Study: Device Prevents Epileptic Seizures, Doesn't Damage Hearts
...the device's effect on the vagus nerve, the UNC-CH team wasable to show no changes in patients' heart rate...f heart rate, which could bedangerous. The team will present some of its findings next month at an AmericanClinical Neurophysiology Society meeting ...Female Adolescents Need Calcium During 'Window Of Opportunity'
...s been determined for the first time by a research team at Purdue University. The research shows that adolescents need 1,300 milligrams per day -- an amount found in four and a half cups of milk or yogurt. Connie Weaver, head of Purdue's Department of Food and Nutrition, says "before the amount of calciu...Research Team Discovers Key Gene For Telomerase Enzyme In Humans
...roperties andlearn how to inhibit it." The team cloned telomerase genes in two evolutionarily diversespecies, yeast and humans. The genes were found to be similar, indicatingtelomerase was first developed by an ancient organism and subsequentlyinherited by all eukaryotes -- organisms whose cells ...Progress In Prion Research: Three-Dimensional Structure Of Prion Protein Fully Uncovered
A team of researchers from the Institute for Molecular Bi...bdisease, and BSE, "mad cow" disease. The research team is supported by the SwissNational Science Foundation. Their work attracted attention a year ago when...American Academy Of Ophthalmology Sun Microsystems To Present Technology Seminar
...t time, the American Academy of Ophthalmology will team up with Sun Microsystems to present INFOACCESS '97, a one-day seminar covering various technologies and related issues shaping the future of health care. INFOACCESS '97 is designed to bring together physicians, academicians, information technol...Newly Discovered Human Protein Provides Important Target For Cancer Therapy
...ly thereafter, both the Whiteheadresearchers and a team led by Drs. Joachim Lingner and Thomas Cech of theUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, and Dr. Victoria Lundblad of the Baylor Collegeof Medicine in Houston, Texas, independently converged upon the same discovery:a key protein in the telomerase complex. ...Vitamin C Deficit Linked To Skin Disease
... Clinical Medicine.The research was conducted by a team from the Veterans Affairs (VA) medicalcenters in W...safe." In addition to Peter Sinclair, the research team included Nadia Gorman,Jacqueline Sinclair, Charles Honsinger and Margaret Karagas, all from Dartmout...Roadsides Benefit From Waste, UF Researchers Say
... to keep state highways beautiful and safe, says a team of University of Florida researchers. Litterbugs they aren't, however. The waste they want to see spread alongside Florida highways is made up of organic material. "The goal is to make roadsides a friendly environment to establish grass and at the sa...A New Biochemical Link Established Between Stress, Sex And Dominance
... 15 in the Journal of Neuroscience , a research team led by Stanford neurobiologist Russell Fernald has shown that continuous high levels of a stress hormone, cortisol, work to prevent most male cichlids from developing the bright, warlike colors, the extra muscles and the fully mature sex organs of a ...One Chimp Can Perceive States Of Awareness In Others
...unexpected situation. The finding, made by a team of researchers at Ohio State University'sComparative Cognition Project, suggests that chimps share with humans theability to perceive the knowledge state of a peer, and perhaps the intentionto protect that peer. Earlier experiments with both rh...Maternal Lead Exposure Linked To High Numbers Of Cavities
...ists see the highest rates of toothdecay. The team studied cavity susceptibility in rats born ofmothe...llepidemiological studies have suggested. The team is now searching for the cause. Some studies havesuggested that lead interferes with the development...E. Coli Genome Reported: Milestone Of Modern Biology Emerges From Wisconsin Lab
MADISON - A team of scientists headed by Frederick R. Blattner of t...ient, the strainof E. coli sequenced by Blattner's team rose to prominence as an experimental organism in 1945 when it was used in the discovery of spontane...MGH-Led Team Finds Gene For Crippling Neurologic Disorder
A research team led by investigators from the Massachusetts Genera...e hope, to stop it." The members of this research team have been searching for the DYT1 gene since the early 1980s, when many of them worked together at Ya...Trojan Horse Virus Controls Hiv Infection
...hey are infected. In their experiments, the Yale team infected human T cell lines with alaboratory strai...on in people with late-stage disease, but the Yale team has moved onto develop VSV constructsthat incorporate other HIV coreceptors such as CCR5 and CCR3 in...Basin Traps Air Pollution In Mexico City: International Study Has Implications For U.S. Cities
...makes breathingdifficult. An international team of scientists conducted the study, which was partof the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Sciences in Complex Terrain program --a long-term effort to study the effects that geographical features such asmountains and valleys have on air movement and ...Low Oxygen, Key To Fetal Development, Also Offers Cancer Clues
... betweenmother and baby during pregnancy. The team studied cytotrophoblasts, the cells from theplacen...ss to the nutrients in themother's blood. The team found that the amount of oxygen in blood directlyregulates how the placenta forms. Under the low-oxy...Fossils Show British Columbia Was Once 2,000 Miles South
...lled marine animals, called ammonites,which Ward's team recovered from sites on the islands. The fossil shells, eachthe size of a man's hand, still had a pearly luster, indicating the presence ofthe original aragonite, or mother of pearl. If the surrounding rocks had beensubjected to heating, the calcium ...UT-Houston Awarded $2.5 Million For Scleroderma Research
...nicalimmunogenetics. He heads a multidisciplinary team of experts drawn fromUT-Houston Health Science Center, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, UT MedicalBranch at Galveston, and the UT Medical School at San Antonio. Studies willfocus on three project areas: identifying the genetic factors underlyingscler...Mutant Gene Not Sole Explanation For Hiv Non-Progression
... Drs. Cohen, Fauci and their team began recruiting long-term nonprogr...slower disease progression, the LIR team found that people with one copy of the mutant gene (and one copy of th...Wonder Thread: UD Scientists Report First Protein With Collagen And Elastin-Like Domains
... and more Col-D at the far, or distal end." The UD team also examined the protein precursors for Col-P and Col-D, found in the mussel foot, where byssal threads are produced. Specific antibodies--proteins designed to detect and fight off foreign molecules by binding with them--helped Coyne target preCol-P...