UK researchers shed new light on a cause of recurrent miscarriages
...hat there was no justification for screening women routinely prior to pregnancy, nor was it appropriate to undertake routine anti-clotting treatment outside of a clinical trial. "Long term use of heparin (the anti-clotting drug) has risks. It is associated with thinning of the bones, allergies to some preparat...... even thousands of eggs at once. Kuo says they can routinely denucleate 30 to 50 sea urchin eggs at a time. They plan to start testing cow eggs in the next few weeks. The prototype is a thin silicon slice a few centimetres across etched with hundreds of tiny wells, one for each egg. The trick is to spin the ...Society for Women's Health Research will be releasing reports related to Heart Month
... is important that media coverage of health issues routinely incorporates how women and men may be affected differently, said Phyllis Greenberger, MSW, president of the Society for Womens Health Research. Our pulse is on the latest research findings on sex differences, and we are excited about partnering with...Scientist: motion sickness drug scopolamine should be tested as new nerve agent treatment
...d 16 years ago suggest scopolamine, a drug already routinely used to combat motion sickness, could be a significant improvement over the standard treatment, atropine, in treating civilians and military personnel exposed to toxic nerve agents. Janowsky is professor and former chair of psychiatry at the UNC Sch...Ecologist Gretchen Daily advocates saving the planet by making conservation profitable
...ematic assessment of ecosystem capital, as is done routinely for other types of capital, and will describe practical ways of incorporating the value of ecosystems into policy. Trees, for example, could be worth something more than timber, acquiring financial value for the gifts they give while standing and [be...Small research big on Illinois campus
...minute, a realm where scientists and engineers now routinely work on a scale ranging from the size of small atoms to that of large molecules. Working at the nanoscale (a nanometer is one billionth of a meter) scientists may develop chemical and biological sensors that will be far more sensitive, selective and...Scientists close in on trigger of insulin resistance
...t's lab discovered 18 years ago that sugar is used routinely inside cells to modify proteins, turning them on and off. The more commonly known protein-controller, phosphate, actually binds to some of the same building blocks of proteins as sugar does. If proteins have too many sugars on them, they can't be c...Researchers identify protein that overcomes leptin resistance
...that is equivalent to what most Americans probably routinely consume, adds Neel, who is also a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Further testing revealed that the knockout mice were exhibiting increased energy expenditure, comparable to highly trained athletes, according to Neel, who adds that t...NATO picks promising pollution solution at NASAs Marshall Center for pilot study program
... where in the 60s and 70s rocket engine parts were routinely cleaned following tests. Unexploded ordnance remaining from the World War II era was also present in the area, eliminating the simpler option of doing a general treatment of the entire contaminated area. Therefore, the approach taken was to inject ze...Americans lack knowledge of ocular hypertension
...rom the 40-plus age group know that they should be routinely screened for ocular hypertension. Additionally, 41% of those surveyed in the same group had not been tested for ocular hypertension or glaucoma in the past year. Eye care professionals can easily test for both conditions using a variety of devices ...Teen alcohol and drug disorders more common than previously thought
...o than parents - many health care providers do not routinely ask their patients about alcohol and drug use and ...olescent patients for substance abuse just as they routinely check blood pressure and weight. In our clinic setting, one in four patients coming in for routine c...'Sloppy genes' behave like their neighbours
...ated next to each other on chromosomes are instead routinely expressed together. Genes within a block are not related to one another by structure or function: they are simply neighbours within the genome. These conclusions were drawn from experiments using DNA-coated microarrays to monitor the expression of al...New gene may be breast-specific cancer markers
Orlando, FL -- Men age 50 and older routinely ask their physician to perform a test for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) to detect the presence of prostate cancer. And according to a recent report from Irish researchers, women may one day be able to order an equivalent of this simple test to ide...A laser-based spectometry screening tool may provide early and efficient detection of breast cancer
...d level of disease progression; and the ability to routinely monitor how an individual patient is responding to a chosen therapy. Methodology The Hopkins researchers obtained 169 serum samples from the institutions serum banks. The cancer group consisted of 103 serum samples from breast cancer patients a...A message from nature to muskrats: 'Dont chill out'
...ting the adaptive hypothermia hypothesis, since it routinely cools during voluntary swimming and diving and apparently does not engage thermogenic pathways underwater. Both heart rate and Tb of muskrats decline during voluntary diving, and active rewarming via brown adipose tissue (BAT) does not appear to occ...Smoking pot alters more than mood human immune system affected, USF/UCLA study finds
...ine in Los Angeles. "The bottom line is you cannot routinely smoke marijuana without it affecting your immune system," said Thomas Klein, PhD, professor of medical microbiology and immunology at USF. "However, because of the complexity of the immune system, we can't say yet whether the effect we've observed in...Hope for nano-scale delivery of medicine using a light beam to move liquid through tiny tubes
...xt generation of scientists and engineers who will routinely design new products using nanotechnology," Garcia says....UCSF begins distributing the first of its two embryonic stem cell lines
...F-1, for distribution in the next year. Scientists routinely produce large quantities of various cell types in the petri dish. However, preparing, or "expanding," a large quantity of human embryonic stem cell lines for distribution is a technically challenging task. "These are touchy, finicky cells requiring ...JCI table of contents: October 1, 2002
...y to the brain's own endogenous neurosteroids that routinely regulate neuron activity. In mice lacking PKCe, the interaction of endogenous neurostreroids with the GABAA receptor (in the presence of GABA) caused the channel to open, and the significant increase in chloride ions rushing into the cell had a great......y to the brain's own endogenous neurosteroids that routinely regulate neuron activity. In mice lacking PKCe, the interaction of endogenous neurostreroids with the GABAA receptor (in the presence of GABA) caused the channel to open, and the significant increase in chloride ions rushing into the cell had a great...