Running not swimming or biking is best kind of loading exercise for childrens bone growth
... mechanical loading," he adds. Again, it's unclear how desensitization of bone cells occur, but it's an area ripe for further study. A recent paper with his colleague, Alexander G. Robling, "Designing exercise regimens to increase bone strength," dealt with desensitization and age-related effects of exer...Research out this week helps us understand basics of how neurons communicate
...s us understand the basic mechanism that underlies how neurons communicate," said Amy Harkins, Ph.D., ass...cate with one another. The research is teaching us how a very integral part of our cellular structure works." Communication between nerve cells occurs when...University of Oregon professor wins 2004 Spiers Medal
...ide." Richmond's findings have implications for how we understand many important processes in our live..." Bain says. "This is at the core of understanding how proteins fold, and how proteins and enzymes interact with the membrane that surrounds the cells in o...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...his study by the Kentucky Ambulatory Network shows how using the methods of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey can help to establish the representativeness of a new PBRN, while beginning the study of topics relevant to participating clinicians....Most promising clinical uses for stem cells from fat agreed on by international society
...ns. Today concludes scientific sessions exploring how adipose tissue, or fat, can be an abundant source ...r adipose stem cells in order to better understand how they differentiate into other cell types and what factors they secrete. In developing its cons...Irwin Rose wins 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
... now possible to understand at the molecular level how modification by attachment of ubiquitin results in breakdown of unwanted proteins inside cells. In addition, it is now known that other modifiers, similar to ubiquitin, are used by the cell to regulate proteins in many ways. These findings are playin...Marine Biological Laboratory summer investigator wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...have focused their research on learning more about how cells make proteins, until recently few have explored how cells go about discarding proteins, and the impact that process has on disease. More than twenty-...University of Edinburgh hosts European conference on childhood disability
... practice for children with disability and discuss how best to overcome the barriers they face in areas s...em against emotional abuse. Delegates will discuss how we as professionals can make best use of our own learning in order to offer disabled children the mo...New genetic tools provide clues to the effects of exercise and diet on obesity, diabetes
...is in chronically untrained muscle and clues as to how exercise reverses these effects." Editors note: Hittel is speaking at the American Physiological Society's 2004 Intersociety Meeting, "The Integrative Biology of Exercise," Oct. 6-9 in Austin. Information about the meeting can be found at ( http:...Researchers find chemosignal that encourages women's sexual desire
...ants. Ideally, such a study would also demonstrate how these effects would have increased the evolutionary fitness of individuals who used this system of social communication during human evolution," McClintock explained. Other research suggests that women living in early societies produced chil...After flu exposure, mild exercise protects mature mice from dying
...ot of in vitro studies, but we wanted to study now how exercise affected animals against a real infectiou...symptoms appeared, exercise was stopped, to mirror how most people react once they come down with flu-like symptoms. The mice were nave, that is, they prev...Interactive health information system to detect Japanese encephalitis in Asia
...e and control of disease. It also will demonstrate how effective use of communication and information technology can save lives, and support health care even in remote areas." Health managers also can use the system to analyze information about confirmed JE cases or suspected encephali...Bugs in the gut could play key role in understanding human disease and drug toxicity
Understanding how microbes in the gut interact with the body could l...ay in Nature Biotechnology , researchers describe how microbes in the gut form the second largest metabolic 'organ' in the body and play a key role in dis...The PSA bounce Does it have clinical significance?
... bouncing PSA means for a patient's prognosis, and how or if to offer further treatment. "Because a steady rise in PSA can mean that cancer has recurred, physicians often interpret a bounce as the possibility that the cancer may still exist after treatment," explained Eric M. Horwitz, M.D., clinical dir...Toward a better understanding of taste and smell impairments
...and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) to study how inflammation affects our senses of taste and smell...ory Clinical Research Center (CCRC) to investigate how inflammation contributes to clinical changes in smell and taste. Information gained from the studies...Botulism bug says no to nitric oxide, provides key to molecule's role in human cell signaling
...um for the journal Science. The paper also details how evolution transformed one of nature's simplest mol...higher animals. It also offers an explanation for how the decades-old practice of treating meat with sodium nitrite prevents life-threatening food poisoni...U-M scientists see ubiquitin-modified proteins in living cells
...ion," Kerppola says. "We're interested in learning how this works." In their PNAS paper, Kerppola and Fang describe how ubiquitin latched onto Jun - a protein involved in cell growth and gene transcription and moved Jun...Component of volcanic gas may have played a significant role in the origins of life on Earth
...Biology at Scripps Research. "But the question is, how do you couple them together?" Ghadiri and Luke ...-What We Know, and What We Don't The question of how life originated is one of the most interesting gaps in our knowledge--interesting perhaps because we...Yale scientists find cooperative RNA switches in nature
...cations Breaker's research, testing theories about how life began, led to the synthesis of "RNA switches" that respond to various target compounds, including several molecules of basic metabolism. They speculated that, if an RNA World theory were true, then RNA molecules most likely would make great mole...... the origins and manifestations of mental illness; how people think, learn and remember; and the links be...ersity of Colorado The importance of understanding how social information influences behavior is highlighted by recent, high profile shootings in which una...