Researchers find ways to reduce side effects in the treatment of damaging protein plaques
...r, prolonged use of COX inhibitors can result in a variety of negative side effects, such as possible digestive and liver problems. Some COX inhibitors have recently been pulled from the market due to an increased risk of heart complications. The protein transythyretin acts as a shuttle to transport thyrox...Study shows hibernating bears conserve more muscle strength than humans on bed rest do
...iochemistry. Original research results represent a variety of areas, including thermoregulation, respiration, circulation, osmotic and ionic regulation, environmental acclimation, evolutionary physiology, and metabolic physiology and biochemistry....How much nitrogen is too much for corn?
...e the EONR versus ISNT relationships under a wider variety of conditions," says Williams. "Because the Illinois Soil Nitrogen Test predicted EONR robustly to different cost/price ratios, ISNT has the potential to modify or replace current nitrogen recommendation methods for corn."...Antioxidant found in many foods and red wine is potent and selective killer of leukemia cells
...l present a very promising approach for treating a variety of human leukemias and, perhaps, lymphomas as well....Class of PCB's causes developmental abnormalities in rat pups
...opment of cognitive function. In children with a variety of developmental disorders, including language impairments and autism, the auditory cortex responds abnormally to sound. Some scientists believe this is the basis of the conditions. While the scientists emphasized that their finding did not demonst...Similar brain chemicals influence aggression in fruit flies and humans
...ht to be involved in aggressive behavior in a wide variety of animals as well as in humans. Another brain chemical signal, neuropeptide Y (known as neuropeptide F in invertebrates), is also known to affect an array of behaviors in many species, including territoriality in mice. A new study by Drs. Herman Die......odcasts will feature discussions with experts on a variety of topics, including energy and clean water. The second issue of the NanoFrontiers newsletter will discuss how nanotechnology can be used to tackle challenges facing developing nations. "As nanotechnology progresses, scientists and engineers are c...Will lemmings fall off climate change cliff?
... "We need to know how climate change will affect a variety of resident and migratory predators that rely in large part on these small arctic rodents," said WCS Canada researcher Dr. Don Reid. "The ability of lemmings to adapt to these changes will have a significant impact on the entire food web, so we need ...First systematic study of China's one-child policy reveals complexity, effectiveness
...verage mandated fertility rate, accounting for the variety of exceptions across the country, is 1.47 children per couple, Wang and his collaborators found, and their analysis of census data shows the actual fertility rate is about 1.5 children per couple. "Such convergence between policy and reality is ext...Ethanol vehicles pose a significant risk to human health, study finds
...cals that come out of a tailpipe are affected by a variety of factors, including chemical reactions, temperatures, sunlight, clouds, wind and precipitation,'' he explained. ''In addition, overall health effects depend on exposure to these airborne chemicals, which varies from region to region. Ours is the fi...Genes and biomarkers that allow doctors to choose the right therapy for the right patient
...et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM). "Because a variety of different effective agents may now be available...b response, skin toxicity, which appears through a variety of forms including rashes, eczema and fissures. Skin toxicity also indicates a poor response to cet...Bioluminescence at the service of a novel cerebral imaging technique
...mutations, or in flies which serve as models for a variety of human pathologies, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease or Huntingdon's chorea, or in the context of a pharmacological approach regarding addiction to different drugs (alcohol, nicotine, cocaine, etc.)....No sign that ethnic groups' genes cause diabetes, international research team says
...alyzed existing genetic studies published across a variety of disciplines. The team found no evidence to support the widely held thrifty genotype theory, which suggests that cycles of feast and famine early in human history created a gene that helps the body use scarce nutrients a gene that leads to obesity...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- April 11, 2007
...henol A (BPA), a weak synthetic estrogen used in a variety of consumer products ranging from baby bottles to resins that line food and beverage containers, has been linked in some studies to adverse health effects in rodents, including obesity, cancer and insulin resistance. There is growing concern that the...Information processing in the central nervous system: the signalling system controlling movement
...ovement. Spinal interneurones exhibit a remarkable variety of firing patterns in response to a pulse of injected current, with important implications for information processing. These patterns range from repetitive to delayed, to bursting and to single spiking. In the ventral spinal cord, interneurones pr...Gene that governs toxin production in deadly mold found
..." Like many fungi, Aspergillus fumigatus makes a variety of poisons, presumably to give the microbe a competitive advantage in the environments it inhabits. In humans with suppressed immune systems, the mold can cause a number of diseases with mortality rates of 60 percent or more. "The infection can be ...UTSA neurobiologist awarded $225,000 from Whitehall Foundation
... the growth of nerve cells which in turn control a variety of bodily functions including chewing, facial expression, heart rate, breathing and digestion. "We would like to understand how simple, evolutionarily conserved mechanisms are used to generate the network of neurons that produce complex behaviors ...Misclassified for centuries, medicinal leeches found to be 3 distinct species
...lis in 1758, medicinal leeches have been used in a variety of medical treatments--some legitimate, many not. Demand for leeches in 19th-century Europe grew so intense that efforts to protect them led to the some of the earliest legislative efforts at biological conservation. Leeches are still afforded prot...Structural basis for photoswitching in fluorescent proteins brought into focus
... first isolated in jellyfish and since found in a variety of colors from coral reef organisms revolutionized molecular biology, allowing scientists to use them as markers for genetic expression, to locate molecules and observe activity within cells. The recent discovery of photoswitchable fluorescent pro...Plastic with changeable conductivity developed by chemical engineer
...useful. Its general versatility could lead to a variety of new consumer products in upcoming years, she said. Loo has begun collaborating with Research Professor Adam Heller at the university to investigate using polyaniline as part of a sensor material in medical devices. Heller previously developed t...