Top Scientists Challenge Others: Join Biodiversity Year
...Wide Web. Another project will launch a world-wide system to watch out for the health of coral reefs: scientists experienced in evaluating coral ecosystems will train scientists in tropical nations to monitor their own local reefs. The project is to be coordinated by DIVERSITAS, a scientific program under...Fauci: New Findings Help Explain "Rebound" Of HIV In Patients Who Discontinue Triple-Drug Therapy
... HIV that is hiding in a latent form in immune system cells." In a series of in vitro exp...muli, such as the activation of immune system cells by immunization, can also induce latently infected cells to actively produce HIV. ...Life-Saving Dr. Mueller Selected To Get Top Sports Medicine Award
...cause for many years he has maintained anationwide system for collecting information on catastrophic sports injuries anddeaths. Statistics he compiled, first with Dr. Carl Blyth, also of UNC-CH, onfootball injuries and deaths helped lead to rule changes and improved coachingcredited with saving dozens of li...Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
... of 0.3 to 0.6 mm. Testing shows the VTM prototype system to be an accurate and reliable tool for measuring ... through Graphic Overlays on Stereo-video) display system created in our lab [Drascic 1993, Milgram 1994]. To use the VTM, the human operator employs a three...New Sensor Adds Precision To Search For Dangerous Gases
...s present." Miremadi has invented a system that can differentiate between gases: "My system is like a sniffing camera which can find any gas and identify it. Currently, you can on...Technique Gives Researchers New Look At Genetic Activity In Living Cells
...gregation. They now suggest an active, mechanical system for the separation. Such a mechanism had been thought to exist only in eukaryotic organismssuch as plants and animals....Research Finds Alligator Problems Also Evident In Less Polluted Lakes
...ators are confined neither to that lake nor to one system in the animals. "Previous studies have focused on the hormones associated with reproduction -- the steroid hormones testosterone and estradiol -- but now we have evidence of disruption in other endocrine-controlled systems," Crain said. With fun......l Laboratory is developing a continuous processing system to test thepotential of using this innovative approach for large-scale cleanup efforts at Hanford. Schwartz andhis team of student researchers are supporting the project by conducting experiments to explore thefundamental properties and limits of the...Low B Vitamin Levels Common In Many People Linked To Increased Heart Disease, Stroke Risk
...ess B-6, above 2 grams per day, has caused nervous system damage, experts warn. Folic acid is found in liver, green leafy vegetables, peas, beans and somefruits. The daily recommended dietary allowance is 400 micrograms (a microgram is 1 millionth of a gram). Folic acid deficiency in pregnant women has b...Conservation Biology Clearinghouse, Engineering Design Tutor
...gn Tutor, aWorld Wide Web-based automated learning system that will not only generate problemsfor students t...e faculty-student relationships by using acomputer system to drill basic skills, providing more time for faculty to teach creativedesign....Williams Biology Prof. Receives NSF Grant For Work On dUTPase
...similar to its human homologue, it is an excellent system in which to study thedUTPase enzyme. The dUTPase enzyme provides a precursor for DNA replication. Roseman, who has taught at Williams since 1991, teaches courses on immunology,biochemistry, introductory biology, virology, and the molecular biolo...Duke Researchers Develop First Treatment For Rare Muscle Disease
...ecircumvented this problem by using the body's own system to get the enzymeinside muscle cells." Chen solved the problem by purifying a form of the enzyme that has amodified residue attached to the sugar molecule of the enzyme. The modifiedmolecule is recognized by special muscle cell receptors, wh...... like interleukin-12, which are helping the immune system fightbacteria, parasites, viruses and cancer; and location of genes that contributeto the development of diseases like breast, lung and prostate cancer. Wistar isa National Cancer Institute Cancer Center....Researchers Take Major Step Toward Cracking Ebola Code
...tegies that wouldactivate the inflammatory defense system (to counteract the secretedglycoprotein) or protect endothelium cells---which line small blood vessels---toprevent bleeding and circulatory collapse. The new findings may have far-reaching benefits for fighting other illnesses. The Ebola virus glycop...Cancer Cells Self-Destruct When "Sweet Tooth" Is Thwarted
...tients, according to Dang, is that central nervous system cells can't function properlywithout glucose. "The brain is the only important organ that depends on glucose, so we needa drug that cuts off tumor cells' ability to get glucose but does not cross over into thebrain," says Dang. "It might even be...$2 Million Dollar Grant Funds Salton Sea Web Site
... exploring various solutions, including building a system of dikesand evaporation pools, a desalination treatment plant or water-pumping systems.All these projects would be massive undertakings, with estimated costs rangingfrom $200 million to $1 billion. Each also would have its own side effects onthe envi...Lactose-Intolerant People Should Drink More Milk, Expert Says
...o says it is possible to train one's own digestive system to break down the lactose. "Our studies have shown a really amazing adaptation of the large intestine of humans," Savaiano says. "The large intestines contain bacteria that help digest lactose. By altering the diet over time, bacteria more effectivel...Leftover Fetal Cells May Affect Development Of Scleroderma
...ells may indirectly dysregulate themother's immune system interactions, somewhat like a computer virus disru... for autoimmune disease because the mother'simmune system has difficulty recognizing the fetal cells asforeign and killing them. Yet, because the cells are d...Long-Standing Puzzle Of Immune System Is Solved By UCSF Researchers
...ndingcancer, the researchers found that the immune system is able to targetvirtually any unwanted microscopi...ordestruction. This diversity provides the immune system with a betterselection from which to choose the best weapons for fighting disease. Immunolo......territory and lodge in the peripheral capillary system whithout causing any damage. At this site they release the growth factor over a period of 7 days. The major drawback of this method is that the growth factor will only be released within the diseased heart but not at the interface be...