Abnormal fat metabolism underlies heart problems in diabetic patients
...dysfunction in diabetic heart disease and may be a useful biomarker for diagnosing cardiovascular disease in diabetes," Gross says. "Measuring alterations may be a way to tell the severity of heart disease and to evaluate how well therapies work. In addition, these findings suggest potential new therapeutic...New textbook illuminates the close links between evolutionary and molecular biology
...learnt a great deal...the book as a whole would be useful for workers in the field as a source of reference ...ry Web site ( www.evolution-textbook.org ) will be useful to biologists who incorporate Evolution into their undergraduate- or graduate-level courses. The ...Brain blood flow gives clues to treating depression
...ction and its potential in providing immediately useful information in treating depression are emphasized in a study in the August Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Individuals in a depressed emotional state have impaired cerebral (brain) blood flow, explained Omer Bonne, head of inpatient psychiatry and ass...Smithsonian scientists show differing patterns of rainforest biodiversity
...me philosophical questions that our data should be useful to address, Miller said. If you can preserve 10,000 hectares of forest, is it better to preserve it as 10 small 1,000 hectare plots or one large 10,000 hectare plot" Strategies for preserving high and low beta diversity forests might not be the s...Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
...esearchers took the next step and made the results useful for computer graphics by determining how the light would actually scatter and be absorbed. It is this information that is used to render realistic images. We have the first complete, bottom-up theoretical model that addresses the shortcoming of th...Space-borne sensors help Africa tackle water shortage problems
...population. "The IWAREMA project information is useful for our policy makers in decision making for the basin and should be extended to other basins of the Zambezi so as to improve the data situation and make comparisons between areas, as very little information is currently available," Banda Kawawa of t...Improved NIST SRM aids lead poisoning detection
...blood lead concentration makes SRM 955c especially useful to laboratories. The lowest lead concentration level in the previous standard was 4 micrograms per deciliter or 40 parts per billion. In contrast, the lowest lead concentration level of SRM 955c is 0.4 microgram per deciliter or four parts per billio...Altering a protein makes mice less fearful
...ce relatively fearless. The findings might provide useful insight into anxiety disorders and may even point ...at possibility that blocking this protein might be useful for depression as well as anxiety." ...Einstein researchers' prototype vaccine could provide improved protection against tuberculosis
...genetics. But we feel that tweaking the marginally useful BCG vaccine is the wrong strategy. So weve started with virulent M. tuberculosisthe organism that actually causes TB in humansand are knocking out certain genes to yield a live, attenuated M. tuberculosis strain that still produces a strong immunolog...Aggressive therapy best for certain AML patients
...ion in these patients. It was the first clinically useful marker to be identified in cases of AML with normal-looking chromosomes, and it was found to predict a short remission and poor response to therapy. About 8 percent of AML patients with normal-looking chromosomes have the mutation. Studies done ei...Cost-effective method for gene silencing is featured in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
...cell maturation in vitro, and the protocol will be useful to researchers interested in understanding the intricacies of T-cell maturation. It was authored by Drs. Graham Anderson and Eric J. Jenkinson from the MRC Centre for Immune Regulation at the University of Birmingham (U.K.) ( http://www.mrcbcir.bham...Under magnetic force, nanoparticles may deliver gene therapy
...ople, said Levy. This delivery system may be a useful tool for delivering nonviral gene therapy, because it efficiently binds and protects DNA in blood serum and delivers it to cells, added Levy. As a nonviral method, it avoids the unwanted immune system responses that have occurred when viruses are use...Nanotechnology helps scientists make bendy sensors for hydrogen vehicles
...be wrapped around curved surfaces, and this proves useful in many applications, notably in vehicles, aircraft and portable electronics. The leakage of hydrogen caused by tiny pinholes in the pipe of a space shuttle, for example, could not be easily detected by individual rigid detectors because the locati...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
...Toriba and colleagues say the new method should be useful for monitoring human exposure to diesel exhaust and in studies of potential cancer risks associated with that exposure. Past research, the report notes, had predicted that certain metabolites compounds formed in the bodies of people exposed to diese......, without the need for electricity, promises to be useful for tackling antibiotic resistant superbugs like MRSA and C. difficile, as well as removing chewing gum from pavements and powering environmentally friendly cars, reports Nina Morgan in Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI. The value of ins...After a decades-long search, scientists identify new genetic risk factors for multiple sclerosis
...to MS, but that protein is already being viewed as useful therapeutic target. In a 2004 study by NINDS scientists, 10 MS patients who were unresponsive to currently approved therapies showed improvement when treated with an antibody that blocks IL2R-alpha, developed to prevent rejection of organ transplant...Seawater intrusion is the first cause of contamination of coastal aquifers
...ater injection as mentioned above has proven to be useful to solve salinisation problems. Teamwork experience Among other research works, Prof. Benavente has recently coordinated the European Union Project SWIMED on Sustainable Water Management in Mediterranean coastal aquifers. Scientists from France......olution of bio-logical systems, and it may also be useful in the design of artificial molecular recognition systems....Study points to new way to predict death risk from torn aorta
...he false-lumen thrombosis risk model pans out as a useful tool for physicians, it might be recommended that an examination of the extent of thrombosis with special imaging protocols be added to the regular advice that aortic dissection patients be monitored with regular MR scans or CT scans every six to 12 ...Researchers watch antibiotics, bacteria meet at atomic level
... and working with before it's possible to make a useful antibiotic, Artsimovitch said. Now we can. Now we ...re of the RNA polymerase elongation complex may be useful to a number of research areas, including manipulating the complex to increase the efficiency of bact...