Poor prenatal nutrition permanently damages function of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas
...groups. The control group ate as much chow as they wanted during the entire pregnancy. The other group also was fully nourished during the first two weeks but undernourished during the third week, restricted to only half the amount. It had a dramatic effect. At birth, their babies weighed 23 percent less th...UNC findings may help explain cause of most common movement disorder
...unit in animal models of alcohol dependence, so we wanted to study the mice. As soon as we obtained them we noticed that they had a tremor." The symptoms in GABA-A receptor alpha-1 deficient mice had the same properties as those in people who suffer from essential tremor, suggesting to the authors that the ...Bugs, even 'bad' ones, can be educationally beneficial, new book says
...ts. Just as some plants growing where they are not wanted are considered weeds, insects are considered pests only when they adversely affect people, Waldbauer writes. For example, homeowners typically think of termites as pests, but in forests termites are important for recycling dead wood. Waldbauer spent ...Man-made wetland's effectiveness similar to natural marsh
...om rain and snowfall and from ground sources. They wanted to know if the design of this experimental wetland would work. Apparently, it did. "It was a relatively simple, inexpensive way to create a wetland, and it worked," said Mitsch, who is a professor of natural resources at Ohio State. The wetland was c...Study: Soap and water work best in ridding hands of disease viruses
...health-care workers usually do in practice, and we wanted to test the products under realistic conditions," she said. Anti-microbial agents were best at reducing bacteria on hands, but waterless, alcohol-based agents had variable and sometimes poor effects, becoming less effective after multiple washes, Sic...Discovery may lead to better Candidiasis drug
... We didn't think it acted in the same way. And we wanted to know why it acts on yeast (fungus is a type of yeast) and not on other types of cells." Through a series of studies, the researchers identified the target-binding protein on Candida albicans by creating mutant strains of the fungus without the ta...Using molecular technique, researcher identify hospital pool bacterial pathogen
...outside the pool environment," Angenent said. 'We wanted to be sure the troublesome aerosol came from the pool and not from outside. We did find this mycobacterium at incredibly high levels in air, but we also found fungi spores and plant materials." While no immunocompromised patients using the h...Hey, guys, they're not girlie-man portions, they're healthy portions
... tad (1,700 calories) for the male metabolism. "We wanted to do the men's study separately because men and women do respond differently to diets, and we thought the men might have a different attitude toward the entrees," said dietitian LeaAnn Carson, who managed the study with dietitian Sandra Hannum for f...Genomic analysis to become tool for studying trauma patients
...om introducing noise or bias into the results? "We wanted to make sure that we could consistently get the same results from an analysis regardless of where the sample was gathered," Cobb explains. Researchers applied DNA microarrays, a genomic analysis technology, to blood samples and skeletal muscle from ...VUMC researchers find drug-resistant bacteria MRSA a growing threat
...udy had been done in the same practices and Creech wanted to see whether things had changed. "We were just trying to get a sense of how common MRSA actually is in the community," he said. "We've known for over a half century that staphylococcus likes to live in the nose and that's where it thrives. If it'...Key target for Foot and Mouth drug revealed
...tend to spread so rapidly," said Dr Curry. "If you wanted to control an FMDV outbreak you could in theory swamp the livestock population with anti-viral drugs for a few weeks and hopefully eradicate the outbreak very quickly." The 23,000 Dalton (weight) enzyme, is made of 213 amino acids, and is folded into...Monsanto fund awards $3.7 million to Washington University for school science van program
...o Fund, explained the idea behind the project. "We wanted to bring a new level of excitement to science educ...kids come in for one activity," explained May. "We wanted the project to be a starting point so schools could do more investigative science." The program in...Regular exercise helps protect muscles in elderly from soreness, injury
...he weeks between the two sessions. The researchers wanted to see if nearly two months of exercising would better protect the muscles from damage. During the very last workout, the horses ran at their maximum capacity until they reached exhaustion. Eight weeks of exercise had a considerable effect on the hin...US-India research team completes analysis of X chromosome
...he analyses took place. "We didn't start small. We wanted to prove that complete annotation can be done, and done in a way that lets you find new and unexpected things." For 18 months, 26 Indian scientists pored through the publicly available sequence of the X chromosome (information generated by the Wellco...Social stress boosts immune system's flu-fighting abilities
...had been exposed to the virus, and the researchers wanted to see what effect the stress would have on the immune system's memory response. Three months later, the researchers injected either a small amount of saline solution or influenza virus into the footpad of one hind paw of each mouse. This kind of vir...Pediatric burn victims' recovery, diabetes, metabolism aided by fenofibrate (Tricor)
...nsitivity almost half that of healthy children. We wanted to understand why this diabetes develops and to see if medication could reduce it," Cree said. The study involved 18 child burn victims ages 4 to 14 years of age who were admitted within four days of injury to the Shriners tertiary burn center in Ga...Positive air pressure chamber started with patients quickly after surgery
...a few more "pounds" each week. (If the researchers wanted to make the exercise especially hard, of course, t...asier. More importantly for the researchers, who wanted to make certain the positive air pressure on the lower body would not result in too much blood being...Thumbnail sampler of 10 diverse physiology papers from IUPS 2005
...elbourne, Australia. Physiology 703.6. Researchers wanted to study whether inadequate maternal kidney function in pregnancy might contribute to the fetal programming of adult hypertension. To start, they determined kidney function before and after nitric oxide blockade. The found that renal function was not...Joslin Diabetes Center announces new nutrition guidelines
...alth and reduce body fat. And most importantly, we wanted to deliver a plan that makes clear what people need to do to achieve their goals," said Dr. Rosenzweig, who also is Director of Joslin's Disease Management Program and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The new guidelines re...Traditionally if scientists wanted to look at something small they would put a sample under a microscope but now researchers have managed to shrink the microscope itself to the size of a single human cell. An interdisciplinary research team, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological ...