Stanford scientist seeks participants in NASA hypergravity study
...cipants will undergo five 22-hour sessions and two shorter multi-hour sessions once a week for seven consecutive weeks. As a control, the first 22-hour session will be conducted at 1 G - Earth`s normal gravitational force - while the centrifuge arm is at rest. During the next two sessions, the centrifuge wil...Findings conclude sustained caffeine intake negates the benefits of creatine supplements
... was reduced by five percent and was significantly shorter than after the placebo; discovery that the intake of caffeine, combined with a daily creatine supplement, counteracted the beneficial effects of creatine intake on relaxation time and fatigue enhanced this inhibitory effect; and the observation tha...For the longest distance runner, that tired feeling may not be due to central fatigue
...d from 131.9 21.2 to 157.1 35.9 Nm for KE. Also, shorter contraction and half-relaxation times were observe...ffects on neuromuscular properties compared with a shorter duration of fatiguing exercise....UB dental researchers find novel peptide in saliva that kills broad range of fungi and bacteria
...e in vitro and are experimenting with increasingly shorter pieces. "We think this naturally-occurring agent has high therapeutic potential for treating microbial infections in general and drug-resistant fungal strains in particular," Bobek said. "It also has potential as a component of artificial saliva fo...Undergraduate unraveling genetic mysteries in fruit flies
... mutation led to the production of a protein thats shorter than it should be, so it couldnt function properly, Comeaux said. Thats why the salivary gland, and, more importantly, the fly itself didnt develop properly. The research also yielded new insights into how a developing salivary gland moves into its p...Symptoms of illness less severe in hamsters during winter, study finds
...ns just as well as they do in the summer, but in a shorter amount of time. We just don't know," he said. Added Bilbo, "It's a balancing act. The hamsters have to fight the infection, but they can't spend too much energy." While...The body's production of melatonin may be the reason why the elderly can't get a good night's sleep
...hus, neither decreased plasma melatonin levels nor shorter duration of melatonin secretion can fully explain ...lasma melatonin secretion revealed a significantly shorter interval between these two measures in the older subjects. When the relationship between the melaton...Scientists develop protein nanoarrays for biological detection
...at can yield more information more accurately in a shorter period of time. Such devices ultimately could be used in the doctors office to rapidly screen for a wide range of pathogenic diseases or in the field to detect biological weapons such as anthrax and smallpox. A report on the protein nanoarrays was pu...Stem cell study provides new clues to origin of Down syndrome
...er, nerve fibers from the Down syndrome cells were shorter and misshapen. Using techniques that permit scientists to see which genes are active in both a Down syndrome sample and a non-Down syndrome sample, the group was able to home in on the genes that seemed to be responsible. Knowing which genes are invo...Seeing stars after LASIK? Study suggests certain pre-surgery factors may be to blame
...hile the farsighted eyeball is shorter than normal. Ninety-seven percent of the patients in the study said they would recommend LASIK to a friend, in spite of the side effects. Of the patients that would make the recommendation,...Common variation of 'klotho' gene associated with human life expectancy
...copies of the klotho variant was associated with a shorter life expectancy in all three populations, having a single copy seemed to lead to a longer life in Bohemian Czechs, the scientists say. About 19 percent of the Bohemian Czech infants had one variant copy, as did 25 percent of the group's elderly. "Per...A 2,000 year-old technique may hold the key to acupuncture's therapeutic effect
... into acupuncture's therapeutic mechanisms. In the shorter term, these same effects may also provide important biological markers that can be used in clinical trials of acupuncture. Source December 2001 edition of the Journal of Applied Physiology....Tiny molecular change inactivates tumor suppressor gene in neurofibromatosis
...ng as a normal part of its regulation to produce a shorter version of a protein that orchestrates fat absorption. Our study shows, however, that the same RNA editing machinery essential to normal function in the intestine can inactivate the neurofibromin tumor suppressor in some patients with neurofibromatos...Coenzyme Q shortens life span of worms substantially, UCLA chemists report
...ms, Larsen said. Why would adult worms have a much shorter life span, and age faster, with Coenzyme Q? Our findings suggest the reason for the shorter life span is that Coenzyme Q causes more oxidative damage than it prevents, Clarke said. She and Lar...... variable over long spans of geological time. Over shorter periods, however, diversification rates vary much less than extinction rates do. That means that evolution doesn't accelerate quickly in response to rapid bursts of extinction. One possible explanation for why diversification takes so long to rev up ...UNC, Duke researchers discover cause of mysterious pancreatitis in some people
...in their lungs and leads to chronic infections and shorter lives. Such patients can also suffer from pancreatitis -- an inflamed pancreas causing pain, poor insulin production and frequent complications, Noone said. That fact led the researchers to suspect that some people with pancreatitis of unknown origi...Gender issues related to spaceflight: A NASA perspective
...on Because space shuttle flights are considerably shorter than the average menstrual cycle length, no on-orb...g for men). In general, the average woman is 10 cm shorter and 13 kg lighter and has 11 percent more body fat, 8 percent less muscle mass, 10-14 percent less h...Lancet study shows DiaPep277 arrests progression of Type 1 diabetes
...tion have a lifespan that is, on average, 15 years shorter than the norm. Dr. Elias and colleagues at Peptor, along with research teams at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School and the Weizmann Institute of Science, conducted a ten-month randomized, double-blinded study of 35 men recently diagnosed w......more slowly than normal, or it could be open for a shorter amount of time. Linden's new study rules out these three possibilities, leaving reduced receptor number as the only contributor, he reports in what he calls his "Jacob paper" for its similarities to his young son. "The answers are no, no, and no," s...