Radiation therapy combined with microsurgery shows promise for curing injured spinal cord
...rats to 56.3% of cord tissue that was repaired and saved from further damage. This research provides hope for spinal cord injury victims that paralysis can indeed be prevented or repaired with a combination of conventional therapies at the time of injury, according to Kalderon....... Borlaugs scientific and humanitarian efforts have saved countless people from starvation and hunger while ...eat production. Many believe this green revolution saved the lives of up to a billion people. In 1970 Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize for the workthe ...Scientists find endangered grey-shanked doucs in Vietnam
...creasing chances that the endangered monkey can be saved from extinction. The grey-shanked douc is one of the worlds 25 most endangered primates and has only been recorded in the five central Vietnamese provinces of Quang Nam, Kon Tum, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, and Gia Lai. Fewer than 1,000 individuals are...On-farm research shows farmers that they can use less nitrogen
...ting money to apply more. I cut back, and that has saved me about $10-$12 per acre." And when farmer Dan Mulvaney used only 30 lbs of starter nitrogen on second-year corn at his farm in Conesus, N.Y., his corn silage yields increased 4 to 5 tons per acre, and his shelled corn increased from 100 to 140 bu...The kapok connection -- Study explains rainforest similarities
...exploitation for plywood," Dick said. "It might be saved from widespread extinction by continuing to invade new land areas through oceanic dispersal."...Super fruit fly may lead to healthier humans
...lly threw trillions ofpeptides at the receptor and saved the ones that stuck. We let the molecules themselves decide if they bind, rather than trying todesign them rationally, he said. After multiple cycles, the researchers had a group of peptides that stuck tothe receptor and not to any other protein....An 'elegant' idea proves its worth 25 years later
...chemistry to mop up potentially toxic nitrogen has saved an estimated 80 percent of patients with urea cycle disorders --- most of them children according to a report in this weeks New England Journal of Medicine summarizing a quarter century of experience with the treatment. The effectiveness of sodiu...Lipoic acid explored as anti-aging compound
...aby Boom, but also people are living longer, being saved with antibiotics and other medical treatments. In any case, it will be an unprecedented number of elderly people in this nation." The goal of LPI research, Hagen said, is to address issues of "healthspan," not just lifespan meaning the ability to ...Rare soft-shell turtle, nesting ground found in Cambodia
..., raising hopes that the threatened species can be saved from extinction. Scientists from Conservation In...edible discovery means that a unique turtle can be saved from disappearing from our planet, said David Emmett, a CI wildlife biologist. We thought it might b...Plants with male and bisexual flowers on the same plant are better mothers
...ive success? Such a benefit may arise if resources saved by producing smaller male flowers are reallocated to increased seed production, if male flowers are more attractive to pollinators, or if male flowers remove less pollen from pollinators than bisexual flowers, thus increasing the amount of non-self p...New diagnostic technologies offer non-invasive means
...ancer," Dr. Franzmann said. "Many lives could be saved through a test that is no more invasive than gargling." Smart Hydrogel Nanoparticles for Serum Cancer Biomarkers Harvesting: Abstract 2470 Researchers at George Mason University are investigating a remarkable use of nanotechnology that might c...Third primate genome, the rhesus macaque, helps illuminate what makes us human
...uently used in biomedical research. The monkey has saved countless lives just in the role it has played in determining the Rh factor and polio vaccine, but it has also been key to research into neurological and behavioral disorders. The new findings described in the Science articles include: Rhe...Study: Long legs are more efficient
...eason for this increase could have been the energy saved by having longer legs. "If you greatly increase the distance that you travel each day, then you'd expect evolution to act on walking efficiency," he says. "That way, the energy you save on travel can be spent instead on survival and reproduction."Po...A dietary supplement protects the lives of farm shrimp
The lives of shrimp have been saved by a dietary supplement which prevents infection by pathogenic (disease-causing) bacteria. Could this put a stop to the use of antibiotics? Brine shrimp which were fed a compound called poly--hydroxybutyrate (PHB) were prevented from becoming infec...World's oldest rocks show how Earth may have dodged frozen fate of Mars
...that has become a bane of modern society, may have saved Earth from freezing over early in the planet's history, according to the first detailed laboratory analysis of the world's oldest sedimentary rocks. Scientists have theorized for years that high concentrations of greenhouse gases could have helped...Algae toxin identification unravels fish-kill mystery
... by the presence of copper-sulfur complexes. "NIST saved the day," Moeller said, "because we were working with only microgram and submicrogram quantities of the toxin. To not only determine that a metal was indeed present but even tell us which one really broke things open." With that lead, Moeller's tea......lair of comic-book superhero Batman, a batfish has saved a coral reef that was being choked to death by seaweed although the fish was never previously known as a weed-eater. Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) who were studying how coral reefs are lost to weed wer...Innovative projects help ORNL win 3rd straight DOE Pollution Prevention Award
... get a good piece of equipment, but the laboratory saved more than $2.5 million and eliminated waste, and the equipment found reuse." In another project, ORNL worked with the University of Tennessee's Center for Industrial Services and Waste Connections to convert 80 tons of gypsum wallboard scraps from c...New light microscope sharpens scientists' focus
...ich turned out to be old optics equipment Hess had saved from their days at Bell Labs, supplemented by the money in their wallets. They dusted off the equipment and set up shop in the living room of Hess's condominium in La Jolla, California. There, in just two months, they built a prototype of the instr...Special Science issue examines HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean
...iretroviral drug cocktails. The government says it saved 90,000 patients from death as well as $1.2 billion that would have been spent on hospitalization and treatment of opportunistic infections. Argentina , where the epidemic's characteristics have changed dramatically. Once driven mainly by gay men a...