Lens replacement material holds prospect of 'young' eyes for people over 40
...an be made soft to the touch and have viscoelastic properties similar to that of the natural human lens," according to Fetsch. "At the same time, our material so far looks like it has the potential to be injectable, which means less invasive surgery." Other research groups are also working on replacement lens ...Other highlights in the September 17 issue of JNCI
...thors provide detailed examples of the statistical properties of different design options and their robustness, and they discuss the statistical issues related to sample selection, allocation and pooling of samples, pairing of samples for co-hybridization, changes in class definition, class discovery experiment......s isolated from adult rat hearts that have all the properties of cardiac progenitor cells. They injected an enriched mixture of the cells into ischemic hearts, where they gave rise to new myocytes as well as smooth muscle and endothelial cells that were structurally and functionally competent. "We have alrea...Researchers now on road to isolating skin stem cells
...tists are working to take advantage of the natural properties of stem cells in order to develop ways of repairing or replacing the cells of damaged tissues and organs. Knowing the number of stem cells allows researchers to look for cell-surface molecules, or markers, that distinguish stem cells from specialized...NASA research propels development of new glass
...and small amounts of silicon dioxide -- has unique properties that were identified using both the company's containerless processing techniques and a NASA ground-based research facility. As part of a NASA research grant for a proposed International Space Station flight experiment, Weber conducted research in...Monkeys consciously control a robot arm using only brain signals
...ystick control to brain control, the physiological properties of the brain cells changed immediately. And when w...al back to joystick control the very next day, the properties changed again. "Such findings tell us that the brain is so amazingly adaptable that it can incorpora...Passing stop sign cures gene disease
...in: it was designed from the start to have similar properties to gentamicin but to be safer and more easily absorbed. "We are really in a different situation now, where we are trying to identify drugs based on how they should act," says Langdon Miller, chief medical officer of PTC Therapeutics in New Jersey. T...2003 winners of Collegiate Inventors Competition announced in NYC
...rved that each piece--her smart dust--retained the properties of the original. The particles have been found to have a wide range of uses in medical diagnostics and research, environmental testing, drug delivery and countless other uses. For instance, Link can make her particles a particular color, then progr...Wild blueberries may help protect arteries, reduce risks from cardiovascular disease
...ect of whole wild blueberries on the biomechanical properties of arteries as related to cardiovascular disease," says Klimis-Zacas. "This is the first in-vivo study to examine this relationship." Students working on the project included Cynthia Norton and Anastasia Kalea, master's and Ph.D. candidates respecti...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, November 4, 2003
...ed repeatedly, and to understand the pharmacologic properties of leech therapy and/or saliva. Study Looks at 3 Ways to Measure Blood Pressure for Insight Into Mortality Researchers studied the joint effect on risk for death of three measures of blood pressure systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressur...Environmental influences found to have role for development and function of the pain system
...at early pain and skin injury at birth changes the properties of sensory neurons in the spinal cord so that they...from the sensory neurons in their spinal cord. The properties of sensory neurons in the spinal cord were different from control animals, in that the receptive fie...New vaccine tested in animals may hold hope for Alzheimer's patients
...her these studies will help show if any particular properties of the antibodies correlate with cognitive improvement. In other work, researchers at the National Institute for Longevity Sciences in Japan have developed a new oral vaccine for Alzheimer's disease in mice using adeno-associated virus vector. The ad...New studies show factors responsible for enhanced response to music
...easantness (valence) and their calming/stimulating properties (levels of arousal). The three most pleasant and the three most unpleasant excerpts, matched to have similar levels of arousal, were then selected. The pleasant excerpts included classical, pop and jazz/pop music; the unpleasant excerpts mainly consi...Nicotine metabolite may improve memory, protect against disease
...chers have also found that, in animal studies, the properties of cotinine may be helpful in treating the debilitating psychotic behavior of people with schizophrenia. Up to now, cotinine's biggest use has been as a urine marker for tobacco use, although its potential use in curbing smoking also has been explor...Emory scientists link atrial fibrillation with decrease in nitrous oxide
..."Nitrous oxide is known to have has antithrombotic properties that can protect against blood clots, so we believe these changes may explain the predisposition to LAA thrombus in people with AF," says Dr. Dudley. "These findings may provide new avenues for the study of therapeutic interventions in humans with AF...GlaxoSmithKline Drug Discovery and Development Research Grant Program 2003
...reening methods to evaluate the potential anti-HIV properties of cyclic peptides. "We theorize that random cy... his research to better understand the biochemical properties and structures of Vif and CEM15, and the ways in which the two proteins interact. Professor Malim an...New test may diagnose heart disease risk better
... testing the inflammatory and/or anti-inflammatory properties of a patient's HDL cholesterol may be a more accur...ailable test exists that measures the inflammatory properties of HDL. Although the study used two new blood testing methods developed at UCLA, one of the methods ...DuPont-led scientists unveil key nanotechnology discovery with use of DNA
...." Carbon nanotubes possess excellent electrical properties that make them potential building blocks in a broa... nanotube-DNA hybrids have different electrostatic properties that depend on the nanotubes' diameter and electronic properties, they can be separated and sorted u...Researchers use crippled poliovirus to attack brain cancer
...mors, researchers have combined the cancer-killing properties of poliovirus together with a harmless genetic coding element from the common cold. The resulting modified virus created a remarkably strong anti-cancer agent that rapidly killed cancer cells in laboratory cell cultures a......Serquis said. After two years of research into the properties of MgB2, Serquis and her fellow researchers devised a way to improve the amount of electricity that wires made of the material could carry. Using commercially available powders and the so-called powder-in-tube method common to the manufacture of many...