Could vitamins raise levels of bad cholesterol? Animal study suggests they might
... but probably beneficial in others," he says. "In terms of the risk of cardiovascular disease," he adds, "the previous view that all oxidant stress is bad is probably an oversimplification." In an editorial accompanying the study titled "Hold the antioxidants and improve plasma lipids?," Ronald Krau...Closing in on the cellular culprits of schizophrenia
...schizophrenia is finally starting to bear fruit in terms of identifying specific genes that we can then follow-up in the brain," says Arnold. "Who would have predicted that a protein that was first discovered a few years ago by muscular dystrophy researchers could have anything to do with schizophrenia? Th...Animal studies show promise treating severe chronic pain
...fiber neurons. "This showed us that the deficit in terms of overall pain sensation was probably minimal," said Dr. Zoltan Olah, an NIDCR scientist and one of the inventors of the technology. "What was lost were the C-fiber neurons, which confer that sense of aching, chronic pain." The group then applied t...Mexican farmers effectively cultivate phenotypic diversity in maize
... example of maize, could therefore be perceived in terms not of isolation, but of dynamic means of genetic material flow between the different populations of the same region in which the farmers play a predominant role. They thus appear to cultivate maize population diversity. These populations appear as o...Scientists identify six genes associated with survival in diffuse large B cell lymphoma
...rd-looking statements. In order to comply with the terms of the safe harbor, Applera Corporation notes that a variety of factors could cause actual results and experience to differmaterially from the anticipated results or other expectations expressed insuch forward-looking statements. These factors includ...S.C. hospitals and universities form statewide health research collaborative
...s represents a "triple play" for South Carolina in terms of increasing health sciences research, accelerating economic development, and improving public health and patient care. "The investments in health sciences research that will result from this collaboration, give South Carolina the fuel we need to ...Guiding gas exploration: U-M research offers inexpensive tool
...s methanogenesis, and that guides gas companies in terms of where to explore for microbial gas. It's a relatively inexpensive analytical tool, compared to other methods that have been used, such as stable isotope chemistry." The method has potential not just in Michigan, but also in the Illinois basin an...A blueprint for US national ocean policy for the 21st Century
... only now discovering the extent of those costs in terms of depleted resources, lost habitat, and polluted waters. Living ocean and coastal resources, once thought to be boundless, have revealed their limits. Coastal areas are essential spawning, feeding, and nursery areas for over three quarters of U.S. c...More useful plants may sprout from gene role discovery
...ppear to be reaching the limits of productivity in terms of bushels per acre," Chapple said. "You can only plant things so close together; plants can only grow so big. If a seed company were able to increase yield per acre by 1 percent, that's a big improvement." In contrast, if the quality of a crop or it...Brain areas identified that 'decode' emotions of others
...eory of mind": our ability to explain behaviour in terms of mental states like intentions and desires. "What we're showing is that an important first step [in theory of mind] is being able to decode other people's mental states, and that this skill is carried out within a very specific neural pathway,"says...A new hypothesis about autoimmunity. Is it possible to be too clean?
...he void, and this filling leads to what Sarvetnick terms insidious division. The high turnover of T cells presents a selective pressure that favors the growth of T cells that best recognize the tissue nearest to where the division is taking place, in other words, the T cells with the best chance of surviv...Study marks increased trends in infectious disease occurrences in our oceans
...given that extensive surveys are difficult both in terms of time and money. So, we developed and tested a method to circumvent this problem." In the absence of baseline data on changes in disease over time, this new study used publication effort by marine scientists as an indirect way to detect important t...Long-forgotten samples may help save species
...onservation efforts on. "The story here, in terms of conservation biology, is a horror story, but it's not all black because some of these snails can be saved," said Ó Foighil, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a curator at the museum. "And by being able to refere...Comprehensive study: We know little about environmental effects on kids
...ity knows about how children differ from adults in terms of their biologic vulnerability to environmental agents such as lead, mercury, pesticides, and smoke makes clear how little is known about how environmental factors affect children. The 200-page supplement, sponsored by the Environmental Protection...New software developed at Rensselaer predicts promising ingredients for new drugs
...escribes the molecule, its shape and chemistry, in terms of numbers a computer can crunch rapidly. "Dr. Breneman has a technique to calculate electronic properties on the surface of a molecule very quickly," Embrechts said. "It produces a description--basically a set of numbers--that the computer can use e...Gene-rich human Chromosome 19 sequence completed
...ome sequences, this version is 500 times better in terms of contiguity and accuracywhich makes a huge difference if you are trying to do biology with that sequence, said Richard Myers, Director, Stanford Human Genome Center. It gives you a sense of the chromosomes topographyone filled with such biologicall...Bay area to get unique x-ray microscopy resource
...l Center for Research Resources (NCRR). Under the terms of this grant, Larabell and Le Gros will establish...tically possible with x-ray tomography." Under the terms of the NIH-NCRR grant, XM-2 is expected to be up and running at the ALS in 2006....Student creating polymers to chaperon DNA across cell membrane
...arch looked at linear versus branched molecules in terms of chaperone ability, explains Timothy Long of Blacksburg, professor of chemistry in the College of Science at Virginia Tech. "The poster presents findings regarding the effects of polymer structures on complexation with DNA. Amanda has explored a no...A picture is worth a thousand miles not traveled to measure the fossil of an ancient sea creature
...d were in the top 10 percent of those collected in terms of size," says Krause. "The taxonomic literature is biased," Krause says, "but it is biased in the same direction and roughly the same magnitude for both brachiopods and bivalves. So, we feel that the methodology of measuring photogra......rst-line treatment with letrozole was superior, in terms of time to tumor progression, to that with tamoxifen or with tamoxifen plus letrozole. Treatment with alternating courses of the two drugs was also not as effective as treatment with letrozole alone. Tumors progressing on tamoxifen were sensitive to ...