Novel approach yields predictions validated by experiments
... Nature paper represents a very early stage in the necessary process of developing more sophisticated models, V...y complex task because of the huge amounts of data necessary and the multitude of possible biological system responses that must be considered. He compares the c...Highlights of the February Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...icials and educators are all trying to provide the necessary resources to help prevent obesity at all ages. What do parents and teachers think about the nutrition environment in their children's schools? Researchers at the University of Minnesota surveyed parents and teachers from 16 middle schools to learn th...Pro-inflammatory enzyme linked to diabetes; Immune system's macrophages may be key to treatment
...oes not produce or properly use insulin, a hormone necessary to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy needed for daily life. Previous studies in the past few years have implicated inflammation as playing a role in diabetes, but just how this occurred was unknown. The researchers generated mice wi...Researchers find new genes necessary to make embryo
...rd and Yale universities have identified new genes necessary for embryonic development, according to findings published in the latest issue of Genome Research. This discovery is an important step toward a complete mapping of which parts of the genome are required for embryonic development. The new findings als...CMS plan recognizes PET technology for benefit of cancer patients
...ring that patients receive high-quality, medically necessary care and on developing better evidence needed by linking coverage to the collection of clinical data. PET is a diagnostic imaging procedure that has the ability to differentiate cancer from normal tissue and may add important information beyond con...'Man the Hunter' theory is debunked in new book
...at meat. "It didn't have the sharp shearing blades necessary to retain and cut such foods," Sussman says. "These early humans simply couldn't eat meat. If they couldn't eat meat, why would they hunt?" It was not possible for early humans to consume a large amount of meat until fire was controlled and cooking ...PET/MRI scans may help unravel mechanisms of prenatal drug damage
...the fetal brain. "The MRI images, which have the necessary detail, served as a high-resolution anatomical template onto which we 'overlaid' the PET pharmacokinetic data using sophisticated computer techniques," Benveniste said. "The resulting images gave us the best of both worlds and allowed us to look at c...Premature births from inflammation and infection rapidly detected by proteomics technology
...rlier reached 100 percent. The four biomarkers are necessary and sufficient to separate between sick and healthy patients. Buhimschi said the current "gold standard" for infection consists of amniotic fluid culture, which takes days to obtain results. A proteomic diagnostic test for infection and inflammation ...Women's health, tissue regeneration is focus of Illinois & Carle Hospital initiative
...e need for yet more surgery that sometimes becomes necessary when a patient is older. "We want to design devices that will allow us to isolate the adult stem cells from tissue samples taken from fat, bone and cartilage, and then grow these cells in a controlled manner into bones, for example," Schook said. "W...Drought reduces nitrogen-fixing in legumes
...e other hand, the micro-organism obtains nutrients necessary for its growth from the plant. Under drought conditions, a reduction in nodule sacarose synthesis activity was observed. This drop occurred simultaneously with a decrease in nitrogen-fixing, enabling the establishment of a high correlation between bo...Examination of internal 'wiring' of yeast, worm, and fly reveals conserved circuits
...iscovery. "Maybe the target protein has a good and necessary role in 10 interactions, but the 11th is the only one we would need to eliminate," said Ideker. "What we really want are drugs that interfere with just that one disease-causing interaction." Systems biologists such as Ideker say their ultimate goal i...Physicians recommend screening for toxoplasmosis for all pregnant women, newborns
...as blood tests during each month of pregnancy, are necessary so that doctors can identify the infection early. Treatment of the mother may help prevent the harmful consequences of the infection in the fetus. Although most states require screening for a number of genetic and metabolic diseases in the newborn, i...Combating blindness is vision of UT, ORNL project
...wide range of pathologies," Tobin said. "This is a necessary step to support developing our statistical feature descriptions for image indexing, retrieval and diagnosis." Tobin and Chaum expect this project to provide benefits not only for diagnosing and treating blinding diseases in broad-based population scr...Bird brains show how trial and error may contribute to learning
...rebrain that seems to generate the trial and error necessary to master sophisticated motor skills, such as singing in birds or speech and sports in humans. "It means this part of the brain is important for instructing or allowing changes in the song," said Mimi Kao, first author of a paper in the February 10,...New system can measure productivity of oceans
...y use this approach, new satellite systems will be necessary that can more accurately determine both the color and brightness of marine waters, Behrenfeld said. He and colleagues are already working on a satellite concept to do that called ORCA, or Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment. However, in studies al...Novel 'canary on a chip' sensor measures tiny changes in cell volume; Provides assay results
...never seen before in living cells," she said. "The necessary power can be supplied even by a watch battery and the sensor is so small it could fit into a pencil eraser." Sachs said the assay can be used on any biological component that is enclosed by a membrane. "It doesn't have to be cells. We can use lipid...New DNA studies verify existence of three right whale species
...ombination of evidence was recently recommended as necessary for changing species designations for whales and dolphins by a US government convened workshop. The agreement of both types of nuclear material in determining the status of North Pacific right whales coincides with a number of recent sightings of ...Methodist, UH system joining forces for biomedical research, clinical care
... and The Methodist Hospital are taking a vital and necessary step forward to meet the educational and health care needs of our community," said Jay Gogue, chancellor of UHS and president of UH. The agreement calls for TMH and UHS to share facilities at both institutions for research, training and the educatio...Gene therapy converts dead bone graft to new, living tissue
... as a kind of "calcium bank." If calcium, which is necessary for such important functions as maintaining the brain and heart, runs low, cells called osteoclasts dig out the calcium from our bones. This is why doctors encourage post-menopausal women to take calcium supplements, so that the body doesn't raid the...Successful test of single molecule switch opens the door to biomolecular electronics
... transfer processes - the ions in the solution are necessary to make the process happen. "Yet almost every 'molecular electronic' measurement made to date has been made in a vacuum or other conditions that suppress solvent-mediated events. It's no wonder that we could not get reliable results," he said. Though...