Study establishes safety of spinal cord stem cell transplantation
...f UCI's Stem Cell Research Center. "We must always remember that a human clinical trial is an experiment and, going into it, we need to assure ourselves as best as we can that the treatment will not cause harm. This study is an important step in that direction." In 2005, Keirstead's lab was the first to coa...Sleep strengthens memories and makes them resistant to interfering information
...vidence that sleep improves the brain's ability to remember information. Their findings demonstrate that memories of recently learned word pairs are improved if sleep intervenes between learning and testing and that this benefit is most pronounced when memory is challenged by competing information. The findin...Chest X-ray exposure may increase likelihood of breast cancer
...ad developed breast cancer might be more likely to remember receiving an X-ray than women who had not been diagnosed with the disease. The second was the lack of data on the specific dose and timing of radiation that was received. "Effect of chest X-rays on the risk of breast cancer among BRCA1/2 mutation ca...The protein that makes you mad
...been the focus of ongoing polemics. Everybody will remember the mad cow crisis when the sales of veal plummeted for fear of contagion, thousands of animals were sacrificed and beef imports, especially from the United Kingdom the focus of the epidemic were curtailed. The origin of the crisis was the feedi...Long-term changes in experience cause neurons to sprout new long-lasting connections
...s in contrast to explicit memory, which is used to remember facts." Svoboda said the discovery suggests new ideas for future studies aimed at understanding the neuronal wiring process in greater detail. For example, he and his colleagues will study the rewiring of the animals' brain circuitry as trimmed whisk...ICSI children are developing well at the age of eight
..., most were corrected by minor surgery. "We should remember that malformations occur also in the 'normal' population and can be caused by genetic inheritance, the environment, disease or other causes. If one of the parents has a malformation, they could pass it on to their offspring. We do not think the ICSI ...How IVF could be causing genetic errors in embryos
...uture resources and studies in humans. But we must remember that these are preliminary results in a mouse model, and they need to be repeated and confirmed in other strains of mice before translating to studies in humans." Other research has suggested that culturing embryos in the laboratory during IVF could ...Teenage and 60-year-old mums are consequences of evolution
...nd the bike sheds and becoming pregnant, we should remember that this is a natural response by these girls to ...-year-old women who want to have babies, we should remember that it was not so long ago that women would only have had about 20 or 30 years to care for their of...When it comes to gene transcription, random pauses arent quite so random, study finds
...tend to pause more or less, but they don't seem to remember having paused." Why does RNAP make these fitful stops and starts? "No one really knows what all these ubiquitous pauses are doing nor what really causes pauses. They may be there to act as some kind of a governor to control the speed of transcriptio...Newborn screening can cause unnecessary parental stress
...sitive group said they hadn't been told, or didn't remember being told, that the diagnosis had been ruled out. Of these, 22 percent said they were told they wouldn't be notified unless a problem was found, and 24 percent were required to ask their pediatrician for the test results. "A few parents didn't ev......er are caused by tobacco smoke. It's important to remember that tobacco smoke is far and away the biggest risk factor for lung cancer," warns Houlston....If the chemistry is right you might remember this
If the chemistry is right you might remember this A young Australian scientist has made an important discovery about how brain cells communicate. This finding is central to understanding all brain function from laying down memory to being able to walk The groundbreaking research has been publi...Robotic joystick reveals how brain controls movement
...certain muscle movements, the more likely it is to remember the lesson over the long haul. The results, the investigators say, could alter rehabilitation approaches for people who have lost motor abilities to brain injuries like strokes. In a report on the work in the May 23 issue of PLoS Biology, the resear...UF scientists restore sight to chickens with blinding disease
...evelop a viral therapy to treat it. "I will always remember the first animal that we successfully treated," said Semple-Rowland, who is also a member of the UF Center for Vision Research and the UF Genetics Institute. "I thought I saw signs that the chick was responding visually to the environment, but I didn...JCI table of contents, May 18, 2006
...certain immune functions as well as the ability to remember and recognize certain antigens. In a study appearing online on May 18 in advance of print publication in the June issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, David G. Brooks and colleagues from The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California...Creating new insight into HIV-AIDS virus wins Canada's top student biotech prize
... the body's immune system," James, 16, recalls. "I remember thinking about that process and wondering why it happens. My teacher loaned me some university textbooks and it all just developed from there." Now in Grade 11 at All Saints High School, Kanata, and mentored by Dr. Angela Crawley and Jonathan Angel o......in the same situation, it is possible that I would remember what happened in the scene and allow it to influence any decisions that I would make." More than a third of the viewers, 39 percent, said that they would allow the scenes to influence their decisions. "We understand that making motion pictures is an...Ethnobotanist says non-regulated herbs pose risks
...edy/supplement or know someone who has taken one remember St. John's Wort, echinacea, ephedra, even chamomile? Dr. Elvin Lewis states, "Being aware of the possible side effects and cross-reactivities of each supplement is of paramount importance, but it is only the first step in creating a safe and effectiv...Research shows how visual stimulation turns up genes to shape the brain
... age, forming a basis for our ability to learn and remember even in adulthood," said Shatz.......ty. Dr Lurz said: "I think the important thing to remember is that there are multiple threats facing the Mount Graham Red Squirrel, and their survival depends on how these are best managed." The UK-US team have so far used the model to examine potential effect of predation and the Abert's squirrel on squirre...