Would boosting the oxytocin system lead to longer breast-feeding?
...nts over giving them formula. Mother's milk is the perfect food, providing exactly the correct nourishment for newborns, while protecting them from many illnesses. There also are good economic and maternal health reasons that would seem to make a compelling case for breastfeeding for the six-to-12 months re......ision. Clam eggs are also transparent, providing a perfect window on biology in action. MBL scientists studying surf clams have made discoveries that may be critical to understanding diseases such as cancer; progeria, a disease that causes children to age unusually quickly; and muscular dystrophy. For a list...University of Chicago study overturns conventional theory in evolution
... used a large amount of data," Kumar said. "It's a perfect example of the power of the genome project." "I hope that further work will provide an explanation of what now is a major puzzle," Crow added....Results of world's first gene therapy trial for arthritis show approach safe, feasible
...al cells have a receptor on their surface that's a perfect fit for a particular cytokine, interleukin-1, or IL-1. Like a switch, when IL-1 binds to this receptor, the cell unleashes additional biochemical agents, which in turn cause more local inflammation. As inflammation builds, patients experience progres...Studying glial cells in the roundworm may provide insight into human brain diseases
...eopardy. Shaham and Perens show that worms are the perfect model system to study the function of these cells in the nervous system, because the glial cells can be manipulated and the neurons still form and function, though not entirely as normal. "Glial cells have been traditionally hard to study in vertebra...Scientists use gene transfer technology and common virus to block neuropathic pain
...each the neural cell's nucleus, which makes it the perfect gene delivery vehicle for use in the nervous system. "When we inject our HSV gene carrier under the skin of a laboratory rat, the vector is taken up by sensory nerve terminals in the animal's skin and carried through the axon back to the sensory gang...Dogs get back in the action: New pet food improves mobility and quality of life for dogs
...o, examined Moose, she realized that he would be a perfect candidate for Prescription Diet Canine j/d TM . ".... "It results in more activity and seems to be the perfect mix of what is needed for joint health in any dog, large or small. I've seen improvements in as few ...Precise timing enabled pig-to-rat transplants to cure diabetes
...ndocrine cells engrafted in the omentum. This is a perfect place for them to release insulin where it will do the most good -- directly into a key blood vessel known as the portal vein," Hammerman explains. In a collaboration with scientists at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, Hammerman has received f...Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine gets $4 million to make 'smart nanoparticles'
...oods. "The Ohio BioProducts Innovation Center is a perfect example of how the Third Frontier can benefit Ohio's First Frontier, agriculture," said Johnson. "High tech advances in polymers have the potential for opening up new markets for Ohio-grown products." The BRTT Program supports biomedical and biotechn...Science, AAAS select two for new minority internship
...e realized that she missed writing and decided the perfect solution was to combine the two fields. Her biggest interest right now is reconciling the relationship between humans and nature by more effective city planning, she said. "I'm influenced by growing up in the Central Valley [of California] and watch...Researchers discover new longer-living flower
...g regals. Sometimes you'll get lucky and breed the perfect plant, and sometimes the plant you breed will be useless." This time the dice rolled in Craig's favor. However, he would not have known about the plant's special longevity had he not cut some of Elegance Silver's flowers and placed them in a vase. H...NASA study finds snow melt causes large ocean plant blooms
...ortality. Oxygen-depleted waters also provide the perfect environment for thegrowth of a specialized group of bacteria called denitrifying bacteria.These bacteria convert a nitrogen-based nutrient readily consumable byplants in seawater, called nitrate, into forms of nitrogen that mostplants cannot use. One...Brain-mapping technique aids understanding of sleep, wakefulness
..., keeping them from becoming active. "This makes perfect sense," said Dr. Yanagisawa, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UT Southwestern. "When one group of neurons is active, the other group must be inactive, and vice versa. It's a seesaw, or flip-flop, mechanism. That's important because y...Hawaiian soils reveal clues to cultural history
...rients that had enough rain, a 'sweet spot' with a perfect matching of natural processes to human need," said Chadwick. One question of interest is whether or not the Hawiians used this land sustainably, or if they depeleted the nutrients over time. To try to find out, the researchers sampled the open fiel...Report proposes structure for national network of cord blood stem cell banks
...er kilogram of body weight, the report says. When perfect matches can be found, cell concentration is less important. For many racial and ethnic minority patients, it is difficult or impossible to find suitable matches because many cord blood collections are not ethnically and racially diverse. The commit...Talking robots, green buildings, and shockwave healing
...l in this task, with some listeners showing nearly perfect performance. "The findings suggest a type of auditory sensitivity not often considered in the psychoacoustics literature," the authors write (5aPP2). Another paper suggests a new way in which humans may be able to distinguish the sound of a piano...The transparent organism: EMBLEM and Carl Zeiss give labs a unique look at life
... The products based on this technology will form a perfect match with our lines of confocal and multiphoton 3D-imaging systems," says Dr. Simon. The agreement between EMBL and Carl Zeiss includes a common cooperation project for method optimization and product development....Elephants imitate sounds as a form of social communication
... the audio frequency of the imitations were nearly perfect matches to the original sounds. Mlaika, a ten-year...emale Asian elephants in a Swiss zoo, was a nearly perfect mimic for the chirp-like calls of his long-time zoo mates. The chirps are made by Asian elephants bu...Monsanto fund awards $3.7 million to Washington University for school science van program
...een the program and teachers. "This project is a perfect fit for our skills in visual information design, as well as in brand development," said Scott Gericke, director of the Visual Communications Research Studio. Gericke, D.B. Dowd, professor of art, and Heather Corcoran, assistant professor of visual co...Two UT Southwestern researchers named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators
...UT Southwestern's collaborative environment is the perfect place to conduct that research." In this year's national competition, the 43 new investigators were selected from 31 institutions. More than 200 institutions nominated more than 300 scientists, a spokesman for HHMI said. Other HHMI researchers at ...