Can heart failure impair thinking?
... sensory symptoms, suggests neural damage in sites serving specific roles in memory, CO2 regulation, and sympathetic and parasympathetic control. A New Study Accordingly, a new study has been conducted to evaluate whether neural areas underlying control of these characteristics are affected in advanced HF...Abnormally high number of Lou Gehrig's disease cases identified among Gulf War veterans
...teran who was diagnosed with ALS a few years after serving in the Persian Gulf. Michael Donnelly and his father, Tom, contacted Dr. Haley after learning that several other young veterans of the war also had the illness. "This disease occurred in a very abnormal age group in people in their 20s and 30s inste...Dual action anthrax vaccine more effective
... surrounded the capsule of B. licheniformis (again serving as a stand-in for B. anthracis). The antibodies successfully recruited complement, a part of the immune system that kills microorganisms by disrupting their cell membranes. Likewise, the scientists showed that mouse blood containing antibodies to pro...Laboratory 'theme park' re-creates RNA world for study
...NA all working in concert, with proteins typically serving as enzymes to catalyze reactions, and DNA and RNA storing and processing genetic information. If, as the RNA-world hypothesis states, RNA once was in the business of replicating RNA, then enzymes once were composed entirely of RNA and not amino acids...Discovery may help in war against fire ants
... has also led to more avenues for research. While serving as a Research Fellow at Oxford a couple of years ago, Dr. Spencer Johnston, entomologist with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, was observing work by Dr. Jeyaraney Kathirithamby, who is a researcher with Oxford's department of zoology. Kath...Dual discoveries in genetic processing improve accuracy of genome information
...s of genetic coding found in each species studied, serving as markers corresponding to specific genes targeted for A-to-I RNA editing. The identical presence in both species suggests that the editing site arose some time ago evolutionarily and has been retained in these species -- and likely others -- becau...UC Berkeley museum biologists to repeat 85-year-old Yosemite National Park wildlife survey
...ely," said Leslie Chow, a UC Berkeley graduate now serving in Yosemite as a research wildlife biologist for the U.S. Geological Survey. "We view the park as relatively pristine because we don't allow logging, but other actions - things like suppressing fires for a hundred years - have had an impact." Moritz......tone was associated with a mild electric footshock serving as an aversive stimulus. If the tone was immediately followed by a footshock, young and aged mice remembered easily the association on the following day. They showed their memory by a so-called "freezing response" when exposed to the same tone used f...HAART therapy significantly prolongs survival in AIDS patients with central nervous system lymphoma
... at Parkland Memorial Hospital a 990-bed hospital serving Dallas County which is the primary teaching institution of Southwestern Medical School between 1995 and 2001 to determine the effects of HAART on survival rates. During the six-year study, 25 patients were identified. Of those, 19 were definite case...Edible food wraps can keep kids' sandwiches fresh and the environment cleaner
...o a healthful diet because each wrap is equal to a serving of a fruit or a vegetable. "Another advantage of these wraps," she explains, "is that they can provide a glaze or a sauce for cooking. You can use a tomato or ketchup-flavored wrap to hamburgers when you freeze them and then when you defrost the meat...Volcanologist Richard S. Fiske receives award
...hs. Dr. Fiske returned to research in 1985 after serving as Director of the National Museum of Natural History. He played a major role in the planning of the museum's Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals, which opened to the public in 1997, and was a member of the project's Core Curato...Bioinformatics/GIS program aim is to protect chimpanzees
..., perpetuating a cycle of information transfer and serving as a blueprint for bridging the gaps in other scientific endeavors." Kaur is collaborating with a number of individuals and organizations on the program, including Michael A. Huffman, a world-renowned primatologist from Kyoto University in Japan; and...Affymetrix to support AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
...filiated organizations in more than 130 countries, serving a total of 10 million individuals. Thus, AAAS is the world's largest general federation of scientists. Science is an editorially independent, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed weekly that ranks among the world's most prestigious scientific journals. A...Columbia professor receives 2003 National Golden Apple for Teaching Excellence
...rriculum development responsibilities at Columbia, serving ascourse director for educational programs in parasitic diseases, ecology, medical ecology, emerging infections, and the environmental health sciences. Dr. Despommier is also the author of a textbook on parasitic diseases published in 2000 and is wid...Pregnant African American teens need more calcium for healthy fetal bone development
...day), "fair" (2-3 servings per day) or "poor" (0-1 serving per day), with each serving contributing approximately 300 milligrams of calcium. The study found that more than 75 percent of t...Jane Goodall to receive 2003 Environmental Citizen Award
...olved in work that makes the world a better place, serving as advocates in a variety of areas: poverty eradication, human rights, peace and conflict resolution, HIV/AIDS, disarmament, community development and environmentalism. The HMS Center for Health and the Global Environment and the New England Aquarium...Adolescent girls who consume more calcium weigh less
... calcium to make a difference. An increase in one serving of diary -- a cup of milk or a thumb-sized piece of cheese, about 300 mg of calcium -- was associated with 0.9 mm lower skin fold (about half an inch) and 1.9 pounds in lower weight. A similar increase in total calcium intake from all sources, inclu...Location of ulcerations in diabetic patients may be explained by blood flow
...tar pressures, has high skin perfusion potentially serving as a protective mechanism against ulceration. Further work to evaluate this relationship in non-diabetic older adults and diabetic non-peripheral neuropathy patients is necessary to understand the phenomena more clearly. This work provides the basi...Free shuttles can close the grocery gap
...: Numero Uno Market, a small chain of supermarkets serving inner-city Los Angeles neighborhoods, that maintains its own fleet of vans to give customers a free ride home with their groceries; and three Ralphs supermarkets, also in the Los Angeles area, that contract with a shuttle company to offer the same se...Fabricated microvascular networks could create compact fluidic factories
...-mixed in a short linear distance." In addition to serving as highly efficient and space-saving mixers in microfluidic devices, the microvascular networks offer improved functionality in the design of self-healing materials. "With our current approach, we distribute microcapsules of healing agent throughout ...