Number and quality of kidney transplants much greater if national matching program adopted
...nts, combined with new mathematical techniques for sorting through them to find the best possible organ matches, will not only allow more people to get the transplants they need, but will dramatically cut health care costs, reduce disruptive and unnecessary travel for patients, and insure that transplanted k...Exposure to carcinogenic crop toxin lowered by simple intervention
...e consisted of six simple measures, including hand sorting to identify groundnuts that were mouldy, sun drying on mats instead of the ground, storage of crops in natural fibre bags and on wooden pallets, as well as the use of small quantities of insecticide on the floor of the storage facility. In each villa...Which drugs should health plans cover?
...article. "Decision makers need some principles for sorting through those claims." While other groups have established broad principles for addressing the problem, the Group Health authors offer "more specific rules for identifying the right questions and the most important evidence," Simon explained. In addi...Stanford study of sea squirt provides clue to human immune system
...bone marrow transplants. Through a long process of sorting and testing, De Tomaso's team isolated the control...maso's team is already working on the next step in sorting out the workings of Botryllus' immune system-deciphering the actual molecular mechanism by which the...Specialized neurons allow the brain to focus on novel sounds
...findings suggest that some cognitive processes for sorting and identifying sounds occur very early in the auditory pathway, and that novelty detector neurons could be involved in directing attention to unexpected sounds, possibly evoking rapid reflex responses. Novelty detector neurons seem to act as gatekee...How the neuron sprouts its branches
...is a cellular warehouse responsible for receiving, sorting and shipping cargoes of newly synthesized molecules needed for cell growth and function. Until the new findings, researchers believed that only a central Golgi apparatus played a role in such distribution, said Ehlers. "In most mammalian cells, the G...Stanford study of owls finds link in brain between sight and sound
...ty School of Medicine have taken a big step toward sorting out how the brain accomplishes this task. In the Jan. 19 issue of Nature, the researchers show that a mechanism for prioritizing information - previously reported only in primates - is also used by birds. "What our experiment demonstrates is a fundam......ein with just the right qualifications may require sorting through millions, or even billions, of possibiliti...p in color when activated by the right protein and sorting through the cells for those containing the marked proteins and their coding genes. Automated devices...Protein sorting in pigment cells sheds light on melanoma, Alzheimer's disease
...issue of Developmental Cell. Marks studies protein sorting determining how proteins are delivered to the cor... this basic process in pigment cells, particularly sorting to the melanin storage compartment called the melanosome. Melanin is normally stored by the cell in ...Special education data provide misleading trends of changing autism prevalence
...e to any common diagnostic guidelines when they're sorting kids into these categories," Shattuck explains. "States and individual schools are left to devise criteria. Everyone is using a different yardstick to measure the same thing." Shattuck notes that the diagnostic methods employed by schools in special...A new math model finds that the cochlea's spiral shape enhances low frequencies
... like a the oompah of a tuba. This basic frequency sorting works in the same fashion whether the cochlear tube is laid out straight or coiled in a spiral. That observation, in fact, was the major reason that the researchers studying cochlear mechanics concluded its shape didn't matter. Manoussaki's model com...Where the brain organizes actions
...included "a sequence of categorization tasks, like sorting a deck of playing cards first by color, then by suit, then by rank." While they performed the tasks, the subjects were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging. This scanning technique involves using harmless magnetic fields and radio wav...Keep the baby, toss the bathwater: How kidneys retain proteins, discard waste
... of fluid dynamics and physiology that we're still sorting out." Miner and others are now working to determine how leakage of blood proteins through the GBM may lead to damage in structures beyond the membrane, potentially initiating a series of chain reactions that lead to kidney failure. They are also ho...Blood cells linked to heart attacks, other inflammatory diseases
...y of the signaling mechanism will be invaluable in sorting out the roles Cox-2 plays in those diseases, according to Guy A. Zimmerman, M.D., University of Utah School of Medicine professor of internal medicine, senior author of the study detailing the research. "This discovery has immediate clinical releva...Clinical study results using Aldagen's product to isolate cord blood stem cells presented at ASH
...nts that can be used with currently available cell sorting systems to isolate a highly potent population of stem and progenitor cells from human bone marrow, peripheral blood and cord blood. The unique chemistry incorporated into the ALDESORT product allows the isolation of stem and progenitor cells based o...Medical, high-energy physicists collaborate to improve PET scans
...ight measurements do help improve image quality by sorting out useful signals from confusing static, Kao said. Physicists can help here, because they have solved some data-acquisition problems that still plague biomedical imaging. In conventional PET scans, patients receive a dose of short-lived radioactiv...WPI wins $1M to develop system to locate and monitor emergency workers in buildings
...rmine their distance from the transmitters and, by sorting out a multitude of straight-line and reflected signals, determine the exact location of the transmitters in three-dimensional space. The goal is to develop a commercial system that can pinpoint a person's location in three dimensions to within abou...