Purdue Study Aims To Boost MRI Capabilities
...eptable." Bourland and Nyenhuis are using a unique system designed to determine the optimal ways to vary gra...," Bourland says. The data can then be used by MRI system designers to devise optimal pulse sequences for image resolution and speed, Nyenhuis says. Source:...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
...promising compound that recruits the body's immune system to target and wipe out cancer cells in the liver. ...igned to focus the full force of the body's immune system on the area of the body under attack by cancer. While such research is widespread, this vaccine is o......he virus under control and allow the body's immune system to knock it out." Katze cautions that while his team's research is an important first step, a therapy for HCV is not around the corner. The study is published in the April 14 edition of Virology (vol. 230, no. 2, pp. 217-227, Academic Press) ...New Vaccine Blocks Viral Entry In Cattle, May Have Implications For Human Vaccines
...s nose, the vaccine stimulates the animal's immune system to make antibodies. These antibodies line the cow'...viruses once they have become infected. The immune system suppresses these viruses, which hide in the body and can become active again during periods of stres...Project Shows Native Bacteria Can Destroy Widespread Pollutant In Groundwater
...anford master's students designed the purification system as a class project. The site contained two contaminated aquifers at different depths. The design uses two treatment wells. One well was designed to create a bacterial-rich zone in the lower aquifer and to pump water from the upper aquifer to the lowe...Emory Researchers Advance Gene Therapy Studies For Metastatic Melanoma Treatment
...nt which they believe may direct the body's immune system to kill malignant melanoma tumor cells, the most d...hage colony stimulating factor) directs the immune system to shift into overdrive and attack melanoma tumor cells. Cytokines are natural proteins made by all...Duke Study Shows Early Marrow Transplant Key To 'Bubble Boy' Disease Cure
...rn with the disorder can be given a healthy immune system ifthey receive a bone marrow transplant within three months of birth. Theyalso have learned that these children need not have a perfectly matcheddonor, but can use a parent's "half-matched" marrow. Furthermore,the babies do not need toxic pre-transpl...Children With AD/HD Have Significant Functional Disabilities Related to Attention Deficit
...disabled or whether their families are playing the system for benefits." If these functional deficits can be confirmed in a broader study, they should be the focus of treatments in children with AD/HD, Lock stated. Other researchers involved in the study were Nadine L. Duchan, Sue E. Olexenko, a...Duke researchers find existing drugs can stop fungus that attacks AIDS patients
...y person, it is mostly harmless, becausethe immune system effectively combats the organism. However, in peop...onically, calcineurin can both suppress the immune system andkill the fungus," Perfect said. "Thus development of specificinhibitors that kill the fungus and ...Everyday Technology Underlies First DNA Computer Logic Gates
...s that an And operation has occurred. A similar system of two short DNA strands work together in Ray and Ogihara's Or gate, whose answers are likewise read in the length of the resulting DNA strands. Most researchers have focused on possibly building DNA computers to tackle killer problems...New understanding of crab populations may not bring fishermen's delight
... dynamics that couldhelp explain how a complicated system works. In this paper, the researchers charted crab catches from Grays Harbor,Willapa Bay and Columbia River in Wash.; Astoria and Warrenton, Ore.; Tillamookand Gardibaldi, Ore.; Newport and Depoe Bay, Ore.; Coos and Winchester bays,Ore.; Brookings, ...Early Tests Indicate Motor Skills Unharmed In Consumers Of Tainted Fish
... to analyze. We'veidentified one aspect of nervous system function that seems not to be affected.But we saw what appeared to be a trend for the most highly exposed individualsto do more poorly, so we need to be cautious." The findings initially showed slower times in hand-dexterity and hand-steadinesstests...Merging Physics And Neuroscience: First Evidence Of Self-Organized Criticality In Brain Networks
...his process inmany interconnected cells allows the system to reach a criticalstate, permitting propagation o...ndom firing of neurons creates noise thatmoves the system toward criticality, Jung explained. Without thenoise, the system would remain balanced and create n...Enhancin Protein Attacks Insect Immune System
...) is an important component in the insect's immune system against biological control agents. We've finally defined the site of the action of enhancin on the peritrophic matrix." Enhancin binds to a major mucinous protein of peritrophic matrix, destroying the matrix structure, thus allowing the baculovirus...Stopping "Cellular Suicide" Could Boost Production In Biotech Labs
...ical strategies, the researcher seeksto improvethe system significantly in the near future. "We want to find thecombinationthat will allow these cells to work more efficiently and livelonger,"Betenbaugh says. "That's what this research is all about."......s would be like trying toregulate the human immune system without knowledge of the genetic informationinvolved. Since all plants are resistant to some pests, the term "plant-pesticide"implies that all plants contain pesticides and therefore, so does food made fromplants, Beachy added. This implicat...Resistance To Leptin Contributes To Obesity
... provideclues about leptin's action in the nervous system and may help to explainsome forms of obesity that affect humans, including more than 50 millionoverweight adult Americans, the researchers note. "We knew obese mice and humans generally have high levels of leptinin their blood, which suggeste...UW Smogmobile Offers Cleaner, Safer Alternative To Gas Or Electric Cars
...would simply run air through a large refrigeration system and collect the liquid nitrogen as it condenses. I...UW group was the first to develop a heat exchanger system that prevents frost build-up from impeding the conversion process. The smogmobile's heat exchanger p...Gene Shears In Cutting Edge Anti-Aids Trial
... Loss of these white blood cells causes the immune system eventuallyto break down. The basis for the trial is the original discovery by CSIRO Plant Industrymolecular biologists Dr Jim Haseloff and Dr Wayne Gerlach that naturally-occurringenzymes called ribozymes (dubbed "gene shears") can be used selective...Study Focuses On How Plants Help Toxic Pollutants Travel Around The World
...introduced into the environmental test chamber,the system will be "swept" with ambient -- natural -- air, wh...ist in theenvironment. "We'll close up the system and measure what's in there, then startvarying the concentrations of chemicals in the chamber," Horn...