Bacteria live in the esophagus!
...f the esophagus, proving that the bacteria weren't simply traveling through the tube but had taken up residence in the tissue lining it. Esophageal adenocarcinoma, a kind of cancer, has been increasing rapidly in white men, according to the National Cancer Institute, which sponsored the NYU study. "A...Breaking the rules on artifical blood
...ersity in Houston, Texas. He thinks MP4 works well simply because the coated haemolglobin is too big to squeeze into the spaces between cells and destroy nitric oxide. Viscosity and oxygen affinity are probably not the key factors. Intaglietta, however, can point to recent experiments that suggest viscosit...As obesity skyrockets, Joslin Diabetes Center urges action to stem the tide of type 2 diabetes
...n says. "The overall caloric intake in the U.S. is simply too high. Americans are eating too much. If you regularly eat more calories than you burn, you will become overweight." The good news is that that research at Joslin and elsewhere showed that losing modest amounts of weight say, 10 pounds a...Breast self examination increases women's concerns but has no effect on mortality
...native to high tech screening, we now know that it simply does not help. "Women need to be familiar with the normal feel, weight and appearance of their breasts, he saya, and any changes should be reported to a doctor as soon as possible. "But replacing normal breast awareness with a monthly ritual self-e...UN study shows environmental consequences from ongoing boom in personal computer sales
...ed. One model is a monolithic consortium dedicated simply to meeting official recycling targets at a fixed fee. This will likely lead to low-tech, unresponsive system that extracts little environmental or economic value from end-of-life machines. Another model is a pluralistic organization devoted to contin...UK Government proposes long-term strategy for science
...f scientific change, innovation and revolution. We simply cannot afford to be playing scientific catch up with our main competitors." The announcement has been welcomed by the scientific community. Dr. Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust, said: "I am delighted by this long-term commitment to streng...Rensselaer awarded $2.7 million NIH grant to improve drug development process
... or polymer, further derivatization is possible by simply washing away the initial reagents and adding in new ones. It is hoped this will enable rapid and repeated synthesis of compound derivatives. However, to achieve this novel synthetic strategy, Dordick and the research team will need to obtain a fundam...Mix of chemicals plus stress damages brain, liver in animals and likely in humans
...t when we put the animals under moderate stress by simply restricting their movement in a plastic holder for five minutes at a time every day, the animals experienced enough stress that it intensified the effects of the chemicals dramatically," said Abou Donia. Soldiers in the Gulf War were likely under str...Researchers discover new family of Atlantic corals in groundbreaking study
...stems on the planet. But these new results are not simply that the coral taxonomy is completely wrong," said...on biology, and that priorities cannot be based on simply cataloging and analyzing what is 'known.'" In addition to Knowlton, the paper's authors include Hiro...Purdue chemists 'put the twist' on protein building block
...d to give it its final structure," Zwier said. "We simply can't do that yet on a molecule as large a protein, so we decided to examine tryptamine, a simpler molecule that also can fold in several different ways. Our hope is to learn something from it that can carry over to much larger molecules." Try...Researchers receive NIH grant to open pediatric pharmacology research center
...ri, a staff physician at Children's. "Children are simply not tiny adults. They process drugs in a different fashion, and the dosage regimens are very different compared with adults," he said. The new center should help researchers more easily collaborate with their colleagues at the other 12 centers in the...Antibiotics may not be necessary when treating children with a simple skin abscess
.... At the beginning of the study, researchers were simply looking for alternative drugs and treatments for the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Abscesses caused by these bacteria have become extremely common in children. "I think it's good news for physicians. It addresses the dilemma of how to ...Exposure to low-level magnetic fields causes DNA damage in rat brain cells, researchers find
...ds in a living organism. Lai doesn't disagree he simply suspects a more subtle mechanism is at work. He believes that the fields, rather than causing harm directly, initiate a process within the cells that leads to the damage. Lai and Singh hypothesize that exposure to magnetic fields affects the...UCSF finding advances insight into adult stem cells in human brain
...w hope. The first step, however, will always be to simply understand their biological nature." Other co-authors of the study are Anthony D. Tramontin, PhD, of the UCSF Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program; Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, MD, Nicholas. M. Barbaro, MD, Nalin Gupta, MD, PhD, Sandeep Kunwa...Jefferson researchers uncover biochemical clues to how cells migrate in embryos
...kely a general feature of all vertebrates, and not simply a fish-specific observation." In earlier work, Dr. Farber had studied the effects of statins on lipid metabolism in zebrafish embryos. Dr. Farber knew that researchers at New York University School of Medicine had found that a mutation in a gene for ...Intelligent design: The new 'big tent' for evolution's critics
...ments of the past 140 years, intelligent design is simply the latest effort to create a "big tent for all people critical of evolution." As he views it, there are significant differences between scientific creationism and intelligent design. First, adherents of intelligent design scrupulously avoid biblical......on. Folding the DNA into the octahedral structures simply required the heating and then cooling of solutions containing the DNA, magnesium ions, and a few accessory molecules. And, indeed, the DNA spontaneously folded into the target structure. The researchers used cryoelectron microscopy, in collaboration...Reverse-direction movement of a molecular motor
...erse-direction movement of myosins can be achieved simply by rotating the direction of the lever arm 180. Myosins are mechano-enzymes that contain a common motor domain, by which they convert the energy from the hydrolysis of adenosine triphosphate into movement exerted against polar actin filaments. On the...Do we perceive using 'mindsight'?
... it exists using brain scanners. Mindsight is not simply a precursor to normal visual perception, he argues...the experimental setting might encourage people to simply guess. But he also thinks that people who don't experience mindsight may be screening out what appea...Making new muscle: Researchers in Rome produce a mouse that can regenerate its tissues
... have maintained that upon reaching a tissue, they simply fuse to existing cells and acquire some of their characteristics. However as Prof. Rosenthal notes, "The cells we observed went through all of the typical steps of specialisation before becoming fully integrated into the new tissue."...