September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ctor. The authors explain that there are two major paths to patients valuing continuity of care: 1) if they patient and physician have been together for a long time and 2) if the patient and physician have been together through major life events such as a serious illness, hospitalization, birth or death. ...Safer medical implants, more comfortable fabrics among research items at Rochester meeting
...ogy. Experienced professionals will outline career paths available for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. There also will be a panel discussion and open forum. (Monday, Nov. 1, 8:30 a.m. 11:40 a.m., Grand Ballroom A) The following awards will be presented at the meeting: George Ellestad, Philip Hamann and ...Delays in cutting greenhouse gasses could harm environment
...stem." In one scenario, for example, two different paths to the same goal could mean the difference between...ch of the targets, the researchers looked at three paths to reaching them: a slow, controlled increase; a fast, unchecked increase followed by a rapid leveli...Study identifies molecular complex vital to creation of miRNAs
... DiGeorge syndrome, and this link suggests several paths for future investigations. Shiekhattar plans, for example, to develop a strain of mice lacking the gene for DGCR8 to see whether they display any of the characteristics of DiGeorge syndrome. He also aims to study DiGeorge syndrome patients to see whe...Draft sequence of chicken genome completed
...he human. During the 310 million years since their paths diverged, sequences with important functions, which include genes and their regulatory motifs, have been under pressure not to mutate because changes to the sequence would have detrimental consequences. By contrast, areas of the genome with no functi...In wake of Lyme disease vaccine for people, mice may be next in line for shots
...ch as deer. Humans fall into the mix as they cross paths both in the wilderness and even in yards where wildlife treads. A vaccine for humans was developed to prevent Lyme disease, but has been withdrawn from the market due to complaints of potentially vaccine-caused arthritis. Reducing the deer pop...UCSD bioinformatics researcher studies tumor genome architectures with career award
...nome rearrangements that account for the different paths humans and rodents have taken since splitting off from a common ancestor roughly 87 million years ago. These rearrangements "happen in cancer naturally," Raphael notes, adding that "by studying the rearrangements we can identify genes that are import...DFG loosens eligibility requirements for the Emmy Noether Programme
...t outstanding young researchers' individual career paths can be better taken into consideration. The Action Plan in Computer Science (Aktionsplan Informatik), which is part of the Emmy Noether Programme, intended to enable young researchers to qualify for a professorship rapidly after completing their doct...Molecular machine may lead to new drugs to combat human diseases
...d paste genetic material is revealing possible new paths for treating diseases such as some forms of cancer and opportunistic infections that plague HIV patients. Purdue University researchers froze one of these molecular machines, which are chemical complexes known as a Group I intron, at mid-point in its...NJIT researcher creates opportunities for studying chiral ionic liquids
... quick to emphasize how ionic liquids can open new paths to better health. "They may also offer greater security against chemical attacks," he added....Elizabeth Blackburn and Janet Rowley awarded
...nto the cause and progression of cancer opened new paths for the treatment of this disease are being honored this year with the prestigious Landon-AACR Prizes for Basic and Translational Cancer Research. These prizes, offered by the Kirk A. and Dorothy P. Landon Foundation and the American Association for ...Scientists identify new model Of NK cell development
...itor cells in the bone marrow they take different paths in developing into full-fighters in the immune system. For example, cells destined to become T cells, sophisticated and highly focused killer cells, are released into the bloodstream and migrate to the thymus where they learn their role. In contrast,...Emory scientist finds different paths lead to similar cognitive abilities
Despite the divergent evolutionary paths of dolphins and primates -- and their vastly different brains -- both have developed similar high-level cognitive abilities, says Emory University neuroscientist and behavioral biologist Lori Marino. She presented her latest findings on the evolution...Yale researchers use laser light to remote control flies
... that stimulated walking and affected the types of paths the flies chose to follow. Loss of dopamine cell activity in humans underlies Parkinson's disease, a movement disorder. Unfocused laser light was used to "broadcast" the signal to genetically engineered "phototriggers" that were expressed only in spe...Can our genes tell the story of our divergence?
...umans and chimpanzees forged separate evolutionary paths some 5 million to 6 million years ago, we shed our hirsute coat and heavy brow, mastered bipedal locomotion, and acquired a knack for abstract thought while our next of kin learned to use tools, and developed the skills to construct tree-bound nests ...Waggle dance controversy resolved by radar records of bee flight paths
... transponder to them and then tracked their flight paths using harmonic radar. Most recruited bees undertook a flight path that took them straight to the vicinity of the feeding site where they all spent a lot of time in searching flights, trying to locate its exact position. This searching behaviour accou...Man, chimp difference may have made us prone to cancer
...f the two species' DNA is identical. But since the paths of man and chimp diverged 5 million years ago, that one percent of genetic difference appears to have changed humans in an unexpected way: It could have made people more prone to cancer. A comparative genetic study led by Cornell University research...FSU meteorologists' work may lead to better tracking of hurricanes
...rk could lead to better methods of forecasting the paths of the deadly storms. In their study, FSU meteorologists Xiaolei Zou and Yonghui Wu found that variations of ozone levels from the surface of the ocean to the upper atmosphere are closely related to the formation, intensification and movement of a hu...Scripps research scientists discover new key to pulmonary edema in respiratory distress syndrome
...ogy is sometimes a crossroads where many different paths converge. Such is the case with acute respiratory distress syndrome, a severe and often fatal condition also known as adult respiratory distress syndrome or simply "shock lung." Acute respiratory distress syndrome can be caused by a number of underly...Researchers find molecule that inhibits regrowth of spinal nerve cells
...lps the body's motor nerve cells grow along proper paths during embryonic development also plays a major role in inhibiting spinal-cord neurons from regenerating after injury, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.In cultured cells, the researchers found that a component of myelin a sub...