Common virus may contribute to uncommon bone disease in children
...o guiding treatment, future research may lead to a simple blood test to diagnose the disease. "Such a test would be less invasive and certainly less painful for children than the tissue biopsy that we now must perform to diagnose LCH."...Are you slow in coordinating your thoughts?
...uestion for networks of pulse-coupled oscillators, simple models of neural networks in the brain (Physical Review Letters 92: 074101, 2004). To analyze the impact of network structure on its function the scientists use the theory of random matrices. Initiated by the work of Wigner on correlations of energy...Faulty DNA replication linked to neurological diseases
...nt professor in his lab, studied the sequence of a simple repeat of three nucleotides responsible for Friedr...nt lengths of the triplet repeat sequence, using a simple unicellular organism, yeast, as a convenient model. While yeast is far more primitive than humans, i...Discoveries reveal that gene regulation is bipolar
...--those needed to respond to emergencies--within a simple organism such as baker's yeast are heavily regulated. Most other genes, in contrast, typically control more routine housekeeping functions of the cell and appear to require much less regulation. "It appears that the cell's strategy is analogous to ...Rensselaer awarded $2.7 million NIH grant to improve drug development process
.... The researchers will begin work with a series of simple compounds and progress to complex natural products, including the flavonoid bergenin, and current pharmaceuticals, including the current HIV-1 protease inhibitor indinavir. This award represents Rensselaer's first Bioengineering Research Partnershi...Desert science center aims to bridge rift between Jordan and Israel
...ministries from both countries. ''Nothing has been simple about this project, but this kind of effort is necessary if you want to a make a shift in the Middle East paradigm,'' Kochavi said. ''The new center can serve science and peace simultaneously,'' Feldman noted. ''The development of a critical mass of ...PNNL recognized for commercializing technologies
... technique have been overcome. The technology uses simple and effective gas-phase reaction chemistry techniques, carried out in a small cell that is easily adapted to conventional instruments. The approach is able to overcome interferences that previously required much larger mass spectrometers to resolve. ...New 'Understanding Evolution' Web site provides one-stop-shop for nation's science teachers
... lessons that teach some aspect of evolution, from simple exercises that get kids to use their senses to explore the natural world to elementary displays of the concept of geologic time and extinction. More than 900 teachers across the country are now part of the evaluation process as the development team c...The ecological equivalent of Ellis Island: from ancestry to biodiversity
...at many patterns in nature could be explained by a simple theory stating that all species are equivalent in competition for resources. In a letter to Ecology Letters, Rampal Etienne and Han Olff from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands will present a novel framework for this theory in which they......s through time and across landscapes. RangeView is simple to use and valuable for natural resource managers, landowners, educators and researchers. The site offers a step-by-step tutorial for getting started. Hitting the "animate" button to see two-week variations in vegetation over the past year can asse...Antibiotics may not be necessary when treating children with a simple skin abscess
...cking the wound with gauze is adequate therapy for simple skin abscesses. Patients still need to seek medical attention for these boils even though they may not need antibiotics. This traditional treatment is even effective when the antibiotic-resistant, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) c...Study predicts conditions for sustainable lion trophy hunting
...tainability," said Whitman. "We've put forward two simple rules: You can sustainably shoot male lions without limits as long as they're 5 or older, and you can age lions before shooting them." As cubs, lions have noses that are soft pink to gray at the tips. After a lion reaches age 3, the nose starts to bl...Secondary complications and restoration of function in SCI
...WAnT is specific to the level of tetraplegia. This simple and quick test may serve as a useful assessment of upper-body power in persons with cervical-level SCI. Passive joint moments may lead to enhanced neuroprostheses for people with SCI (pg 15) This study quantified and compared lower-limb passive joi...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ston, Pennsylvania and Lima, Peru have developed a simple and cost-efficient system to decontaminate polluted water using nothing more than sunlight. Their findings appear in the February 2004 issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Contaminated water is responsible for billions of ...Mouth microbes may help shape immune system, says Stanford research team
... how oral microbes cause disease is probably not a simple story," said Relman. "One agent does not equal one disease. There are complex interactions between members of the oral flora." In its quest to sort through the interactions, Relman's group uses several unique approaches, one of which involves directl...Disease-fighters in our mouths provide clues to enhancing the immune system
.... Some institutions are already testing the use of simple antimicrobial peptides similar to beta-defensins to prevent oral mucositis, an infection that is a side effect of some chemotherapy treatments. Other possible uses for beta-defensins, or natural compounds that stimulate their production, may include ...Optically recording millisecond brain nerve impulses
...g from a single neuron to a larger network will be simple enough, says Dombeck. With the microscope's field of view, he says, it should be possible to record electrical signaling between many neurons at once....Seeing the forest for the trees: The future of environmental policy lies in interaction
...here, is all about understanding that there are no simple solutions, or at least none that isolated. "It is necessary to focus on the interactions of different policies," said MSU's Jianguo "Jack" Liu. "Each policy may look really good, but if you put them together, they might have some unexpected negative ...Passwords to guard entry aren't enough to protect complex data
...ith their own objectives and ethics - means that a simple good guy/bad guy access model is inadequate. While access control working alongside release control will improve the protection of privacy, complex security definitions may conflict with each other or even form security holes, Wiederhold says. "The ...... the strands of RNA and DNA are pushed apart has a simple physical explanation: the RNA polymerase inserts itself as a wedge between the two, with the RNA trailing out the hole. That same opening is the one that the protein finger dips into. "One might have imagined this, but to see it is another thing enti...