UCLA researchers transform stem cells found in human fat into smooth muscle cells
...ns like blood vessels, bladder, and intestines and contract and expand to help transport blood, urine, and was...functionality to see if the cells would expand and contract like smooth muscle tissue. Rodriguez turned to associate professor of bioengineering Dr. Benjamin W...UF scientists reverse muscle contractions in mouse model of muscular dystrophy
...stitute. "So when patients with myotonic dystrophy contract one of the muscles in their arm, it's very difficult for them to release that contraction." The muscles progressively weaken and eventually waste away. The disease also affects the heart muscle and is associated with irregular heart rhythms that ca...Witonsky honored with Pfizer award for work with EPM disease in horses
... are the known carriers and horses are believed to contract the disease by grazing on forage contaminated with the opossum feces. The parasite migrates to the brain through unknown mechanisms. While more than 50 percent of all horses in the United States are believed to be exposed to this disease, only 0.5...Increased risk of hantavirus forecast for US southwest
...d by exposure to a variety of hantaviruses. People contract the virus through contact with rodents and rodent droppings. In 2005, the Four Corners region recorded four cases of hantavirus. The researchers forecast the hantavirus risk in 2006 as "moderate," similar in severity to the six and eight cases reco...Twist on chest pain drug improves heart attack outcome
...ger and healthier overall they were better able to contract and therefore better able to accommodate the flow of the solution during reperfusion, Kuppusamy said. Both the blood pressure and flow of the nutrient solution were greatly improved. Several studies have shown that it is possible to prevent much of...Land use, land cover affect human health, food security
...th people, so there is a greater chance humans can contract this disease." Goodin said the reoccurrence of the hantavirus, which re-emerged in the 1990s in United States, is evidence of the delicate balance of ecological systems and the possibility of disease to emerge or re-emerge when those systems are al...Reversing 'hibernating' heart muscle focus of UB researchers
...wed arteries. This creates areas of the heart that contract poorly. The new grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute builds on pioneering work of scientists in UB's Center for Research in Cardiovascular Medicine who developed a novel pig model with hibernating myocardium. Previous research h...Wildfire suppression costs may be reduced using new model
...earch shows that using the right mix of agency and contract crews is the most cost effective way to fight fires rather than using contract or agency crews exclusively, according to Geoffrey Donovan, a research forester at the Forest Servic...Carnegie's Global Ecology inks partnership with Japanese satellite firm
...Department of Global Ecology has signed a one-year contract with ImageONE, a Japanese satellite imaging compan...m collaboration between the two organizations. The contract term will begin on or around September 1, 2006 and will last one year, with an option to extend the ...Supercomputers to transform science
...". The University today announced the award of the contract to install the computers to a consortium led by ClusterVision, working with IBM and ClearSpeed Technology. The largest of the three HPCs will be one of the fastest University research computers in the UK, and is expected to be one of the top 100 comp...Smithsonian to coordinate planning for Panama's Coiba National Park/World Heritage Site
...cience and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) signed a contract authorizing funding for the Smithsonian Institution to implement the project: "Promoting Marine Conservation in a World Heritage Site in the Tropical Eastern Pacific," --the revision and updating of the management plan for Panama's Coiba National Pa...UAB is participating in a project to design functional foods against Alzheimer's disease
...cific group suffering an illness or susceptible to contract a particular illness. The role of universities in this project will be to develop research projects related to health. This will be directed and coordinated by Dr Merc Unzeta, professor of the UAB's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology an...New understanding of parasite cell structures may provide treatments for serious tropical diseases
...s where a third of a billion people are at risk to contract it. In the same set of experiments, the researchers discovered a new pathway for protein movement in the trypanosome that may also be found in other cell types including humans. The scientists discovered that proteins can move from a glycosome, an im...A new view on Lyme disease: Rodents hold the key to annual risk
... transmit infection, but people are most likely to contract Lyme disease from nymphs. A person's risk of exposure to Lyme disease depends on the population density of infected nymphal ticks. Many studies have examined variations in climate and white-tailed deer population dynamics as determinants of tick abun...Wisconsin scientists discover a master key to microbes' pathogenic lifestyles
...n the United States. Of those infected, 25 percent contract pneumonia. Histoplasmosis, a disease caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum, infects as much as 80 percent of the population where the organism is endemic, including much of the eastern and central United States. It is also widespread in South ......eriosclerosis, and type II diabetes; many patients contract cancer, and most die by the age of 50. Understanding how the WRN protein normally works to maintain genomic integrity could lead to new forms of treatment for cancer and age-related pathologies. "One reason we are particularly interested in WRN is ...Movement of chromosome in nucleus visualized
...s to do physical work. Because these molecules can contract muscles or move things around, they are called molecular motors. de Lanerolle and his colleagues were able to offer the Belmont laboratory a number of ways to test whether the chromosome movement was actin/myosin-dependent. When the researchers intr...Gene variant associated with obesity risk found with new statistical technique
...rements were gathered by FHS investigators under a contract from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute administered by Boston University. Researchers at the BUSM Genetics and Genomics Department, led by lead author and Assistant Professor Alan Herbert and senior author and Department Chair Michael Chris...First link of oral bacteria and preterm birth found in human
...om an infection during the pregnancy. Women can contract intrauterine infections vaginally while pregnant. Another pathway of infection has been suspected through the mouth in pregnant mothers where the oral bacteria enter the blood through bleeding gums. Hans said the infections play a bigger role in prem......tent of specific molecules in muscle. When muscles contract they use energy that is derived from food. It is a two-step process. The first step occurs in mitochondria, where the energy from molecules like glucose or fats is locked away in ATP (adenosine triphosphate). This ATP travels from the mitochondria to...