Annals of internal medicine tip sheet, July 20, 2004
1. Guidelines show how heart patients can travel safely by air After reviewing literature on heart patients traveling by airplane, authors discuss effects of air travel and security devices on pacemakers and implantable automatic defibrillators; preflight screening; a...Researchers discuss revised Food Guide Pyramid and what it will mean for the food industry
... packaging, marketing materials and advertising to show the contribution of specific food products to an overall healthy diet. With the advance of nutritional research, evidence for the benefits of highly individualized diets, and the development of Dietary Reference Intakes for all nutrients it proved n...New genetic mechanism for evolution
...dividuals that have chromosomes with the inversion show some advantages over those that don't, even though it still unclear what is the mechanism used by the inversions to cause these differences. In the case of the of Drosophila buzzatii a lot of transposons were found inserted in the break points...Significant strides in small regulatory RNA research in plants
...genous messenger RNAs for regulation. miRNAs often show a high degree of evolutionary conservation across ...ences, Auckland, New Zealand, and their coauthors, show that small RNA corresponding to authentic siRNAs and miRNAs can enter and move through the phloem of...Impact of Earth's rising atmospheric carbon dioxide found in world oceans
... dioxide is known to accumulate in the atmosphere, show that the ocean and atmosphere are the two primary 'sinks' [holding tanks] of this carbon dioxide since the beginning of the industrial revolution. The land is the 'source.'" But that ocean "sink" may be changing, the studies conclude. "Feedbacks be...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...sociated with water reservoirs. "These results show that shower curtains are a potential source of opp... their lungs remained clear of bacteria. "We show that levels of strain WR201 are attenuated relative to strain 16M levels when administered orally an...JCI Table of Contents, 15 July 2004
...tilizing mouse genetic models of the disease, that show a dominant negative mechanism does not underpin Ma...ctually responsible for this disorder. The authors show that over-expressing a mutant form of the fibrillin-1 gene in mice does not, as would be expected in...New drug shows promise against Gleevec resistance in mice
...ed and improved by structural biology studies that show how the drugs "fit" with their target, and how mutations alter the shape of that target. The all-important drug target in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is an enzyme called Abelson tyrosine kinase (ABL), which becomes overactivated by a chr...Carnegie Mellon neuroscientist develops tool to image brain function at the cellular level
...nse to sensory input. Her results are the first to show alterations in the rate at which neurons transmit electrical signals after increased sensory input in vivo. Barth's technology is based on the decades-long understanding that a neuron must turn on new genes to firmly encode memories in the brain. Ea...Mouse brain stem cells capable of converting into blood vessel cells
... 6 percent of the mouse neural stem cells began to show signs that they had developed into cells similar to endothelial cells. The new cells expressed CD146, Flk-1 and VE Cadherin, protein markers that are associated with endothelial cells. They also retained a single nucleus and had only mouse chromosome...'Anti-plume' found off Pacific Coast
...offshore quakes. "That was one of the few that did show up on conventional seismic equipment and drew the attention of the public. There are hundreds, even thousands more that do not."...Sleepless over Seattle: Migrating songbirds forgo sleep but keep their wits
...e authors note, "both depressed and manic patients show reduced latency to REM sleep, loss of slow-wave sleep, and reduced amounts of total sleep." Understanding the mechanisms that power the sleepless flight of songbirds promises to unravel one of the longstanding mysteries of their improbable journey. B...UW study: Migrating birds offer insight into sleep
...udies that people with severe depression and mania show characteristic changes in their sleep patterns, such as having insomnia and entering REM sleep (the dream stage) too quickly after falling asleep," says Ruth Benca, professor of psychiatry at UW Medical School and principal investigator of the study....Funding to commercialize technologies of UC San Diego engineers tops $1.2 million
...l be used to commercialize technologies that could show up in the form of better cell phone cameras, wireless video instant-messaging, a way to quantify an individual's risk of suffering an aneurysm, and more powerful photovoltaic cells that could drive down the cost of solar energy. (For more on each pro...Altered expression of key developmental genes underlies evolution of butterfly wing patterns
...el Serfas of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, show how the regulation of developmental patterning gen... proven difficult. In their study, Reed and Serfas show that changes in a gene-regulation time sequence are associated with an evolutionary switch between l...A genetic model for hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) disease
...e motor neurons that initiate muscle contractions show a progressive dysfunction that culminates in degeneration. Genetic anomalies in more than 20 different genes have been associated with HSP, but mutations in one gene in particular, SPG4, are responsible for more than 40% of all cases. SPG4 encodes a ...New research suggests previously unrecognized mechanism by which blood vessels are patterned
...embryo. "With this research, we have been able to show that this form of CHD can be caused by defects within the cells that line blood vessels. This research could lead to new ways to modify the growth of blood vessels because this receptor seems to tell blood vessels in which direction they should grow...When sun's too strong, plankton make clouds
...o simulate different scenarios. One scenario would show our climate without clouds due to plankton, and another would show the climate with the increased cloud cover. Then researchers could begin to compare the differences ...Society for conservation biology conference
... Resources Group of the city parks department will show signs of progress on an ongoing effort to restore native habitat to the former site of a cement plant on the Bronx River, now a city park. The Cat from the Wrong Side of the Freeway Major highways limit the migration of large predators and put a ma......n a lawn of bacteria, the researchers were able to show that bordering and clumping was actually a respons...of the guanylate cyclase enzyme, they were able to show that this enzyme was acting as an oxygen detector, primarily steering worms away from too much oxyge...