National Academy of Engineering announces million-dollar challenge to provide safe drinking water
...nking water. Arsenic-contaminated drinking water affects tens of millions of people, especially in developing countries where existing treatment technologies are too expensive for widespread use. The prize will be awarded for the development of a small-scale, inexpensive technique for reducing arsenic lev...Increased risk of osteoporosis associated with gene that one in five people have
...dy suggests that this genetic variant specifically affects the hip bones," Villareal says. "For those with this form of the CYP1A1 gene, that's not good news. Low density in the hip can lead to hip fractures, which can be devastating." Recent statistics from the National Osteoporosis Foundation estimate that...Lupus Research Institute increases funding for innovative research
...lly any organ or bodily system at any time. Lupus affects an estimated 1-1.5 million Americans and is a leading cause of kidney disease, stroke and cardiovascular disease in young women. "Increased support for new science and imaginative investigators--work that is essential for progress in lupus is unlike...Progress toward a more targeted treatment of Alzheimer's disease
... gradually and progressively destroys brain cells, affects between 50% and 70% of all cases of dementia and is therefore the major form of dementia. About 100,000 people suffer from this disease in Belgium. The damage caused to memory and mental functioning makes it one of today's most frightening syndromes....Research using mouse models reveals a novel key player in the initiation of colon cancer
...leading to the conclusion that the Foxl1deficiency affects early stages in tumor formation. Additional analysis revealed that the Foxl1 deficiency affected the onset of tumor formation, accelerating them to arise in 1/3rd of the normal time. The authors examined the integrity of the APC gene in these tumor c...Effective cancer treatments follow the clock
...ts found that the body's internal biological clock affects the survival of immune cells that are targets of the anti-cancer drug cyclophosphamide (CY). "We became interested in examining this issue because there is a long history of knowledge that chemotherapeutic agents produce different mortality and morbi...Calit2 launches prize program to encourage bioinformatics research by UCSD undergraduates
...focuses on predicting how human variation in genes affects protein function....McGill researcher looks at the genetics behind cheese
...5 years studying the genetics of cows and how this affects quality and type of cheese. "There are more than 100 different breeds of cows. However, the best milk producers are Holsteins," says Ng-Kwai-Hang. "Within a specific breed, the milk these cows produce is not the same - it differs in its fat, protein ...Cricket's finicky mating behavior boosts biodiversity
...s in terms of increasing biodiversity? If so, this affects how life on the planet looks. The more species you have, the more complex the ecology is going to be." In down-to-earth terms: "What turns a female cricket on? Why does she prefer one pulse rate over another? Whatever the reason, it's very important ...Melatonin shrinks bird gonads. What does the popular supplement do in humans?
...ts of melatonin," Bentley said. "We know that GnIH affects the reproductive axis, but the GnIH neurons in the hypothalamus have fibers branching from them that transport the peptide around the brain to multiple brain areas areas involved in basically every physiological and behavioral process you could imag...Study finds direct association between cardiovascular disease and periodontal bacteria
...periodontal disease, inflammation of the gums that affects to varying degrees an estimated 200 million Americans. But the researchers say the findings are not proof that the bacteria cause cardiovascular disease, directly or indirectly. "What was interesting to us was the specificity of the association," sa...Falling ants glide back to trunk to avoid dangers of forest floor
...anoviak is in Iquitos to explore how deforestation affects the mosquito transmission of Venezuelan equine encephalitis. In hopes of establishing a mosquito colony in the laboratory, he goes in search of mosquitoes and larvae in the canopy where they live, mostly above private land around the city. Using rope...JCI Table of Contents, March 1, 2005
...ing a broken one Acute myocardial infarction (MI) affects 1.5 million people each year and could lead to cardiac rupture, or tear in the cardiac muscle. Since cardiac rupture accounts for a percentage of deaths, it is imperative to learn more about the mechanisms underlying it. After MI, there is an incre...Rat brain's executive hub quells alarm center if stress is controllable
...tal cortex determines how stressor controllability affects behavior and dorsal raphe nucleus. Nat Neurosci. 2005 Feb 06; [Epub ahead of print]....HHMI professor, 138 undergraduates identify essential genes in eye formation
... geneticists who want to understand how a mutation affects an organ system, in this case, the eye, which is Banerjee's research focus. "The only way a geneticist can ask that question is to mutate that gene and see what happens to the eye," Banerjee explained. "The problem is, if you mutate that gene, the fl...Studies reveal methods viruses use to sidestep immune system
...eplication. Hepatitis C is a chronic disease that affects 4 million people in the United States, making it the nation's most common blood-borne infection. It is transmitted primarily through intravenous drug use, blood transfusions or blood products, as well as through sexual contact and is the leading caus...Green tea extract shows promise as an anti-cancer agent, UCLA study finds
...read to other areas of the body. Green tea extract affects actin remodeling, an event associated with cell movement. When a human moves, the muscles and skeletal structure operate together to facilitate that movement. For cancer to grow and spread, the malignant cells must be able to move. The cell movement ...Diabetes' link to obesity broken in mice
...ated receptors (PPARs), a family of receptors that affects the way cells respond to energy resources. Diabetes disrupts the body's ability to manage energy resources including both fat and sugar. Insulin is a primary regulator of these resources. When the intake of calories exceeds the ability of the body t...Embryonic stem cells treated with growth factor reverse hemophilia in mice
... This disease, much less common than hemophilia A, affects roughly one of every 35,000 people, primarily males. Although embryonic stem, or ES, cells can differentiate into most cell types in the body, numerous problems have arisen in translating their potential into therapeutic strategies, the UNC School o...Singers (and parents) take note: Worst songbird rehearsals precede best debuts
...ever, there has been no direct evidence that sleep affects song learning, and if so, how. (See image) To collect the data used in the study, City College New York behavioral neuroscientists Ofer Tchernichovski and Sbastien Dergnaucourt recorded every vocalization--approximately a million syllables per bird--...