At Life's Most Sensitive Stage, Embryos Cope With Stress
...s the most fragile stagein the life cycle, and its survival is critical for sustaining the life of aspecies," ...h highlights the tradeoffs for embryos. Shestudies survival strategies in the intertidal zone, where temperatures in asingle day range from the chill of ocean w...Jefferson Researchers Find Correlation Between Gene And Endometrial Cancer
...tatus in relation to the length of disease-free survival and disease-specific survival in 100 endometrial cancer patients who had surgery to remove the tumor," explains Dr. Giordano...Food Bacteria-Spice Survey Shows Why Some Cultures Like It Hot
...ere an even more serious threatto human health and survival than they are today, Jennifer Billing and Paul W.Sherman report in the March 1998 issue of the journal "Quarterly Review ofBiology". "The proximate reason for spice use obviously is to enhance foodpalatability," says Sherman, an evolutionary biol...Heart and Soul: The Blood Vessels And Brain Use Common Guide
...lockages, the other using it to promote nerve cell survival after astroke. Children's Hospital is an independent 300-bed specialty care hospital, aleader in the field of pediatric research and education, and the primarypediatric teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Editors, please not...Chromosomal Abnormalities Key For Prediting Leukemia Outcome
... was diagnosed between 1980 and 1982. Median survival of the patients was 7 months, although survival variedsignificantly according to the chromosomal abnormalities present. For example,patients whose ...Coastal Development Threatens Rare Atlantic Shorebird
...colonies further north that haveadopted this lofty survival strategy. And, at this point, roof-tops are acrucial safety net for the species. A study in Florida showed the terns didn'treturn to sites where graveled roofs had been replaced with vinyl or othermaterials. "There's a lot we can do to help t......rthritic lesions and might increase the rate of survival in various endotoxin-induced septic shock syndromes....Infant Dependency Drives Menopause, NSF-Supported Researcher Reports
...ted behavior, they had no measurable impact on the survival orreproduction of their grandchildren or adult daughters. It has also been suggested that menopause evolved in women to avoid theincreased dangers of childbirth in middle age. But Packer saw no evidence forthis in elderly baboons and lions. ...UPMC Reports On New Liver Assist Device
...lure was initiated. The report indicated survival times in the groups treated with theExcorp device could be extended. These results suggest that the bio-artificialliver assist device does in fact have a marked effect on the course of acuteliver failure. The intercranial pressure also improved in ...... flow show a significantstatistical improvement in survival rates beyond the first 30 days following theheart ... following the treatment. "Butbeyond 30 days, the survival curves have been consistently parallel (the same)for the following 1 to 5 years indicating no furthe......mpensate. "Eating is too important an activity for survival to have justone pathway responsible," says Dr. Lambert. The Yerkes team is looking for a final commonpathway traveled by all the feeding-related peptides and their receptors. Using rodents for suchstudies is necessary for these early studies because ......and other basic needs, and the improved chances of survival for children are all affecting the traditional preference for large families. The decline in birthrates--limited a decade ago to a few countries in the region--is spreading steadily across the continent, according to the study's authors, Shanti R. Co...Birds Sing The 'Story Of Their Lives,' Theorize Duke Biologists
...irds' genetic quality, as reflected bysurvival and survival of offspring. Still unclear, said the researchers, is exactly what quality the femaleis assessing when she critiques a male's song. "She might be assessing the quality of brain development in general,which will be important for...Wistar Research Yields Information About Colorectal Cancer Cell Invasion
...rlyn'sresearch team has successfully increased the survival rate of CRC patients in arandomized clinical trial. Despite the success of the antibody, however, littlehas been known about the function of the GA733 antigen. Not only does it sit onthe surfaces of ovarian, lung and most epithelial tumors, but it ...Cystic Fibrosis Gene Protects Against Typhoid Fever
...tter methods for managing the disease, the average survival ofthese individuals is about 30 years. "In most ca...e bad copy of the disease gene - have someenhanced survival advantage." For example, Dr. Pier notes that individuals witha single copy of the sickle cell disea...New Insights Into The Enigma Of Lengthening Longevity
...across age, individual differences in survival chances, and induced alterations in age-patterns o...tics, innate or acquired, that affect survival chances) as opposed to current conditions in determining the chance of death? An analys......had not been possible to demonstrate the prolonged survival and function ofthese cells," Dr. J. Roy-Chowdhury said. "Our studies provide the firstunequivocal evidence of the long-term function of transplanted human livercells." "Now that we know long-term cell functioning is possible, the infusionof a......tant mice with thyroxin prolong their survival up to six months, indicating that lethality is due to a defect in the thyroid. Analysis of the thyroid gland indicated that the organ is severely affected. The thyroid gland is normally composed of two cell types. The firs......Vitamin A --significantly improve the disease-free survival of children with high-riskneuroblastoma, the third...Convention Center on Monday, May 18. "The improved survival rates came without a significant increase in toxic sideeffects or extra days in the hospital. We rec...UB Researcher Developing Method That Employs "Evolution" To Identify New Drug Leads
...iples of Darwinian evolution," said Eliseev. "It's survival of the fittest. Our method increases the amount of the desirable compounds and decreases the amount of the undesirable ones." Unlike other combinatorial methods, the UB method works by using molecular recognition -- the ability of molecules to bind t...