High cholesterol levels accelerate growth of prostate cancer
... is so. More recently, epidemiologic studies have begun reporting that people taking cholesterol-lowering drugs have a significantly reduced incidence of prostate and other cancers. Lipid rafts are structures in the outer cell membrane which Keith Solomon, PhD, a co-investigator on the study and ...VUMC researchers find drug-resistant bacteria MRSA a growing threat
...eeking medical intervention until the organism has begun to spread. Creech and colleagues visited one of Nashville's large community pediatric practices, and the Vanderbilt Children's Hospital Outpatient Pediatric Clinic, to swab the noses of 500 otherwise healthy children to collect samples. Three yea...Mitsubishi offsets carbon footprint through investment in Madagascar's rain forest
...ment of Madagascar, Conservation International has begun marketing these "Conservation Carbon" emissions reductions or carbon credits associated with the carbon sequestered in the region's forests. Currently, investments in these types of carbon credits remain voluntary because avoided carbon emissions re...Tiny scaffolding allows stem cells to become working fat cells
...ng with cells called pre-adipocytes cells that had begun their transformation from stem cells. "They just needed to be tweaked with a cocktail of hormones for them to evolve into fat cells," he said. Kniss said that the transformation into bona fide fat cells took about two weeks to complete. At that point...Introduced foxes transformed vegetation on Aleutian Islands from lush grasslands to tundra
...ed by foxes, and in some places the vegetation has begun to look lusher. But it is likely to take decades for the ecosystems to fully recover from the effects of the foxes, said James Estes, adjunct professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCSC and a coauthor of the paper. "Most seabirds only have ...UCSD researchers maintain stem cells without contaminated animal feeder layers
.... Undifferentiation means the stem cells have not begun the developmental path to become specific human tissue or organs. "Our findings provide a new way to generate human stem cell lines without contamination by animal cells or products," said the study's senior author, Alberto Hayek, M.D., UCSD professo...Scientists collaborate to assess health of global environment
... timber, fresh water, fuel and other resources has begun to jeopardize more subtle services that nature has always provided free of charge, he said. Making matters worse, he added, the world's poorest people stand to lose the most from environmental change, because they depend heavily on ecosystem services...Inexpensive treatment stops multi-drug resistant TB in its tracks
...n in 1995, regional health officials in Mexico had begun to upgrade their TB treatment program to a World Health Organization model called directly observed therapy (DOTS). The five-pronged strategy of DOTS includes political commitment to the eradication of TB, case detection by sputum microscopy, supervi...Statins, other cholesterol depletors, may disrupt hypertension development: UCSD study
...e cell. He said the UCSD researchers "already have begun looking at the expression and localization of ion channels into caveolae that may further explain the increased calcium intake into cell."...Students to chat online with leading genome researchers for National DNA Day
...al Institutes of Health (NIH). National DNA Day, begun in April 2003, commemorates the successful completion of the Human Genome Project and the anniversary of the discovery of DNA's double helix in1953. The event is a collaboration of NHGRI, American Society of Human Genetics, Genetics Society of Americ...Researchers test new therapy for advanced melanoma
...nd his colleagues preceded the initial human trial begun earlier this year at Moffitt. The collaboration of USF and Moffitt in this trial is a good example of translational research -- moving the new application of a gene transfer technology from an animal model to the patient. Dr. Heller's team worked ext...Research shows smoking adds a decade to reproductive age of IVF patients
...involved in the nation-wide OMEGA study, which was begun in 1995 to examine late effects of hormone stimulation. The team investigated the success rate of the first cycle of treatment in 8,457 women, analysing information on reproduction and lifestyle factors, combined with medical records of IVF treatment...U. of Colorado study shows early Earth atmosphere hydrogen-rich, favorable to life
...ago, and geologic evidence indicates life may have begun on Earth roughly a billion years later. "This study indicates that the carbon dioxide-rich, hydrogen-poor Mars and Venus-like model of Earth's early atmosphere that scientists have been working with for the last 25 years is incorrect," said Toon. I...'Motherwell's babies' study may yield up clues for adult diseases
...the Universities of Edinburgh and Southampton have begun a new study into the effects of a mother's diet in pregnancy upon unborn babies and their future health. The research team will seek answers to the links between diet and health by carrying out further studies in a group of almost 1,000 men and women...The Academy of Natural Sciences investigates effects of climate change on Delaware tidal marshes
...e? That's what The Academy of Natural Sciences has begun investigating thanks to a prestigious$700,000 Science to Achieve Results grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. The STAR funding competition supports research to assess the potential consequences of climate change on ecosystem function. Wi...'Termite guts can save the planet,' says Nobel laureate
...ho shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997, has begun studying termite guts one place in nature where a key hurdle for carbon-neutral energy supply has already been solved. Termite guts take indigestible cellulose, which makes up the bulk of all plant material grown on earth, and convert it to ethanol,...Examining the serotonin transporter gene and family function
... factors interact. Only recently have researchers begun to examine the effects that specific genotypes and psychosocial factors may have on behavior. A study in the April issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research looks at what impact interactions between a polymorphism of the serotonin tran...UCLA researchers discover new method to generate human bone
...nder the business name Bone Biologics, already has begun forming partnerships that may assist in the development of appropriate carriers for UCB. The Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, the nation's largest tissue bank, has signed a collaborative development agreement with Wu and Ting to provide custom...LUCA technologies confirms real-time methane generation
...ortia from active sites. Luca scientists have also begun to isolate and identify particular members of the Monument Butte microbial consortium. Through partial DNA sequence analysis, the company has identified Clostridia and Thermatoga as two of the key members of this consortium. Clostridia form a broad g...Prenatal cocaine exposure exerts subtle effects on schoolchildren
...As the children have started to get older, we have begun to see a few more subtle effects, so by the time they were at six months, we could see some effect of cocaine on their developmental processes, but again, we're not talking about dramatic effects. And as they moved on to age 3, we began to see even m...