Study supports 'urgent' need for worldwide ban on lead-based paint
...earchers say that this lead-based paint production poses a global health threat, and a worldwide ban is urgently needed to avoid future public health problems. Lead is a malleable metal previously used to improve the durability and color luster of paint used in homes and other buildings and on steel stru...Novel mechanism of taxane resistance
...es taxane sensitivity. As acquired drug resistance poses a major limitation to the long-term efficacy of taxanes, the discovery of txr1 as a component of a novel pathway of taxane cytotoxicity opens up a new avenue to modulate chemotherapeutic drug response and sensitize cancer cells to drug treatment....New procedure safer for detecting fetal anemia
...s Dr. Seaward. "The Doppler ultrasonography test poses no risk to the fetus as it is simply an ultrasound." In Canada, approximately one percent of Rhesus negative women have pregnancies at risk of fetal anemia and one out of every 200 mothers tested through amniocenteses miscarry. Doppler ultrasonogr...Gorilla susceptibility to Ebola virus: the cost of sociality
... the factors affecting the threat the deadly virus poses to great apes. The work is reported in the July 12th issue of the journal Current Biology by a team of researchers including Damien Caillaud and colleagues from the University of Montpellier and the University of Rennes, France. Ebola virus is ex...Corals switch skeleton material as seawater changes
.... The aquatic animal's sensitivity to such changes poses questions about its evolutionary history, as well as the future of the ecologically important coral reefs that it builds, Ries said, especially at a time when seawater is changing in response to global warming and the buildup of carbon dioxide in the...ACS Weekly PressPac -- June 26, 2006
...r summertime health concern in urban areas -- also poses a newly recognized threat to the outcome of certain kinds of scientific research. Steven L. Cohen, of Merck Research Laboratories, is reporting that ozone seeping indoors can affect the outcome of a widely used research technique termed MALDI mass sp...New therapy may mean less dietary restrictions for celiac sufferers
...f gluten. However, the ubiquitous nature of gluten poses a constant threat to celiacs, and a majority of celiac patients who adopt a restrictive diet still exhibit structural and functional gut abnormalities. "Non-dietary therapies that allow celiac patients to safely incorporate low-to-moderate levels of ...Cornell researchers find serious fish virus in Northeast for first time
...sh species, was discovered in upstate New York. It poses no threat to humans. In May 2006, the researchers, in collaboration with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), isolated the virus in round gobies that died in a massive fish kill in the St. Lawrence River and in Irondeq...Researchers identify protein associated with severe preeclampsia
...leading causes of maternal and fetal mortality and poses a particular risk to women in developing countries. This new information provides us with another key piece of evidence as we work toward developing the means to diagnose, and eventually treat, this disease." Study coauthors include BIDMC investigato...Education and guidelines needed for genetic testing in liver disease
...dvances. Furthermore, misinterpretation of results poses clear dangers to individual human rights, patient management and research. The commentary is published in the June 2006 issue of Hepatology, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). Published by John ...Purdue researchers find 'switch' for skeletal-muscle atrophy
... same extent. "Astemizole administration to humans poses too great a risk," Pond said. "There's a need for more study to avoid those side effects, but the key is that we found a protein capable of sensing muscle disuse and initiating atrophy." In the drug study, researchers used four groups of mice: a cont...New study finds key role for VEGF in onset of sepsis
...e sepsis accounts for 200,000 deaths each year and poses a particular danger in hospital settings, where patients are more likely to come in contact with antibiotic-resistant pathogens, and when their immune systems have already been weakened by illness or treatments. "The incidence of severe sepsis is inc...World's tiniest test tubes get teensiest corks
...ed cells while bypassing healthy ones, but it also poses challenges. For one thing, the nanotubes must recognize their target, a problem scientists are attacking by tweaking their chemistry to make it respond to the unique chemistry of cancer cells. The tubes also must be biologically benign. Martin says a...Vaccine combined with short-term postexposure antibiotics protects monkeys from inhalational anthrax
... can remain dormant for much longer periods, which poses special challenges with regard to postexposure treatment. According to Friedlander, antibiotics are active only after spores have germinated; therefore, dormant spores that germinate after therapy has been discontinued can cause disease and death. Th...From climate dynamics to educational research...
...ricanes or cyclones, in as much detail as possible poses a great challenge for meteorologists. The main problem they face is the fact that, to date, it has been impossible to accurately model physical phenomena that take place on very different scales, both in terms of time and space. This is the issue tha...Nature's strongest glue could be used as a medical adhesive
...ations and produces no human toxins, C. crescentus poses no threat to human health. Engineer L. Ben Freund wrote the model used to perform complex mathematical analyses of experimental forces. Peter Tsang and Guanglai Li of Brown University performed experiments and analyzed data. The research was funded b...Pollution trackers hit the road to pinpoint airborne culprits
... control keypad to enter answers to questions Marr poses during class. She hopes this method of instant feedback and active participation will prove to increase "students' retention of material and the environmental engineering field's retention of students."...Researchers seek answers to combat TB epidemic
...hreat. But the combination of HIV and TB currently poses the biggest problem globally. Patients with HIV are more apt to develop tuberculosis after they have contracted bacteria that cause TB, said Amy Davidow, Ph.D., an associate professor of preventive medicine and community health at the University of M...... flu. Avian Influenza (commonly known as bird flu) poses a serious threat to global health with experts predicting it could seriously affect millions of people worldwide. In response to the urgent need for knowledge about this virulent flu strain, researchers at Westmead Millennium Institute (WMI) are inve......n was not an aggressive killer, Sussman argues. He poses a new theory, based on the fossil record and living primate species, that primates have been prey for millions of years, a fact that greatly influenced the evolution of early man. "Our intelligence, cooperation and many other features we have as mode...