'Lighter than air' breathing more than doubles COPD patients' exercise endurance
...tensity exercise endurance capacity in moderate to severe COPD patients." However, they note that "further studies are needed to verify the potential role of heliox supplementation during exercise rehabilitation programs in COPD patients." ...Patients' own stem cells used to cure incontinence
...les, ages 36 to 84, who were experiencing minor to severe stress incontinence participated in the research. Muscle-derived stem cells were removed from each patient's arm and cultured, or grown, using a patented technique that yielded 50 million new muscle cells (myoblasts) and 50 million connective tissue ...Promising results in the battle against incurable ALS muscle disease
...ew research from this group shows that rats with a severe form of ALS live longer following the administrati... on ALS rats. Testing the treatment on rats with a severe form of ALS and on rats with a milder form, the researchers found that, in both groups, the VEGF-tre...Say goodbye to Rudolph and other reindeer if global warming continues
...large portions of their current range and be under severe environmental stress by the end of the century. That finding comes from a new study that examined the archaeological record in southwestern France, where reindeer became locally extinct during two earlier episodes of warming roughly 10,000 and 130,...Study reveals developing countries with recipe for thriving health biotech industries
... from being the first in the world to sequence the severe acquired respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus. Brazil and Egypt have also been hindered by a lack of linkages, especially between universities and industry. Those countries' success to date has been the result of strong individuals playi...INEEL honors five scientists as Laboratory Fellows
... career working in the area of light water reactor severe accident behavior for the Power Burst Facility Severe Fuel Damage Program and the Three-Mile Island Accident Evaluation Project. He also has worked on the New Production Reactor Modular High Temperature Gas Reactor Project defining radiological sourc...Dream home: Malaria parasite renovates to suit its tastes
...year and kills one to two million, causes the most severe form of malaria in humans. Once in the blood, the ...mplete its 48-hour life cycle, multiply, and cause severe infection without detection by the immune system. "Adhesion of parasite-infected erythrocytes to ho...New model of rare childhood blindness holds promise for testing preventive therapies
...ells, the team showed that AIPL1-deficiency causes severe retinal degeneration beginning around the second week of life in affected mice. The degeneration leads to loss of almost all photoreceptors by seven weeks of age. When the team used a technique called electroretinography to measure the electrical ac...UT Southwestern researchers locate gene family involved in determining potential for acquiring lupus
...ation of genes that can either lead to or suppress severe disease. Once we fully characterize Sles1, we'll have the complete picture." Researchers in the Center for Immunology are currently working with faculty in the Division of Rheumatology and the Simmons Arthritis Research Center to expand analysi...Encouraging results of gene therapy for severe combined immunodeficiency
...eating a functional immune system for infants with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). SCID is a genetic disease which prevents the immune system--particularly the white blood cells--from functioning. This leaves individuals at high risk of infection, as documented many years ago by the patient, David ...New compound could enhance cancer treatments
...ld spare the patient a lot of side effects such as severe nausea, kidney or liver damage, and other side effects typically experienced during chemotherapy," Tepe said. "Tests preformed with cancer cells in culture found that over a 48-hour period small amounts of SP-4-84 made camptothecin 75 times more effe...Violent ocean motion no magic potion for reefs
... already studied, and because of the potential for severe ecological and economic damage, Senator Ken Pruitt pushed for several years to fund a reef survey. In May, the state legislature appropriated $500,000 for the project ( http://www.hboi.edu/news/press/jun0804.Html ). The survey, which is being conduc...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
... on those who acquire it, it can pose an even more severe risk for immuno-compromised patients further emphasizing the need for an effective vaccine. "In the aggregate, the burden of genital herpes has made development of more effective prevention strategies a health priority," say the researchers. The stud...Drilled shells show extinction's lasting effects
... on the competitive environment," Vermeij said. A severe but regional extinction event at the end of the PlioceneEpoch 1.7 million years ago seems to have tilted the balance fromhigh competition to low competition, according to the researchers. Atthat time, up to 70 percent of marine species in the Western...First 'atlas' of key brain genes could speed research on cancer, neurological diseases
...ulate development of the neurons that generate the severe pain that is a common symptom of metastatic tumors....An unusual RNA structure in the SARS virus offers a promising target for antiviral drugs
...A--Research on the genome of the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has revealed an unusual molecular structure that looks like a promising target for antiviral drugs. A team of scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has determined the three-dimensional shape of this...University of Chicago researchers discovered that humans are a 'privileged' evolutionary lineage
...M or Microcephalin cause microcephaly in humans a severe reduction in the size of the cerebral cortex, the part of the brain responsible for planning, abstract reasoning and other higher cognitive function. The researchers found that both the ASPM and Microcephalin genes showed clear evidence of accelerate...New painkiller was born in Utah
The natural form of Prialt a new drug for severe pain approved this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was discovered at the University of Utah in 1979 by an incoming freshman studying toxins produced by cone snails. The student, J. Michael McIntosh, worked in the laboratory of Univer...A key signaling molecule in osteoarthritis is identified
...drugs used to treat arthritic pain being linked to severe side effects.......hat mice lacking A1AR die shortly after birth from severe inflammatory lung disease, indicating that A1AR serves an anti-inflammatory and thus protective role in the development of lung inflammation. The findings are particularly relevant in light of the fact that drugs that block A1AR are currently being i...