Study shows impact of emotionally healthy fathers when mothers' poor mental health affects children
...ldren's emotional and behavioral health. The study shows that a father in good mental health can substantially reduce the negative influence of a mother's poor mental health on a child's behavioral and emotional well-being. "If a mother and father are depressed, the odds that a child will have behavioral o...New diagnostic technology helps justify earlier cataract surgery
...nd. The significance of this study is that it shows wavefront testing can be used to accurately measure the visual errors that show up as glare and other problems that cataract patients experience. This will give insurance companies a reliable and widely accepted means of testing for the effects of c...Two enzymes key to calorie-burning, Brown research shows
...r. Other new research, conducted by the same team, shows that leptin also travels an indirect path through the brain, triggering production of a peptide that sends a fast, strong message to the hypothalamus to burn calories. Those results were published in last week's online early edition of the Proceeding...DNA variations surprise researchers
... most common LCV involves amylase genes. Our study shows that some people may have 10 copies of this gene while others may have as much as 24 copies of this same gene. It would be really exciting if we found that an increased copy number of these genes was associated with increased susceptibility to pancre...New glycan arrays discover autoimmunogenic activities of SARS-CoV: concern over monkey vaccine
...ir SARS collaboration, although at an early stage, shows the strength of this new technology. This study will be extended to characterization of anti-SARS antibody responses of different animal species, including mouse, rat, rabbit, pig, horse, and monkey. They believe that characterization of anti-SARS-Co...Spring through fall, cities are greener longer than neighboring rural regions
...rably hot time for city dwellers, but new research shows that an urban setting allows plants to bask in a h...s in Boston University's Center for Remote Sensing shows that the growing season for vegetation in about 70 urban areas in North America is, on average, 15 d...Save the rainforest - eat a tree
...f Utah experiment conducted in Peru's Amazon Basin shows insects increase the diversity of the rainforest w...sity and the origin of species The study shows different soil types are not adequate by themselves to define habitats or niches what trees grow wh...LICR/UCSD team solves mystery of centromeres
...we're able to see something more like a movie that shows how flexible the regions of a protein are." Woods noted that "this work demonstrates the ability of DXMS to precisely localize proteinfeatures responsible for function, even when the function is a very complex one in this case, the init...Casanova or caveman: Scientists isolate nerve cells that choreograph male fly's courtship behavior
...by a half-dozen out-of-control mutants. "Our study shows that there is an identifiable set of cells, a place in the central nervous system, that serves to coordinate each of the subroutines that make up a behavior - licking, tapping and so forth," Baker said. "There's been some debate about whether the cou...Ancient brewery discovered on mountaintop in Peru
.... Williams said. "However, archaeological evidence shows the Wari preferred the spicy chicha made from molle." Project botanists are attempting to recreate the ancient Wari beer brewed from the pepper tree berries using traditional pottery. Video of this process can be seen at www.fieldmuseum.org/expediti...Misfiring proteins tied to inflammation and sick feeling of type 2 diabetics
...dent Valerie R. Mazzocco. New work in Freund's lab shows that cytokine-dependent fever and reduced social exploration is found in type 2 diabetes mice. The neuroimmune response leading to the sickness behavior, Freund said, was linked to hypersensitivity to lipopolysaccharide and potentially to cytokine r...Researchers find that color perception is not innate, but acquired after birth
...e Neuroscience Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, shows that visual experience in early infancy is indispensable for normal development of the color constancy. He raised baby monkeys for nearly a year in a separate room where the illumination came from only monochromatic lights. After extensive training a...Good bacteria trigger proteins to protect the gut
...gainst opportunistic infections. However, our work shows that such antibiotics can have the detrimental effect of preventing the natural and essential pathways that are important for protection and repair. Thus, it may be that such patients could be treated with a version of the bacterial cell surface prod...Microarrays, key genome expression trackers, work better when probes are sequence-verified
... addition, comprehensive gene expression profiling shows great potential for human disease diagnostics. For... of probe sequence inaccuracies, the study clearly shows that sequence-verified probes perform more consistently, and with higher accuracy, within replicates...Joslin Diabetes Center releases new low impact exercise video
...at fitness is unattainable." The video shows two simultaneous exercisers, one seated and one standing, performing similar aerobic activities. Seated exercises are appropriate for individuals with a limited capacity for exercise as well as for people with physical limitations (hip or knee probl...New framework for biodiversity conservation
...y published in the August issue of Ecology Letters shows that elaborate modeling efforts used to guide land conservation result in plans that are rarely achievable in the real world and may actually be counter-productive to achieving long term protection of plants and animals. Author Sandy Andelman says "...Research reveals role of gene in infertility
...ogether to form pairs," he reports. "Our research shows that the RAD51 protein has a role in bringing a single strand of DNA to its counterpart within the nucleus of a cell to form a double-strand and is a critical component of the whole complex of proteins that holds the two strands close to one another....Mapping the evolution of a virus
...1968 up to 2003. The study resulted in a map that shows the virus evolved as a series of 11 closely related virus clusters as it has sought to elude human immunity over the decades. The mapping method will allow researchers involved in vaccine development and viral surveillance programs for influenza, and...Annals of internal medicine tip sheet, July 20, 2004
... (Editorial, p. 155). This study, the writer says, shows unequivocally that doxycycline "has no effect on the health of symptomatic Gulf War veterans." 3. Does a living will affect chance of not dying in a hospital? A study of data on 539 elderly people who died in the United States between 1993 and......ve study of DNA from songbirds and their relatives shows that these birds, which account for almost half of all bird species, did not originate in Eurasia, as previously thought. Instead, their ancestors escaped from a relatively small area--Australasia (Australia, New Zealand and nearby islands) and New G...