A faster way to recover from chemotherapy and marrow transplant
... five embryos to a well, 48 wells to a plate then checking each embryo 24 hours later to monitor its development and count its blood stem cells. The screen identified 82 chemicals that markedly increased or decreased gene activity. Of these, 10 turned out to affect the prostaglandin pathway: five increased...Agonized death throes probable cause of open-mouthed, head-back pose of many dino fossils
...r 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 sets in within a couple of hours, so I just looked to see if they were moving or not," Faux said. "And they weren't moving. They were staying in what...NASA mission explores world's deepest sinkhole
...vative DEPTHX sub. "Well spend the first two days checking out DEPTHXs sensors, updating its software and performing a test dive to 250 meters to check its pressure housings," Wettergreen said. "Well then have six days to complete the science program. Its an ambitious program, but the vehicle performed well ...Anthrax paralyzes immune cells with lethal toxin, UF research shows
...iagnostic blood test that detects the bacterium by checking for telltale changes in protein expression. Southwick's team used an unusual approach to tease out the anthrax toxin's effects on cell migration: They allowed the immune cells to be hijacked by another bacterium, Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria is...New study may show how to forestall a fatal, virus-caused immune-system meltdown
...TMB postdoctoral fellow Gavin Bowick. He said that checking almost 1,200 interactions simultaneously let the researchers see the big picture of immune response, avoiding the contradictory results often produced by studies that focus on only a single biochemical pathway. To better understand their results,...'Red tide toxins' leave beachgoers breathless
...an stay informed of Florida red tide conditions by checking with local environmental groups, including the Florida Department of Health and the Florida Marine Research Institute. "Environmental asthma triggers, such as Florida red tide, can greatly impact the health of patients with asthma," said Mark J. Ro...Researchers find two biomarkers with potential to predict breast cancer spread
... then processed by nearby draining lymph nodes, so checking these nodes for the presence of cancer is currently one of the most important prognostic factors predicting breast cancer survival, he said. "One of the best predictors of systemic cancer spread is whether the draining lymph node has any signs of met...Beyond the book: Software automates access to brain atlases
...les. The NeuART II software works from these CDs, checking copyright and also making sure that the user has a valid copy of Adobe illustrator, and then using a JavaScript program converting the files into a standard vector graphic (SVG) format. The SVG images are stored on the users system and organized usin...Lab-on-a-chip could speed up treatment of drug-resistant pneumonia
...e infection. The death of the bugs is confirmed by checking with a special dye. Once the bacteria-carrying fluid is injected into the chip, the entire procedure is automatic-- including the counting of fluorescent-marked cells, which is done by a computer -- and takes less than eight hours. One of the mos...Moderate drinking may boost memory, study suggests
...rs measured the amount of time that each rat spent checking out the new object an indication that the animal ...h dose of alcohol spent equivalent amounts of time checking out both objects, suggesting that they were unable to differentiate the old object from the new one....Resistance to chemotherapy in lung cancer, optimizing flu vaccination strategies
...ty. Meyers and colleagues tested their models by checking that they could replicate real influenza epidemics and pandemics, but, as with all mathematical models, they included many assumptions about influenza in their calculations, which might need to be adjusted for any new outbreaks. Also, because the con...Fundacin BBVA and IDIBAPS reassess the intermittent treatment efficiency against malaria
...w results obtained in Mozambique renew hope, after checking that the SP intermittent treatment has reduced the incidence of clinical malaria by 22.2% and the number of admissions by 19%. On the other hand, there has been no rebound effect in the number of malaria cases after the third and last preventive SP...IVF identity fraud: A phenomenon that puts patients, children, and clinics at risk
...y did not have sufficient safeguards. Methods of checking identity varied widely, with one in four clinics not checking patient identity at all. "Although identity fraud among patients is still a relatively infrequent ev...U. of Colorado team solves mystery of carcinogenic mothballs
...ring development, he said. "Apoptosis serves as a checking mechanism to ensure that the right amount of cells are generated in the body," Xue said. In Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, too much apoptosis is occurring, while in cancer and autoimmune disorders, too little apoptosis is occurring, he...Genetically altered mice no longer like cocaine
...e normal mice ran all over the place, sniffing and checking everything out in the box over and over again, until we took them out of the box," Gu said. "But cocaine seemed to calm the modified mice, as they sat in a corner for long periods of time." "To the modified mice, cocaine appears to be a suppressant, ...NYU algorithm enhances ability to detect cancer genes
...ion of a book is missing an important paragraph by checking if some of the important key words in that paragraph are missing from the index of the new edition. The new algorithm computes a multipoint score for all intervals of consecutive probes, and the score reflects how well the deletion of that genomic in...K-Staters design and build a low-cost remote sensing tool for environmental studies
... dispersal of a smoke plume during a prairie fire; checking smokestack emissions; counting livestock in the pens at a feedlot; or checking crop fields for problem areas, for example. "We keep thinking of new civilian uses for it," Ham said...Markers of gene, protein, or micro-RNA activity predict outcome in prostate and colorectal cancers
...act No. LB-226 Researchers have found that a test checking the methylation of a single gene can predict recurrence of prostate cancer in patients who have had their glands surgically removed. In a clinical study of tumor tissue taken from 605 prostate cancer patients, those who had a positive PITX2 methylati...APS lecturer shows rare video of 'teacher-student' immune cell interactions in live animal
... like a night security guard making the rounds and checking the doors. There are dendritic cells in the lymph nodes, waiting to present antigens in a way the T cells can recognize. Each T cell recognizes only one antigen, but preserves that knowledge in its progeny. On average there are 6,000 T cells circulat...Two Sandia microChemLab technologies soon to be checking for toxins in the nation's water supplies
...ndia National Laboratories are expected to soon be checking for toxins and harmful bacteria in the nation's water supplies. Both are based on the microChemLab. The microChemLab, officially called microChemLab, is a hand-held "chemistry laboratory." The liquid prototype was designed and built at Sandia/Califor...