominant and calls for a specific treatment for that change." Their work will appear in an upcoming issue ...Researchers report major advance in gene therapy technique
...ons without damaging the veins. "The ability to do repeated injections has important implications for muscle diseases since to cure them, a high percentage of therapeutic cells must be introduced," he says. The researchers also found that they could use the technique to successfully administer therapeuticall...3-D micro-imaging technology licensed to Carl Zeiss Jena
...ls above or below the plane are not affected. When repeated scans at different focal planes are "stacked" by computer processing, a brilliant, three-dimensional picture emerges. Initially developed at Cornell to enhance basic biological research, multiphoton microscopy is proving to be a marked improvement o...Published research contains 'high level of statistical errors'
...nscription or typesetting errors, for example if a repeated zero was omitted. Alternatively, researchers may have rounded up figures incorrectly. The researchers showed that some numbers, four and nine, were seen less often than would be expected at the end of a given test statistic or P-value, suggesting th...Discovery of tiny microbes in ancient Greenland glacier may define limits for life on Earth
...he researchers used a variety of methods including repeated sample filtrations, electron microscopy, and a modified technique of flow cytometry to quickly reveal the number of cells and to estimate their different sizes, DNA content, and other characteristics. Miteva and Brenchley discovered cells with many ...Small, cold, & hungry: Ultra-small microbes from 120,000-year-old glacier ice sample
...he researchers used a variety of methods including repeated sample filtrations, electron microscopy, and a modified technique of flow cytometry to quickly reveal the number of cells and to estimate their different sizes, DNA content, and other characteristics. Miteva and Brenchley discovered cells with many ...Genomic biology institute's first grant to focus on soybeans, climate change
... of this proposal, and I expect this formula to be repeated for the other IGB research themes," he said. Five postdoctoral researchers will be hired to work fulltime on the new project, DeLucia said. Another four to five graduate students also will participate. Until the IGB facility is completed, the postd...Antibiotic resistance risk from triclosan questioned
...read of antibiotic resistance. In the laboratory, repeated sublethal exposure of the bacterium Escherichia coli to triclosan led to the emergence of triclosan-resistance in the organism, which researchers believed might select for antibiotic resistance. In the research released today, Andrew McBain and his ...Fox Chase Cancer Center research shows kidney cancer can be diagnosed in urine
... affected patients. What's more, urine tests were repeated following the removal of the cancerous kidney and none of the tests showed DNA evidence of disease. These research findings were presented at the American Urological Association Annual Meeting May 8-13, 2004 in San Francisco. As with other cancers, ...Traditional fishing destroys corals - new research
...redators. However Great Barrier Reef experience of repeated waves of the starfish indicates that only severe reductions in fishing activity are likely to prevent starfish infestations and the coral loss which follows across entire reef networks....New analysis gives cancer patients personalized prognosis
... having similar risk profiles. Such an analysis is repeated multiple times according to different classification schemes. Those many solutions are then summarized into precise estimates of each patient's unique cancer recurrence risk. Models combining clinical and genomic information performed far better than...How do animals exposed to 24-hour light retain their wake-sleep habits?
...day. This was not the case when the experiment was repeated in the field at the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory - with two species of Arctic rodents exposed to continuous daylight (nocturnal porcupines [Erethizon] N=4, and hibernators, the Arctic ground squirrel [Spermophilis] N=6). Under these circumstances...High-fat fast-food breakfast produces rush of inflammatory factors into blood stream, UB study finds
...fat meal, research showed. "People who experience repeated short-lived bouts of inflammation resulting from many such unhealthy meals can end up with blood vessels in a chronic state of inflammation, a primary factor in the development of atherosclerosis," Aljada said. "However, we've also shown in a study ...