American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
... of cataract surgery Biomacromolecules A newly developed method for coating the intraocular lenses (IOLs) used in millions of cataract surgery procedures may prevent a common complication of cataract surgery, according to a report scheduled for the Aug. 13 issue of ACS Biomacromolecules , a monthly journa...Study begins to reveal clues to the cause and progression of sepsis
...evere sepsis. More than 30 percent of the subjects developed severe sepsis, of whom 26 percent died. To determine the inflammatory response in the participants with CAP, the researchers measured cytokine levels daily for the first week of hospitalization and then weekly thereafter. They found that 82 perce...Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
...searchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that easily could be m...pensive, Murugesan said, but the team has not yet developed a way to inexpensively mass produce the devices. The end goal is to print the paper using a roll-to-...Unravelling new complexity in the genome
...ring) and Timothy Hughes (Banting and Best, CCBR), developed a few years ago. This tool, which comprises tailored designed microarrays or gene chips and computer algorithms, allows the simultaneous measurement of thousands of alternative splicing events in cells and tissues. Until recently researchers studied ...Features of replication suggest viruses have common themes, vulnerabilities
... defense mechanisms of the host. " The virus has developed a very elegant strategy," says Ahlquist. "It creates for itself a new compartment for RNA synthesis, where it can collect its (constituent) components, organize successive steps of replication, and sequester these steps from other processes in the ce...Newly created cancer stem cells could aid breast cancer research
...ted with just 100 of these transformed cells, mice developed tumors that metastasized (spread to distant tissue... and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, Ince developed a recipe for a new chemically defined culture medium and managed to grow a different type of human b...Doernbecher Children's Hospital scientist earns coveted Javits award
...the potential of theunique research models we have developed - some of which are not usedanywhere else in the w...survivors of premature birth.Recently, Back's team developed the first animal model that reproducesthe major forms of brain damage that occur in premature infant...MIT creates 3-D images of living cell
CAMBRIDGE, MA - A new imaging technique developed at MIT has allowed scientists to create the first 3D images of a living cell, using a method similar to the X-ray CT scans doctors use to see inside the body. The technique, described in a paper published in the Aug. 12 online edition of Nature Met...High blood pressure, low energy -- a recipe for heart failure
...eagues report that mice born without any ERR alpha developed symptoms of heart failure when their hearts were forced to pump against high pressure. The hearts of normal mice took that pressure overload in stride and stayed healthy. Those contrasting outcomes suggest that heart health greatly depends on ERR alp...Abnormal fat metabolism underlies heart problems in diabetic patients
...to produce too much of this enzyme in their hearts developed defects in mitochondrial function which became worse when they were fasted a condition that, like diabetes, causes the heart to use lipids for fuel. A 16-hour fast caused significant problems with the mouse hearts' ability to pump blood, again impli...Scientists show that mitochondrial DNA variants are linked to risk factors for type 2 diabetes
...or on the project. In addition, the animal models developed in this study will open the door for future studies in which the effects of mitochondrial genome variation can be investigated on fixed nuclear genetic backgrounds. ...New textbook illuminates the close links between evolutionary and molecular biology
... molecular events and evolutionary principles have developed independently of one another. But with recent breakthroughs in fields such as genomics, developmental biology, human genetics, and biochemistry, it has become yet more evident that evolutionary principles guide biological phenomena at all levels, an...Swarming starlings help probe plasma, crowds and stock market
...tate to an ordered one. To crack this problem they developed a technique that combines an earlier study of the flocking behavior of large groups of birds and insects with information technology used to correlate information from a range of parallel signals. University of Warwick physicist Robert Wicks hit u...Rain forest protection works in Peru
...ind CLAS is an advanced signal processing approach developed by study lead Greg Asner. Our approach has improved over the past eight years, but relies on a core set of methods that have consistently worked, Asner said. We spent years developing them in Brazil, then went to Peru and completed this study in o...OHSU turns mouse into factory for human liver cells
...developments at OHSU," Pradhan said. "The products developed by Yecuris have the potential to ease one of the b... liver, and you can't predict how the compound you developed in the lab will be converted," Grompe said. "Often, it's not the drug that's toxic, but the resultin...European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...considers a proposal to be mature and sufficiently developed for final evaluation, the Committee will later recruit independent expert opinions. Then the proposal, supported by these evaluations, will be forwarded to the ESF Science Advisory Board. The Board will subsequently make recommendations to the ESF Go...New test improves detection of liver cancer
...rch centers in Beijing and Shanghai in China, have developed a test to detect liver cancer in an early stage. A... New blood test A new test for detecting HCC was developed by Xue-en Liu, Liesbeth Desmyter and colleagues under the supervision of Cuiying Chen (Chitty) in co...Sugar and spice and everything nice: Health differences in newborn girls and boys
...hers concluded that: the newborn female liver developed a greater and more rapid tissue acidosis compared to males during normothermic ischemia, which may be due in part to greater anaerobic glycolysis in females; and more rapid lactic acidosis in newborn female livers may result in greater metabol...Research aims to identify markers for menopausal women at risk for deadly blood clot
...yo Clinic researchers, led by Virginia Miller, has developed a novel concept that uses blood platelets to define thrombotic risk. The team is testing its theory as part of the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study (KEEPS). Miller is discussing the research at a conference being sponsored by the American Physi......p. But men treated between 1973 and 1979 who later developed cancer in the lung and several sites below the diaphragm (areas exposed during radiation treatment for testicular cancer) had poorer survival than patients whose first cancers were in the same area. Treatment regimens for testicular cancer used sin...