Touching research: How white blood cells navigate
... cells access to tissue, like a police officer who clears the way for other officers to pursue the target. The physical touching between the cells and the lining is crucial. "This is your first line of defense against disease," says Richard Waugh, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering an...Iceberg poses no threat to Antarctic personnel
...miles of sea ice. In a normal year, the icebreaker clears a channel through perhaps 10 miles of first-year ice. In some prior years, the Coast Guard deployed both the Polar Sea and the Polar Star to open the channel but the Polar Sea is in dry dock for a major refit. NSF is negotiating to bring a chartered...Suspect protein found to play protective role in chronic lung disease
...a strain of mice lacking the protein that normally clears excess adenosine. These knockout mice have elevated levels of the signaling molecule and swiftly develop a lethal respiratory disease that combines the features of asthma, COPD, and pulmonary fibrosis. The mice provide a research model for underst......ournal of Gastroenterology dispels those myths and clears numerous misconceptions regarding chronic constipation. From a high fiber diet to taking laxatives, researchers address the common beliefs concerning various aspects of the condition and review results based on medical trials. "Chronic constipation ...PET/MRI scans may help unravel mechanisms of prenatal drug damage
...c byproducts that retain the carbon-11) enters and clears the various organs. The radiotracer decays and completely clears from the animal's body in about two hours. After the procedure, the animals were returned to their s...Gene variant linked to chronic kidney disease
...most common e3 variant of the gene, the e4 variant clears from the blood more quickly and the e2 clears more slowly," explained co-author Linda Kao, PhD, of the study, a genetic epidemiologist and assista...42 biomedical scientists worldwide named HHMI international research scholars
...e how artemisinin, an effective antimalarial drug, clears parasites from infected red blood cells. Understanding the precise mechanisms of artemisinin action could lead to new targets for better drugs for treating malaria. Kamchonwongpaisan already is collaborating with two other HHMI international research...JCI table of contents September 1, 2005
...a proteosome-based adjuvant and glatiramer acetate clears beta-amyloid in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. AUTHOR CONTACT: Howard L. Weiner Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA Phone: 617-525-5300; Fax: 617-525-5252; E-mail: hweiner@rics.bwh.harvard.edu View the PDF of this article at: https://...Bionic fiction becomes science fact
... it could be five to eight years before the device clears all the tests necessary to prove its safety, usability, and robustness....New antibody shows promise as cure for anthrax
..., theorizing that since the high-affinity antibody clears the body of the deadly toxin, it allows the body's initial immune response to successfully kill the anthrax bacteria on its own....Trials for new drug to overcome HIV
...gust, showed that when given on its own it rapidly clears most HIV from the blood, driving down the levels tenfold in a matter of hours. The trial planned for this month is intended to discover how the drug performs as part of a combination treatment with other anti-HIV drugs, which is a more realistic situ...Measles Mumps Rubella and mercury-based immunizations cleared as causes of autism
...ions and PDD in 28,000 Quebec children and finally clears MMR vaccines and thimerosalcontaining immunizations as risk factors. "There is no relationship between the level of exposure to MMR vaccines and thimerosalcontaining vaccines and rates of autism," says Dr. Eric Fombonne, Director of Pediatric Psych...Commonplace sugar compound silences seizures
...o seizures. The UW-Madison work for the first time clears up some of that mystery. Roopra has long explored how certain proteins known as "transcription factors" turn neuronal genes on or off. He has been particularly intrigued by one transcription factor known as NRSF, which is thought to control up to 1......ate's toxic action with drugs inside the brain, it clears the chemical away from the brain into the blood, where it can't do harm anymore."...MIT develops nanoparticles to battle cancer
...noparticles in the bloodstream. The body naturally clears these foreign bodies through the liver and spleen. The team devised a means to temporarily disable this natural clearing system. They created a "decoy" particle that saturates this clearing system temporarily, allowing the active nanoparticles tim...UT Southwestern joins national clinical trial to uncover long-term effects of West Nile virus
...st people have no symptoms and their immune system clears out the virus. One in 5 people develops a fever West Nile Fever that causes mild flu-like symptoms. One in 150 develops serious neurological illness, such as severe headache, muscle weakness, cognitive impairment, coma, seizures and encephalitis an...Risk of common vaginal infection linked to preterm birth appears higher for blacks
...tions become resistant. Even women whose infection clears frequently can become re-infected later. We found that paternal race is an independent risk factor for BV during pregnancy, and that this is at least as important a risk factor as maternal race, continued Dr. Simhan. Studies on the contribution of ...