Cancer could be caught before it develops
...ical Language System (UMLS), extracting all of the terms relating to precancers from the 'Metathesaurus', a...d in many different ways, and can have a number of terms that refer to it. The database includes terms from seven languages in addition to English terms. Pre...Cooperation between unrelated male lizards adds a new wrinkle to evolutionary theory
... result is an average "fitness" level (measured in terms of the number of offspring they produce) three tim...ly similar male they just annihilate each other in terms of fitness," Sinervo said. Throat color in the side-blotched lizard is controlled by genes at a sin...How plants get made in the shade
...s was one mutant form that showed less response in terms of flowering to the light conditions that would normally trigger shade-avoidance. Further studies of this mutation revealed that the plant lacked the gene for a protein that the scientists called "phytochrome and flowering time 1" (pft1). Reasoning t...Media seminar on cardiovascular medicine
... the underlying causes of high blood pressure. In terms of total funding and number of researchers, the CVC is one of the top cardiovascular research groups in the country. The CVC also holds two major National Institute of Health Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) grants....Anthropologist predicts major threat to species within 50 years
...countries in the study on a level playing field in terms of their particular environments and the number of species present." Once they combined the natural factors together with the human factors and did the tabulations, McKee says the result was an 88 percent predictability of how many species would be t...JCI table of contents, 2 June, 2003
...o methods using DCs transduced outside the body in terms of both amplitude and persistence. Our results demonstrate that the time-consuming and costly steps currently used to elicit tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses through the transfer of ex-vivo manipulated DCs could be replaced by the much...Turning foe into friend with lentiviral vectors
...o methods using DCs transduced outside the body in terms of both amplitude and persistence. "Our results demonstrate that the time-consuming and costly steps currently used to elicit tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses through the transfer of ex-vivo manipulated DCs could be replaced by the muc...Counties in northeast, midwest continue to offer best access to U.S. population, study shows
...r Northeastern metro areas in terms of overall access to population and sheer number o...ime. The top five counties in terms of the most people added within 50 miles between 1990 and 2000 were all in New ...Novel flu vaccine shows promise in mice
...s, which was surprising. This may be meaningful in terms of the potential effectiveness of the vaccine as we go forward." The experimental vaccine was administered twice intranasally to mice. After vaccination, a steep rise in M2-specific antibodies was seen in blood samples from the mice, and the mice exh...Adirondack interstate underpasses designed for wildlife attract anything but, study says
...t consider not only immediate costs to wildlife in terms of road-kills and population isolation, but also the added budgetary considerations needed to attempt to mitigate these costs," said Scott LaPoint, lead author of the study....Many pregnant women may have depression, but few getting treatment, study finds
...lar to their siblings who are not exposed, both in terms of IQ and learning problems, when compared at age 5. But she notes that more work is necessary in this area. She and her colleagues hope their study will help raise awareness among pregnant women, and their doctors and midwives, about the need to rec...KEPPRA international Phase IV SKATE study results show favourable efficacy
... shows that KEPPRA offers unparalleled efficacy in terms of seizure control and seizure freedom rates across several partial seizure types, but also an unmatched tolerability profile. The SKATE study provides data that supports Keppra in the therapeutic armamentarium by identifying this newer antiepilepti...Max Planck supports open access to research
...t Germanyis in the top five countries worldwide in terms of both theirsubmissions and publication, along with the USA, the UK andCanada. German scientists have been quick to adopt the openaccess model. When asked why he had published his paper withBioMed Central, Max Planck researcher Konrad Bssow said,"be...Protein mimetics could lead to more successful coronary bypasses
...a vascular surgeon. "We hope to be very applied in terms of looking at clinically relevant problems for which there's an unmet need, then developing experimental approaches to solving these problems, and then, based on experimental discoveries, engineer molecules that can be used to treat human disease." T...Engineered proteins will lead to 'synthetic biology'
...tational methods can overcome that limitation." In terms of commercial applications, he said, the university is exploring the launching of a company to market and support the design methodology and applications developed by Hellinga and his colleagues....Muscle-repair defect underlies two muscular dystrophies
...ed that the knockout mice were otherwise normal in terms of the muscle proteins known as the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC), which provides the structural support to the plasma membrane of the muscle fibers. This complex is defective in other forms of muscular dystrophy. Electron microscopy studies...UI researchers discover new cause of muscular dystrophies
...es caused by dysferlin loss were very different in terms of how the disease process works compared to other dystrophies we have studied," Campbell said. "We were gradually picking up clues that showed we had a different type of muscular dystrophy here." Most muscular dystrophy causing genetic mutations hav...Without enzyme catalyst, slowest known biological reaction takes 1 trillion years
...is number puts us way beyond the known universe in terms of slowness," he said. "(The enzyme reaction) is 21 orders of magnitude faster than the uncatalyzed case. And the largest we knew about previously was 18. We've approached scales than nobody can grasp." Why would we want to know the rate of a biologi...MacKinnon lab's newest picture tells action potential story
...series of papers described the action potential in terms of mathematical equations (Hodgkin and Huxley won the Nobel prize in 1963). Their theory became a cornerstone of cellular biophysics, and set an entire field of scientists to work studying excitable membranes, or the outer coats of cells associated w...Four gene 'micronet' found to regulate social behavior in female mice
...ny of these levels, you can predict what we see in terms of impairment of social recognition." For example, Choleris says, if the induction of the oxytocin receptor is blocked, oxytocin will not be able to regulate social recognition. The researchers say that these findings could yield new insights into ce...