Study begins to reveal clues to the cause and progression of sepsis
...ability of the inflammatory response to sepsis. To gain a better understanding into the mechanisms behind the condition, the researchers conducted the Genetic and Inflammatory Markers of Sepsis study (GenIMS), which collected extensive clinical and laboratory data geared to help analyze the risks of a per...New, more direct pathways from outside the cell-to-cell nuclei discovered
...now study the kinds of external molecules that can gain entry to the nucleus through these newly defined pathways and how these materials influence the nucleic material and its processes," said Gavin....Edible fish feasts beats malaria
...can use the fish to limit mosquito populations and gain food and income from them too. "O. niloticus fish were so effective in reducing immature mosquito populations that there is likely to be a noticeable effect on the adult mosquito population in the area," Howard says. This control method is apparently......serve Earth across continents, through oceans, and gain a better understanding of ecological systems at multiple levels. In symposium 9, to be held at the Ecological Society of America Annual meeting, scientists will discuss current research practices involving remote sensing (use of satellites, airplanes...Experiment suggests limitations to carbon dioxide 'tree banking'
...on dioxide increases, then we might not have a net gain in carbon sequestration," said Oren, a professor of ecology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. "In order to actually have an effect on the atmospheric concentration of CO2, the results suggest a future need to fertiliz...In limiting life span, study finds booming bacteria innocent
... to have mutually beneficial relationships. People gain nutrients and energy with the aid of bacteria, and the microbes are provided with a buffered environment, carbohydrates, and other nutrients, the researchers noted. Since immune function is impaired with age, it might be expected that bacterial load ...Research team enlightens the reasons for severe blindness
...CA is therefore a good model which also enables to gain more knowledge over other difficultly treatable diseases in the long term. LCA itself is so far incurable. However, patients and doctors set their hopes high on gene therapy: since each type of LCA is caused by the mutation of a single gene, the af...New survey documents the headaches of computerized medicine
... staff, so respondents may not recognize their own gain in power, the authors wrote. Also: New kinds of errors may seem minor to these interviewees who seem confident that errors are most often caught before harm is done....Cell damage caused by brushing may help keep gums healthy
...getting thicker and healthier. Its the no pain, no gain theory the same as exercising. The research team, which also includes Dr. Kaori Amano, dental researcher, Kyorin University of Medicine in Japan, and Dr. James L. Borke, MCG physiologist, injected a fluorescent dye into the blood stream that can o...UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute partners with Abraxis BioScience
...e. This relationship allows both organizations to gain access to important research that may have the potential to change the way diseases are treated. Abraxis has an established history of developing innovative technology, said Dr. Leonard H. Rome, CNSI associate director and senior associate dean for...Success rates for prostate cancer depend on experience of surgeon
...of the National Cancer Institute . As the surgeons gain more experience performing the operation, called a radical prostatectomy, the chance that patients prostate cancer will reoccur goes down. The idea that more experienced surgeons perform more successful surgeries is a widely held belief. But there...Monell researchers find metabolic defect in liver that can lead to obesity
...fat and carbohydrates. These foods promote weight gain in humans and other animals, leading to a diet-induced obesity. The propensity to gain weight and become obese when consuming a high-fat diet is at least partially controlled by genes. ...Disease-free mosquito bred to disease-carrier can have all disease-free progeny
... genes in the mosquito germ cells. We needed to gain access to the cells in the reproductive germline to change the way traits are inherited, said Zach Adelman, assistant professor of entomology and a member of the Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Research Group at Virginia Tech ( www.vectorborne.ibphs....Losing weight after pregnancy -- diet and exercise better than diet alone
...es a Cochrane Systematic Review. Women naturally gain weight during pregnancy and many gradually lose it afterwards, but some women find it difficult to lose this additional weight. This retained body weight may be one factor that contributes to obesity among women. Many women are keen to find ways of r...A new plant-bacterial symbiotic mechanism promising
...hat signalling pathway Bradyrhizodium might use to gain entry to the plant and set off nodulation. The first observation was that the bacteria did not penetrate the roots of its host-plant by the hairs. It took advantage of crack zones comparable with wound areas. The set of results obtained from subsequ...Cancer cures could work for canines and humans
...e bioenergetics of canine tumours will allow us to gain a comparative understanding of human tumour metabolism. He said: We are using high throughput screening techniques to identify new biomarkers of prognostic significance in cancer. The approach involves using clinical samples from a tissue bank to car...Has science unearthed the Holy Grail of pain relief?
...organisms commonly called slime moulds in a bid to gain greater insight into these pain molecules, known as P2X receptors. In humans, P2X receptors look identical to one another and so scientists have had difficulty understanding how they function, said Dr Chris Thompson, who carried out the research wi...New use for a cell toxin found to inhibit survival proteins in cancer cells
...he 2-Methoxy antimycin inhibitor. This is called a gain of function mechanism and is counterintuitive to t...timycin, is the only Bcl-2 inhibitor reported with gain of function activity, which provides a therapeutic window between cancer cells with high expression ...Illinois-based study of energy crops finds miscanthus more productive than switchgrass
...of these three key attributes: 1. Miscanthus can gain greater amounts of photosynthetic carbon per unit of leaf area 2. Miscanthus has a greater leaf area 3. Miscanthus has a longer growing season. The research team measured the amount of gas exchanged on the upper canopy of Miscanthus leaves from pre......e been fortified with the goal of improving weight gain and productivity of cattle and other food animals, with little thought given to how these forages might affect horses, which often share the same types of pastures. In addition, the majority of the horses studied were under-exercised. They were left ...