Duke Study Shows Early Marrow Transplant Key To 'Bubble Boy' Disease Cure
WASHINGTON -- They lived short lives in sterile rooms. Children witha disorder known as "bubble boy" disease were born without animmune system, and they inevitably died from common infections. Their fatewas dramatized by a documentary film of a young Texas patient who livedand died in a germ-free ...Houseflies May Transmit Ulcer Bug
...houseflies toeither a culture of the bacteria or a sterile control plate. After exposure,flies were removed from both the sample and the control group andtested at intervals of six hours for the presence of the bacteria on theirskin, in their digestive tract, and in their excretions. The researchers fo...New Evidence For Corn's Ancestry Could Lead To Insect And Drought Resistant Crops
...s to cross Tripsacum withcorn always resulted in sterile plants. But Eubanks found she could alsosuccessfully breed corn with some of her Tripsacum and Zea diploperennis crosses. Since fertile offspring implies genetic similarities among plants, Eubanksbelieved her experiments rekindled the notion that......re found at Ukhaa Tolgoddid not live in a howling, sterile desert, but rather in a stabilized dune fieldwhere plant life and rainfall were relatively abundantAuthors of the paper are: David Loope, professor and chair in the Department ofGeosciences, University of Nebraska; Lowell Dingus, research associate,......r which shields stored fuel rods is supposed to be sterile andfree of the nutrients that bacteria need to grow. "We've had these systems goingsince the mid-1950s and we've not seen a problem with corrosion," saysFliermans. The finding that metal-munching bacteria can thrive in the barrenenvironment of...Radioactive Beads Latest Weapon In Fighting Cancer In Dogs, Cats
...uch of the tumor as possible is removed, a hollow, sterile plastictube called an "after-loading tube" is sutured into the tumor bed. After thewound is closed, Chun said the radioactive beads are "essentially strungtogether on a plastic wire" and "fed" into the after-loading tubes. Once clampedin place, they ...Plastics - Easier To Recycle Than Commonly Thought
...atproducts that are functional but not necessarily sterile or aesthetic can bemade from recycled plastic, without the need to carry out the expensive sorting,cleaning and decontaminating processes. The UK currently recycles only 7% of the 2.3million tonnes of waste plasticsgenerated each year but is committe...Pre-delivery digital exams may increase in utero bacterial levels
... Each woman underwent a routine sterile speculum exam to diagnose t...m exam. To ensure that the sterile speculum exams did notintroduce bacteria into the cervix, five patients under...A few gut parasites could do you the world of good
...e absence ofintestinal parasites. "We're living in sterile boxes, breathing sterile air anddrinking sterile water," says Joel Weinstock, who led the research. Weinstock and hi...Ancient viruses lurking in polar ice
...t in the Arcticice," says Rogers. So under sterile conditions, the researchers examined four corescontaining ice between 500 and 140 000 years old from three sites in Greenland.To prevent contamination, they first disinfected the outside of each core usingultraviolet light, then searched the inner co...20th century marks achievements in food science and technology
...the filling of the container with the product in a sterile atmosphere) is developed, increasing food quality,... vegetables. Safe canning results in commercially sterile products with long shelf life....University of Colorado salmon study spawns new insight into human brain aging
...ne known as cortisol occur in both reproducing and sterile salmon just prior to the onset of the rapid aging process and subsequent death, Norris said. "Cortisol surges may help these fish metabolize sugar and produce enough energy to locate their home streams and reproduce, but the surges also eventually m...Gene therapy frees two children from sterile 'bubbles,' Science authors report
...D are forced to live within tightly controlled and sterile "bubbles" to avoid any threats to their nonexistent immune systems until a bone marrow transplant is attempted. The new therapy is described in the 28 April issue of Science . Two infants, aged 8 and 11 months, were the beneficiaries of this treatme...GM seed may be more widespread than we think
...d conventional oilseed rape containing traces of a sterile GM variety known as RT 73, which has not been approved for commercial planting in Europe. In Britain alone, 9000 hectares were sown with the adulterated seed in 1999, followed by 4700 hectares this spring. In other European countries, including Fr...Researchers decipher fundamental signal for maleness
...9, appear female and have a normal uterus, but are sterile due to lack of a functional ovary or testis. Weiss and his colleagues used nuclear magnetic resonance technology to reveal the three-dimensional structure of the protein. They found a new kind of DNA binding structure (containing intertwined zinc bi...New treatment makes fruit juices safer
...eness of the treatment, the researchers inoculated sterile orange juice and apple cider with salmonella, E. coli and lysteria monocytogenes, another bacteria commonly found in food, and then treated the contaminated juice with the pressurized CO2. The treatment reduced the bacteria population from more than...Discovery may jump-start mine remediation efforts
...ver. Team members trained the divers in the use of sterile collection systems to retrieve samples of the biofilm for laboratory analysis. In the paper, the Wisconsin team described a process by which tiny zinc sulfide crystals rapidly accumulate within natural biofilms populated by species of sulfate-reducin...With HIV rising, UMBI tailors vaccine for Nigeria
... orally, thus eliminating the need for maintaining sterile injection needles. Agwale announced the vaccine during a three-day National Workshop on HIV Vaccine Plan for Nigeria, sponsored by UNAIDS/WHO. The candidate Nigerian HIV-1 vaccine is potentially applicable to all of Africa, said Agwale, because th...Zebrafish could become genetics 'lab rat' of choice
...," he says. "This technology could be used to make sterile animals so that transgenic animals cant breed if they escape to the environment." PHOTO CAPTION: Purdue animal scientist Paul Collodi peers through an aquarium full of zebrafish in his laboratory. Thanks to recent developments in his lab, the famil...New reserach shows promise in conquering ulcer-causing H. pylori
...hind footpad of each mouse and sterile saline into the opposite footpad. The researchers looked for subsequent swelling that would indicate the body's response to the infection. They recorded the thickness of each footpad 24 hour...