Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders
...that help fortify people with HIV and AIDS against secondary infections while increasing the effectiveness of retroviral drugs. "Small fish ponds are a valuable addition to farms without substantially adding to the labour burden," says Daniel Jamu, the WorldFish Center's program director for southern Africa, a...Scientists focus on 'dwarf eye'
...se complications," said Sundin. "But the disease's secondary complications later in life, including glaucoma or detached retina, are far more severe and can lead to complete blindness." One such patient with nanophthalmos, an Amish-Mennonite woman who was blind in one eye, came to the Wilmer Eye Institute in 1...Snapin: A protein with therapy potential for autism
...wing out of the cell body decreased, but many more secondary dendrites branched off them. "This is significant not just in identifying snapin as a protein that shapes the dendrites, but also in pinpointing a drug target where one can regulate the interaction of snapin with cypin," Firestein explained. Both o...Studies find possible drug targets for improving vascular health
...of Akt may also worsen peripheral vascular disease secondary to atherosclerosis, diabetes or aging. The studies in PNAS and JCI are synergistic since Akt can regulate nitric oxide synthase function by increasing its activity....The right hitchhiker can save an aphid's life
...o host one of several bacterial symbionts known as secondary symbionts. One of his previous experiments indicat...ected several uninfected lineages of aphids with a secondary symbiont called Hamiltonella defensa. As a result, he had five genetically distinct colonies of pea ...Antibiotics may not be enough to stop recurrent gastric lymphoma caused by Helicobacter pylori
...that gastric lymphoma progresses more rapidly upon secondary infection. Because resting B cells are left behind following antibiotic treatment, re-infection by H. pylori promotes the existing B cells to progress quickly into tumors. Therefore, it is important that treated patients be carefully monitored for ...New techniques study the brain's chemistry, neuron by neuron
... sampling protocols and single cell time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry to identify and map the presence of vitamin E in the membranes of isolated neurons. "To our surprise, we found that vitamin E was not distributed uniformly in the neuronal membrane," Sweedler said. "Instead, vitamin E was concen...Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident
...vity has reduced surface contamination, but led to secondary contamination of sewage and sludge systems. Radiation in air above settled areas returned to background levels, though levels remain higher where soils have remained undisturbed. How contaminated are agricultural areas? Weathering, physical decay...JCI table of contents October 1, 2005
...rminant of protective immunity to both primary and secondary infection with the fungus. One of the major properties of TNF-alpha is to mediate apoptosis. In a paper appearing online on September 8 in advance of print publication of the October 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, George Deepe and ...Life's origins were easier than was thought
...ractically identical to DNA and that today has the secondary role in cells of copying information stored in DNA and translating it into proteins. These proteins have a direct active role in the chemical reactions of the cell. In the early stages of life, it seems that the first RNA chains would have had the du...The roots of civilization trace back to ... roots
... The size of the teeth and jaws reflect the apes' secondary food source (roots) instead of primary foods like meats and fruits, which do not require such massive chewing abilities. While our ancient ancestors may have left the rain forest for the savannah in pursuit of game meat, it was the ability to find a...Cell signaling discovery yields heart disease clues
...r molecule, typically a hormone, which activates a secondary regulatory messenger molecule cyclic AMP (cAMP) within a particular compartment in the recipient cell. This causes cAMP to stimulate an enzyme that triggers the activity of proteins involved in altering a cell's physiology and governing other bioch...Inheritance, smoking spawn mysterious and deadly lung disease
...se prone to the condition who also experience some secondary lung injury. Smokers, in particular, had over three times the risk of developing the condition than members of affected families who had never smoked, found the researchers. "This is a terrible disease whose causes have remained unclear and for whic...Illinois researchers to play key roles in study of emergence of life
...h high school. A special symposium for primary and secondary educators also is planned at the conclusion of the research. The NSF's FIBR grant is the second in two years that sends funds to the Institute for Genomic Biology, headed by Harris Lewin. Last year, the IGB was named the lead institution on a $5 mill...UW-Madison small-scale research receives big boost
...f cells, including human embryonic cells." Under a secondary aspect of that work, researchers in the group will design substrates, or surfaces, with a controlled chemistry and nanoscale topography. "They will use this ability, again, to control the growth and differentiation of stem cells - something that nobo...JCI table of contents November, 2005
...ility of using tonsil biopsies for the analysis of secondary lymphoid tissue in human autoimmune diseases. Ready availability of such tissue has been a long-standing hurdle for the study of these diseases. This work contributes to our understanding of the events leading to the activation of autoreactive B cel...Cyberkinetics, Case to develop system to help restore extremity function
... syndrome (tetraplegia and the inability to speak) secondary to stroke. Previously published results from this study of the BrainGate System have demonstrated that a person with severe paralysis may be able to control a computer cursor in order to operate external devices, as well as to operate a prosthetic ha...Mice provide insight into therapy-induced cancers in humans
...ears earlier. To make matters worse, many of these secondary cancers are notoriously resistant to treatment. Th...or radiation combined with chemotherapy, developed secondary cancers that are common in humans including leukemia, sarcoma, and breast cancers. "These animals de......ourse of spongiform encephalopathies; rather it is secondary event. According to the researchers' observations, the loss of these nests and consequent neuronal death are due to the damage produced after the appearance of the prions in the brain, where they act upon such perineuronal nests, amongst other struct...