INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
...ually add more catalase to untreated wastewater to replenish the enzyme. With the T. brockianus extremozyme, hydrogen peroxide decomposes safely, and wastewater needs no extra pretreatment. What's more, the enzyme lasts long enough to treat multiple batches of wastewater. Thompson didn't set out to find an enz...Big, old fish key to restoring groundfish stocks
...vival, and provide the ability of reserves to help replenish other marine areas nearby. If properly located, reserves might also address the distinct nature of groundfish populations in different geographic locations, they said. Exactly that type of "seeding" effect has now been documented with some population...Discovery promises simpler therapy for sickle cell disease
... In patients who become anemic, blood transfusions replenish the red blood cell supply in the body. The team further found that differences among patients in their ability to process nitric oxide in the blood correspond to the severity of their disease symptoms. That result might explain a long-standing puzzle...Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals
...tandard of current treatment, enables the brain to replenish its dwindling supply of dopamine, sidetracking the destructive course of Parkinson's disease. But eventually the treatment can backfire. "Levodopa generally works great for several years, but then it actually starts creating movement problems," Mande...New findings lead researchers to question basic assumptions of fisheries management
... after harvesting will produce plenty of larvae to replenish the population. According to Berkeley, however, el...astically reduces the ability of the population to replenish itself. Failure to account for the role of older fish in maintaining healthy populations may help e...Sensory deprivation reduces new cell size in the olfactory system
... replenished by stem cells. Stem cells in the nose replenish the sensory cells, which send the odor messages to... "There also are stem cells deep in the brain that replenish the interneurons, which carry out much of the processing of the odor messages that takes place in th......s precursors to the differentiated cells needed to replenish damaged tissue. In light of the recent cloning of patient-specific human embryonic stem cells by researchers in South Korea, AACR Science Policy and Legislative Affairs Committee Chairman William G. Nelson V, M.D., Ph.D., pointed to the clause in the...UQ researcher tracking key to healing the brain
...dy, they can theoretically divide without limit to replenish cells lost due to everyday wear and tear, or following injury or disease. Dr Rod Rietze, head of the Queensland Brain Institute's (QBI) Laboratory for Neural Stem Cell Biology, is hoping those stem cells may soon unlock the secrets to healing the br...Study sheds light on signaling mechanism in stem cells, cancer
...re dish, with the goal of using them to replace or replenish damaged tissues in patients. The discovery could be particularly important for neural stem cell research, says Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, director of the UCSF Institute for Stem Cell and Tissue Biology. Kriegstein, a neural stem cell scientist, wa...JCI table of contents November, 2005
...l therapy for extended periods of time continually replenish their viral reservoir AUTHOR CONTACT: Tae-Wook Chun NIAID/NIH, Bethesda, MD USA Phone: 301-496-0890; Fax: 301-402-5920; E-mail: twchun@nih.gov View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jci.org/article.php?id=26197 IMMUNOLOGY Mutating ...Markers of gene, protein, or micro-RNA activity predict outcome in prostate and colorectal cancers
...m of each crypt. The job of these stem cells is to replenish the entire lining of the colon that turns over every five days. However, a mutation in these stem cells produces mutant daughter cells, disorganized tissue architecture, and increased proliferation of crypt cells, which leads to development of colon ...Tiny polyps gorge themselves to survive coral bleaching
... while Montipora had somehow managed to completely replenish them. To explain that, Grottoli and colleagues cl...llowing it not only to survive and repair but also replenish its internal energy reserves. "We think that this means that coral like Montipora can switch how it...Coral reef resilience: Better feeders survive bleaching
... M. capitata increased five-fold, allowing them to replenish their energy reserves making it more likely that they'll survive and spawn after a bleaching event. "The results were a surprise," Palardy said. "Previous studies showed that thick tissue layers or mounded shapes made corals resilient. But we found ...UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine receives gift from Dolbys
...velopment and to identify ways to use the cells to replenish or restore damaged tissue. Everyone is hopeful that the research at the Institute, as well as studies already underway in the field, could pave the way for myriad new approaches to treating a wide variety of diseases." UCSF began considering construc......ously degrade bone, while cells called osteoblasts replenish it. "Ideally, they are perfectly balanced," said Crabtree, the senior author of the study. "Over the course of a lifetime, if everything goes well, we'll maintain almost exactly identical bone mass." However, if the balance is upset, and more bone ...NIH launches effort to place more knockout mice in public repositories
...lines to the repositories, which will maintain and replenish them, and distribute the lines to the biomedical research community upon request. "We are very pleased that the NCRR's network of mouse repositories will be working together to carry out this effort. The network has an excellent track record of acqui...Chemical tests of cell growth enter third dimension
... for up to two weeks without researchers having to replenish the growth medium. "If you replenish the medium, you could essentially grow cells indefinitely," Yang said. The second new technology to...Commercial fishing causes dangerous fluctuations in fish populations
...ons vulnerable because if they rely on recruits to replenish their numbers, there is always the danger that some kind of environmental factor will devastate the recruits in one season. This would leave the population close to collapse, with very few young fish coming into the group to replace those being caugh...Stem cells engage in dialogue with the cells that regulate their futures
...so on. Niches are places where your stem cells can replenish themselves and your tissue cells throughout your l...elf-renewing division," she explained, "stem cells replenish the stem cell pool. They also produce progeny that change into other, specialized cells. Importantly...Project to intensify agricultural production in Great Lakes -- Africa's most impoverished region
...earlyand the use of mineral fertilizers, which can replenish those lost plant nutrients, is among the world's lowest." Most of the Great Lakes population survives on less than US $0.65 a day, says Dr. Balu Bumb, IFDC Economist and Program Leader for Policy, Trade, and Markets. The average farm size is less ...