As morphine turns 200, drug that blocks its side effects reveals new secrets
...ubling side effects. Moss's lecture, "Morphine's secrets revealed," will focus on how methylnaltrexone enables scientists to distinguish between the central analgesic effects of morphine and its peripheral side effects. Discovery of morphine Morphine was discovered by Freidrich Wilhelm Adam Serturner (...Investigating 'brain shrinkage' in alcoholics
...olics. "Even after death, tissues can reveal the secrets of diseases," said Harper. "For this research, brain tissues were obtained, with ethical consent, from autopsies on alcoholic subjects. Scientists used modern molecular techniques to study the control mechanisms (genes) and building blocks (protein...Nanotechnology goes glam: Cosmetics advances, challenges discussed at ACS meeting
...any other color. How do colored contacts work? The secrets in the chemistry. Dramatic eye color changes begin with carefully patterned colorants on a contact lens, but the human iris also contributes to the transformation. In two separate presentations, a researcher at CIBA Vision will describe the evolving ......-mining techniques help fight osteoporosis Seabed secrets - how 3D sound is revealing hidden shipwrecks and mines Focus on signals superconductor science gives telescopes and mobiles a boost Electrons in a spin the new trick behind the iPod and Google Mail revolution...UCI wins $2.4 million grant to study how brain understands language
...ant for $2.4 million over five years to unlock the secrets of how the brain translates sound waves into meaningful language. Greg Hickok, professor of cognitive sciences, will lead a team of scientists from UCI, UC San Diego, the University of Southern California and the University of Iowa in this research ...One million people in medical gamble
...ur blood, your DNA, and your most intimate medical secrets on a promise that it may help save a life years from now? Half a million people will be expected to do just that in the coming months, with another half a million people to follow, as two huge medical research projects get under way in the UK and US....St. Jude conducts first large-scale bird flu genome study
...e inviting all of the miners to help us unlock the secrets of influenza." Webster is an internationally renowned expert on bird flu viruses and a co-author of the report that appears in the January 27 issue of Science. St. Jude was uniquely positioned to conduct these studies because it houses Webster's la...Hydrocortisone supplementation improves ventilator weaning
...n stress response, is situated atop the kidney and secrets various hormones essential to the function of many organ systems in the body. Cortisol (hydrocortisone) is an adrenal-cortex hormone used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory conditions. According to the authors, adrenal ...Great (taste) expectations: Study shows brain anticipates taste, shifts gears
...s have begun to peel back some of the neurological secrets of this remarkable phenomenon and show how the brain can be rewired in anticipation of sensory input to respond in prescribed ways. Writing in the current issue (March 1, 2006) of the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, a team of University of Wi...Brain power combined to form new $125M institute
...ng neuroscience institutes, we hope to unravel the secrets of the brain and find better treatments for the millions of Australians affected by brain disorders every year." Director of the National Stroke Research Institute, Professor Geoffrey Donnan said, "Combining our talents will also help us attract outs...New lab technique churns out fungus' potential cancer fighter
...eatic cancer. After six years, however, rasfonin's secrets remain a mystery because researchers can't make enough of it to carry out tests. To bring about a new drug, organic chemists must produce a new chemical in enough quantity to test it under many different circumstances to tease out its modus operandi....Researchers reveal how air pollutant helps pregnant women with hypertension
... Warwick Medical School have uncovered some of the secrets of what can interfere with the protecting properti... Warwick Medical School have uncovered some of the secrets of what can interfere with the protecting properties of NO for pregnant women. The Warwick Medical...Brain changes in patients with migraine
...after four millennia, migraine still has many more secrets to be uncovered."...Young women unfamiliar with safety, effectiveness of IUD
...he IUD might be one of the best-kept birth control secrets for young women, according to researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Their study, published in this month's journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, revealed that most young women who sought birth control after a first pregnancy were una...Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia
... the brain, then perhaps we can finally unlock the secrets of these devastating diseases." Kaddurah-Daouk believes that this and other studies that explore metabolism at the global level have the potential to greatly impact medical practice. Future experiments focused on correlating these lipid signatures ......e diseases. Researchers want to coax all of these secrets out of 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 f...