Rushing fireball developed its own form of sugar digestion
...ing to make several of the sugar digestion enzymes suitable for industrial applications. Now that the route of the sugar digestion is known, the researchers are trying to find the regulation of this route. A first step has been taken. The researchers found the same piece of DNA prior to 21 genes connected to ...Extensive research survey confirms life on Earth now being affected by global warming
...day if climate changes have made the location more suitable for that species. "Although ecologists have a really good grasp on how abiotic factors like temperature and rainfall influence life processes for individuals and entire populations--like the timing of reproduction and its effect on the survival of o...Study identifies new protein on neurons that may be useful as survival/growth factor
...es to mature into neurons with widespread branches suitable for making connections to other neurons. Secondly, in the presence of CD40L, neurons with CD40 on their surface were much more likely to resist injury than neurons not given CD40. What the researchers found in the test tube also was borne out in t...New evidence on revolutionary brain pacemaker for Parkinson's Disease patients
... revealed today that approximately 7%* of patients suitable for surgical treatment across Europe have received...opriate patients. The estimated percentage of new suitable PD patients per year receiving deep brain stimulation therapy in Europe is as follows: 29.4% of pati...Genetic causes of hypertension identified
...very has led to a high quality test that should be suitable for screening a large number of patients based on a fluorescent molecular beacon assay and will aid physicians in their diagnosis of genetic forms of hypertension, said Robin A. Felder, Ph.D., professor of pathology and director of the Medical Autom...Ames Laboratory pursues new standard in sensor technology
...ct and versatile optoelectronic "nose" or "tongue" suitable for in vivo measurements. "The big excitement is that a whole new paradigm in sensor technology could emerge from this work - from this basic idea of just integrating the very low-cost OLED light source with the fluorescent sensor," said Shi...Knocking out SHIP gene improves success of allogeneic bone marrow transplants in mice
...neic transplant each year go without one because a suitable bone marrow cannot be found. The pool of available donors would increase significantly if Dr. Kerr's SHIP gene finding holds true in humans, because less well-matched grafts could be tolerated as transplants, Dr. Fields said. Widely used in the trea...Movement without senses coded into neurons, says University of Toronto researcher
...ld helps organize those movements so that they are suitable to real life. Our research suggests that the development of embryonic motor systems is largely intrinsic to central nervous systems and not dependent on sensory cues like touch or smell." Suster and University of Cambridge professor Michael Bate exam...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology: February 2002
...ese activities could be easily improved under more suitable technological conditions and/or addressed to the production of special sourdough-type breads with low contents of gliadin toxic peptides. (R. Di Cagno, M. De Angelis, P. Lavermicocca, M. De Vincenzi, C. Giovannini, M. Faccia and M. Gobbetti. 2002. ......thern Great Plains in North America, may be highly suitable for restoration of large herbivore diversity if agriculture was abandoned, the authors write in the paper. Our approach is powerful because it identifies how plant resources constrain the distribution of different-sized herbivores. We use this relati...Tufts University researchers engineer first 'custom-made' human knee ligaments from adult stem cells
...ially designed bioreactor with a collagen or other suitable biodegradable matrix. The cells are then stimulated with multi-dimensional, mechanical forces that mimic ligament movement in the body to develop into living tissue. The bioengineered ligaments can be stored until needed by the patient or donor and...High hit rate in drug development
...theses were chemical feasibility, accessibility of suitable building blocks and robustness and reliability of synthesis methods, which should not fail even if applied many thousand fold. However, the intensive combination of chemical building blocks alone in a sort of "number game" does not solve the core pro...Satellites vs. mosquitoes: Tracking West Nile Virus in the U.S.
...hat are crucial for detecting whether a habitat is suitable for a vector, like a mosquito that carries West Ni...binations of temperatures and moisture levels most suitable for mosquitoes and transmission. Then, efforts and resources can target those high-risk areas. The...The influence of disturbance on tropical rain forest biodiversity: End of a controversy in sight
...species, enables them rapidly to form a new canopy suitable for more shade-tolerant species to colonize. The n...ould have been carried up to that point, and found suitable conditions for germination. In turn, the plantlet, then the sapling should have survived the high nu...Baxter's HomeChoice Pediatric dialysis system receives market clearance from FDA
... Pediatric is an appropriate therapy, as PD is not suitable for all pediatric patients. Baxter is a leading provider of renal products and services worldwide. In 1956, the company introduced the first disposable coil dialyzer, a development that greatly enhanced the use and application of hemodialysis. Ne...Lobster sniffing: how lobsters' hairy noses capture smells from the sea
...lobsters and crabs depend on smell to find food, a suitable mate or to avoid predators, but how do they pluck these odors from the water swirling around them? A study in the Friday, Nov. 30, issue of Science by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University details the sophisti......ey discovered that this preparation forms crystals suitable for x-ray crystallography....Vaccine protects against fatal West Nile complication
...populations against West Nile encephalitis until a suitable West Nile virus-specific vaccine becomes available."...Cholesterol-independent benefits of statins in cardiac hypertrophy
...eficial effect of these drugs that might make them suitable for treating a different set of heart patients, those with cardiac hypertrophy. The hypertrophic response in cardiac myocytes entails not just an increase in cell size, but also a reversion to a pattern of gene expression normally seen only in early ......of a size, number and distribution that makes them suitable for electrolytic treatment," said Dr Teague. If a ... all of these procedures suggest that a patient is suitable for treatment, then we can perform the definitive procedure," said Dr Teague. "In many cases, the el...