Study shows how herpes infects cornea, evades immune cells
...ocytes. "In the electron microscope pictures, it looks like the stroma cells form long arms that reach out and collect the virus particles, and then wrap around them, forming a sac, and bring them into the cell body," Shukla said. In phagocytes, ingested foreign particles are destroyed in the sacs, whi...Alcoholics Anonymous membership may decrease alcohol-related homicides
...and violence, such as homicide. New research that looks at the relationship among drinking, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) membership, and homicide mortality has found that AA can have a beneficial effect on alcohol-related homicide mortality rates, particularly among males who consume beer and spirits. Resu...Teenage alcohol and drug use: At best, parents know about it only half of the time
...arental observations can be helpful. New research looks at how helpful parents may be in terms of assessing their children's alcohol and/or drug use and abuse. Findings indicate that parents do not provide valuable information about their children's use of alcohol and drugs because they are often unaware ...Two-faced protein can stop metastasis or promote it, researchers say
... to most types of tumors." Their laboratory study looks at how p120 catenin interacts with different cadherin cell adhesion proteins in cancer cells. Cadherin proteins go through a cell membrane, and on the outside, they act like Velcro, sticking to other cadherin proteins on adjacent cells. On the insid...Doctors cut repeat LASIK visits dramatically
...coma a subtle imperfection where a point of light looks like it has the tale of a comet affects a patients astigmatism as well as his or her degree of nearsightedness or farsightedness. Other common flaws that can now be fixed, but which also affect a persons vision more broadly, include spherical aberra...Global view shows strong link between kidney cancer, sunlight exposure
...de. The resulting chart was a parabolic curve that looks like a smile (see accompanying images). "The plot points created a curve roughly resembling a smile, with countries with high incidence rates at the left and right, and those with low incidence rates in the center, just a few degrees from the equat...M. D. Anderson, BCM, launch research effort targeting asthma and allergic diseases
...roenvironment that the tumor creates around itself looks like an allergic type of inflammation," Liu said. "We need to understand this type of inflammation so we can design ways to block it in the tumor microenvironment, because it promotes tumor growth. "While M. D. Anderson's focus is not on allergies ...tNOX serves as a serum marker for detection and monitoring of disease progression in prostate cancer
...aligned to tumor burden than PSA," Morre said. "It looks like it stands a better chance of being proportional to tumor burden and may be more reliable. It seems to be more uniform in terms of disease severity." In future work, the researchers hope to conduct more extensive clinical trials to try to link t...A potential new affordable diagnostic test for TB
... detect 50-60% of positive cases. This test, which looks for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is the diagnostic gold standard as it is sensitive and specific in cases of smear positive tuberculosis but it takes 2-6 weeks to give a result and is not routinely used in countries with high prevalence of TB because ...Test can predict spread of eye cancer to liver
...ing a single protein or molecular factor, the test looks at how several factors work together. "We were attempting to analyze these patterns the same way that our brain's work to recognize a face to tell whether a person is 'John' or 'Jane,'" Harbour explains. "We don't just look at a nose or an eye. We ...Public confidence in government drops as 5th anniversary of 9/11 approaches
...and What We Can Do Now," published by Knopf, which looks at how unprepared the nation is for future terrorist attacks and disasters. "If the public does not believe the government or the medical infrastructure is ready to deal with terrorism and natural disasters, they will not trust the directives and gui...Depression, risky sex behavior linked in African-American youth
...r condoms). This is one of the first studies that looks at African American teens of both genders and from more than one geographic location. It concludes that depressive symptoms (feeling lonely, feeling blue, feelings of worthlessness etc.) can indicate future sexual risk. The findings appear in the cur...Early warning test for Parkinson's receives national recognition
...es. Dr Double's research into Parkinson's disease looks at the function of neuromelanin, a pigment unique to human brains. In the brain cells of a person with Parkinson's disease, this pigment disappears.Based on her findings, Dr Double and her team have developed a new blood test which will provideearly ...Long-term abstinence may resolve many of the neurocognitive deficits associated with alcoholism
...an cause neuropsychological deficits. A new study looks at alcoholics who have been sober for six months to 13 years. Results indicate that long-term abstinent alcoholics can recover many of their neurocognitive deficits, except for spatial-processing abilities. Alcoholism can cause neuropsychological d...'My life sucks!' The 10 most common causes of childhood unhappiness
...ften at a loss as to how they can help a child who looks and acts unhappy most of the time or makes statements such as:"My life sucks.""I'm going to kill myself.""I hate myself.""Nothing ever good happens to me.""I wish I was dead."This book will make parents aware of the kinds of experiences that cause ch...NJIT offers new certificate to fight digital and physical terrorism
...against computer systems and more. The course also looks into the role of the US government in security of national computer infrastructure. Digital Forensics and Computer Crime Investigations introduces students to computer forensics, obtaining and analyzing digital evidence from computers and networks ...Virtual communities may foster mental health in severely ill kids
...splant patients at Children's Hospital Boston that looks at how creating a virtual environment can promote positive development in post-transplant adolescents and encourage these young patients to adhere to often onerous treatment protocols. "Adolescents who have had an organ transplant have, in a sense...Researcher studies sleep deprivation's effect on decisions
...to map the brain's reaction. The imaging technique looks at oxygen use in the brain, so whatever part of the brain is being used, it needs more oxygen. "The brain is a system, a network of areas, all of which work together to get a task done," he said. The researcher found that volunteers' working me...New, shorter TB treatments could advance TB control
...w TB treatments are currently being tested, and it looks like some of them might be effective when taken for shorter periods. Joshua Salomon (Harvard School of Public Health) and colleagues used a mathematical model to predict what would happen if, instead of having to give a 6-month course, TB could be c......re saying-and what our study confirms-is that this looks like a serious workable solution to the problem. And while much more research is needed to understand the full therapeutic potential of immunopharmacotherapy in combating obesity, these initial results are extremely positive. Right now it appears tha...