First case of successful ovarian tissue transplantation between two, nonidentical sisters
...who was now aged 32 and had never become pregnant, badly wanted to help her sister by donating some of her own ovarian tissue. Although the option of oocyte donation from the sister to the patient was discussed, the patient refused this option. She preferred a transplant because she wanted to be responsi...Caffeine and exercise can team up to prevent skin cancer
...trol group. Apoptosis is a way in which cells with badly damaged DNA commit suicide UVB-damaged cells in this case. If apoptosis takes place in a sun-damaged cell, its progress toward cancer will be aborted, said Allan Conney, director of Rutgers Cullman Laboratory and one of the papers authors. To de...New approaches to endometriosis treatment -- mouse experiments point the way
... A long-term, safe, and non-invasive solution is badly needed. An additional advantage of such a treatment, say the scientists, is that it is likely that women with endometriosis also have an increased risk of various cancers. The simultaneous occurrence of endometriosis with ovarian cancer, for exam...Agonized death throes probable cause of open-mouthed, head-back pose of many dino fossils
...th creating the opisthotonic posture. She obtained badly injured birds -owls, falcons and red-tailed hawks - that had been euthanized at a raptor recovery center and watched them for 8-10 hours, checking periodically to see if they moved during the process. "In horses and smaller animals, rigor mortis se...World first test potential to identify breast cancer patients who will react badly to radiotherapy
.... The research could mean people who might react badly to radiotherapy could be warned in advance or alte...possible to identify people who are going to react badly to radiotherapy. Such patients should only receive radiation treatment if there is no alternative a...Study pries into ovarian cancer's deadly secrets
...comes back in a drug-resistant form. New drugs are badly needed that can target the distinct molecular defects in the different types of ovarian cancer, which may be more accurately seen as not one disease, but several related ones. Next, Cho plans to tackle the "very big challenge" of dissecting the mol...'Dipstick' test could reduce risk of food poisoning by rapidly detecting spoilage
...nged from dark purple to yellow in the presence of badly spoiled fish, while the change was from dark purple to a reddish hue in the presence of mildly spoiled fish, he says. Depending on the degree of freshness identified, the consumer could then decide whether to eat the food or avoid it. To the consumer...Trojan horse strategy defeats drug-resistant bacteria
...be a promising new way to treat infections. "We badly need new approaches to fight bacteria," said Singh. "The gallium strategy isn't ready for clinical use yet," he added. "However, we think this approach is promising, and we can't afford to leave any stone unturned."...How does a zebrafish grow a new tail?
...rts, spinal cords, eyes or arms and legs have been badly hurt. Scientists have discovered some of the genes and cell-to-cell communication pathways that enable zebrafish to restore their tail fins. "The ability to regenerate body parts such as those that are damaged by injury or disease," said Dr. Randa...Wolves are suffering less from inbreeding than expected
...tes that inbreeding is not affecting the wolves as badly as expected. The results show that it is the most genetically variable wolf individuals that are recruited into the breeding population. An important consequence of this action of natural selection is that the negative effects of inbreeding are accum...Experts advise world policies to cope with causes, rising consequences of creeping desertification
...at soil stops losing valuable sources of nutrients badly needed now to forestall desertification and world hunger. He argues that a global effort to help restore badly-depleted soil resources in developing countries would help: Produce more food per hectare to help feed burgeoning developing country po...DNA repair teams' motto: 'To protect and serve'
...cells," he explains. "But we cannot understand how badly behaved cancer cells work if we don't know how a normal cell functions."...Mapping system tells skin cells whether to become scalp, palm tissues, Stanford study finds
... skin in the laboratory to graft onto someone with badly burned palms, we'll know how to turn on the specific genes that make that type of skin." The implications are vast. Fibroblasts and other skin cells also comprise the lining of the lung and intestine as well as internal organs. Not every kind of sk...ACS News Service weekly press package - May 30, 2006
...se-free partnerships also are creating hundreds of badly needed jobs in developing countries. ARTICLE #5 "Preventing Malaria: Insecticide-treated nets are playing an important role in fighting malaria in Africa and Southeast Asia " CONTACT: Michael Bernstein Phone: 202-872-6042 Fax: 202-872-4370 Email: m_...New beginning of 'natural spring' announced by UNH scientist, group
...l warming and that's threatening to put ecosystems badly out of synch," said Adam Markham, executive director at CA-CP. "What matters to us is when we can shed the winter clothes, when we see the crocuses and daffodils and smell the lilacs, when spring actually arrives. That time is coming earlier and earl...Einstein researchers find potential new drugs for tuberculosis
... anti-tuberculosis drug. The finding could lead to badly needed new drugs for combating tuberculosis bacteria, which each year kill an estimated 2.4 million people worldwide. The study appears in the March issue of Chemistry & Biology. One of the chemicals, 2-HA, was found to be four times more lethal than...The Amazon in 2050: Implementing the law could save a million square kilometers of rainforest
...ue forest ecosystems and entire watersheds will be badly degraded over the next 45 years if we don't rapidly increase our capacity to govern this dynamic region. By developing the first empirically-based, policy sensitive model of Amazon deforestation to assess forest losses within major watersheds, eco-re...Discovery of new molecular tools for biosynthesis could lead to advances in use of pectin
...nd quantity of wall polysaccharides is crucial and badly needed. "The work [described in the UGA paper] represents a significant advance, as it is the first functional identification of an Arabidopsis pectin homogalacturonan galacturonosyltransferase [GAUT1] using biochemical and functional genomic approac...Study of tropical forests worldwide reveals that nature encourages diversity
...ancing processes are also likely to be absent from badly damaged forests. When forests are clear-cut, the soil is rapidly eroded, depleted of nutrients and the "invisible world" of insects, bacteria and fungi that help to sustain diversity largely disappears. But the authors point out that their study sugg...World Trade Center identifications pushed forensic DNA technology
...re commingled, that fire and water at the site had badly degraded many specimens, and that, as time progressed, the quality of DNA retrievable decreased dramatically. Until Septenber 2001, crime labs across the country generally used STRs short tandem repeats in forensics work. STRs are biological marke...