Fat horses face health problems
...a. And just like people, it appears as though the culprits are over-eating and lack of exercise. This study documented that this is an extremely important problem in horses that has been under-reported, said Dr. Craig Thatcher, a professor in the VMRCVMs Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences (DLACS)...NIH awards VBI, Mayo Clinic $2.4M to study chronic rhinosinusitis
...ore precisely which products of Alternaria are the culprits and how we can provide better treatment for patients with this difficult disease."...Gene mutations linked to hereditary lung disease
...tists at Johns Hopkins have identified the genetic culprits that trigger a hereditary form of a fatal lung disease. The findings, published in the March 29, 2007 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, may provide new directions in diagnosis and treatment for families that inherit genes for the disease......tem cells brandishing epigenetic marks as the main culprits in cancer. Wiping out tumours for good, some biologists believe, depends on uprooting these wayward stem cells. A team in the Netherlands has uncovered a key protein that could stop these stem cells from becoming malignant. This is a hot topic in ...Tracing the pathways of neurofibromatosis
...r programmed cell death and DNA repair two common culprits in cancer. "Our results raise the possibility that neurofibroma formation in individuals with neurofibromatosis might result in part from a Ras-PI3K-Akt-dependent inhibition of FOXO," Stern said. Stern said the project required an enormous amount...Researchers barcode DNA of Venice museum's vast fungi collection
... it is in criminal forensics, to identify possible culprits and to understand how they were introduced," said Garbelotto. "This provides governments with pivotal information needed to avoid repeated introductions of pathogens." Garbelotto is working with Italian mycologist Giovanni Robich and Luca Mizzan, c...Researchers to study why dead zone returned to Lake Erie
...ake Erie case, researchers will examine three main culprits and the relationships among them: excess phosphorous; zebra mussels; and global warming. Of the three causes, nitrogen from farm runoff and treatment plants is the most well known. The nitrogen in fertilizer causes algae blooms that sink to the bot...Boat paint to blame for Norfolk Broads' desolation
One of the main culprits behind an environmental catastrophe that desolated one of Britain's most important wildlife habitats has finally been identified in a study led by researchers from UCL (University College London) and Acroloxus Wetlands Consultancy Ltd, Canada. In t...Tiny airborne particles are a major cause of climate change
...rticles, known as aerosols, may be one of the main culprits causing climate change having, on a local scale, an even greater impact than the greenhouse gases effect. Attempts to understand how these particles influence clouds have generated many uncertainties. A new paper by Dr. Ilan Koren of the Weizmann In...MIT sheds light on how tumor cells form
...neuploid tumors. "It's puzzling that the suspected culprits - the aneuploidy-inducing checkpoint mutations - are rarely found at the scene of the crime, in the aneuploid tumors," Draviam said. That lingering question prompted Draviam and her colleagues to study how two other key molecules - a known tumor supp...Pollution trackers hit the road to pinpoint airborne culprits
...mog formation; and airborne particles -- the chief culprits for health effects. "Current estimates of air pollutant emissions are highly uncertain," said Marr, who developed a fuel-based motor vehicle emission inventory for central California while a doctoral student at the University of California (UC) at Be...Subsidized killing of carnivores fails to protect US sheep industry
...in wholesale prices of lamb and wool, are the real culprits behind the industry's drop-off. As evidence, the study points to a 141-percent increase in wages, 23 percent decrease in lamb prices, and 82 percent decrease in wool prices during the period in which sheep numbers were reduced by 85 percent. "This i...New genetic discovery explains 74 percent cases of age-related macular degeneration
.... The investigators decided to look for additional culprits and focused on genes in the same immune response pathway that contains Factor H. Their genetic analysis of 1,300 people quickly identified Factor B as the major modifier of the disease. The discovery makes good biological sense: while Factor H is an...Contagious obesity? Identifying the human adenoviruses that may make us fat
...t overeating and lack of exercise weren't the only culprits in the rapidly widening human girth. Since then, Ad-36 has been found to be more prevalent in obese humans. In the current study, Whigham et al. attempted to determine which adenoviruses (in addition to Ad-36 and Ad-5) might be associated with obesit...UIC chemists characterize Alzheimer's plaque precursor
...s called amyloid-beta are presumed to be the toxic culprits in the senile plaques found in the brain with Alzheimer's. But there is increasing evidence that even smaller assemblies of amyloid-beta found prior to formation of pre-fibrils are the real nerve-killers. Scientists have been frustrated that electron...Studies on human genome variation provide insight into disease
...veal its secrets easily. The real disease-causing culprits can have many silent partners. We need to know the relationships of all these partners to focus on real disease mutations and to minimize attention on the innocent gene variants that colour the humanity of life." Contact: Lon R. Cardon, Ph....Gene makes muscles in the obese store more fat
...ey also selected a few candidate genes (they chose culprits based on earlier research) to examine by a different method. In both cases, they arrived at the same gene, called steroyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1), which was known to slow down fat burning and promotes fat storage. "We found that obesity was associat...Gaining ground in the race against antibiotic resistance
...ia such as Pseudomonas and Acinetobacter -- common culprits in resistant, hard-to-treat hospital infections. And it is almost identical to a lactamase gene found in Bacillus anthracis, which causes anthrax. Together, the four mutations identified by the group increased the enzyme's efficiency at inactivating...Hurricane aftermath: Infectious disease threats from common, not exotic, diseases
...ikely from cuts, abrasions and wounds. The primary culprits will be Staphylococcus and Streptococcus bacteria, both of which can generally be treated with available antibiotics. Diseases caused by consumption of contaminated food or water as well as diseases caused by mosquitoes or other insect bites are als...Study shows big game hunters, not climate change, killed off sloths
...me hunters and not the last ice age are the likely culprits in the extinction of giant ground sloths and other North American great mammals such as mammoths, mastodons and saber-toothed tigers, says a University of Florida researcher. Determining whether the first arrival of humans or the warm-up of the Amer...