American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
... of an effort to expand their traditional markets, moving instruments like mass spectrometers and infrared photometers out of the lab and into the hands of the average consumer. In a world that fears terrorists, contaminated food, and airborne pollutants, instrument companies are working to design portable...Bursts of waves drive immune system 'soldiers' toward invaders
...and removing them from the other, you would have a moving tower that was the same size but kept adding new material. This is very similar to what is going on in a Hem-1 wave," he says. The Hem-1 recruitment assures the cycle will continue. The cycle, or circuit, of activation, recruitment and inhibition,...UK scientists working to help cut ID theft
...nes constantly in development, the field is a fast moving one. Before investing in systems, buyers need to be assured of the usability and reliability of products. Similarly, technology developers benefit from independent testing regimes that allow them to prove their products and trial them in combination ...Swarming starlings help probe plasma, crowds and stock market
...hifts it could uncover patterns of clumping in the moving of different stocks. This could help market analysts uncover new and unexpected market connections and mutual dependencies between companies that had no obvious connection yet seem to share similar movements in share price. ...Testosterone replacement therapy: How safe for aging men?
...arterial catheters inserted into conscious, freely moving rats. Urine was collected for two hours and urinary protein excretion was determined. The researchers found that blood pressure was significantly higher in testosterone-supplemented male SHR as compared with intact rats, whereas castration did no...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 1, 2007
...olleagues point out that cancer therapy already is moving toward individualized treatments selected according to tumor cell type and patients predicted responses to different kinds of anti-cancer drugs. Their paper describes key features of state-of-the-art proteomic profiling, in which blood tests are used...Genetic analysis finds greater threat in frog-killing fungus
...ted States, the fungus has been spreading quickly, moving west to east across the Sierra Nevada at a pace of... Morgan. "This could involve cleaning shoes before moving from one infected site to another. Some fungi produce spores during certain times of the year. If th......fter irradiation" a suggestion that they might be moving to specific regions of the nucleus. Costes and his colleagues applied the same kinds of models and measurements to gamma rays and found that whereas the model predicted that these breaks would occur in a random pattern in three dimensions througho...Success or failure of antidepressant citalopram predicted by gene variation
...ical Center also contributed to the research. Were moving steadily closer to being able to personalize treatments based on patients genetic variations. This is a crucial need for the millions of Americans who suffer from depression, said NIMH Director Thomas R. Insel, MD. New techniques have led to advances...Scientists move closer to bio-engineered bladders
... basic understanding of how the cells work, we are moving towards being able to engineer new bladders. Curre...e University of York said: "Our most exciting work moving forward is to develop natural and synthetic biomaterials that could be combined with regenerating ur...FDA sees nanotech challenges in every product category it regulates
...anotechnology Task Forces recommendations. Without moving quickly and building on the recommendations in the Task Force report, FDA will not be able to keep pace with todays rapidly developing nanotechnology market or engender consumer and investor confidence in emerging products. Just released, this is t...Restless legs genetics on the move
...n they come to rest, which can only be relieved by moving or walking around. The consequence may be severe sleeping disorders, chronic sleep loss and associated with it daytime fatigue. In severe cases the disease may lead to depression and social isolation. The frequency of RLS increases with age: up to ...Fedoroff, of Penn State, to receive National Medal of Science
...that controls the mobility of transposons. After moving to Penn State in 1995 as the Willaman Professor of the Life Sciences, she founded and directed a multidisciplinary organization now known as the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences ( http://www.lsc.psu.edu/ ). She was appointed an Evan Pugh Profess...Microscopic jets, diamonds unlikely on Uranus, and amazing mosquito legs
... wide as a strand of your hair. Their efforts are moving toward self-propelled nanoswimmers that could navigate narrow channels such as the human circulatory system. The researchers, led by Ramin Golestanian of the University of Sheffield, coated one side of each polystyrene ball with a thin layer of pla...Philadelphia ecologist receives top Mongolia honor
...n Mongolia, said Brown. Drawing from these, we are moving forward to establish an Asia Center at the Academy. The Academy, the oldest natural history museum in the Americas, also has conducted field surveys of fish, aquatic insects and rotifers (microscopic animals) in Mongolian waters that have yielded pre...Serica scientists win AOSSM Award for ACL (knee) tissue regeneration in preclinical study
...ith the results of this study and are aggressively moving forward with our development program, including the initiation of a study with the SeriACL Graft in humans. Results from this study showed that all animals were weight bearing at 3, 6 and 12 months, with 95% returning to normal gait by 6 months; th...U-M, Israeli scientists report major advance in search for genes associated with colon cancer
... the mysteries of the susceptibility to disease is moving rapidly since the publication of the complete sequence of the human genome in 2003. Says Gruber, The mystery of the relationship between our genetic code and disease is now starting to become clear, and many scientists are turning to the same chapter...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...led Bassoon accumulated at the nucleus rather than moving down axons along microtubules. Transport of the AZ precursor vesicles via the syntaxinsyntabulinKIF5B complex was essential for inclusion of AZ components into functional synapses and the activity-dependent recruitment of new presynaptic boutons. ...Journal of Nuclear Medicine's impact grows, remains consistently high over past 5 years
...ed literature. JNMs immediacy index rose to 1.004, moving the journal to third place in its category. The total number of JNM citations grew to 14,605 for 2006. One of the most important recent uses of the impact factor is in the process of academic evaluation. The impact factor is often used as a measure...Cord blood may preserve insulin levels in children with type 1 diabetes
...s is a first step to help us learn more and get us moving in the right direction. Researchers got the idea in part from a patients father who had read that scientists elsewhere were able to reverse diabetes in mice by taking bone marrow from one animal and infusing it into its identical sibling without us...