Researchers develop 'fingerprinting' for biological agents
...egory -- sensitivity, selectivity, ease of use and speed -- and has the potential to be very inexpensive." The "fingerprinting" method also offers a greater number of distinct signals than conventional methods, meaning more diseases can be tested for at one time. ...Inflammation reduced after just two weeks on statin drug
...nter in Denver and a co-author of the study. "The speed with which simvastatin lowers hsCRP levels raises the question of whether statins may prove useful for the acute treatment of coronary events, much the way nitroglycerin is used in emergency rooms today," he says. HsCRP is a marker of inflammation, a...FINAL ALERT: RPB Science Writers Seminar in Eye Research to be held in Washington, DC Sept. 22-25
... cornea, investigators now hope to learn enough to speed the evolution of more effective therapies against these devastating ills. RETRAINING THE RETINA. Confronted with decreasing central vision -- and the diminished capacity to manage such everyday tasks as reading and driving that goes with it -- ...Sandia helps public health officials with anti-terror 'decision analysis' tool
...nd media - must quickly decide how to respond. The speed and effectiveness with which they do so may mean life or death for dozens - or thousands - of citizens. Officials at the local, state, and federal levels are actively addressing this problem, and efforts are well underway to identify effective counte...Sites chosen for public-private Osteoarthritis Initiative
...el Nevitt, Ph.D. The initiative should help speed OA drug development, which is hindered by the lack of objective and measurable standards for disease progression needed for drug evaluation. The OAI consortium includes public funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and private fun...Researchers find gene that causes leukemia in children with Down syndrome
...n on Nature Genetics's website on 12 August, could speed diagnosis and provide a new target for therapy. Children with Down syndrome are 10 to 20 times as likely as unaffected children to develop leukemia. They most commonly develop a type known as acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL), which is extremel...Sick or sleepy -- No option in outer space
...tarting at five revolutions per minute (rpm). The speed is increased by two rpm every five minutes until a total of 30 rpm is achieved in an hour. While spinning, participants are cued to make head movements that create significant stimulation of the inner ear. "A healthy individual can do that for about...Methamphetamine, cocaine abusers have different patterns of use
...than cocaine abusers on tests measuring perceptual speed and the ability to manipulate information, according to Dr. Sara Simon of the University of California, Los Angeles. The typical methamphetamine abuser reported using the drug when he or she first got up in the morning and then using it approximatel...University of Washington developing AI caretakers for Alzheimer's sufferers
... the bus will be there in five minutes, but at the speed you're walking you won't be there for 10 minutes," Kautz said. "It then decides 'maybe I should annoy you' and says, 'You better walk faster to catch that bus.' Or maybe 'I think you're going to miss that bus should I suggest an alternative route?...Practice makes perfect, if you sleep on it
...of sleep results in a 20 percent increase in motor speed without loss of accuracy, while an equivalent period of time awake does not provide a significant benefit to performance. "These findings have important implications for learning real-life motor skills such as those involved with sports, learning a m...'Power nap' prevents burnout; morning sleep perfects a skill
..., 2002 Neuron that a 20 percent overnight boost in speed on a finger tapping task is accounted for mostly b...nstituted a training session, which was scored for speed and accuracy. Regardless of whether they trained in the morning or the evening, subjects improved by...Less inflammation, better heart health in physically fit females
...s determined by testing women on a treadmill while speed and angle of elevation were increased every two minutes. The women continued on the treadmill until they reached their point of exhaustion. Each woman's treadmill time was adjusted for her age because fitness declines as the body ages, says LaMonte...With cues from nature, scientists develop new method to purify drugs
...l process for drug purification that one day could speed the production and decrease the cost of prescription drugs. The researchers created antibodies that recognized and attached to a cancer-fighting drug molecule. They installed the antibodies in almost unimaginably small silica tubes, known as nanotu......at it. "They achieved nearly the same accuracy and speed as normal arm movements," said senior author Andrew Schwartz, Ph.D., of the Department of Bioengineering at Arizona State University and the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego. To begin with, two monkeys learned a computer game that required moving...Scientists become filmmakers to decipher immunity
... Ian Parker, Ph.D., the scientists studied how the speed and direction of the cells changed in response to an encounter with an antigen on another cell membrane. The researchers discovered that T cells traveling about in a random manner switched to a swarming behavior and formed stable clusters following ...While-you-wait implantable heart assist device appears effective
... the waist or carried on the shoulder as well as a speed control that the patient can adjust to accommodate increased physical activity.After 48 hours, average cardiac index had improved by 22 percent even with the device turned off, Frazier notes. The Jarvik 2000 was designed to be reliable, easy to imp...Continued disruption of movement among alcoholics despite abstinence
...hese tests, although the accuracy achieved for the speed they moved was not quite up to the par of the cont...asonable to speculate that the slowing of movement speed to achieve smooth movements is quite adaptive for those who are trying to avoid social embarrassment...High visibility speed cameras may increase road deaths
Government plans to increase the visibility of speed cameras and ban dummy warning signs on roads where... visible ones. The introduction of high visibility speed cameras is a mistake, he says. We need evidence that they are more effective than hidden cameras. If...Faster detection of bacteria in water, food
...ately identify and "fingerprint" the bacteria. The speed of the detection process also makes it useful in d...d that "the research will improve the sensitivity, speed of detection and identification of bacteria such as E. coli. Because the test is rapid, sensitive an...Nutrition status affects cognitive impairment in the elderly
...rdized tests that assessed nonverbal intelligence, speed of information processing, pattern recognition, and general cognitive ability, and plasma concentrations of tHcy, folate, and vitamin B-12 were determined. The older group (born in 1921) had increased levels of tHcy, which correlated both with lowe...