UC faculty members break new ground while treading gently on the Alaskan tundra
...n the project is to transcribe and organize the 20 hours of video tapes. The team has two graduate students working on the project but need more. One grad student is still in Alaska. Eisner, Cuomo and Hinkel will be presenting their findings at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco in ...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...hers. "This procedure can be completed within six hours and has the potential to be applied for routine surveillance of HAV in fresh produce and environmental samples." (X.C. Shan, P. Wolffs, M.W. Griffiths. 2005. Rapid and quantitative detection of hepatitis A virus from green onion and strawberry rins...Scientists develop life-saving chrome
...coating showed little attack even after almost 200 hours immersion. The chromic acid anodised components were pitted after this time and so failed the test, while the bare simple was extremely corroded. The team used scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to identify the nature of the attack, general or locali...Neurologix announces positive results of gene therapy clinical trial in Parkinson's disease
...cedure, and all patients were discharged within 48 hours of the procedure. About Neurologix Neurologix, Inc. is a development-stage company, which through its subsidiary, Neurologix Research, Inc., is engaged in the research and development of proprietary treatments for disorders of the brain and central...Researchers: Deep sleep short-circuits brain's grid of connectivity
... regions of the brain - regions that during waking hours are a bustling grid of neural dialogue - apparently lose their ability to communicate effectively, causing consciousness to fade. Writing today (Sept. 30) in the journal Science, a team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor ...Nocturnal dialysis improves heart disease in patients with end-stage kidney failure
...ysis (about six sessions per week, approximately 8 hours per session) has previously shown to improve blood...he thrice-weekly conventional dialysis (about four hours per session) have complications such as abnormal thickness of the heart, low energy and retention of...Fast, accurate detection of explosives on airport luggage possible
...net-sized machines that require samples to undergo hours of intensive preparation before testing, which can be a problem if officials need to test a large number of containers quickly. "A mass spectrometer is one of the best tools we've got, but scientists have known for years that without a way to streaml...North Shore-LIJ receives FDA approval for new drug application to manufacture PET scan drug
...the same day it is manufactured, often within just hours of production -- creating a challenge for transporting the drug over any distance. The drug strength produced depends on the capacity of the cyclotron. The greater the strength that can be made, the more drug is available for PET imaging studies and ......nd of the first of four larval stages, or 10 to 12 hours into their normal two-week lifespan. When the researchers restored the vav-1 gene just in the pharynx so worm larvae could eat, survive and grow to adulthood, the worms rarely were able to produce offspring and their 50-second defecation cycle bec...... enzymes and then delivers a dose of pesticide 4-5 hours later to kill the newly defenceless insect. The technique uses piperonyl butoxide (PBO), a chemical derived originally from the sassafras tree and used for many years in laboratories to enhance the effectiveness of other chemicals. The PBO binds to t...Stroke treatment a step closer after trial
...e to be administered within the first few critical hours through an infusion over a short period of time, perhaps as little as three days. Dr Tyrrell, who is based at Hope Hospital in Salford, added: "Stroke is a devastating condition that affects many thousand of people so the development of any effective...Study: 'Run-down feeling' with illness may last longer as people age
...ed, young adults showed signs of improvement eight hours after LPS treatment and fully recovered by the next day, but the aged animals still were50 to 60 percent depressed," Johnson said. "We've completed follow-up studies that show aged animals are still depressed three to four days later." Johnson and co...Russian 'surrogate' alcohols are a killer
...n alcohol sales. "Hard liquor became available 24 hours a day," said Shkolnikov. "Consequently, from 1992 to 1994, life expectancy decreased by 4.7 years for men and 3.4 years for women, largely due to accidents and violence, alcohol-related causes, and cardiovascular deaths." For the current study, rese...Creeping crinoids! Sea lilies crawl to escape predators, new video shows
...was lacking. Then, while going through hundreds of hours of video shot during submersible dives made more than a decade ago, the researchers came across footage that offered an explanation for why sea lilies might get up and go. The videos showed sea urchins lurking in gardens of sea lilies, some of which ...Gene therapy may protect normal tissues during radiation retreatment for lung cancer
...received an intratracheal injection of MnSOD-PL 24 hours before a course of 14 Gy irradiation, while a seco...and the other received an injection of MnSOD-PL 24 hours prior to radiation exposure. The researchers found that in mice that received the initial 14 Gy dose......tion was approximately 80% less than expected (1-2 hours versus 8-12 hours for a normal arrest response). Further work is needed to delineate the mechanism of this telomere r...More males chimps means more territorial patrols, study shows
...e chimp society, he said. "They take up about two hours out of a 12-hour work day," Mitani said. "That is not trivial exercise in terms of energy expended." Chimpanzees live in fission-fusion societies. This means that like humans living in a town, chimps form cliques and aren't all together in one plac...Stimulating the brain makes the fingers more sensitive
...rTMS can increase finger sensitivity for up to two hours after treatment ends, and that this change corresponds to an increase in the size of the brain map representing the finger. rTMS is applied with an electromagnetic coil in the shape of a figure-eight, placed on the scalp directly over the targeted p...When do mosquitoes prefer a blood banquet, or a sugar feast? Three genes make the call
...strain" in the lab. They reared the colony with 15 hours of light a day. Then they made half of the adult females enter diapause by switching them to nine hours of light a day to mimic early autumn conditions. Denlinger and Robich compared the genes expressed i......lar vision began in as little as 30 minutes to two hours and was similar to normal in about four hours. The researchers also found that blocking protein synthesis in the brain with drugs did not affect recovery. Such protein synthesis is necessary if neuronal regrowth is required for recovery, indicating t...