Team approach works better to reduce blood pressure in African-American men
...one doctor-patient visit in a doctor's office will simply not work," says lead author Martha N. Hill, Ph.D., R.N., dean of The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. "What our study suggests is that you need a whole team socially and culturally linked to this population, including community members as ...'Dog-on-a-chip' could replace drug-sniffing canines
...d during an actual drug seizure," Stubbs says. "By simply drawing the vapor through our prototype device, we got a positive detection in a matter of seconds." The ability to detect and identify small, non-volatile molecules like cocaine based on their electronic vapor signature could also be used in airport...GenSAT (Gene Expression Nervous System Atlas) project announced
...lution digital images on the scale they envisioned simply did not exist. "It was like going into a bike shop and designing a bike that no one has ever imagined before," says Hatten. "All the components were available, but we had to put them together and design the computing systems to run them for the first...Dose of PTEN protein found to determine progression of prostate cancer
... absolute level of key signaling proteins, and not simply whether the protein is present or absent. Developing these methods is an area of active investigation."...New model of Alzheimer's enzyme may help refine future treatments
... -- rather than distinguishing between the two, it simply clips whichever it runs into first. The presence of either protein can therefore influence gamma-secretase's effect on the other. Next, the team examined how the same enzyme is responsible for clipping each molecule at two separate sites. A breakthr...Exercise and healthy weight delay cancer even among women with highest genetic risk
...dolescence as well as exercise (sports, dance, or simply walking a lot). King said researchers should continue to study how environmental factors can modify powerful genetic predispositions toward cancer. BACKGROUND ON THE BRCA MUTATIONS AND CANCER Women have about a 10 percent chance of developing bre...UCSD, VA and Cal-(IT) wireless technology to enhance mass casualty treatment in disasters
...rting acute field care of victims of disasters are simply inadequate," Lenert said. "The new technologies deployed by WIISARD will bring cutting edge wireless Internet technologies from the hospital to the mass-casualty field treatment station. Essentially, WIISARD is designed to overcome significant prob...How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report
...ble is far harder. Intrinsically, some things are simply unknowable, such as the number of fish in a bay a decade from now given such variables as climate change. As well, some things are unknowable because the search is impractical -- for example, a sea to be explored is inaccessible, specimens explode ...Adaptive mutation is common in E. coli, say IU researchers
...chets up its "adaptive mutation" machinery when it simply runs out of food. Biologists Patricia Foster and Jill Layton found that as E. coli cells begin to starve, the bacteria quadruple their expression of DNA Polymerase IV (Pol IV), a mutation-causing enzyme that is notoriously bad at copying DNA accurate...Saliva spits out information on chemical exposure
...t chemical exposure or even nerve gas poisoning -- simply by analyzing a victim's saliva. And the results would be almost immediate. Using sophisticated mass spectrometry equipment at PNNL, researchers have been able to identify breakdown products of a common pesticide in the saliva of rats exposed to known...Scientists determine identity, cell locale and quantity of nearly all proteins in an organism
...t proportion of the proteins they did not identify simply are not expressed in the normal growth phase that ... direct descendent of an independent organism that simply "moved in" and started keeping house with its host. Weissman and O'Shea have known each other sinc...Building a better atlas of yeast proteins
...now made the yeast proteome accessible in a way it simply wasn't before," said Weissman. "Now, investigators can measure the abundance of proteins and follow their location with a degree of sensitivity that was never possible for any proteome in any organism. We believe that this capability really strengthe...Researchers identify molecular alterations in patients with irritable bowel syndrome
...BS lends credibility to the notion that IBS is not simply a psychological or social disorder as was once thought, but instead due to altered gut biochemistry and interactions between the gut and the brain." Serotonin (5-HT) is a naturally occurring neurotransmitter and signaling molecule. Ninety-five percen......ing disaster that would wipe-out life on earth, he simply protected a male and female of each species on the ark. Protecting contemporary biodiversity from the deluge of human activities that threaten life on earth is more difficult and requires a global network of reserves that includes all species. In th...New gene necessary for plant growth and development discovered
...lopment. Since chemical genetics is reversible, by simply stopping the application of a chemical that inactivates or activates a protein produced by a gene, it can be used to study what a gene does at different stages in development. A second advantage of chemical genetics has to do with the fact that the ...Standard improves tests of male DNA
...olymorphisms), known by the biotech cognoscente as simply "snips," can be helpful in sorting out who fathered the boy. If DNA can be thought of as an instruction book for building a specific person, then SNPs are single letters at an exact location in that book that tend to vary among individuals. A new Sta...New book says Northwest salmon could face same fate as those in Northeast, England
...ack them all, so the large excess of dead fish was simply dumped. Actions such as harvesting timber along riverbanks and installing impervious paved surfaces turned gentle runoff into torrents that scoured the gravel from spawning beds. Residential development brought flood-control measures that straighten...Thorough, searchable database of human proteins unveiled
...ive months and has elicited almost 2 million hits, simply from word-of-mouth and presentations at scientific meetings, says Pandey. The Human Protein Resource Database was built using freely available computer code, so-called open source, from ZOPE (Z Object Publishing Environment), which experts at the ...... as occurs in Prader-Willi and Angelman. These are simply good genes in a bad neighborhood." Scientists have known that Prader-Willi and Angelman can be attributed to the disruption of genes that sit near breakpoints regions in the chromosome that are prone to being re-arranged by the cell's genetic machi...Scientists switch components in cell circuits: Possible new technology, therapy
... two signals "upstream" of the N-WASP protein. "We simply replaced the regions of the protein that detect the normal upstream inputs with novel protein modules that detect two unrelated inputs," Lim says. "We could show that the 'decision' to polymerize actin remained intact, but now under the control of th...