Low-Protein Diet May Reverse Kidney Disease
...pants, who had more advanced kidney failure before starting the study, showed temporary improvement, but all eventually went on dialysis. Nephrotic syndrome usually is treated with drugs and only modest reduction of dietary protein to reduce the loss of protein in the urine. Severe protein restriction has bee...Duke Ecologist Says Logging Is Creating 'Mahogany Deserts'
...ays. Then, when the virgin timberbegan running out starting around 1900, foresters assumed they could growreplacement mahogany in same-species plantations. But mahogany plantations in the Americas have not lived up to expectations,she said, mainly because of the shootborer caterpillars that thrive allyear in...NCAR Scientists Trek To Africa For Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
...wer the question, of course, but it will provide a starting point. Tropical forest landscapes are an important component of the global carbon cycle, so any imbalance there can have global consequences."...Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
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...volved in several genetic diseases. Bastia is now starting workon identifying the comparable protein in human...Bastia said. When DNA replicates, it unzips, starting and ending at specific sites.The helicases are responsible for pulling apart the DNA strands, which ...Two Long-sought Diabetes Gene Found
...betes purely as a defect in glucose metabolism and starting thinking of it as possibly a defect in gene expression," said Bell. "That makes diabetes a more complicated disorder, but it also opens up new ways of treating it. "The discovery of these genes means that we have to place more emphasis on treating di...Scientists Identify Gene For Sexual Behavior In Male Flies
...Medical School. "These findings on fru provide a starting point for a whole hostof other studies, to learn how sexual behavior and sexual orientationare specified by genes and controlled by the nervous system," Wassermansaid. "Our data so far suggest that fru is involved in interactionsbetween a handful o...Researchers Corral Millions Of Microscopic Membranes
...e and interior membranes, the researchers said.The starting point for the project was research that was completed in 1986 and 1987 by Stanford chemistry Professor Harden McConnell. He and his students figured out how to make two-dimensional membranes technically termed "supported lipid bilayers." They ...Merging Physics And Neuroscience: First Evidence Of Self-Organized Criticality In Brain Networks
...t at the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology. "It is a starting point for a completenew way of thinking about waves in the brain and diseaseprocesses." Jung and Dr. Ann Cornell-Bell of Connecticut-based ViatechImaging, combined theoretical modeling with experimentalobservation of chemical activity in cells taken...Gene Shears In Cutting Edge Anti-Aids Trial
... that this fundamental Australian discovery is now starting tobear fruit in the form of practical applications which promise to improvehuman health and wellbeing," he said. "It highlights the national importance of CSIRO continuing to performexcellent basic science designed to gain new knowledge." The Sy...Newly Discovered Human Protein Provides Important Target For Cancer Therapy
...ase inhibitors," Dr. Counter says. "We havea good starting point for developing anti-telomerase drugs." This work was supported in part by the National Cancer Institute of theUnited States, the National Cancer Institute of Canada, the Damon Runyon-WalterWinchell Cancer Research Foundation, the MIT-Me...Female Fireflies Lure Males For Defense Chemical
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...re, worked in the Fernald lab for two years before starting graduate studies at the University of California-Berkeley. Stephanie A. White earned her Ph.D. in neurosciences at Stanford this year and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University. Mimi H.F. Kao won a Firestone Medal for her cortisol research w...Researchers To Investigate Years Before Menopause
...s have kept continual calendars indicating the starting and ending dates of their monthly periods. Annual health surveys are done each year and include information on births, abortions, miscarriages, surgery, marriage, divorce and stressful events as well as general health and birth contro...Imaging Studies Illuminate Brain's Response To Cocaine
...15-second intervalsthroughout the testing period - starting 5 minutes before the injection -participants reported the extent to which they experienced feelings of rush,high, low or craving. Results indicated that more than 90 areas of the brain showed increased activityin response to cocaine. Many areas ass......p syntheses that also often require very expensive starting materials. "If one could buy imagine purchasing these building blocks from a shop it would have to be Harrods or Bloomingdales" said Dr Hannon. Industry and medicine have been loathe to make use of such an expensive process but now Dr Hannon has mod...Dendritic Cell Therapy For The Treatment Of Cancer
...his response? Dr Austyn and his colleagues will be starting a Phase I clinical trial early in1998 where they will use dendritic cells to try to treat patients with advanced(Stage IV) malignant melanoma or breast cancer. The patients in the trial havenot responded to conventional treatments and have metastati......inicaltrial to be conducted at St Thomas' Hospital starting early in the New Year. Although encouraged by the experimental work, Dr Harbige warns against prematureexcitement over a treatment for people with MS, saying "further rigorousclinical and laboratory research is essential before we can recommend any s......velopment capabilities." The effort is not starting from scratch. Some staff who were part ofPacific Northwest's earlier work in agriculture have signed on to theinitiative. Also, an effort will be made to capitalize on the laboratory'sresearch activities in seemingly unrelated fields. "For example,...