Stanford cooling tool may improve performance of athletes, soldiers
...rsonnel and others who work in extreme heat. "We literally cool the body from the inside out, rather than from the outside in, which is the conventional method," explains Senior Research Scientist Dennis Grahn, who developed the cooling device with H. Craig Heller, the Lorry I. Lokey/Business Wire Professor ...Coke versus Pepsi: It's all in the head
...ortant medical implications, they wrote. "There is literally a growing crisis in obesity, type II diabetes, and all their sequelae that result directly from or are exacerbated by overconsumption of calories. It is now strongly suspected that one major culprit is sugared colas," they wrote. Besides the health i...Mystery unwrapped: Texas A&M team uncovers mummy secrets
...ining ancient Egyptian mummies may have unwrapped literally some of the mysteries that embalmers used to preserve bodies more than 3,000 years ago. Mahlon "Chuck" Kennicutt II, MoonKoo Kim and Yaorong Qian of Texas A&M's College of Geosciences, along with colleagues from the University of Alexandria, hav...IC-medtech licenses promising cancer therapeutic from Summa Health System
...o a new flow of self-destruction in which the cell literally cuts itself into small pieces. This discovery was the first of its kind and to this point, cells were considered to die only by apoptosis (programmed cell death) or necrosis (toxic cell death or injury.)" According to Tom Miller, CEO of IC-...U-M researcher examines the cell's housekeeping habits
...al house-cleaning in the cell is called autophagy literally self-eating and it is now considered the second form of programmed cell death (PCD). Apoptosis, the first kind of programmed cell death to be characterized, is now also known as Type I PCD. Genes governing Type II PCD, autophagy, have been identif...New study links low fish supply to increased bushmeat hunting
...ame resources are not sustainable, and species are literally disappearing from the reserves." Conservation groups, fisheries researchers and African leaders have blamed subsidized foreign fleets for helping to accelerate the downturn in the fish supply. The study notes that the European Union (EU) maintain......emergence of a whole bunch of anatomical features, literally from head to toe," Bramble says. "We have a hypothesis that gives a functional explanation for how these features are linked to the unique mechanical demands of running, how they work together and why they emerged at the same time." Humans are poor...Acid-resistant bug doesn't give in to alcohol either
...ommon and widespread nature of the organism. "It's literally garden-variety," he said. "Acetobacter clings to plant surfaces in the wild. For example, a big part of winemaking is excluding the grape skins from the wine because the bug lives there." Plants, microorganisms, and their proteins are the bases for...Isotron licenses ORNL cancer treatment technology
... procedure could be used to more effectively treat literally thousands of patients with cancer, including brain tumors, some of which today have five-year survival rates of less than 1 percent," said Manfred Sandler, a cardiologist and chief executive officer of Isotron. "So we see this as an extremely signifi...Scientists solve the mystery of how Botox attacks nerves and eliminates wrinkles
...e shown is that part of the targeted SNARE protein literally wraps itself around the botulinum A enzyme, using a large portion of the enzyme's surface for specific interactions," Brunger noted. "That's the novel finding in our study." It turned out that the SNARE protein was actually bound to more than two-do...Dwarf mistletoe reveals its sexual secrets
... U.S.) are dispersed by birds. Indeed, "mistletoe" literally means "turd on a twig." This refers to the fact that offspring of these parasitic plants start to grow on a new tree host after being eaten and deposited by a bird, complete with their own kick-start fertilizer. But the dwarf mistletoe takes sp...'Casanova' field crickets - live fast, die young
...eir promiscuity and reducing their longevity. They literally knocked themselves out trying to impress female crickets," he says. "For humans this might seems counterproductive because we don't want to die young we want to live long lives. But for animals the goal isn't living longer it's to reproduce."...Healthy mix of GI tract microbes are key to preventing allergies and asthma
...rgen used didn't matter. The immune responses were literally identical," Huffnagle says. "It confirms our earlier findings that gut microflora are the key to maintaining a balanced immune response, that changing the composition of microflora in the gut predisposes animals to allergic airway disease, and that a...Urban ecology study witnessing the birth of a 'designer ecosystem'
...situation, because the development of the city has literally been happening as we watch," said ASU Life Sciences Professor Nancy Grimm, CAP LTER's other principal investigator. "We've made an assault on understanding the structure and function of the urban ecosystem on numerous fronts. From air quality to bird...Protein transformation gives new twist to medical research
...e and turning into a jaw-like molecule that almost literally chews up the cell wall, thus allowing release of its progeny. It's like one of those transformer toys that you twist and they become something quite different from the original in shape and form, noted Sacchettini, whose group worked out the detail...EB and IUPS - Where cures of tomorrow can be seen in the science of today
...ughout the United States and across the world. In literally thousands of presentations, symposia, workshops, and poster sessions, they share information across the boundaries of their own fields and present the newest scientific concepts and discoveries shaping medical advances for today and the future. The 2...Born to run? Capacity for aerobic exercise linked to risk of heart disease
...ze oxygen efficiently, the high-capacity rats were literally born to run. "We don't train the rats to build up their exercise capacity," says Koch, an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation in the Medical School. "At about 11 weeks of age, we introduce the rats to the treadmill and run th...A gene's fist 'kiss' sets off that affair known as puberty
...sion of "It takes two to tango," whereby a signal literally gets turned on by a molecule that is produced by a gene aptly named KiSS-1. The couple a biochemical equivalent to Adam and Eve makes its sudden appearance in a region of the brain called the hypothalamus just as puberty begins, according to a st...Transgenic plants remove more selenium from polluted soil than wild plants, new tests show
...orning trained workers swept through the fields to literally nip any flowers in the bud, and that netting and buried chicken wire were used to keep wildlife away from the plants. "One of the challenges in developing transgenic plants for remediation is engineering them in such a way that the risk of gene tran...Marsh-dwelling mole gives new meaning to the term 'fast food'
...ey animals and gulp them down with a speed that is literally too fast for the human eye to follow. It takes a car driver about 650 milliseconds to hit the brake after seeing the traffic light ahead turn red. The star-nosed mole, operating in the Stygian darkness of its burrow, can detect the presence of a tast...