INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
...ost and produces even more waste. Another solution treats wastewater chemically with salts, but its harmful residue essentially cancels out the environmental benefits of using hydrogen peroxide in the first place. The most direct wastewater treatment uses a catalase to break down hydrogen peroxide. But scie...New painkiller was born in Utah
...the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, and treats adolescents and adults who have depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder (manic-depression) and obsessive-compulsive disorder. ...Systems microbiology has great scientific promise in health and environment
...eld of systems microbiology. Systems microbiology treats microorganisms or microbial communities as a whole, integrating fundamental biological knowledge with genomics and other data to create an integrated picture of how a microbial cell or community operates. According to a new report, "Systems Microb...Recent breakthroughs in common adult leukemia highlighted in New England Journal of Medicine
...may be abandoned in many cases," said Dr. Rai, who treats many CLL patients. "New and upcoming discoveries made collectively by us and many other scientists around the world may alter the natural history of this currently incurable leukemia," he added. A decade ago, CLL was considered a uniform disease of i...Winners of AIBS Media Awards announced
...e 13 to 15, 2004. The judges noted that "The story treats a complex subject but was nevertheless outstanding in readability, accessibility, and organization, and it made clear points about how changes in the environment affect habitat. It was balanced -- environmental writing tends to be one-sided, but in t...Georgia Tech research reveals how biomaterial properties control cellular responses
ATLANTA (April 18, 2005) The body treats implanted medical devices including everything from titanium hip replacements and blood vessel grafts as invaders. Cells surround and attack foreign material, resulting in an inflammatory response. This unfriendly reaction prevents implants from in...Identification of specific genes predicts which patients will respond to Hepatitis C treatment
...rsity of Toronto, who contributed to the study and treats many of the patients in the study. "We want to be able to give patients as much information as we can, so that they can make the best decisions about their treatment options." Tony Angelini, 42, was one of the patients in the study who responded to ...What do 'ecolabels' tell about food?
...and knowing a product came from a food system that treats farmers well may well enhance its flavor," note Lockeretz and Merrigan. Some ecolabels focus more on addressing the environmental and social impact of the seed-to-table agricultural chain, intent on changing the mainstream cycle that focuses on quant...20th annual convention of US naturopathic physicians convenes Aug. 24, 2005 in Phoenix
...medication. By contrast, naturopathic medical care treats the entire person, not just the "complaint." Prescription medication is not generally used. Secondly, naturopathic physicians believe that prevention is the best cure. Finally, the cornerstone of naturopathic medical care is the belief that the body...SEROQUEL: An effective treatment option for aggression in patients with schizophrenia
...e symptoms are prescribed a therapy which not only treats these symptoms but which they also find acceptable, in terms of its tolerability, so that they adhere to the prescribed treatment" continued Professor Arango. "In both respects, SEROQUEL holds advantages for both patient and clinician, making it a po...LIAI scientists make major finding on potential smallpox treatment
...hort-term protection, similar to how an antibiotic treats and for a short time protects against a bacterial infection. "This makes Dr. Crotty's research even more interesting because his findings appear to offer a way to successfully treat the virus," Kronenberg said. "This could be very important should p...Science survey ranks top biopharma employers
...a ranking, for example, on the basis of whether it treats its employees with respect, whether its work-culture values align with employees' personal values, and other factors. For the complete business office supplement with individual company rankings, go to http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/feature/ad...Turning sensation into perception
...as vibrating or still, and they were rewarded with treats when they were correct. The scientists found that activity in S1 neurons, where touch information first arrives, correlated directly with the strength of the stimulus; when the strength of the vibrations was more intense, the S1 neurons' fired more ......n DNA barcoding, a recently proposed strategy that treats a short fragment of DNA as a sort of universal product code to identify species. But this approach generated controversy from the start, with skeptics bristling at the notion that a single gene fragment could perform such a tall task. In a new study ...Tufts professor chews on the nutrition-oral health connection
Sitting and snacking on treats in front of the television for severalhours a day increases a child's risk of developing dental decay? Manywould probably have finished that sentence with the word, "obesity."Actually, both versions are correct, according to Carole A. Palmer, EdD,RD...Study finds drug may cut down involuntary movements
...ople in the nation. The symptom that tetrabenazine treats involuntary, writhing movements of the limbs, face, and sometimes the entire body is the hallmark symptom of Huntington's disease, an inherited neurodegenerative disorder that worsens as brain cells known as medium spiny neurons are killed off by a...German Microarray Excellence Center integrates Genomatix Chip Analysis Pipeline
...alysis on the latest up-to-date genome annotation, treats each oligo-nucleotide probe per se without the statistical averaging as established with most other methods Dr. Martin Seifert, Genomatix VP of Microarray Business and Collaborative Research says: "Our proprietary single probe approach in ChipInspec...Multi-million pound UK Biobank underway
...viously Chief Executive of the NHS, said: "The NHS treats the largest single group of people anywhere in the world and it keeps detailed records from birth to death. From these records we can identify men and women to invite who are aged between 40 and 69. This age group includes many people who are at risk...'Custom' nanoparticles could improve cancer diagnosis and treatment
... think this will transform the way one detects and treats disease," says study leader Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D., a chemistry professor at UNC and director of the schools Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanoscience and Technology. He has co-founded a company, Liquidia Technologies, to develop and produce the ...Cancerous vs. healthy cells: Researchers identify the road to success
...e these patients' chances of survival. Trastuzumab treats women with metastatic breast cancer whose tumors overproduce the ErbB2 gene. The overproduction of the ErbB2 gene, also called Her-2/neu, leads to aggressive breast cancer and poorer patient survival. ErbB2 is part of a family of genes called epide...