Purdue Study Aims To Boost MRI Capabilities
...test apparatus to obtain physiological information that will enable developers of Magnetic Resonance Imagi...ow doctors to gather images from parts of the body that are currently hard to scan, such as the liver, and to view transient phenomena such as cardiac activ...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
...s Cancer Center have created a promising compound that recruits the body's immune system to target and wi...he vaccine were cancer-free, while similar animals that did not receive the vaccine typically had dozens of tumors. The work was reported in a recent issue ...Virus May Be Linked To Obesity -- Early Findings Hint At Relationship
A virus that can cause obesity in animals may belinked to some ... A preliminary study of 199 people has shown that as many as 15percent of obese people may carry antibodies to the virus, indirectevidence that they o...Purdue Researchers Prod Plants To Clean Up Pollution
...step further, to become phytoremediators -- plants that collect heavy metals and radioactive waste from po...ssor Peter Goldsbrough, "but there's a lot of hope that eventually plants can be used to restore sites and remove pollutants at a fairly low cost." Initial ......ton report in the April 14, 1997 issue of Virology that they may have an explanation for why the currently...ssitating liver transplants. "Many viruses that affect humans -- hepatitis, influenza, herpes, HIV, polio and a host of others -- have evolved mecha...Isle Royale Moose Continue Decline
...ose herd. Park Superintendent Douglas Barnard says that a survey of moose and wolf populations completed t..., compared to an estimated 2,400 in 1995. "We knew that we lost a lot of moose during the especially long, harsh winter of '95 - '96," says Barnard, "but no...NIH Team Discovers Endocrine Tumor Gene
...l Institutes of Health (NIH) has identified a gene that can cause multiple benign tumors of the parathyroi...rs. The MEN1 gene, a tumor suppressor gene--a gene that inhibits abnormal cell growth--intrigues researchers because it is unlike any of the tumor suppresso...New Vaccine Blocks Viral Entry In Cattle, May Have Implications For Human Vaccines
... immune system? It fights off bacteria and viruses that invade our bodies. How about a new type of vaccine -- one that stops dangerous viruses from even entering the body? Geoffrey Letchworth, a virologist in the Depa...Project Shows Native Bacteria Can Destroy Widespread Pollutant In Groundwater
... of the most tenacious and widespread contaminants that is poisoning the nation's groundwater, Stanford re...o break down toxic chemicals. "The test has shown that this method can successfully reduce the levels of TCE in groundwater by 96 to 98 percent," said Per...Emory Researchers Advance Gene Therapy Studies For Metastatic Melanoma Treatment
... M.D., and Cheryl Armstrong, M.D., have discovered that a cytokine called GM-CSF (granulocyte macrophage c...o the mouse." It worked. The animal grew a tumor that produced an abundance of the cytokine locally. It took just five days to completely eliminate tumor...Biosensor Is A Model For Widespread Testing Of Chemicals, Molecules
...o createa genetically-engineered protein biosensor that can identify the presenceof a particular chemical ...r compound, in blood, and can switch on a molecule that produces fluorescentlight to signal its catch. With further modifications, the researchers believean...Method Eases Making Amino Acids Critical In Medicinal Chemistry
...of I. professor of chemistry. "Wehave demonstrated that our methodology will produce both enantiomers ofth...iomolecule. "Our chemistry begins with a molecule that is superimposable onits mirror image, and converts it into an aryl amino acid that is nonsuperimposa...Restoring Farm Land To Natural Wetlands Key To Stemming Flood
...r Daniel Schneider. "After the '93 floods, we saw that there was an opportunity to changethings so the da...ng natural wetlands in the floodplain." And while that may be a logical solution in theory, implementation isnot simple. Aside from the economic and politi...Scientists Trace Roots Of Protein That Keeps Antarctic Fish From Freezing
... this work is the clear linkbetween a new function that has arisen out of strong selective pressureand an ... ecology of the thermally isolated Antarctic Ocean that existstoday, DeVries said. "If they hadn't evolved this gene, then the AntarcticOcean may be quite d...Teens Shop "Healthy", But Trust Label Claims Too Much
...irector of the Penn State Nutrition Center, found that a "health reason" was the second most common cate...ir study. Health came in second behind a category that included taste/personal preference, custom/habit and price/cost. However, the teens made their de...Duke Study Shows Early Marrow Transplant Key To 'Bubble Boy' Disease Cure
.... A 15-year study by Duke physicians shows that more than 90 percentof babies born with the disord...ithin three months of birth. Theyalso have learned that these children need not have a perfectly matcheddonor, but can use a parent's "half-matched" marrow....Children With AD/HD Have Significant Functional Disabilities Related to Attention Deficit
...falo and Children's Hospital of Buffalo have shown that children diagnosed with attention deficit/ hyperac...ehabilitation services, the researchers determined that most of the 43 children in their preliminary study were significantly less able to care for themselv...Hot 'Lanta: NASA, School Kids Team To Study How Trees Help Cities Keep Their Cool
...cades. The change - for the worse - was so gradual that we didn't notice it. And fixing problems that we have caused may start with planting a few trees downtown and using ...Researchers Find Production Point Of Key Protein In Fragile X Syndrome
...s have been bolsteredby researchers who have found that the synthesis of a key protein occursin an unexpec...e brain. Scientists from four universities report that the fragile X protein isproduced in synapses junctions through which nerve cells communicate.T......, Jay Humphries and Aaron Kim developed amechanism that allows Rickels to attach a power drill, power sawo...iety of Mechanical Engineers ,concluding a process that began last September when the three-member student teams were asked to solve real-world engineeringc...