Infection detectives use disease 'fingerprints' to track common infections in children
...h analyzing the telltale "fingerprints" a disease leaves behind on cells involved in the immune response, and using that information to get a composite sketch of the infectious agent. "We are genetically programmed to respond differently to different infections. We have developed the tools to understand ...Sustainability of energy, food and water theme of ACS national meeting
...e against mosquitoes Chemicals extracted from the leaves of the American beautyberry, once used as a Southern folk-remedy to keep insects from biting, show promise in lab studies as natural mosquito repellants that may be as effective as DEET, one of the most widely used insect repellants, according to res...Row over study puts Korea's scientific community under scrutiny again
...the Hwang scandal." Professor Kim's intervention leaves little doubt about how seriously the CHA group views the potential of the incident to damage its bid to inherit Hwang's crown, says Gornall. Before his fall from grace, Professor Hwang received the bulk of Korean government funding in stem cell resea...NIST's stretching exercises shed new light on nanotubes
... electron with the positively charged hole that it leaves behind when it gets excited by a photon into a higher energy state. An important optical characteristic is how excitons in SWNTs impact the way the nanotubes absorb and scatter light.For example, how easy is it for the incident light to deform an exc...Why GNEP can't jump to the future
...ffice is now reviewing the program. This, however, leaves legislators with an information gap as they struggle to decide whether to fully fund the plan, eliminate it altogether, or redirect some of its funding to the many successful energy programs whose budgets President Bush is proposing to gut in FY 2008...Eye muscles -- those go-getters of the anatomical world
...es to keep moving the eye. On the other hand, this leaves the eye muscles vulnerable to diseases that target the mitochondria, such as Kearns-Sayre syndrome, a condition that gradually limits eye movements and eventually immobilizes them completely. Dr. McLoon will discuss Dynamic cell biology of the extr...Study shows Botox decreases pain and intensity of spasticity following a stroke
...n Boston. Spasticity is a disabling condition that leaves the muscles and tendons permanently shortened and inhibits movement. "In the clinical setting, limb stiffness and pain are the most commonly reported symptoms of spasticity following a stroke, and relief of spasticity-related pain is a priority tre...Meditation may fine-tune control over attention
...evoting fewer neural resources to the first target leaves enough left over to attend to another target that follows shortly after it, he says. Because the subjects were not meditating during the test, their improvement suggests that prior training can cause lasting changes in how people allocate their me...New therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative diseases
...as, for example, multiple sclerosis. The illnesses leaves a mark in these samples and, although the brain has been at a terminal stage of the illness, they can investigate to see if there are signs of alterations to the molecules similar to those observed in the experiments, both with cells and with the ani...Fingerprint instead of blood sample
...the tiny traces of perspiration that a fingerprint leaves on a surface. The research team demonstrated the ease with which this should be possible by differentiating between fingerprints made by smokers and nonsmokers. To avoid false results from chance contact with tobacco products, they designed their sys...Extremely drug resistant TB a growing problem in India
...re of the six classes of second-line drugs. XDR-TB leaves patients (including many people living with HIV) virtually untreatable using currently available anti-TB drugs. Recent findings from a survey conducted by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that XD...'Star Trek'-type scanning may reveal genetic activity of tumors, Stanford study shows
... chemotherapy. Imaging through MRI or CT, however, leaves all organs intact and functioning. To increase the research team's expertise in the areas of genomics and computational biology, Kuo brought in Chang and the paper's lead author, Eran Segal, PhD, in 2004. Chang had been using the gene activity pat...HIV and malaria combine to adversely affect pregnant women and their infants
...regnant women. "PAM can be a deadly condition that leaves mothers and their children particularly vulnerable," says Professor Kevin Kain, an infectious disease specialist and lead author of the study. "We set out to understand how women acquire protection against malaria during pregnancy and how HIV infecti......lts in mice is advised to bulk up on creosote bush leaves as a way to defy old age. If NDGA pushes the aging envelope in the final results of this study, other labs will likely try to repeat the results in animals. Much more research is needed before any possible human anti-aging drug could emerge, Miller s...Report calls for new directions, innovative approaches in testing chemicals for toxicity to humans
...d costly, resulting in an overburdened system that leaves many chemicals untested, despite potential human exposure to them, the report observes. Recognizing these limitations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- which oversees the testing of many agricultural, commercial, and industrial chemicals ...Parents of chronically ill kids are helped by better access to federal and employer leave
...study examined the availability of paid and unpaid leaves of absence from work, how often parents missed work to care for their ill children, and the length of absences from work. The study appears in the May edition of the journal Pediatrics. Researchers found that less than half of the parents interv...Patients with soft tissue sarcomas should be treated at high volume centers
... STS [soft tissue sarcomas] are rare. This paucity leaves most health care institutions with low case volumes and outdated or inadequate resources, which impede the ability to offer optimal treatment of these rare and often complicated tumours, the authors explain. Using an analysis of a large population-...Researchers link metal ions to neurodegenerative disease
...links aluminum to neurodegenerative disease, which leaves researchers to focus on zinc, iron and copper. The researchers also found that several distinct types of structures could be assembled from individual units of amino acids. "We found that we could build lots of different types of structures with an...Even older women at high risk have little interest in being tested for HIV, study finds
...AIDS and die within a year of HIV diagnosis, which leaves little opportunity for treatment or secondary prevention for their partners. For this investigation, Dr. Akers and her colleagues analyzed data collected from 514 women ranging in age from 50 to 95. The women visited a general internal medicine cli...