NIH funds rare childhood disease to provide insights into the origins of adult cancer
...o the biology and characterization of the disease, better match patients with research studies, provide acce...be fatal. The research at SCH will help doctors to better understand, prevent and treat this enigmatic disease. ...Warning from new SLU research: Usual test for vitamin deficiency can mislead doctors
... taking one pill per day for life. We need to do a better job of detecting the problem." Thomas and his Saint Louis University colleagues, Laurence J. Kinsella, M.D., associate professor of neurology, and Jamie T. Haas, M.D., a neurology resident, found that the standard test for B12 deficiency -- m...UCSD biologists discover chemical important in guiding visual system development
...n Diego, said their discovery could also lead to a better understanding of birth defects in children born to mothers taking epilepsy medication. Scientists have long recognized that spontaneous neural activity is needed for the normal development of the visual circuits in the brain, but how this activit...Evidence that learning is consolidated during sleep
...route tests, with greater activity correlated with better performance. The group scanned during sleep after testing also showed greater hippocampal brain activity during sleep, compared to the non-trained group. Importantly, when the researchers compared the hippocampal activity during SWS sleep in the trai...Trojan-horse therapy blocks buildup of Alzheimer's plaque
...ound of optimization, the scientists achieved even better results "In fact," said Crabtree, "we achieved much better protective effects than have been achieved by pharmaceutical companies and by other academic groups ...Global climate change threatens reindeer, caribou
...ical monitoring, and community monitoring to get a better picture of the whole system," Russell said. ...Red wine mist? Resveratrol shows potential effects against COPD, asthma, arthritis
...aerosol version for inhalation probably would be a better option," Donnelly said, noting that it would overcome one of the problems with steroids, which is noncompliance. The current research aimed to confirm and quantify the effect of resveratrol and quercetin, a related plant-derived polyphenolic compound...Scientists closing in on nerve proteins' contributions to memory and hearing loss
... -- In a finding that may one day help researchers better understand age-related memory and hearing loss, scientists have shown that two key nervous system proteins interact in a manner that helps regulate the transmission of signals in the nervous system. Researchers report online in Nature Neuroscience th...'Broken' gene reveals evolution of salt retention and possible ties to hypertension
...d and quickly lost through sweat. People who were better at retaining salt may have had a significant survival advantage. This advantage decreased as humans spread to cooler climates. The first suggestion that too much salt, rather than too little, may be harmful appeared in a Chinese text on herbal med...New AAAS report cites 'serious concerns' with electronic voting
...eform to make results more reliable and to promote better access by voters, especially those who have historically encountered serious impediments to exercising their right to vote. The research -- and the reforms -- will become increasingly important as the United States considers moving toward an Internet...Human embryonic stem cells promising for replacement of blood supply
...e use of human embryonic stem cells. The research better defines the conditions under which blood cell development occurs, making the process easier to replicate. The findings are published in the October issue of Experimental Hematology. "These findings do more than give us a basic understanding of bloo...Gene found to defend against environmental pollutants and pulmonary emphysema
... researchers believe their findings will provide a better understanding of the human body's defense mechanisms and could lead to the identification of what factors make some people more susceptible to lung diseases. The article is published in the current issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation. The ...Are museum collections of ancient life representative?
...nding is that shells in the museum collections are better preserved, she said. "It is an advantage of time. Museums can keep the best examples of specimens for collections gathered over time." However, collections in other institutions would also have to be examined prior to use for the study of the diversi...Safety and immunogenicity data available for new pertussis booster vaccine candidate for adolescents
... of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer....Economics and ecology combine at UGA in NSF-funded study of evolutionary game theory
...g a disease." "We are then in a position to design better responses to viral diseases, applying the full knowledge of what their 'rational' reaction is likely to be," said Keenan, before adding a final note that the solution technique being applied is the Nash equilibrium, the creation of Nobel Laureate Joh...International Rice Functional Genomics meeting in Tucson Nov. 15-17
...nes act inside the plant is crucial for developing better varieties of rice. Wing estimates that this next task, the functional genomics of rice, will take scientists between five and ten years. "We need to know all we can about rice. We want to decode its genome to establish a research platform to underst...Scientists find acid rain an unlikely ally in the battle against a greenhouse gas
...to understand all of Earth's complexities and make better predictions of future climate we need to understand interactions among a suite of processes that are not always well understood. "That's not to say that acid rain is a good thing. Rather this study illuminates really well how we have to work to under...Powerful 'toolkit' developed for functional profiling of yeast genes
...cture of how genes interact, and the technique has better potential to scale to the whole genome than other techniques." In one set of experiments, the new technique identified 116 genes that were synthetic lethal with a gene called cin8 and confirmed their involvement. Of these genes, 73 had not b...Genetically engineered corn poses no immediate threat to Mexican crops
...sible benefits and risks of GM corn. Encouraging better international coordination of regulatory policies, so GM crops that are released in our country are also evaluated for safety in other countries that import viable GM seeds.......a human. This protein structure is a first step to better understanding how an E. coli infection begins, which may lead to information on how to block it. "E. coli is responsible for urinary tract infections, one of the most prevalent diseases in the U.S.," said Brookhaven biologist Huilin Li, the lead rese...