Common Childhood Virus Poses Threat To Adults, Research Shows
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... Sheba. For the tests, Boysen modeled both a treat and a threat to the chimps.She used grapes, a food the chimps highly desired, as the hidden treat.A member of the research group hiding with a tranquilizer dart was the threat.All of the animals in the study had previously been sedated by a dart orha...Maternal Lead Exposure Linked To High Numbers Of Cavities
...d be, says Bowen. But hesuggests that dentists who treat children from areas of high leadpollution should consider boosting standard preventive measures:fluoride treatments, check-ups, healthy diet, and dentalsealants. Lead is likely one reason why dental cavities are still amajor problem in some pock...Researchers Discover First Animal Strain Of Hepatitis E Virus
...ch, and contribute to strategies to treat or prevent hepatitis E disease," says Robert H. Purcell, M.D., chief of the hepatitis viruses section in NIAID’s Laboratory of Infectious Diseases (LID) and senior author of the study. ...UT-Houston Awarded $2.5 Million For Scleroderma Research
...speed up theprocess of finding ways to prevent and treat this devastating disease, whichclaims the lives of 50 percent of sufferers within five years of onset." Dr. John D. Reveille, professor, division of rheumatology, UT-Houston MedicalSchool, will be co-director for the center's clinical studies; Dr...... the antipsychotic drug clozapine, which isused to treat schizophrenia. Recently, several new D4-selective drugs that aresimilar to clozapine have been developed and are currently undergoing clinicaltrials for the treatment of schizophrenia. In addition to shedding light on therole that the D4 receptor p...Environmental Engineers Demonstrate Effective Method For Trapping Highway Pollutants
...l and efficient. It took ten tonsof coated sand to treat 20 meters of highway during the fieldtest, so Sansalone must find a consistent and simple method forproducing huge quantities of coated sand. "When we made the prototype, we made more coated sand than hasever been artifically produced on Earth. It wa...Bowman Gray Scientists Find Novel Way To Block AIDS Virus
...atureMedicine, points to a fundamental new way to treat patients with HIV-1infection or patients with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). This study, by Si.-Yi Chen, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of cancerbiology, and his colleagues at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, describes how acri......ure for nerve damage," Haley said. "But just as we treat but cannot cure diabetes, we believe we can find treatments to allow these Gulf War veterans to live more comfortable and productive lives."...Popular 'Cure-All' Tea Can Cause Toxic Reactions
...ience unexplainablesymptoms and the physicians who treat them consider that those symptoms could beside effects from alternative therapies, such as drinking home-brewed Kombuchatea....Oral Vaccine Protects Infants From Severe Rotavirus Diarrhea
...uctsand supports research to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as AIDS andother sexually transmitteddiseases, malaria, tuberculosis, asthma and allergies. NIH is an agency of theU.S. Department of Health and Human Services....NIDR Supports Total Genome Studies Of Major Oral Pathogens
...creasedresistance to the most common drugs used to treat oral candidiasis, it is ofparamount importance to understand the genetic makeup of Candida in order todevelop new and effective therapeutic agents. Dr. Ronald Davis, principal investigator on the project, was a member ofthe research team that......HIZOPHRENIA Animal tests of a drug used to treat schizophrenia may shed light on theopposing relationship between that disorder and epilepsy, according to JaniceStevens, M.D., and Duane Denney, M.D. of the Departments of Neurology andPsychiatry at Oregon Health Sciences University. Their w...Dendritic Cell Therapy For The Treatment Of Cancer
...1998 where they will use dendritic cells to try to treat patients with advanced(Stage IV) malignant melanoma or breast cancer. The patients in the trial havenot responded to conventional treatments and have metastatic skin lesions. Dendritic cells from the patients' blood will be grown and induced to deve......ain rings of atoms linked together. If we wish to treat diseases by the discovery of new drugs or design new "smart" materials it is of vital importance that chemists can construct these rings of atoms efficiently. One approach to making rings is that of stitching two ends of a chain of atoms together vi...Researchers Improve Treatment Of Industrial Waste
...ls. Using heat-resistant microbes, the researchers treat waste air and water at temperatures up to 70 degre...timate goal of the team's research, he adds, is to treat and reuse the effluent once it has been cleaned. The research on waste air is sponsored by...Regulator Of Fat Thermostat Found
...tes,who are resistant to their own insulin. "If we treat these diabetics withinsulin to increase their circ...ch mimics the hormone cortisol, iscommonly used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory conditions. The researchers tested blood samples taken before, du...Cellular Engineers Design Custom Cell Surfaces Able To Adhere To Synthetic Materials
...d thebio-organic chemistry of cells well enough to treat cells like complex machines-- to really do cellular engineering." All cell surfaces are decorated with oligosaccharides -- complexstructures strung together inside the cell from a few simple sugars. Differentkinds of cells display different ...... is almost impossible to combat or is toocostly to treat with chemicals. "This is an exciting find because the suicide response has been used asa tool for cloning of disease resistance genes from tomato, lettuce and rice,"said Carol Ishimaru, a lead researcher on the project and associate professor......so lay the foundation for highly specific drugs to treat cocaineaddiction. The research, performed by Dr. Jay Hirsh and Colleen McClung of the Universityof Virginia in Charlottesville, grew out of the group's long-term geneticstudies on brain receptors and neurotransmitters--such as dopamine andserotonin-...