Macrophages, not stem cells, correct liver disease by fusion
... people doing that work, to show that what they're seeing is not fusion."...New insight into cancer metastasis
...in people," says Richardson. "In this case we were seeing the exact same phenotype and gene expression correlation in human breast tumors." Although clinical applications of this research are still unclear, Richardson can see the potential for developing a Twist inhibitor, a drug that wouldn't ki...Whole body imaging allows better understanding of the immune system
...ques and modalities," he says. "My contribution is seeing particular biological problems to which they can be applied and how, down the road, this would work in humans." Dr. Witte is best known for his contributions to understanding the cause of certain blood cancers and immune disorders, findings t...All ecosystems are equally productive under drought conditions
...sized rain events on sites in southern Arizona and seeing how grassland and mesquite savanna ecosystems respond. ...Proteins transform DNA into 'molecular velcro'
...ing like that. We really thought that we were only seeing noise in the stretching of the DNA, but instead we were seeing a perfect registry in the sawtooth pattern," Bustamante said. That perfect reproducibility st...Atherosclerosis treatment needs to go with the flow
...r in vitro predictions in an animal model, and, in seeing in the animals what was predicted to occur from their bench top model, established the strength of their in vitro modeling system. This study provides an explanation for why stenting in forked blood vessel regions has had a low success rate, and also...JCI table of contents, 1 June 2004
...r in vitro predictions in an animal model, and, in seeing in the animals what was predicted to occur from their bench top model, established the strength of their in vitro modeling system. This study provides an explanation for why stenting in forked blood vessel regions has had a low success rate, and also...Concerns remain about UVB damage to amphibians
...ay at least a part in the amphibian declines we're seeing around the world." Most scientists now believe, Blaustein said, that a wide range of causes explain the totality of amphibian declines, and those causes include habitat destruction, disease, parasites, introduced exotic species, environmental contam...Mite transmits viruses damaging to wheat
...hat's what we usually see, just not the way we are seeing it this time. Once in a while, a sample will have stripe rust, too," Rush said. Farther south or east of the area, more foliar diseases are common. Many initial samples had double infections and started dying early. Because the two viruses are of...BioCDS could hit No. 1 on doctors' charts
...at is found in conventional CD players. Instead of seeing digital data, the laser reader would see how concentrated a given protein had become on each track." Each pit is only a few micrometers - millionths of a meter - in diameter, but is nevertheless large enough to hold many thousands of individual detec...Imaging study shows brain maturing
... of Sciences. "To interpret brain changes we were seeing in neurodevelopmental disorders like schizophrenia, we needed a better picture of how the brain normally develops," explained Rapoport. The researchers scanned the same 13 healthy children and teens every two years as they grew up, for 10 years. Aft...Earth, sky tapped in unique global climate change study
...ture, plant growth, and more. Already, the team is seeing some impact on plant growth. "We had predicted that juniper would be able to take advantage of extra rain in the spring, because they are evergreen so they are actively growing before the other species," Tjoelker said. "But we were surprised by the...Muscle-derived cells and gene therapy may cure for post-prostatectomy erectile dysfunction
...Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "In our lab, we are seeing that by two treatments one involving the injection of muscle-derived cells, the other involving the delivery of neurotrophic factors via gene therapy we can minimize nerve damage and facilitate nerve recovery, preserving the patient's ability to ha...Dampened hopes for transplanting bone marrow stem cells in heart attacks
...blood stem cells, whereas in actual fact they were seeing a tiny number of fused cells. Now it is time for second thoughts, and these might affect the many large-scale patient trials that were initiated during the hopeful period. In Sweden there is only one entirely new trial underway, and it can easily b...Sediments in many Central Valley streams contain toxic levels of pyrethroid pesticides
... scientists in area water-monitoring programs were seeing that if they placed aquatic invertebrates in their sediment samples, the animals would die, but they didn't know why - they'd attribute it to organophosphates or organochlorines (two pesticide ingredients being phased out because of environmental con...S.C. hospitals and universities form statewide health research collaborative
...ity of healthcare and outcomes, creating jobs, and seeing average incomes rise," Sorensen added....Brain areas identified that 'decode' emotions of others
...der of the person in each picture, based solely on seeing that person's eyes. By comparing the EEG signals associated with each response, the researchers identified two precise areas in the brain that were specifically activated when the participants made judgments about mental states: the medial temporal r...A new hypothesis about autoimmunity. Is it possible to be too clean?
...logy Professor Nora Sarvetnick, Ph.D. "What we are seeing is that it is a condition of too little stimulation." In an article appearing in this week's issue of the journal Cell, Nora Sarvetnick and her coauthors in the Department of Immunology assert that we need a certain level of immune stimulation to fil...Fish no exception to trend in marine-organism disease
...ions that need to be studied, Ward notes. "We are seeing so many emerging diseases that it can be overwhelming, and certainly we have to be careful about how dire we make the risk out to be," Ward says. "There are so many things we have yet to understand about the sea. My hope is that the methods develope......ely. Then, the number of respondents who reported seeing feral hogs for the first time jumped to 109 for th...8 time span. And 90 of survey respondents reported seeing hogs in the last five years to date. "The reports leveled off some for the last five years, but it'...