High resolution satellite imagery assists hunt for infectious 'kissing bugs'
...clude ingesting contaminated food, mother to child transmission like during breast feeding and tainted blood transfusions. Infection by this Trypanosoma cruzi parasite may cause short-term symptoms including fever, tiredness and brain swelling. However it is the longer-term symptoms that are most serious: ten to ...Preclinical safety study shows adipose-derived stem cells improve heart function after heart attack
...ogous-use) present no risk of rejection or disease transmission and avoid ethical concerns. The methods used in the pre-clinical study are as follows: Infarcts were induced in 13 juvenile swine by balloon occlusion of the mid left anterior descending artery. Forty-eight hours after the infarction, adipose cell...Ecology of infectious diseases grants awarded
...nduced environmental changes and the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases. Interdisciplinary projects...ogram in this area include: development of disease transmission theory; improved understanding of unintended health effects of development projects; increased capac...Protein is key to fatal disorder and normal cell function
...face binds with GalCer and may be important in the transmission of the disease. The beta amyloid and prionic proteins also enter cells by binding to GalCer....Lecture on ecology of infectious diseases
...ve habitats, which dramatically alters the rate of transmission and spread of infectious diseases, scientists are ...ures may alter the conditions necessary for plague transmission or serve as barriers to movement of the disease. By identifying the ecological components of plagu...Breaking new ground in germ cell guidance
... function (or loss of function) relies entirely on transmission by the mother fly. A closer analysis of the failing pole cells indicated that they began their development and migration normally, and that their deaths did not display a significant increase in the molecular activity most commonly associated with pr...Identifying tick genes could halt disease, bioterrorism threat
...is project may be development of vaccines to block transmission of microbes that cause tick-borne illnesses, said ...using microbes within the tick, tick reproduction, transmission of infectious agents, new control methods and evolutionary biology. Bruce Birren and his team at The...Pig-human transplantation not PERVerted
...uman cells. So far, the actually frequency of PERV transmission within a living organism has not been tested in ei...e new data that indicate the dangers of such viral transmission may be extremely low and that pigs may be a safer source of transplantation material than previously...JCI table of contents: 1 September, 2004
...uman cells. So far, the actually frequency of PERV transmission within a living organism has not been tested in ei...e new data that indicate the dangers of such viral transmission may be extremely low and that pigs may be a safer source of transplantation material than previously...Nucleic acid-amplification testing further safeguards nation's blood supply
...ety of the nation's blood supply by preventing the transmission of potentially deadly viruses, according to a new ...amplification testing (NAT) has helped prevent the transmission of approximately five HIV-1 infections and 56 hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections each year since it ...Evolution of whale hearing unfolds in fossil record
...nt seas 50 million years ago), used the same sound transmission system as did land mammals, and so had poor underw...land-mammal system, but also developed a new sound transmission system. "The fossils document the ways in which cetacean hearing has changed, starting with ear fo...Physics gravity model applicable to disease spread
...f models that bears great promise in capturing the transmission of known childhood infections," says Bjornstad. "We have just started work to see if the models are relevant to diseases of wildlife." Laura M. Warlow, Penn State graduate student in biology, is working with Bjornstad on a wildlife model. Investig...Study shows how consensus is attained in a noisy world
...e aggregated more efficiently if local information transmission is not perfectly reliable but is subject to error or random noise, due to lack of trust, indecision or unreliable information technologies." For the citizens of Leipzig, the "noise" was the presence of the Stasi, the state secret police. "The need o......ow the social organization of hosts can affect the transmission of diseases in, "The coevolution of host social organization and pathogen transmission." Examining data from primates and carnivores, along with theoretical models, Dobson will also discuss the possible role of pathogens in shaping populations. From...Epilepsy: Signals 'brake' in brain impaired
...e epilepsy research has mainly concentrated on the transmission of the nerve cell signals to what are known as the...tween the cells does not work properly because the transmission of the signals to the synapses is impaired. However, the Bonn researchers in conjunction with their ...When male fish hum, females swim in, thanks to hormones, adaptable hearing
... multi-harmonic humming. This process couples the transmission of sound by the males and reception by the females. "We suspected that enhancing the sensitivity of the females' ear to the upper harmonics of the males' hums should improve detection of their vocalization," said Bass, who is a professor of neurobio...Vollum scientists find new form of dopamine transmission
...ersity research team has uncovered a novel form of transmission between neurons in the brain that is mediated by d...'s disease symptoms. The study focused on dopamine transmission in the substantia nigra, a part of the midbrain where dopamine cells lose function, leading to Parki...Genetic mutation found that is major contributor to type 1 diabetes
...ture Genetics and online July 11. By examining the transmission of genes from parents to children in nearly 1,000 diabetic families from around the world, the researchers found that a certain natural mutation of that SUMO-4 gene increases the risk of type 1 diabetes. "This helps us understand how type 1 diabetes ...Asian bird flu became highly pathogenic through continued circulation and gene swapping
...owed the wide reach this virus already has. "The transmission of H5N1 to even just a relatively few people was a... of poultry across East Asia reduced the threat of transmission of bird flu to humans, and possibly even prevented the outbreak of a human pandemic, the St. Jude re......ts from Mexico as well as better understanding the transmission of these diseases, is important not only for Sonora but also for Arizona." Markow and Ruiz will visit Mexico City in August to talk to representatives from the National University of Mexico and from Consejo Nacional De Ciencia Y Tecnologia (CONACyT)...