What does an airline traveler have in common with a glowing fish?
...this animal an ideal candidate for high-throughput screening aimed at identifying components of the circadian clock in the zebrafish. Thanks to luminescent fish, scientists may someday gain enough insight to make jet lag a thing of the past....US government list of cancer-causing agents grows
... C infection. Infections can also be prevented by screening blood supplies, and by reducing contact with contaminated fluids in health care settings. Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are viruses that are sexually transmitted and can infect genital and mucous membranes. Some of these genital mucosal type HPVs are...Heart specialists call for cardiovascular screening for all young competitive athletes
...perts have called for a Europe-wide cardiovascular screening programme for all young athletes before they are a..., a 12-lead ECG. The report's writers believe that screening using ECG has the potential to cut sports-related cardiac deaths in Europe by 50%-70% if it can be i......ig part of this was the proteomics"-- a systematic screening and identification of proteins, in this case those which were expressed in the microbe when subjected to stress. The proteomic analyses were done by four teams led by Kolker, Carol S. Giometti, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL); John R. Yates III; Th...Effective cancer treatments follow the clock
...on of the circadian clock. We have already started screening sets of chemical compounds for their ability to affect this function. We are also planning additional studies to discover the molecular signals from the circadian machinery to the immune system that might prove to be useful drug targets."...Physicians recommend screening for toxoplasmosis for all pregnant women, newborns
...herefore, the physicians recommend that systematic screening for acute acquired toxoplasmosis for all pregnant ...e United States during prenatal visits, as well as screening for congenital toxoplasmosis in all newborns, become standard medical practice. The group also empha...Combating blindness is vision of UT, ORNL project
...eating blinding diseases in broad-based population screening programs, but also for novel biomedical imaging and telemedicine. "With 180 million people worldwide either blind or at risk of becoming blind, this research has a chance to make a profound effect on people's lives," Chaum said. "By developing a comp...New technique may help detect fetal single gene disorders
...of simple equipment is especially suitable for the screening of at-risk pregnancies in developing countries."...Other highlights in the February 16 JNCI
... are reproducible and reliable enough for use as a screening test. A new study and two responding commentaries discuss these issues. Keith A. Baggerly, Ph.D., of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and colleagues examined the reproducibility of the proteomic pattern found in a prev...Certain genetic test helps detect mutations that may be missed by conventional DNA test
...lness and risk of death. It has been proposed that screening of all patients with colorectal cancer for mismatch repair gene mutations may be both feasible and desirable. "The accurate identification and interpretation of mismatch repair mutation carriers is essential for clinical management of colorectal canc...Discovery offers cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment hopes
...er." In particular, he said, the use of oct-4 as a screening marker to identify new chemoprevention dietary agents and chemotherapeutic drugs could be extremely helpful in fighting cancer. "This is especially significant in light of recent findings that, within the billions of cells of a tumor, there exists a ...Purdue proves concept of using nano-materials for drug discovery
...lion test chambers, or "reactors," each capable of screening an individual drug, said Gil Lee, the project's leader and an associate professor of chemical engineering. "What we are reporting now is a proof of concept," said Lee, one of three researchers who wrote a paper that details new findings in the curren...Muon opportunists: Detecting the unseen with natural probes
...whether the method is quick enough to allow prompt screening of large numbers of vehicles or cargo containers. ...e a significant contribution to efforts to tighten screening of vehicles and cargo containers entering the United States. This AAAS session was organized by Rick...Learning to fight an adversary that won't stay down
...ues such as genomic sequencing and high throughput screening were expected to make the development of new antibiotic compounds easier and more productive. But in most cases the microbes continue to hold the upper hand and if three billion years of bacterial history is any kind of track record, we're in for an...SARS surveillance via mass spectometry
...id, sensitive, high throughput, and cost-effective screening method." Towards this goal, Liu and colleagues now demonstrate that an MS-based technique can quickly yield accurate information on clinical isolates (in this case from the 2003 SARS outbreak in Singapore)....Rapid, new test develped for inherited immune deficiency
...ular test is a good approach." The newly developed screening tool exploits a detailed understanding of the matu...Dr. Puck's group is collaborating with the newborn screening laboratory of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in Baltimore. The Maryland state ...UNC findings may help explain cause of most common movement disorder
...animal model of the disease might prove useful for screening potential treatments, said Dr. A. Leslie Morrow, associate director of UNC's Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies and professor of psychiatry and pharmacology in UNC's School of Medicine. "We believe that these mice could explain one etiology, or origi...First step towards a non-invasive screening test for early signs of testicular cancer
...ngs are the first step towards developing a simple screening test for men at risk of the disease. Writing in Eu...his method could be used as a simple, non-invasive screening test, it could be offered in andrology and fertility clinics to young men at risk of testicular canc...... appear in patients with Alzheimer's. After first screening families from the same NIMH study group examined in the 2003 full-genome screen, they retested potential associations in a separate group of 217 sibling pairs. The results confirmed that particular changes in the ubiquilin-1 gene sequence occurred m......UF researchers say they will continue to apply the screening approach to other drugs in various situations and also will seek to develop better ways of determining how frequently and at what dose a drug should be given to minimize the development of resistance. They recently collaborated, for example, with NA...