X-ray images help explain limits to insect body size
...he passageways that lead from the body core to the head and to the legs. They reasoned that these orifices... the largest size of currently living beetles. The head data predicted an unrealistically large, foot-long beetle. In contrast, the leg data predicted a bee...Brain blood flow gives clues to treating depression
...cerebral (brain) blood flow, explained Omer Bonne, head of inpatient psychiatry and associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel. Clinical improvement in depression is accompanied by diverse changes in cerebral blood flow, according ...UF, French scientists seek test to detect gene doping in athletes
... gene-based doping, said Theodore Friedmann, M.D., head of the agencys panel on genetic doping and director of the gene therapy program at the University of California, San Diego. It sounds futuristic, but experts say its only a matter of time. Unscrupulous athletes began showing an interest in gene do...First case of successful ovarian tissue transplantation between two, nonidentical sisters
...(Thursday 2 August) [1]. Professor Jacques Donnez, head of the department of gynaecology and professor and chairman at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, led the team that carried out the work [2]. In 1990, when she was 20, doctors treated Teresa Alvaro for beta-thalassemia an in......h damage to reputations and economic loss," former head of the Regional Veterinary Laboratory at EMAI, Dr Keith Walker, said. "The DNA test provides an avenue for genetically smarter breeding programs." The breed society is taking advantage of reduced rate testing by being responsible for administerin...New UD tissue-engineering research focuses on vocal cords
...collaborating on the project is Dr. Robert Witt, a head and neck oncologist at Christiana Care Health System, in Newark, Del. Witt will provide clinical expertise in vocal cord pathology. The research partnership was established through the Center for Translational Cancer Research, which is directed by Ma...MIT model could predict cells' response to drugs
...urger, MIT professor of biological engineering and head of the department. Lauffenburger is senior author of a paper on the new model that will appear in the Aug. 2 issue of Nature. The model is based on similarities in the signaling pathways cells use to process information. Those pathways translate ce...Gene-transcription machinery seen poised for action, held in check until needed
...ical steps required to attract and assemble at the head end of a gene the molecular machinery needed to transcribe that gene to put to work the information it encodes. Now, a new study led by researchers at The Wistar Institute suggests that the gene-transcription machinery, once in place, can remain pois...New joint replacement material developed at MGH put to first clinical use
... and found that long-term friction of the implants head against the polyethylene-lined joint socket would break off small particles of polyethylene. The bodys immune system reacted against these foreign particles, eventually destroying adjacent bone tissue and causing the implant to loosen a condition c...A novel molecular dictator 'with a conscience' discovered
...as angioplasty. "While the most effective way to head off restenosis is a drug-coated stent, the drugs that sit on these stents inhibit the growth of good cells as well as the bad. If you had to have catheter intervention to re-open an occluded artery, for sustained symptom-free benefit you would be h...Fruit fly research may 'clean up' conventional impressions of biology
...t defines which part of the embryo will become the head and which the backside of the fly. The team's findings indicate that two neighboring nuclei can determine their different places and functions within the embryo accurately if the concentration of Bicoid between them varies by only about 10 percent ...Bull's-eye -- Programs targeting math, science teacher shortage may get boost
...ce teacher-training programs. UH already has a head start with its teachHOUSTON teacher-preparation program that is modeled after the successful UTeach format and is the pilot program for future replications outside the UT system. To help urban schools attract and retain qualified personnel by immers...Co-operation between GSF and clinic improves outlook for sarcoma patients
...n the areas of immunobiology and cell biology. The head of the Clinical Co-operation Group Hyperthermia, Prof. Dr Rolf Issels, has been working at GSF, since the mid-80s, on the use of local, deep hyperthermia as a cancer therapy. From the beginning, tumours of soft tissues and bones, which start from the...Chitin from lobster shell shows great healing and bio-stimulant properties
...itin, states Professor Carlos Andrs Peniche Covas, head of the Biopolymers Research Group, from the Biomaterials Centre of the University of Havana. This group is doing research into chitin and chitosan extraction from such waste, in collaboration with the Spanish Centre for Scientific Research (CSIC), th...Adding folic acid to flour significantly reduces congenital malformations
...al and learning disabilities. Dr. De Walss work as head of a team of a dozen Canadian researchers appears today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The neural tube is the basis of the embryos nervous system. Poor development of the neural tube, which is sometimes due to a lack of folic acid, can res...Aphids make 'chemical weapons' to fight off killer ladybirds
...yrosinase, which is stored in the muscles of their head and thorax. In the event of a predator attack this enzyme in the muscles comes into contact with the glucosinolates in the blood, catalysing a violent chemical reaction which releases mustard oil. The research team from the UK and Norway confirmed...Scientists identify 2 distinct Parkinson's networks
... to carry out everyday tasks. David Eidelberg, MD, head of the Center for Neurosciences at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, and his colleagues measured and quantified this network of brain regions during a five-year study of newly diagnosed Parkinsons patients who agreed to be followed severa...Sea anemone genome provides new view of our multi-celled ancestors
...ia, Berkeley's Center for Integrative Genomics and head of a team reporting the analysis in the July 6 iss...rint for animals." According to Rokhsar, program head for computational genomics at the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in Walnut Cree...Faulty cell membrane repair causes heart disease
...ical Research Chair in Molecular Physiology and is head of the department and a UI professor of neurology. The UI team initially found that young mice that lacked dysferlin showed no heart damage, which is consistent with what is seen in humans with dysferlin mutations. However, a case study describing ...Antibody linked to MS significantly higher in spinal fluid of blacks
...uthor Anne Cross, M.D., professor of neurology and head of the neuroimmunology section. "What's different in MS patients is that they make IgG in the central nervous system. We can determine that this is the case by using the IgG index." Working at the John L. Trotter MS Center at Washington University, ...