After flu exposure, mild exercise protects mature mice from dying
.... The Illinois researchers plan on doing followup studies with animals that had been exercising regularly, as well as studies that to try and uncover the overall protective effect and its mechanisms. Areas that they'll be stud......s does not give CERN any role or responsibility in studies on environment, environmental protection and sustainable development, the Organization is nonetheless involved with the three main themes of the EnviroInfo 2004 Conference: environment, informatics and sharing. During its first fifty years, CERN has ...Obese women with early-stage breast cancer more likely to die than women of normal weight
...y in early-stage breast cancer patients. Previous studies show that obesity is a risk factor for the development of breast cancer, but these prior studies have reported contradictory results regarding the influence of obesity on outcome in breast cancer p...Toward a better understanding of taste and smell impairments
...es in smell and taste. Information gained from the studies will form the foundation of new approaches to avoi..., each headed by Monell investigators, will pursue studies related to the impact of inflammation on clinical disruption of smell and taste function: On...Is more better: Counting birds may only tell part of the story
...ch Jones (University of Colorado Boulder) reviewed studies from the past 20 years, looking at whether a large...een abundance and reproductive success. Out of the studies examined, disturbed areas are more likely to show negative associations between abundance and reprod...Society for Psychophysiology Research
...can work for extended periods of time? A series of studies will be presented that suggest that expressive wri...cal and mental health have also been found. Recent studies suggest that expressive writing sets off a cascade of cognitive, emotional, biological, and social s...T cell's memory may offer long-term immunity to leishmaniasis
... that still retained memory of Leishmania. Recent studies have shown that memory T cells may be of more than one type. One type, which is less activated and found in the lymph nodes, is called central memory T cells. Since little is known about CD4+ T cell memory during chronic disease, the Penn research...HHS awards $232 million in biodefense contracts for vaccine development
...ccines as well as further safety and effectiveness studies in animals and humans. The tularemia and plague awards will fund early-stage product development of the respective vaccines, which will include dosage formulation, pilot batch production and initial clinical assessment. All four contracts are for pur...MIT: Recycling of scrapped electronics studied
...er paid or was paid to take it away. In case studies of three U.S. firms, the researchers found that the value-based metrics worked well and were easy to use. The researchers stress that their materials-only analysis is just a baseline and does not incorporate the effect of device or component reuse. T...Experts present new research on hot topics in aging at GSA's annual meeting in Washington, DC
...Aging (PacGen) was designed to explore and develop studies of the genetics for longevity in the Japanese Amer...ributing to survivorship. Data from four different studies collected in three countries will be presented: First, metabolic factors related to energy balance a...Sedentary overweight people get insulin boost from short term exercise; CVD risks trend down
...change or bad changes in CVD risk factors. Both studies were performed on the same groups by Steven E. Black (a doctoral student) and Elizabeth Mitchell (an undergraduate honors student), both working in the laboratory of Barry Braun in the Department of Exercise Science, University of Massachusetts, Amhe...Drought in the West linked to warmer temperatures
...ecords. The team then used published climate model studies to explore mechanisms that link warming with aridity in the western U.S. In addition to the paper in Science , they also used the data to create a CD-ROM called the North American Drought Atlas, the first of its kind, providing a history of drought ...Study describes basic mechanism in cell growth control involving damaged DNA
...ly take center stage in basic biomedical research, studies are revealing a complex molecular choreography with implications for human health and disease. In a report currently appearing in the online issue of the journal Nature Cell Biology, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Schoo...Why do African-American women have more pregnancy problems?
... to 35 percent of black infants. Further, previous studies have shown traditional medically oriented prenatal care has minimal impact on improving pregnancy outcomes. The new project will look at whether more comprehensive and coordinated prenatal care strategies may improve pregnancy outcomes. U-M researche...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2004
...ls were found to perform better than expected. The studies suggest that the complete replacement of water-damaged building materials may not always be necessary. ORNL conducted the research in collaboration with Tuskegee University in Alabama, a state that recently experienced its own high water problems ass...Protein protecting brain from toxins also blocks some chemotherapy from reaching tumors
...is agent to reach tumors. Results from a series of studies by investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are published in a recent issue of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB). The St. Jude team, which developed a mouse model lacking the Mrp4 protein, says study results in both mice and tissue...Workshop on Responsible Stem Cell Research
...s and academic institutions, however, are pursuing studies on stem cells derived from donated embryos and not included in the approved lines. Several states also are considering funding a wider array of stem cell research. In the absence of federal regulations to govern broader stem cell research, a committe...FSU scientist links iron imbalance to Parkinson's disease
... death in existing victims. Until further studies determine optimal levels of the essential nutrient, Levenson advises health-conscious consumers without doctors' orders to forego the mineral in tablet form in favor of natural dietary sources like red meats, dried fruits, dark leafy greens, tofu, co...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...ion sickness might be involved. Meanwhile, recent studies show that marine mammals might commonly carry "sup...ology ( nachtiga@hawaii.edu ) will present hearing studies of a stranded infant dolphin undergoing recovery. Representing the first-ever studies of a newly bo......ia Institute of Technology collaborated on two new studies analyzing the mechanisms and proteins that underlie the fission-fusion cycle of the cellular powerplants, called mitochondria. Their findings were published in two recent issues of the journal Science. "To understand the role that mitochondria play ...