Molecular drug pump may help reduce risk of Alzheimer's
...study that suggested the antibiotic rifampin could slow the decline of patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's. "That result didn't seem to be linked to the drug's antibiotic properties, and now we have a much more appealing explanation: rifampin is a known inducer of Pgp activity," says co-author Dav...Humans are governed by emotionsliterally
...e deliberation is far more flexible but relatively slow and laborious. Emote control is the default decisi... and government should adopt legal safeguards that slow the pace of decision-making so that lawmakers have time to weigh the consequences of their choices. ...Selective logging causes widespread destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest, study finds
...icate that full restoration of habitats are likely slow for large predators," the authors write. Another concern is climate change. "When a tree trunk is removed, the crown, wood debris and vines are left behind to decompose, releasing carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere," Asner says. "Sawmills often h...Rutgers findings a step toward safer chemicals in labs and industry
...y and environmental advantages, higher costs could slow their adoption. Still, the Rutgers advance could make these chemicals suitable for some near-term specialty applications even though it may be too early to predict a widespread industrial market for RTILs. "By pairing the molecules we've studied with...Go with the flow: How cells use biological flows to signal and organize
...rated for the first time that the presence of very slow biological flows affects the extracellular environ...t role. Swartz and her colleagues have found that slow biophysical flows, such as the slow-moving flows that exist between the lymphatic and blood capillar...Valuing biodiversity services, including its insurance against disease
... species to absorb and store carbon may be used to slow climate change; How introducing species to a new environment sometimes transplants invasive diseases and other problems. Exotic bee species imported for crop pollination, for example, appear to have also caused the spread of unwelcome new weeds whil...Non-drug hypertension treatment device effectively reduces blood pressure in hypertensive diabetics
... 15-minute daily self-treatment with device-guided slow breathing using the RESPeRATE device with that of a control group that continued their usual care. Medication, diet and physical exercise were unchanged in both groups during the study. Results show a significant reduction in systolic blood pressur...Newly recognized gene mutation may reduce seeds, resurrect plants
...ft it in a room for two or three weeks. I was just slow in throwing it away," said Jenks, who also is a member of the Purdue Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology. "When I went to throw it away, I noticed it had small shoots coming up as if it had returned to life." The surprising finding in st...Gene therapy improves gemcitabine effects in experimental glioma model
...d difficult to treat whereas low grade tumours are slow growing and treatable.1 Unlike other cancers, the geographical incidence of brain tumours should be cautiously interpreted as the criteria and registration of brain tumours is not always consistent. However, the incidence does rise from the age of th......dings to hear the ultrasonics. One approach used a slow playback (at one-sixteenth of the recorded speed) that distorted the temporal structure of the calls, which sounded like low, intermittent whistles. The other dropped the pitch to an audible level without interfering with the time sequence--the pitch...Targeted drug delivery achieved with nanoparticle-aptamer bioconjugates
...d manner which can vary from a sudden release to a slow release over a period of several years. Using prostate cancer as a model disease, proof of concept nanoscale targeted drug delivery vehicles were developed (1 nanometer = 0.000000001 meter), which can target prostate cancer cells with high specificit...Compound in wine reduces levels of Alzheimer's disease-causing peptides
...rk in synergy with small amounts of resveratrol to slow down the progression of the neurodegenerative process in humans." Following up on their studies, Marambaud and his colleagues are trying to figure out how resveratrol exerts its effects in order to develop similar compounds to use in fighting Alzheim...Technique offers new view of dynamic biological landscape
...ther -- if drugs that inhibit each of two proteins slow down a cancer or virus -- the two proteins interact epistatically, such that inhibiting both produces a much greater effect than the sum of the two," he said....AGU Fall Meeting - media advisory 4
...s -- latest discoveries Surprising discoveries at slow spreading ocean ridges Space weather "cold fronts" New insights into the Sumatra earthquake and tsunami Antarctic ozone hole and polar ozone loss Icy moons of Saturn investigated by Cassini NASA administrator Griffin briefs on the Moon-Mars init...Exercise plus gene therapy shows promise for treating Lou Gehrig's disease
...ene expression may help us find new therapies that slow down the progression of ALS," Kaspar said. The disease affects about 30,000 people in the United States, with roughly 5,000 new cases reported each year. Average life expectancy is five years from the onset of the disease. The cause of ALS is unknown...Decrease cancer-suppressing protein activity, increase life span
...loric restriction, a biochemical cascade proven to slow aging. To test the hypothesis, the specially engineered flies were fed a calorie-diluted diet. But the flies didn't live any longer, suggesting that this pathway was, indeed, already in play. "We believe that p53 is part of the caloric restriction li...... and old (22-month) rats. They discovered that the slow down in degradation that normally follows a meal does not occur in old animals, so there is excessive breakdown. But adding leucine to the diet restored a balanced metabolism. The team of researchers believe that the age-related problem results from ...The end of aging? New study examines evolutionary explanations for 'biological immortality'
...tial increase in age-specific death rate seemed to slow down considerably, if not cease." The sudden plateau in mortality rates after a certain age has long been observed with other organisms, but its presence in human populations has been dismissed as a result of the advent of nursing homes and modern m...Study: Temperate forests could worsen global warming
...at growing forests in the United States would help slow global warming," Caldeira said. "But if we are not careful, growing forests could make global warming even worse." The researchers found that while tropical forests help keep Earth cool by evaporating a great deal of water, northern forests tend to w......uman running into a high-speed corner is forced to slow down and increase the amount of time their foot is...e that the tighter bends used for the indoor event slow the runners down. To examine if this affects other animals they used high-speed video recording of g...