Doernbecher Children's Hospital scientist earns coveted Javits award
...ve device, inability to use one's arms and legsand weak torso muscles; as well as, intellectual challenges, includingthinking, reasoning, remembering, imagining or learning words. Premature birth is the leading cause of cerebral palsy, explains Back,and in the United States, a child who will develop CP ...Abnormal fat metabolism underlies heart problems in diabetic patients
...tic hearts. Children born with Barth syndrome have weak hearts and often die young from heart failure. These children have mutations that prevent cells from producing enough cardiolipin. The connection between cardiolipin and heart disease in Barth syndrome led the Washington University researchers to won...Identified mechanism in the malaria parasite to help it adapt to infected individuals
... that interact with red blood cells are a possible weak point, and thus a very clear target to develop vaccines. Alfred Corts, an ICREA researcher working at IRB Barcelona and an expert in molecular parasitology, together with researchers from the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in London, ...After a decades-long search, scientists identify new genetic risk factors for multiple sclerosis
... for MS. Some of the associations were relatively weak and some of the genes' functions are unclear. "A major effort to understand the full complement of genes involved in MS will be necessary to completely understand the disease," said Dr. Hafler, adding that all of the data from the genome scan will ......layers by irradiating the surface with UV light or weak electron beams, changing chemical bonds between the carbon atoms that make up the molecular layer. These bonds ultimately influenced electronic transport through the molecules. This achievement was recently described in the Journal of the American ...Scientists discover new way to study nanostructures
... detection of electromagnetic radiation, extremely weak magnetic fields and in superconducting quantum com...man plan to further explore vibrational effects in weak link junctions, using the information obtained through these studies for determining vibrational cha...Purdue-IU researchers explore new method for early disease diagnosis
...ftery said. The signals from carbon atoms are very weak and are difficult to detect, while the signals from hydrogen atoms often overlap. In particular, metabolites present in high concentrations overlap those present in low concentrations. Raftery and his team enhanced the visibility of a certain type ...New way to target and kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria found
...zyme. The researchers predicted that the enzymes weak link is the spot where it handles DNA. Relaxase must juggle two phosphate-rich DNA strands at the same time. The team suspected a chemical decoy a phosphate ion could plug this dual DNA binding site. Redinbo, who has a background in cancer and othe...Electric fish conduct electric duets in aquatic courtship
...tius, a type of mormyrid electric fish, which emit weak electric fields from a batterylike organ in their tails to sense their surroundings and communicate their species, sex and social status with other fish. It is also the first study to successfully sort signals in electric fish based on sex. The res...Rutgers, Penn researchers capture research dollars to improve prostate cancer diagnostic methods
...ssue. Inaccurate grading may result in therapy too weak to treat the cancer or so aggressive that it prolongs therapy and harms healthy tissue. Early results show that where pathologists have trouble distinguishing between two medium grades of severity, computer-aided analyses can deliver an 80 percent ac...Lack of sun does not explain low vitamin D in elderly who are overweight
...oston, where the study was conducted, sun rays are weak in winter compared with summer months. The researchers measured participants percent body fat using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), a precise method for determining body composition. Individuals were grouped into quartiles of percent body fat...Stanford researchers find stem cells in colorectal tumors
...f scientists and clinicians who will help find the weak points in cancer, devise new immune and molecular diagnostics and therapeutics, test them in mice that carry the cancer stem cells and, hopefully, in a few years begin to test them in our patients," Weissman said. The colorectal cancer stem cells h...German-Korean collaboration in Polar and Marine research will be intensified
... research projects in the Arctic Ocean, due to its weak research infrastructure. A cooperation, between Germany and Korea will strengthen Koreas competence in the area of Polar and Marine research".In addition to KIGAM, the other two AWI partners are, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI...UVa researcher studying disease that cripples newborns
...ose who survive is bleak they become increasingly weak and disabled and suffer from mental retardation. Children with CDM1 face a lifetime of physical and occupational therapy and require special educational programs. Currently, there is no treatment that either slows down or cures this disorder. Cha...UT Southwestern joins national clinical trial to uncover long-term effects of West Nile virus
...nd October. The young, the elderly and people with weak immune systems are most at risk. About 7 percent of all U.S. cases of West Nile appear in Texas each year. Last year, 23 percent or 81 cases of Texas' 354 verified human infections were in Dallas County. West Nile virus infection has three main...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 2, 2007
...the report states. Geraniol has been regarded as a weak allergen, responsible for only about 5 percent of positive patch test responses to the fragrance allergens used for screening of fragrance allergy in dermatitis patients. The new research, however, shows that geraniol oxidizes during exposure to ai...Salk scientists hammer out a pathway that promotes muscle cell survival in mice
...uscle function in genetically engineered mice with weak muscles. The study, published online in Nature Medicine, is the first to explore the part this enzyme plays in a cascade of events triggered by exercise-induced hormones and other signals. In this particular pathway, a molecular switch turns on a ......ection of the body's back end and start creating a weak flow. During the following refinement phase, all cilia get in line and trim their sails to the prevailing winds. "The posterior bias allows ciliated cells to produce a directional fluid flow, which then acts in a positive feedback loop," says Chri...New imaging approach promises insights into multiple sclerosis
...ively to study living tissue because the extremely weak "Raman scattering" signals require hours to yield an image, whereas coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering, or CARS, overcomes this limitation, Cheng said. "CARS microscopy permits label-free imaging of specific molecules with a speed of one frame p......hemical & Engineering News Bisphenol 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 resistan...