Alzheimer's disease is not accelerated aging
...nise Head. The researchers used MRI to measure the volume of two regions of the brain previously linked with...um, and the medial temporal lobe. Comparing volume in young adults, older adults without dementia, and individuals with mild dementia of the Alzheimer ...New fossil sheds light on old mystery
...eeding in any other animal. Rather than expand the volume of its mouth to suck in prey, Dinocephalosaurus expanded the volume of its throat, in many ways a more effective approach." In addition, the long neck allowed Dinocepha...A long-necked sea predator from China described in Science
...eck ribs outward. This could have increased throat volume enough to allow the animal to swallow the pressure wave that it created as its head lunged forward though the water. By swallowing its own pressure wake that would otherwise signal its approach, the predator may have executed almost undetectable stri...New research shows air pollution can reduce children's lung function
...uctions in their "forced expiratory volume" -- the volume of air that can be exhaled after taking a deep breath -- as compared to children living in communities with cleaner air. In healthy people, lungs grow to full capacity during the teenage years, but typically stop growing at age 18. Then, lung capacit...As informatics grows, Indiana University helps set 'research agenda'
...enhanced our ability to gather data that the sheer volume of data now outstrips our capacity to deal with it," said Indiana University School of Informatics Dean J. Michael Dunn. "Informatics is taking this seemingly unmanageable flood of data and transforming it into information that helps solve key proble...A genetic disorder yields insight into genes and cognition
...structural MRI imaging revealed a reduction in the volume of gray matter in an adjacent brain region. The researchers' studies also showed that impaired input from this region could cause the reduced function. The researchers concluded that "Our observations confirm a longstanding hypothesis about dorsal st...Why your knees and quads hurt more after running than walking: You're only human
.... The researchers also looked at the active muscle volume needed to generate force on the ground, and here, ...ereas all three joints increased the active muscle volume as speed increased and gait changed, the knee extensors increased 4.9-fold during running (to 49% of...Genetically-engineered 'marathon mouse' keeps on running
...eengineers the heart to allow it to pump a greater volume of blood. "So, it was not at all obvious that changing one gene in muscle would lead to coordinated changes throughout the body, from the nervous system to the cardiovascular system to the muscle itself. But the remarkable thing about this experimen...Infants sighs may 'reset' breathing regulation mechanism as well as help lungs develop
...ively regulate their lung function, elevating lung volume above what would be expected by their relatively s... significant increase in variability of both tidal volume and minute ventilation," which measures both respiratory rate and tidal volume. This variability las...Biologists deciphering complex lemur scent language
...said Drea. "The males' wrist gland gives off a low volume of clear liquid. And the shoulder gland produces a thick brown paste. And both male and female genital glands produce a sticky goo that females might mix with urine, and which might have an effect on the message the female is encoding." Scordato per...Huge market for forest moss raises concerns
...esses. About 64 percent of botanists felt that the volume of moss being removed was of concern. In the East, the concern about moss harvests in some areas is sufficiently high that the Monongahela National Forest has stopped issuing any harvest permits. In the Pacific Northwest, some business owners a...AGU journal highlights - 29 July 2004
...2004GL020067, 2004 9. Revised estimate for water volume through ocean straits Imposing a maximum limit on volume discharge for oceanic straits can allowresearchers an improved measure to estimate water movement th...Fluid derived from aloe plant prolongs life after hemorrhagic shock in animal study
...y controlling ongoing bleeding and restoring blood volume by infusing a lactate solution and packed red blood cells. Soldiers wounded in combat often lose significant amounts of blood, and there is no practical way to replace the necessary amount of blood fast enough on the front lines. When this happens, t...New world record magnet for chemical and biomedical research
...ield of 21.1 Tesla to one part in one billion in a volume 64 times larger than that of typical NMR systems. Small adjustments to field homogeneity are achieved with a set of superconducting shim coils that fine tune the magnetic field. Fabrication of the NbTi and shim coils occurred in cooperation with an i...Microarrays, key genome expression trackers, work better when probes are sequence-verified
...ss studies. Furthermore, there is now a tremendous volume of data, particularly from human clinical specimens, which can't be duplicated, so strategies to improve analysis of (that is, "clean up") existing data sets are needed. One limitation of the application of microarray technology could be due to the f...New lower-cost assay system equivalent to flow cytometry for accurate CD4+/CD8+ cell counts
...ompact, requiring only a few microliters of sample volume per assay, thus saving precious and expensive cells, reagents and compounds. Guava offers a variety of assays and dedicated software modules for the Guava PCA systems, enhancing the system's overall ease-of-use. More information about the company an...DFG announces three percent budget increase
...nt is due to a ten percent rise in the application volume for that period....Protein controls acid in cells by direct detection of volume changes, study finds
...ct on NHE1, he said. "Our study shows that as cell volume increases, this transporter turns off. If volume decreases, it turns on by directly sensing mechanical changes in the membrane," continued Dr. Hilgem......atly improved bone mineral density as well as bone volume compared to ovarectomized mice that still had PAF gene function. Further molecular studies in these mice showed that osteoclasts (the bone cells that responsible for the breakdown of bone material) are responsible for PAF's mechanism of action. In ad......atly improved bone mineral density as well as bone volume compared to ovarectomized mice that still had PAF gene function. Further molecular studies in these mice showed that osteoclasts (the bone cells that responsible for the breakdown of bone material) are responsible for PAF's mechanism of action. In a...