Discoverer of Sly Syndrome finds way of delivering medicine to fight rare genetic disorder
...e blood-brain barrier for the missing enzyme was a shot in the dark, Banks says. High doses of epinephrine can destroy the blood-brain barrier and let everything into the brain, which is toxic, Banks says. We tested three things. One didnt work at all. One worked partially and epinephrine worked incredi...Vaccine trials inject hope into koala's future
...esponse in the koalas and whether or not a booster shot is required. "There is no danger that a koala without chlamydia will contract the disease from the vaccine." Professor Timms said the vaccine trial was a significant step in the right direction in fighting the threat of chlamydia in koalas. QUT...UCR biologists unravel the genetic secrets of black widow spider silk
...eses two proteins, hopefully we will have a better shot at mimicking nature. Spider silks have some of the best mechanical properties of any known natural fibers, thus they are being considered in the improvement of a variety of products including surgical microsutures and specialty ropes. Dragline silk...US control strategies may make flu epidemics worse, UCLA study shows
...del. With seasonal flu, protective immunity a flu shot lasts only one year. Thus, individuals must decide each year whether or not to participate in a vaccination program. The model Blowers team developed is inspired by game theory, used in economics to predict how non-communicating, selfish individu...US control strategies may make flu epidemics worse, UCLA study shows
...del. With seasonal flu, protective immunity a flu shot lasts only one year. Thus, individuals must decide each year whether or not to participate in a vaccination program. The model Blower's team developed is inspired by game theory, used in economics to predict how non-communicating, selfish individ...Update on census of wrld's most endangered cat -- female Amur leopard found dead
... found that the 77 pound mature female leopard was shot in the back side. The bullet came through tail bone, crushed the hip bones and lodged in the belly. She was then beaten to death with a heavy object. The killing of even one female is a huge loss for a cat on the brink of extinction, said Darron C...Paper challenges 1491 Amazonian population theories
...ple will be persuaded, but it's certainly awarning shot across the bow." "While the majority of archaeologists argue the rivers were the majorconduit for populations," he adds, "there is an increasing vocalization that therewas much more widespread habitat transformation; that you still had abulk of peo...Computer scientists join in search for ivory-billed woodpecker
...rutinize the images stored in the hard disks for a shot of the ivory-billed woodpecker. In addition to Luneau, the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp., Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Audubon Arkansas, Nature Conservancy in Arkansas, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Woodruff Electric Cooperative Corp...Global study concludes 'attack rate' of flu in kids is 55 percent lower with nasal spray vaccine
...group of children who received the traditional flu shot in the arm or thigh. "Children get the flu twice... were randomized to receive either the traditional shot or the FluMist nasal spray -- for the entire 2004-2005 winter season," Belshe said. "In this worldwi...Flu shot might also offer some protection against H5N1
...und that a protein present in the annual influenza shot can act as a vaccine itself and trigger some cross protection against H5N1 in mice; and that some human volunteers already had antibodies directed against the same part of this virus. Cross protection occurs when the immune response triggered by a va...Bats in flight reveal unexpected aerodynamics
... thin flexible membrane covering them. The videos, shot from four angles simultaneously and then synchronized, show how the complex movements of each wing stroke relate to overall flight speed, body position and angle of attack. Reflective markers placed on joints, along bones and at key points on the win...Flu shot effective against drifted influenza, nasal spray vaccine less so
...ains in vaccines, the traditional killed-virus flu shot was found to be effective in preventing influenza ...t previously been studied head-to-head against the shot in adults with laboratory confirmation. The killed-virus flu shot is usually billed as 70 to 90 per...Scientists learning to create nanomaterials based on micro-algae patterns
...cle bombardment. DNA-coated tungsten particles are shot on the diatoms under high heliumpressure, thus enabling them to penetrate the strong diatom cell wall. The diatom incorporates the introduced DNA into its genome, and selection of the transfected cells is achieved using the antibiotic nourseothricin....Brown scientists map structure of DNA-doctoring protein complex
... the proteins, placing them in a gel that was then shot through with light. Sun measured the wavelengths of light as they bounced between the molecules of dye. Those measurements were then fed into a special software program created by Dale Mierke, a Brown professor of medical science, which plotted their...Gene sequencing center to receive $156 million
...clining in real dollars, the grant is a tremendous shot in the arm for Washington University," says Larry Shapiro, M.D., executive vice chancellor and dean of Washington University School of Medicine. "It shows that the National Institutes of Health has tremendous confidence in our genome sequence center ......nd shooter's stick almost a full second before the shot is released. When they do that they make the save ...es. Panchuk's study shows that the distance of the shot doesn't seem to matter, as long as goalies concentrates their gaze on the puck and stick in the crit...Steep oxygen decline halted first land colonization by Earth's sea creatures
...ion years during which Romer's Gap occurred then shot up again, and vertebrates and arthropods again began moving from the sea to land. "It matches two waves of colonization of the land," Ward said. "In the first wave the animals' lungs couldn't have been very good and when the oxygen level dropped it...Archerfish tune their shots to universal properties of prey adhesion
... energetic cost of the shot; doubling speed of the shot would require quadrupled energetic cost....News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...kahashi, Jian-Sheng Lin, and Kazuya Sakai Like a shot of espresso, neurons in the hypothalamus keep you awake and alert throughout the day, according to work by Takahashi et al. But the chemical is histamine, not caffeine, in this case. The authors monitored the activity of histaminergic neurons in the ...An infectious agent of deception, exposed through proteomics
...nt during the course of infection. But 39 proteins shot up in number during bacterial colonization of macrophages, and of those, a handful or so--including STM3117--responded specifically to a macrophage protein associated with resistance to microbial infection. A standard assay called Western blot confir...