T cell's memory may offer long-term immunity to leishmaniasis
... of Nature Medicine, the Penn researchers describe how the discovery can offer immunity to leishmaniasis,...ut these new T cells, our next step is to find out how we can encourage the proliferation of central memory cells and stimulate them to fight disease." ...MIT: Recycling of scrapped electronics studied
...of toxic pollutants. The metrics focus not just on how much of a firm's incoming waste is processed but a...etention and value-added. Value retention measures how well the value of materials is maintained all the way from their first use to their recovery. Value ...Experts present new research on hot topics in aging at GSA's annual meeting in Washington, DC
...ources, as well as provide detailed information on how to access these data sources. November 19 at...oups of beneficiaries, and ultimately would and/or how would such changes affect the adequacy and equity goals of Social Security? November 20 at 8:30 a....World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
...e of reality. He and his co-recipients discovered how the nucleus of atoms works. Gross shares the prize with another of the conference participants Frank Wilczek, now a physics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was Gross's graduate student at Princeton University, when the pai...Emory chemists develop bacteria that may help decaffeinate coffee
...erested in. We can then learn about the enzyme and how it works," Gallivan says. "We hope to use a process known as 'directed evolution' to help speed up the enzyme to break down caffeine faster. Since the bacteria need theophylline for their survival, they're partners in the whole process." Eventually,...Study describes basic mechanism in cell growth control involving damaged DNA
...sive Cancer Center describe - for the first time - how some proteins interact to ensure that the cell doe...cable, the study's findings offer new knowledge on how cells rapidly degrade unnecessary and potentially harmful proteins for recycling. They also point to...Why do African-American women have more pregnancy problems?
...atients. Researchers have not typically looked at how the perspectives or principles of leaders at hospi...M Stephen M. Ross School of Business, will look at how leadership affects access to and improvements in prenatal care, as well as the leader's role in mana...Cells in retina found to behave like soap bubbles
...together seamlessly," said Carthew. "Understanding how cells fit together in space is an underappreciated...the number of cells in each aperture and looked at how the cells fit together. Again, the cell configurations correlated perfectly to those of bubbles of t...Researchers provide road map for generating B cells from stem cells
...d to treat patients, scientists will need to learn how to coax them to develop into the desired cell type...icago present the first rough road map, suggesting how to lead a hematopoietic stem cell down the narrowing path to becoming an antibody-producing B cell. ...New method identifies chromosome changes in malignant cells
...ells become malignant. The technique helps to show how cells modify their own genetic makeup and may allo... that identify thousands of genes at once and show how actively they are being used. They used advanced statistical techniques to analyze this data and acc...UF scientists have bionanotechnology recipe to find elusive bacteria
...s of bacteria are difficult to detect and to count how many bacteria are in a sample, scientists often have to "plate" it -- place the sample in a Petri dish and let the bacterial colonies grow for one to a few days before analysis. However, the bioconjugated nanoparticles found a single E. coli bacteriu...Environmental exposures before and after birth can harm children's lungs
... to ETS. "At this point we can only speculate how PAH exposure, in conjunction with ETS, causes respiratory damage," said Dr. Miller. "One possibility is that PAHs, which easily reach the fetus and damage DNA, affect the child's developmental programming, which then leaves the child's airways at ri...FSU scientist links iron imbalance to Parkinson's disease
...primary research objective is to better understand how trace metal imbalances, which are associated with neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, affect the molecular mechanisms that regulate gene expression." Levenson performed the mouse model portion of the study in collaboration wit...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
... published in The Hearing Journal. Information on how to enter next year's science writing award can be ...mouth.edu ) will present newly detailed studies on how the different kinds of vibrations in a baseball bat--from the "crack" to the "thunk"--can provide im...New study on smallpox in monkeys reveals tactics of a killer
...us attacks its victims. The findings shed light on how the virus caused mass death and suffering, and wil...eam of researchers did molecular-level analysis of how the smallpox infection altered gene expression patterns in the monkeys' blood cells. Dr. Relman used...Mitochondria findings may help beat wide range of disease
...very different membranes must join. Understanding how mitochondria accomplish this while maintaining the integrity of their compartments and the appropriate segregation of membranes and proteins is a fundamental question that the researchers sought to answer. McCaffery's team helped tackle this question...Estrogen protects male rats from aortic aneurysms
...re results between sexes. The ATVB paper describes how scientists in the Upchurch laboratory first perfus... "But understanding exactly what triggers them and how they develop could lead to an effective therapy someday. It also could help us identify people with ...Study in Royal Society journals presents evidence for inherited factors in homosexuality
...data analysis of a long-term study (over 20 years) how cannibalism may drive the Indonesian lady beetle populations. Particular types of dynamics: generation cycles have been observed in several different field and laboratory populations. These particular cycles are shown to occur in our Indonesian lady ...Highlights of American Anthropological Assoc. meeting
...ban": San Francisco is examined as a case study of how traditional concepts of urban versus suburban have...n, China and India is changing to become closer to how people imagine it in the "West". (6-7.45 p.m) Cure Claims and Clinical Trials: Global Phar......irst responders to inflammation and infection, and how those cells interact with the blood vessel lining ...e they fight disease. The Rochester team has shown how physical forces and patterns of blood flow are crucial to the process. When the sticking process go...