UK researchers discover a molecular cause of spinal cord injuries
... cellular structure. These molecular signals then spread tosurrounding areas of the spinal cord. This research project was one of the first supported by the KentuckySpinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust (KSCHIRT). Established by the 1994General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, KSCHIR...UW-Madison team develops technique to create flu viruses
...e to solve mysteries about how flu strains mutate, spread and cause illness. The development may also lead to more efficient influenza vaccines and safer gene therapies, says Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a University of Wisconsin-Madison virologist and author of the report in the Aug. 3 Proceedings of the National Ac...High HIV RNA levels major risk factor for mother-to-child HIV transmission
...ansmission. The trial was designed to learn if the spread of HIV from mother to child couldbe reduced further by the addition of immune globulin. PACTG 185 was stoppedearly after the rate of mother-to-infant transmission was found to be only 5percent for both groups. As reported in the current issue of NEJ...Invasion of alien parasite halted; California coast cleared of African worm in abalone
...tant to thepest.) The worms quickly spread among the 18 or so abalone farms inCalifornia. Early on, Kuris and his assistant, graduate researcher CarrieCulver, were not so upbeat about the invasion. Funded by the University ofCalifornia Sea Grant Program, they set out to study the problem and ...Microbial janitors tackle nuclear clean-up problems
...low gel with the consistency of the lemon curd you spread on atea-time scone. The sulfur not only feeds the...pplying it to a surface for treatment. Researchers spread the gel on the concrete and then raise the humidity aroundthe gel to 95 percent. As long as the hum...Hepatitis E virus infection may be widespread in rats
...loping countries, where the disease is endemic and spread throughcontaminated drinking water. Nevertheless, tests show that between 1 and 5percent of healthy blood donors in the United States have HEV antibodies intheir blood. "Since hepatitis E is so rare in this country, it's puzzling that so many people...UI research team discovers new genes involved in the spread of breast cancer
...d new genes involved inthe invasive and metastatic spread of breast cancer. "After three years of intensive molecular screening, we are ecstatic about theprospects of developing our work for future clinical applications," said MaryJ.C. Hendrix, Ph.D., UI professor and head of anatomy and cell biology, andas...Computers have had dramatic impact on chemistry
...es output from instruments, drawings of apparatus, spread sheets, andrelevant articles from digital libraries and web pages. "It's complex and freeform. You have to sign it in such a way so you know who did what," says Dessy. "Maybe you use a signature pad similar to UPS or a smart card. Paranoidcompanies m...USGS issues wildlife health alert: Chytrid fungus infection
...o ultraviolet radiation due to ozone thinning, the spread of non-native predators, contamination from pesticides and other chemicals, and rising temperatures. Many biologists suspect that a combination of factors may be responsible....Pfiesteria Event: Sea Grant and DNR officials report on attitudes and activities
...eaction was at times panicky and fearful as rumors spread about safetyof coastal waters and seafood. Delaware Sea Grant coastal specialist Jim Falk of UD has taken the first reallook at public attitudes and understandings of Pfiesteria through acomprehensive survey of coastal residents from New York to N...USGS fire research in the southeast
...abitat,says Grace, is that wildfires can no longer spread across wide areas. Theprairie is in pieces, and consequently, for fire to continue to play itslife-sustaining role it must be carefully managed. As the prairie habitat becomes fragmented and the natural fire regime disrupted,the danger of invasi...USGS studies wildfire ecology in the western United States
...re incidence has been increasing, often due to the spread of non-native vegetation, with negative consequenc...fire to burn, managers need to know where it might spread in the next three months -- or the next three hours," van Wagtendonk says. His current work has...Virtual reality training tool pits emergency rescue teams against computerized terrorist attack
...eam modeledhow the airborne biological agent would spread through the airport following anexplosion that dispersed the agent. More than 20 first responders got their first chance to test drive BioSimMER atthe National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center at Texas A&MUniversity in July. "Those peop...Yale scientists find evidence healthy animals detect and avoid sick animals
...be important in making accurate predictions of the spread ofdisease." Skelly, whose study was published in Proceedings of the National Academyof Sciences, said the authors found that bullfrog tadpoles were able to tellwhen others of their species were infected with a fungus that attacks thedigestive...New hope for declining U.S. honeybee population
...mmercialbeekeeping means that this resistance will spread rapidly to most areas of thecountry," claims Kochansky. Another compound, coumaphos, is used in some statesto help control fluvalinate-resistant varroa mites, he notes. A patent for the formic acid gel is pending; a manufacturing license has beeniss...Hutchinson Center to lead $11.5 million ovarian-cancer research consortium
...percent of cases arediagnosed after the cancer has spread outside of the ovaries. The average womandiagnosed with the disease lives for three or four years after completingtreatment. In contrast, five-year survival for localized ovarian cancer is about90 percent, which strongly suggests that earlier detecti...Great increase seen in antibiotic-resistant bacteria in human colon
...new finding shows how rapidly resistance genes can spread through thebacterial population of the colon, said...uced a blueprintfor resistance that can be used to spread resistance to newer antibiotics.To show the resistance gene sequence was the same in contemporary an...Peering at a machine that pries DNA apart
...t changes resulting from every dTTP reaction could spread to twosubunits. The dTTP binding site also abuts the DNA binding site at the donut's inner ring.When crystallized without dTTP, these DNA binding sites were disordered andconsequently failed to appear as crisp patterns in the crystal structure. Yetw...Argonne biochips may halt tuberculosis epidemic
...rug-resistantstrains have sprung up and can easily spread to the whole world. If we canquickly identify spec... unknown single strands oftuberculosis DNA will be spread on a chip and allowed to naturally pair up inthe gels with single strands of tuberculosis DNA with i...Unveiling all of the consequences: Introduced plants may be causing hidden trouble
...ranchers and government agencies still continue to spread it (and several close relatives) enthusiastically from the Great Basin to the Northern Plains. It currently blankets 25 million acres of prairie in North America. To determine how crested wheatgrass affects the prairie ecosystem, Christian and Wilso...