Geisinger scientist seeks cure for Lou Gehrig's disease, creating device to find treatment
... ... Lou Gehrig's disease-or ALS or amyotrophi...Picky eating potentially perilous for bats
... ... Additional analyses show that dietary breadth is not related to either geographic range size or wing structure, characteristics pr...Adding folic acid to flour significantly reduces congenital malformations
... Quebec City, July 12, 2007 Dr. Philippe De Wals of Universit Lavals Department of Social and Preventive Medicine today publishes a study clearly indicating that the addition of folic acid to flours has led to a 46% drop in the incidence of congenital neural tube deformation (mainly anencephaly and spina bifida) in Canada. Such deformations either result in the childs death or in major hea...Louisiana Tech researchers help find new sub-atomic particle
The discovery was made by physicists of the DZero experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill....Discovery and measurement of the particle's mass will provide new understanding about the basic building blocks of matter. ... ... "We've never seen anything like this before," said Sawyer, who is academic dire...Washington University in St. Louis to invest $55 million for renewable energy research
...Washington University in St. Louis is creating a new International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES) to encourage and coordinate university-wide and external collaborative research in the areas of renewable energy and sustainability including biofuels, CO2 mitigation and coal-related issues. The university will invest more than $55 million in the initiative, a...2007 National Soybean Rust Symposium to be held in Louisville, KY
... "This symposium is truly unique in that it brings together a diverse audience all with a common interest," said Raymond Schneider, symposium coordinator and plant pathology professor with the Louisiana State University AgCenter. Leaders in state and federal government, grower organizations, international institutions, resear...$5M gift will attack Lou Gehrig's disease from all angles
... ... Now, he has greatly increased that support, with a new $5 million gift, and the promise of even further funding...Scientists track impact of Asian dust and pollution on clouds, climate change
... ... Known as PACDEX (Pacific Dust Experiment), the project will be led by scientists at the National Cent...Presidents from 13 universities worldwide to gather at Washington University in St. Louis
For the first time in the United States, the presidents of 13 premier universities from Asia and the Middle East will gather at Washington University in St. Louis May 4-7 to discuss ways their institutions are addressing global energy and environmental concerns. These institutions include Peking, Fudan, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, National Taiwan, Tsinghua and Yonsei universities.......Winter flounder on the fast track to recovery
... Now, researchers at the University of New Hampshire are setting the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) fishery on the fast track to recovery. New research indicates that winter flounder is a good candid...Think herbal supplements are safe? Think again, book by Saint Louis University doctor says
... ...A safe folic acid boost from flour
... Dr Mary Rose Sweeney and her colleagues from Trinity College Dublin commissioned a local bakery to bake three batches of bread, with different levels of...New species declared: Clouded leopard on Borneo and Sumatra
... Genetic analysis conducted at the U.S. National Cancer Institute shows that the difference between the two clouded leopard species is comparable to the differences between other large cat species like lions, tigers, and jaguars. Scientists believe the new species of clouded leopard diverged from the mainland populat...The insides of clouds may be the key to climate change
... That's because aerosols, fine particles such as smoke and dust that form droplets in clouds and change cloud thickness, affect how much sun is able to pass through the cloud to Earth, as well as the amount of moisture that's returned to Earth. Both moisture and...Scientists discover new species of distinctive cloud-forest rodent
CHICAGO--A strikingly unusual animal was recently discovered in the cloud-forests of Peru. The large rodent is about the size of a squirrel and looks a bit like one, except its closest relatives are spiny rats. ... The nocturnal, climbing rodent is beautiful yet strange looking, with long dense fur, a broad blocky head, and thickly furred tail. A blackish crest of fur on the crown, nape and shou...Loyola prof. aids in discovery of first case of insect transmission of Chagas parasite in Louisiana
... The discovery was made after a resident brought insects to the attention of a pest control operator who identified them as kissing bugs. After researching the bug on the Internet, the resident re...Cloudy apple juice four times healthier than clear
... Jan Oszmianski, leading a team at the Agricultural University of Wroclaw, Poland, compared clear and cloudy varieties of apple juice, and found that cloudy juice contains four times the concentration of polyphenols. Polyophenols are also found in dark chocolate, red wine and are widely reported to have anti-caner activity. The research published this month in the SCI's Journal of the Science...Satellite radar gauges water levels in Louisiana wetlands
... ... They examined data from the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite, taken from four selected sites around Louisiana from 1992-2002. Using an innovative data processing technique, called "retracking," t...... ... "It is particularly effective b...Researchers link ocean organisms with increased cloud cover and potential climate change
... Discovery of the new link between clouds and the biosphere grew out of efforts to explain increased cloud cover observed over an area of the Southern Ocean where a large bloom of phytoplankton was occurring. Based on satellite data, the researchers hypothesized that airborne particles produced by oxidation of the chemical isoprene which is emitted by the phytoplankt...'LouseBuster' instrument shown to kill head lice
... ... The machine blow...Louisiana Tech inventors honored for research
... ... "I continue to be impressed by how dedicated (the facult...Researchers discover misfolded protein clumps common to dementia, Lou Gehrig's disease
... Virginia Lee, Ph.D., and John Trojanowski, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania, led an international team of scientists in this discovery. The work was...Flemish biotechnology is flourishing
Ghent, Belgium -- In response to the needs of the growing biotech sector in Flanders, the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) is opening a new bio-incubator in the Technology Park in Zwijnaarde. The new bio-incubator stands next to - and is an exact copy of - the first bio-incubator, thus doubling the available space for biotech companies that are just getting started. The...Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer detects vast polar ethane cloud on Titan
... ... Before the Cassini-Huygens mission began visiting Titan in 2004, "We expected to see lots...MIT team describes unique cloud forest
... ... After studying the Oman site, they also expressed concern that the unusual forest could be...A link between obesity and memory? Saint Louis University research makes the connection
ST. LOUIS -- Scientists have wondered why obese patients who have diabetes also may have problems with their long-term memory. New Saint Louis University research in this month's Peptides provides a clue....... "Leptin is a hormone secreted by fat cells that tells us to stop eating. In obese people, it doesn't cross into the brain to help regulate appetite," says Susan A. Farr, Ph.D., principal i...Choosy females make colourful males
Female fish prefer brightly coloured males because they are easier to see and are in better shape concludes Dutch researcher Martine Maan following her study of fish speciation in the East African Lakes. Environmental variation subsequently leads to differences in preference and eventually to speciation. ...... Evolutionary theory predicts that species can diverge if different females choose diff...Satellite instrument helps tackle mysteries of ozone-eating clouds
Polar stratospheric clouds have become the focus of many research projects in recent years due to the discovery of their role in ozone depletion, but essential aspects of these clouds remain a mystery. MIPAS, an instrument onboard ESA's Envisat, is allowing scientists to gain information about these clouds necessary for modelling ozone loss....... "The Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmosph...Loud music worsens effects of taking ecstasy
Loud music prolongs the effects of taking ecstasy for up to five days. A study published today in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience shows that the reduction in rats' brain activity induced by 3,4 -Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA or ecstasy) lasts long after administration of the drug up to five days if loud music is played to them simultaneously. The effects wear off within a day whe...'Bird flu' infections in humans prompt new investigation at Saint Louis University
ST. LOUIS -- In 1918, nearly 40 million people died in a flu pandemic. Three such pandemics have occurred during the last 100 years.... ...When a new strain of flu infects people, the infection can spread around the world quickly. This is what could potentially happen with some new human flu viruses that come from bird flu viruses.... ..."Recently, some strains of bird flu viruses have infected p...Turn down that radio! Years of loud noise may lead to tumor
New research suggests that years of repeated exposure to loud noise increases the risk of developing a non-cancerous tumor that could cause hearing loss....... "It doesn't matter if the noise comes from years of on-the-job exposure or from a source that isn't job-related," said Colin Edwards, a doctoral student in the School of Public Health at Ohio State University....... In the current study, p...Centocor & Schering-Plough next generation biologic promising in Phase 2 rheumatoid arthritis trial
SAN DIEGO, Calif., November 16, 2005 -- Results from a Phase 2 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) study assessing the safety and efficacy of golimumab (CNTO 148), a fully-human anti-TNF-alpha therapy, showed that it achieved the primary endpoint of the study. In this dose-ranging trial, more than 60 percent of patients with moderately to severely active RA treated with golimumab and methotrexate (MTX) ex...Exercise plus gene therapy shows promise for treating Lou Gehrig's disease
COLUMBUS, Ohio A new study in mice gives hope that a combination of gene therapy and exercise may extend the lives of people who have Lou Gehrig's disease.... ...Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a chronic and progressive illness that leads to paralysis and ultimately death. There are no known cures, and the only FDA-approved method for treating the disease is a dr...Bees solve complex colour puzzles
Bees have a much more sophisticated visual system than previously thought, according to a new UCL (University College London) study in which bees were able to solve complicated colour puzzles. The findings shed light on how brains resolve one of the most difficult challenges of vision namely, recognizing different surfaces under different colours of illumination by suggesting that bees solve th...Protein aggregates in Lou Gehrig's disease linked to neuron death
EVANSTON, Ill. --- French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot first described amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 1869, but, nearly 140 years later, little is known about the cause of the devastating neurodegenerative disease, and there is no cure. ... ...What is known about Lou Gehrig's disease, as it is commonly called, is that misfolded and damaged proteins clump together in cells to form aggr...Sticky mutant proteins implicated in Lou Gehrig's disease
Bethesda, MD A new study indicates that mutant Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) enzymes that are associated with an inherited form of Lou Gehrig's disease cause the protein to become sticky in tissues. Partial unfolding of the mutant protein can expose hydrophobic residues that may promote abnormal interactions with other proteins or membranes in the cell. ...... The research appears as the "Pa...... ...On Sunday, 7 August 2005, Cristin Samper, Director of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (United States), will give a presentation entitled, "Forests in the Clouds: Ecology and Conservation of Montane Forests in the Andes," at the public plenary of the Ecological Society of America's 90th Annual Meeting. This free event will be held at the Palais des congrs de Montral, and the pub...Difference in talking louder, talking over noise depends on verbal cues, internal targets
BETHESDA, Md. (May 26, 2005) How someone tells you to "keep quiet" affects whether or how you might comply. But what happens when you're asked to "talk louder," or you're talking and the background noise level suddenly goes up?...... Purdue University researchers found that how you get louder is a function of how you're told to speak louder and environmental cues. ...... Far more surprising, the...Latest gene therapy research to be presented in St. Louis, June 1-5, 2005
The latest research in the field of gene therapy will be presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy (ASGT), June 1-5, 2005, in St. Louis. The leading experts in the field will gather to discuss new scientific developments on the use of gene therapy for treating infectious diseases, its use in vaccines, and updates on the latest clinical trials. ... ...Educational...