Advances in prosthetic, orthopedic, and audiologic diagnostic tools
...ommonly used way to describe shoulder positions in terms of degrees of arm elevation, the globe system is a standardized method with direct visualization of the parameters by globe graphs. Angles are visualized as a position on a globe around the shoulder joint. Data indicate the globe system provides the ...Technique brings immune-based therapies closer to reality
...e. Schneck is a paid consultant to Pharmingen. The terms of this arrangement are being managed by The Johns Hopkins University in accordance with its conflict of interest policies....Gene expressed in 80% of breast cancer patients
...g. The results are both important and exciting in terms of potential clinical application."...Scientists discover unique source of stem cells
...n or eight years, yet people still talk in general terms of postnatal and adult stem cells as though they are one and the same. Postnatal cells from children may act totally differently than adult stem cells, and we felt the inherent difference needed to be emphasized," said Shi. Today's finding, ...An unexplored genomic terrain in a handful of dirt
... of these new phages are clearly very different in terms of their sequence information from any of the other phages that we've isolated," said Hatfull. "That suggests that if we extrapolate to the huge group of phages as a whole, they are more diverse than we ever imagined they could be." The genetic diver...Discovery of gene for premature aging syndrome reported in Science
... know enough about how lamins function to think in terms of therapy yet. I think we'll do it in the next ten years, but it will be difficult," Lvy said. The authors studied the DNA sequences of LMNA genes from patients affected with HGPS. They found just one abnormality, the substitution of a single DNA ...Genetically modified mice provide information on treatments for cocaine dependence
...tremendous burden on our nation each year, both in terms of crime, law enforcement demands, lost productivity, added costs of health care delivery, and premature death. Among those drugs that are abused, cocaine is considered one of the most powerful. Yet no effective medications exist to treat cocaine abu...Virginia Tech inventions, creations can improve lives
...y application. The invention is also economical in terms of cost and ease of design. A related patent is for power electronics packaging. Xingsheng Liu, who recently earned his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering (MSE), and MSE associate professor Guo-Quan Lu received a patent for "Low-cost 3D flip-...Study demonstrates that low dose tamoxifen may be effective in treating breast cancer
...ay be potential benefits to lower doses of drug in terms of cancer prevention, the study identified other disease markers that were dose-dependent, specifically circulating biomarkers reflecting drug estrogenicity such as insulin-like growth factor-I, cholesterol, triglycerides and antithrombin-III. Lower......heir properties, which is a challenging problem in terms of mathematics. The strength of their work lies in...ome cases has initiated and set them in motion. In terms of history, subject and methodology, Albrecht Koschorke's research has covered an unusually broad sp...Speedy elephants use a biomechanical trick to 'run' like Groucho
... a cockroach has shorter legs than an elephant, in terms of how many body lengths it can move in a certain amount of time, it may still scurry with greater relative speed than a charging elephant. "At the same Froude number, any animal, regardless of size, should be moving with the same mechanism," Hutchin...From biology to computing and back again
...ion, the computational methods even take analogous terms like "chromosome" (for a candidate solution), "gene" (for the encoding bit or bits that yield a part of the solution), and "mutation" (the deliberately random changing of a piece in the processing to see potential variations in a puzzle's ultimate a...MIT study: Hydrogen car no environmental panacea
...ional engine supplemented by an electric motor) in terms of total energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, says a study recently released by MIT's Laboratory for Energy and the Environment (LFEE). And while hybrid vehicles are already appearing on the roads, adoption of the hydrogen-based vehicle w...Oxygen deficiency is an endocrine disruptor in fish
...hypoxia is far more serious than any chemicals, in terms of spatial scales and natural populations potentially affected," Wu says....Study pinpoints regulator of imprinted gene expression
...dded. "So understanding how genes are regulated in terms of their expression, how they are turned on and off, and if they are off how they are maintained in that 'off' state, becomes critical. This study opens up new possibilities for looking into mechanisms responsible for epigenetic alterations in human ...Evolution boosted anti-cancer prowess of a primordial gene
...st that Arf plays a role far older in evolutionary terms than its more familiar job of stimulating p53 to prevent cancer. The St. Jude findings suggest that Arf originally evolved to slow the cell's metabolism and growth by limiting production of ribosomes. Ribosomes, made up of RNA (de-coded DNA) and pro...Scientists identify same gene in mice, humans leading to heart failure
...le that heart specialists have been looking for in terms of one of the master regulators of heart function." Previous research has identified seven or eight different genes mutations that cause heart failure. This particular phospholamban gene mutation is a dominant one - inheriting the gene from one paren...Fetal death, miscarriage linked to genetic mutation
...last giant cell layers. While all are important in terms of fetal development, the labyrinth may be the most critical; that is the place where the most intimate exchange of nutrients, oxygen and waste takes place between the fetus and the mother. They found that in normal placentas, the labyrinth is a neat...Researchers will no longer be 'snowed' in predicting future avalanches
... are more concentrated. Hazards exist not only in terms of individual risks, but also to property, as more people choose to live in remote areas," says Tom Baerwald, NSF's Geography and Regional Science Program director in the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. "This fundamental research by Ha...Family communication about hereditary disease vital to prevention
...ering and disseminating throughout the family. "In terms of the social roles we looked at the ones that we... advice was sought, so they have this influence in terms of the family culture and potential influence in the persuasion process." The family culture can pla...