Avian cholera could spread from Great Salt Lake
...tocida, they die quickly, sometimes within 6 to 12 hours after infection. Bacteria spread by dead and dying birds can subsequently infect healthy birds. As a result, avian cholera can sweep quickly through a wetland and kill thousands of birds in a single outbreak. Avian cholera outbreaks occur primarily ...How the sea urchin grows new spines
...the broken spine and up to the growing end. Within hours of arriving in place, the amorphous material, which is composed of densely packed, but disorganized molecules, turns to calcite crystal in which the molecules line up evenly in lattice formations. Working with graduate student Yael Politi and Eug...Heart responds to fasting by remodeling vital energy-producing components
...id, levels decreased by 20 percent after only four hours of fasting and for the other, levels dropped a remarkable 40 percent after twelve hours of fasting. The changes in phospholipids occurred mainly in the mitochondria, which are highly abun...How city dwellers and living things put the green into our urban open spaces
... of Birmingham and Bristol, including producing 60 hours of video footage recording social and ecological changes through the year. Their report describes in detail, among other things, the benefits of interaction between people, cre...Patients' own stem cells used to cure incontinence
...a. Many patients have no urinary leakage within 24 hours after the 15- to 20-minute outpatient procedure. Stress incontinence affects nearly 15 million people primarily women around the world. It occurs when the urethra narrows or becomes otherwise abnormal, or when the sphincter muscles that help open a...Oral saline spray may slash spread of exhaled pathogens
...al administration of a safe saline spray every six hours might slash exhalation of germs in this group by an average 72 percent. The researchers, at Harvard University and biotechnology firms Pulmatrix and Inamed, report results from their clinical study of 11 healthy males this week on the web site of t...Citrus shows promise for certain childhood cancer
...ll amounts of concentrated limonoids and all in 48 hours or less. They tested this in several ways. First, the limonoids were put through a test to see whether they would quench the oxygen radicals cancer-causing substances that are destructive to normal cells. The limonoids ap...Thyroid treatment can trigger homeland security detectors
... specifically: FDG PET scan less than 24 hours Bone and thyroid scans 3 days Cardiac exams with thallium up to 30 days Iodine therapy up to 95 days Dr. Zuckier supports the recommendations made by the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that hospit...UT Southwestern initiating trials in humans for ricin vaccine
...exposure. There is no antidote after the first few hours of exposure, and because symptoms do not appear until later and often mimic other illnesses, individuals often do not know if they have been exposed until it is too late for treatment, Dr. Vitetta said. Because castor beans are readily available, pub...Fussy Baby Network answers cries for help in community
...ese infants have colic--crying for more than three hours a day at least three days a week for three weeks. Their parents often are frustrated and feel helpless trying to soothe their infant. The Fussy Baby Network is designed to assess the infant, support parents and reduce family stress. "Parents are ...Argo robotic instrument network now covers most of the globe
...and to relay the information to satellites. Within hours the information is transmitted to the Global Telecommunications System and is freely available on the Internet. The floats then sink again to begin a new cycle. The developments leading to Argo's ability to operate globally were made in the ...UT Southwestern researchers trace how virus that causes AIDS spreads following oral exposure
... infection of humans only if they are given within hours of exposure to the virus. Researchers hope the study further identifies one of the major problems facing the formulation of a vaccine: any vaccine needs to overcome the rapid spread of the virus from the site of infections to tissues throughout the ...Purdue research offers hope for canine, human spinal injuries
...lyethylene glycol (PEG), if administered within 72 hours of serious spinal injury, can prevent most dogs fr...of age were treated with a PEG injection within 72 hours of their injury as an addition to the standard veterinary therapy for spinal injury. This standard t...Tracking orangutans from the sky
... two years, with aerial counts garnered in only 72 hours the authors calibrated and refined their aerial survey results and were able to directly assess the distribution and size of orangutan populations throughout the whole of Sabah (an area of 72,000 square kilometers). The authors attribute the 35% de...Stanford study links obesity to hormonal changes from lack of sleep
...r example, found that people who sleep two to four hours a night were 73 percent more likely to be obese th...n leptin in people who consistently slept for five hours compared with those who slept for eight. Mignot said the results were consistent regardless of parti...What have scientists learned since Mount St. Helens erupted?
...lcano." He says that arriving on the scene within hours to days after a disturbance event is paramount for understanding both initial disturbance severity and long-term biological responses. Of particular importance is documenting the types, amounts, and distribution of surviving organisms. Scientists le...Gene therapy reduces skin cancer to sunburn in mouse model
.... They then exposed the mice to UV light for a few hours over several days. Five months after the last exposure long after Xpa mutant mice would normally develop skin lesions the treated mice merely had sunburn. The skin cells surrounding the site of the injection in the treated Xpa mutant mice wer...Baby songbirds and human infants learn sounds in similar ways
...gan imitating, they were observed for six or seven hours a day. "It's very difficult when more than two birds are singing together to tell which bird is producing which song," says Liu. To do so, he spoke into the microphone to identify which bird was singing. The recorded songs were then analyzed with a ...UCSB makes important advances in studies of retinal detachment
...taken in which elevated oxygen was administered 24 hours after creating a detachment, thus more closely mimicking conditions commonly encountered in human patients. The results were published by theUCSB scientists in American Journal of Ophthalmology last summer. In this case,neuronal cell death and nerve ...Femtosecond laser technique opens new opportunities for research on neural regeneration
.... Most of the severed axons regrew within 12 to 24 hours after the laser surgery. Preliminary observations indicated that after an axon is cut, the nerve cell sprouts a new axon from the severed end that regrows to reach the target muscle. In some cases, however, it appears that the two severed ends reatta...