Student science contest participation influences study, career choices, alumni say
... waste management to degrade wastes. Working along side scientists inside a company's lab "gave me perspective on what careers were out there in the life sciences". Merson went on to do medical research and for the past four years has worked for SHI Consulting, a life sciences consulting firm. In...New study shows hope for treating inhalant abuse
...t animals treated with GVG spent 80 seconds on the side of the chamber where they had previously received toluene as compared to the saline-treated animals, which spent 349 seconds in the "toluene" chamber. "GVG significantly blocked toluene-seeking behavior in these rats," Dewey said. Earlier resea...International study findings link acne-like rash to effectiveness of new targeted cancer treatment
...Van Cutsem said that the acne-like rash was also a side effect of other EGFR inhibitors but it was not yet known why the rash occurred. This was still a subject of research. "We saw independently reviewed partial tumour responses in 12% of patients and a median survival time of 6.6 months," he said. "In t...Trial shows which brain cancer patients benefit from temozolomide
...ients who were unlikely to respond could be spared side effects and possibly benefit from other treatments that would be more effective for them. Another drug called 06-Benzyl-guanine a substrate for the MGMT enzyme was currently being tested to see if it would deplete the activity of MGMT. Combined wit...Cardiac arrest may hinder ability to learn certain tasks
...latform from its original position to the opposite side of the tank. "While the mice in the cardiac arrest group had no trouble locating the platform in its original position, their ability to learn the platform's new location was hindered," DeVries said. The animals were tested three ti...Researchers identify protein promoting vascular tumor growth
...s and alpha interferon have a number of high-risk side effects. Steroids suppress the immune system, stunt growth and development, and cause weight gain and irritability. Use of alpha interferon as a medication in children can cause irreversible neurologic damage. Surgical removal is too dangerous becaus...High resolution satellite imagery assists hunt for infectious 'kissing bugs'
...ssibilities with increased effectiveness and fewer side effects. Following the completion of this Matagalpa pilot project, the same techniques - including use of satellite imagery may be employed for Chagas control elsewhere in Nicaragua and Central and South America. About HUMAN The Humanitarian ...16 APS exercise research highlights, from reduced flu mortality to proteomics & obesity
...developmental genes by human fetal skeletal muscle side population cells. Early developmental mechanisms m...nd are likely to be involved in maintaining muscle side population cells in an undifferentiated state and available on demand for muscle regeneration. 13.4...Newly identified master gene key in baby's first breath
...evelopment, but their use has been associated with side effects, such as cerebral palsy, asthma and bronchitis. The identification of Foxa2's role in lung development is expected to lead to new treatments for premature babies, children and adults with lung disease or lung injury. ...Groundbreaking research could ignite new solutions to heat transfer in nano-devices
...easured how a specific motion of a molecule on one side of a molecular wall causes molecules within the wall to move," said John Deak, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry at The University of Scranton. "In nanotechnology, researchers design materials whose properties originate in clusters of molecules...A novel, safer strategy for regulating gene expression
...could trigger the immune system and cause unwanted side effect. In addition, the current systems work with only a handful of specific drugs. In contrast, the ribozyme-based system can, in principle, be designed to regulate genes using any drug, or any chemical change in the body. The system is also easier...Study explores gene transfer to modify underlying course of Alzheimer's disease
...not to other parts of the brain where it may cause side effects. The new drug, CERE-110, is being used ...criminate delivery of NGF to the brain would cause side effects, such as weight loss and pain. The virus coating (AAV vector) that carries the NGF gene is ...Experimental drug shown to block mutant protein causing blood disease
...ming normal tissue, they are associated with fewer side effects than standard cancer drugs. In the study, mice with MPD that were treated with the oral compound PKC412 significantly outlived those given a placebo. When tested in a single patient, a 52-year-old woman with MPD, the drug reduced her dangerou......epping forward, he swings the other leg out to the side then kicks high in the air. In this old Monty Python skit, the man works for the Ministry of Silly Walks. It's his job to walk this way. The rest of us, however, tend to stroll along--or throw baseballs, or lift coffee mugs--in a much more efficient ...'Fossil genes' reveal how life sheds form and function
...at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "The other side of the coin is that we lose things. Losses as well as gains make up the story of evolution." Writing Sept. 20, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Carroll and colleagues Chris Todd Hittinger and Antonis Rokas describe the discov...Targeted therapy knocks out pediatric brain cancer in mice
...l treatments that can have overwhelmingly negative side effects for pediatric cancer patients. The researc... prolonged medulloblastoma-free survival. No toxic side effects of HhAntag treatment were observed in the mice. The researchers conclude that the develop...Peering inside the body, with a new spinliterally
...d signals, what Wind and colleagues call "spinning side bands," that obscured the sample's spectra. Wind ...sed radio waves to separate the obscuring spinning side bands from the main spectrum. With this technique they could look at full bodies or zero in on speci...A probable cause for high blood pressure identified - shows links with diabetes
... they act at multiple receptors and thus have many side effects. Now that we know the endogenous molecule ...iminish the onset of diabetes while avoiding other side effects."...Researchers identify distinctive signature for metastatic prostate cancer
...reatment for prostate cancer can cause significant side effects, including sexual and urinary dysfunction,...e of this pathway, there are questions of unwanted side effects. We have been able to give effective doses of cyclopamine to mice for long periods of time w...The impact of genetic variations on the treatment of early rheumatoid arthritis
... they vary widely with regard to effectiveness and side effects, and there are currently no markers to predict response to particular drugs. In a recent study, published in the September 2004 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism, researchers set out to examine whether specific genetic variati...