Academy launches eBriefings Web site to help scientists
...sed on recent Academy symposiums, ebriefings are a gateway to online information on cutting-edge issues of concern to the scientific community and general public. Some of the latest eBriefings include: Autism: New Frontiers in Research and Drug Discovery www.nyas.org/aeb/autism Why is autism afflic...New weapon may help flush stealth stashes of HIV in cells
...us hide within cells, looking for an opportunistic gateway to open and allow them to act up. If Peptide T one day conclusively flushes these hidden viral components out of the system for good, HIV-positive people could cease taking the costly drug cocktails they currently take as a defensive measure. "Is...Wireless technology may help doctors treat patients
...lso is encryption from the provider to the service gateway and from the gateway to the wireless server, according to Aungst. Users are put into groups such as doctors and nurses, w...Study exposes dangers of snuff for smokers wanting to quit
...ed approximately every four years. "Snuff may be a gateway form of nicotine dosing among U.S. males that may lead to subsequent cigarette use," added Tomar, also a member of the UF Shands Cancer Center. "More than 40 percent of men who had been snuff users continued or started smoking." Snuff is finely mille...Snuff use may be gateway to cigarette smoking
...smoking, a finding that suggests snuff mayact as a gateway substance for nicotine use, Tomar says. Compared with smokers who had never used snuff, those who used it daily generally smoked fewer cigarettes per day than smokers who had never used snuff, and they were more likely to have tried to quit smoking...Behavior plays key role in disease development and control, according to 10-year prospective review
...nd that the endocrine system serves as one central gateway for psychological influences on health; stress and depression can provoke the release of pituitary and adrenal hormones that have multiple effects on immune function and can lead to actual health changes. Coronary Heart Disease - Coronary heart dis...Tiny wounds on eye may lead to big problems in certain cases
... sometimes too many cells are shed, providing a gateway for bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms to enter the eye. "The abrasions usually heal in less than 24 hours and don't cause problems," Nichols said. "We were looking for extreme ...Late-onset schizophrenia found to be distinct condition
...brain cells. The key is the hippocampus, a sort of gateway for the brain that gives emotional and social context to information, Dr. Casanova said. After staining the cells and examining them microscopically, the researchers found in the paraphrenics changes in a varying number of brain cells going into and ......lls. We have found that Akt2 serves as a crucial gateway for insulin in the pathway to lower blood sugar levels, said Birnbaum, associate director of the Penn Diabetes Center in the Penn Departments of Medicine and Cell and Molecular Biology. When Akt2 does not work, it is like trying to open an office doo...UM researchers discover 'key' to blood-brain barrier
... in the brain. "The blood-brain barrier is like a gateway to the brain. It is almost always locked, keeping...e've found the lock that fits that key to open the gateway into the brain. This discovery could help us open that gateway," explains Dr. Fasano. Dr. Fasano an......n. Their findings suggestapproaches to control the gateway with drugs, which could have implications fortreat...ors have struggled to get many drugs across a main gateway to the brainknown as the blood-brain barrier. But now, researchers have determined that aguardian pr...