NIH gives $8M to University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine for myositis research
...ch involves 36 other scientists from 18 states and five countries, including Canada, the Czech Republic, Sweden, England and the United States. Myositis is a general term for several conditions, including dermatomyositis, polymyositis, inclusion-body myositis and juvenile forms of myositis. Also known a...Abnormal fat metabolism underlies heart problems in diabetic patients
...pletion of cardiolipin in heart muscle as early as five days after diabetes was induced in mice." "These results suggest that cardiolipin alterations underlie heart dysfunction in diabetic heart disease and may be a useful biomarker for diagnosing cardiovascular disease in diabetes," Gross says. "Measurin...1 of deep ocean's most turbulent areas has big impact on climate
...e turbulence packs an energy wallop equal to about five million watts -- comparable to output from a small...d all the seawater in the passage, equal to around five million watts, which is comparable to output from a nuclear reactor. ...European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...tional level. Under the realigned procedure the five ESF Scientific Committees, embracing all scientifi...The Forward Look Nanomedicine was organized around five specialised workshops, each attended by a small group of experts, and a large consensus conference w...Cardio exercise benefits in male vs. female hearts
... had a greater increase in LV mass (15 percent vs. five percent of left ventricular hypertrophy) compared to their sex-matched sedentary controls experienced a 20 percent decrease in the protein that promotes cell function while there were no changes in males decreased /MHC ratio by 41 percent ...What we can learn from the biggest extinction in the history of Earth
... Great Bank of Guizhou Payne has spent the past five years unearthing the deep geologic record in south China. The kilometer-thick, limestone fossil beds at the Great Bank of Guizhou formed in shallow ocean waters during the late Permian and early Triassic periods. As the ocean floor sank, new, younger...Link between sunspots, rain helps predict disease in east Africa
...ed with sunspots. The researchers, who represent five institutions from the United States and Great Britain, offered several reasons why sunspot peaks may affect rainfall. The increased solar energy associated with sunspots, they suggest, heats both land and sea, forcing moist air to rise and triggering...Story tips from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2007
...d -- a process that has hardened surfaces four and five times the normal level while not compromising their resistance to corrosion. This hardened surface has been implemented in pump impellers undergoing severe wear operation at the Sonoco paperboard plant in Newport, Tenn. The impellers in the plant are...Research team enlightens the reasons for severe blindness
...ne therapy available for LCA5 gene deficiencies in five to ten years time, says Ueffing. The affected persons urge for a faster procedure underlines Ueffing, but researchers and doctors assume a big responsibility concerning the development and implementation of gene therapies. Therefore, very high safety...Improved NIST SRM aids lead poisoning detection
...imates that 300,000 American children, aged one to five years, have lead blood levels greater than the 2010 objective. Research reports also provide evidence of adverse effects at an even lower lead blood level than that of the 2010 target among children younger than 72 months. SRM 955c is packaged as ...Universe's stringy birth revealed by young Czech scientist in EURYI winning project
...HORCS) to help him pursue his project and build on five years of hard work culminating in the solution of an equation in string field theory that had gone unsolved for 20 years. The elegance and beauty of the solution have been widely praised in a field that is highly regarded for its aesthetic appeal, dr...New survey documents the headaches of computerized medicine
...s identified in an extensive preliminary study at five hospitals of varying sizes were encountered by most of the hospitals surveyed regardless of how long they had been using CPOE. The survey was the first to quantify the breadth and importance of CPOEs unintended consequences. The survey results were...Forecasting system provides flood warnings to vulnerable residents of Bangladesh
... to distribute the forecasts directly to people in five districts along the Brahmaputra and Ganges, including impoverished families living on islands known as river chars. The center's Ramasamy Selvaraju and A.R. Subbiah are overseeing the distribution efforts. The project, which has received funding fr...Discovery of new protein could provide new understanding of male fertility
...ice and found that the protein was expressed about five times more in the testis than other organs. Again, this was totally unexpected, Goettrup says. Unlike the first E1, UBE1L2 might have a specialized role in tissues and in particular in the testis. Going back to the previous analogy of the Federal R...Scientists prove that disputed Korean stem cell line comes from an unfertilized egg and not cloning
...ators completed a thorough genome-wide analysis of five novel pES cells, 30 mouse ntES, as well as the SCNT-hES-1 cell line, the first human ES cell line purportedly generated by Korean scientists using human eggs and somatic cell nuclear transfer. The original paper describing the SCNT-hES-1 cell line wa......thing, there is a time effect," says Costes. "Just five minutes after cells are exposed to high-energy particles, microscope images already show a nonrandom distribution of RIF." The RIF occur along straight lines, as expected for a particle track, but are not randomly distributed along the lines. "Even t...U-M researchers find family of 'on switches' that cause prostate cancer
...al types of cancer. The Nature paper reports on five additional genes that fuse with ERG or ETV1 to cause prostate cancer. Gene fusions were involved in 60 percent to 70 percent of the prostate cancer cell lines the researchers looked at. The genes involved are all controlled by a different mechanism. ...Measuring nectar from eucalypts
...ted gum forest flowering from April-August yielded five tonnes of honey. Honey productivity was found to be comparable across the three different logging histories: recently logged, regrowth and mature. But not every year is as good as 2005, with flowers measured in 2003 providing a strong contrast. F...Testing the force of a shark's bite
...ns. Last week Dr Wroe and his team dissected the five year old shark and measured the structure of its jaw and the muscles used in biting. Underwater experiments with live sharks fail to adequately indicate the force of the Great Whites bite, and the sharks have been known to bite through materials th...Fish eyes could hold clue to repairing damaged retinas in humans
...e that the research may lead to a treatment within five to ten years, for cells isolated from a person's own eye. However, the need to overcome the immune response for transplantation of a donor's cells means that this second approach would take longer. Professor Peng T Khaw, Director of the new Nation...