Managing maternal depression during pregnancy presents significant challenge to clinicians
... May 18 Women who take antidepressants during the final trimester of pregnancy through delivery increase t...al tapering and cessation of drug treatment in the final weeks of pregnancy, but only after careful review and on a case-by-case basis. "We still don't know ...'Cool' blood stem cell research leads to licensing deal
...onship with Lifebank is exciting because it is the final step in seeing our scientific research through from idea to giving patients improved health or even life," Elliott added. The U of A researchers have presented the results of their work at international conferences. The U of A has patents pending on ...Rock on! Indiana limestone: NIST's first and latest SRM
...tal, windshields, tires, and transmission gears to final assembly and subsequent operation. Prosaic limestone is a critical natural resource. In addition to being a building material, it is used in the manufacture of lime for agricultural and chemical processes, cement and concrete, and iron and steel. NI...Secret of smallpox's success may lead to bioterror cure
...th the procedures of Project Bioshield. Though the final product may take a while to be produced and, one hopes, may never have to be used, Jacobs has a feeling now of years of research coming to fruition. "This is the result of work that we have been doing for 15 years now and I think we are really very c...BioMed Central applauds Wellcome's leadership on Open Access
...ed Central already deposits a copy of the official final version of every research article that it publishes with the appropriate Open Access archive. As a result, authors publishing with BioMed Central will automatically meet the requirements of the Wellcome policy, saving themselves the effort of having ...Elusive salamanders have role in developing new sampling models
... the management of flatwoods salamander habitat. A final component of the project is technology transfer, as this research is expected to produce results and a tool useful to scientists and others working with rare species. "In the third year of the project, we will be testing our model at Eglin Air Force ...New plant DNA libraries provides massive boost to world's plant researchers
... regions of DNA and exclude other regions from the final plant "library". The techniques used by the Warwick researchers remove this limitation and make the plant's entire DNA available to researchers. The new plant DNA libraries include: Aloe Vera - a plant with interesting medicinal properties and a DNA ...Royal Society elects Tom Curran as Fellow
...rve cells in the developing brain migrate to their final locations to form orderly layers. More recently, Dr. Curran has linked his interest in brain development to the studies of the molecular basis of cancer. Based on this work, he pioneered laboratory studies of a novel molecule called HhAntag to tre...New processing method reduces peanut allergenicity
...sing any adverse effects on sensory quality of the final product. "It is hoped that careful control of the process conditions may enable complete modification of allergenic proteins into non-allergenic and readily soluble proteins," says Yu. "This finding is good news to individuals who are allergic to pe...Researchers get first peek at amyloid's spine
...son said. "That was really the ah-ha moment." The final detailed structure is broadly consistent with other lower-resolution models, such as the two stacked beta sheets composed of the main chain of amino acids. The surprise came with the molecular side chains that give each amino acid its unique identity...Several minute intermediate stage in virus-cell fusion discovered; opportunity for drug development
...an persist for several minutes before adopting its final size, or (in rare cases) closing permanently. This 'intermediate stage,' as the scientists describe this time interval, was not known to exist for virus-cell fusion events. The net effect is that the invading virus is held up for a significant amoun......nce in cancer, said Hannon. "This is by no means a final answer about the role of miRNAs in cancer," he said. "But it's the first really definitive link where we can show with biological experiments that microRNAs can act as an oncogene." Hannon said that -- given the apparently central role miRNAs play in...Geneticists identify 'master switch' that causes female flies to behave like males
...al recognition of a mate by sight and smell to the final act of mating, courtship is mediated by a series of sensory cues passed between the male and female. And an animal's ability to detect those cues influences its behavior. In flies, as in most animals, including humans, the sensory organs of females a...World first: Scientists succeed in cloning human embryos from eggs matured in the lab
...ia a conventional method of nuclear transfer. "Our final goal is to use human therapeutic cloning for infertility treatment by creating artificial eggs and sperm for patients who are infertile because of absence or premature loss of eggs or sperm. We would do this by isolating embryonic stem cell lines fr...National Academies Keck Futures Initiative to co-sponsor life engineering symposium
...d the University of Oxford. This is the third and final follow-up conference to the 2003 Keck Futures conference on signaling. QB3 will host the symposium on life engineering, aimed at academic and industry scientists interested in synthetic biology, the design and construction of new biological entities ...European patent awarded for anti-cancer vaccine technology
... a key element of two vaccines that are now in the final stages of testing in people. Earlier this year the two companies developing vaccines, Merck and Co. and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), along with the University and several other parties agreed on a settlement involving patents and royalties related to the ...Salmon survival, cleaner hydropower focus of ORNL research
...ub-lethal stress than the conventional turbine." A final report for the C-start behavior study will be complete by September. In another ORNL-led study, Environmental Sciences Division researchers Mark Bevelhimer and Marshall Adams are examining blood and gill tissue from salmon that have passed through th...Viagra shows potential vasopressin-independent cGMP signaling in certain diabetes
...d over a short time period, only a small effect on final urine concentration was found. Long-term studies need to now be carried out, and combination therapy as well as maintenance of subjects on a low-sodium diet need to be tested. The paper adds: "metabolism of sildenafil citrate between human and rat ...Stolen gene allows insect virus to enter cells
... that the f gene stays quiet until the third and final stage of a maggot's development, then begins to produce F proteins, which persist into adulthood. " f seems to be developmentally regulated, like a lot of Drosophila genes," says Blissard. Exactly what role the F protein plays in fruit flies rema...... early as possible. We will no longer be mailing final programs and abstract books prior to the meeting. If you find yourself in absolute need of one please contact Carrie Patterson at cpatterson@asmusa.org and we will do our best to accommodate you based on a limited supply. Please note for your cal...