Abnormally high number of Lou Gehrig's disease cases identified among Gulf War veterans
...level nerve agents, that drifted over thousands of soldiers when U.S. forces detonated Iraqi chemical stores. ...rnal Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology that some soldiers were genetically predisposed to Gulf War syndrome. The study showed that veterans with a gene that c...Soldier or worker what do the genes say?
... into how termite larvae can develop into workers, soldiers or reproductive adults depending on the colony's needs. The eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes, exists in colonies, whose members share work and resources among themselves. Different castes of termite have evolved to do different ...Genetic differences in termite castes may lead to better control
...es that cause termite larvae to grow into workers, soldiers or reproductive adults may lead to new methods to ...Most of these muscle proteins are expressed in the soldiers and not the workers. The soldiers have big heads and jaws, so they require more muscle in the head t...LabNotes -- Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
... police confirmed its identity. Earlier this year, soldiers in Iraq worried about a similar fate. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists have now come up with a way to warn commuters, emergency crews and troops about a toxic gas release. A device called a high resolution infrared spectrometer can be...Genetic master switch sends bacteria toward 'seafood dinner'
...key discovery about how and when these microscopic soldiers launch their search-and-devour missions. Writing in the Online Early Edition of "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" for the week of Dec. 29, 2003, Xibing Li and Saul Roseman reported that they had found a genetic master switch that r...Scientists at Scripps Research Institute describe structure of receptor on surface of 1918 flu virus
...the virus degrades easily. However, biopsies from soldiers who died from influenza in 1918 were preserved and maintained in the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Another sample was taken from an Inuit woman who had succumbed to the infection and had been buried in the Alaskan permafrost. Together, these...UCSF finding advances insight into adult stem cells in human brain
.... Scientists have long viewed astrocytes as foot soldiers to the brain's far more glamorous neurons, which orchestrate thought, feeling, and movement. But the researchers determined in their cell culture studies that the star-shaped astrocytes of the region have the ability to perpetually self-renew and pro...Mix of chemicals plus stress damages brain, liver in animals and likely in humans
...tigmine bromide. These are the same drugs that the soldiers received during the 1990 - 1991 Persian Gulf War, ... same levels -- in weight adjusted doses -- as the soldiers were reportedly given. Now, Abou Donia has demonstrated that the combination of stress and short-ter...New data on ant adaptability within their environment
...flexibility in the relative numbers of workers and soldiers has been from studies that measure the response to short-term environmental change that occurs within the normal life cycle of a colony. In the new work, Yang and colleagues headed to the field to explore the question of whether caste structure can ...Researchers say US military accidentally introduced tree pathogen to Italian estate
Berkeley - During World War II, soldiers from the Fifth U.S. Army set up camp at an exclusive hunting estate in Italy, regrouping between military drives north against German troops and Benito Mussolini. Sixty years later, forest pathologists are pointing to huge gaps of dead trees in the e...Mouse study yields clue to why liver is less prone to rejection, say Pitt researchers
.... When mature, dendritic cells signal T cells, the soldiers of the immune system, to attack a transplanted organ, for example. But dendritic cells that reside in the liver are relatively docile in nature. Why this is, according to the Pitt study, may be due to the fact that they express lower amounts of a cer...Gene therapy with growth factor seems promising therapy for incurable muscle disorder ALS
...number of Italian top football players, pilots and soldiers in the Gulf War were also affected by this fatal disease. Around half of them die within three years, some even within a year, mostly in full possession of their faculties as a result of asphyxiation. In patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (...Researchers look into components of RNA silencing machinery
...he region must be heterochromatic. "Some soldiers carry the duty of turning off certain lights along the highway. Everybody thought these soldiers belong to the RNA silencing machinery, as the rule says. But what our research has shown is that, wh...Veterans with Gulf War syndrome have damage in specific, primitive portion of nervous system
...otent nerve toxin which drifted over thousands of soldiers when U.S. forces detonated Iraqi chemical stores during and after the Gulf War. A recent report from the Government Accountability Office confirmed that exposure to low-level sarin in the 1991 Gulf War was more frequent and widespread than previously......otentially be deployed to protect the food supply, soldiers on the battlefield, or used by emergency responders dealing with an unknown agent. "The old test takes days." In addition to the real-time assay, which could be deployed in a kit and used in the field, the Wisconsin team also developed a cell-based a...