MUHC-led international team identifies gene responsible for blindness in infants and children
...ent of blind children, the visual proteins are not transported properly to the outer segments, causing the photoreceptors to stop working and die. This year, after many years of research on a related LCA gene called RPE65 and a spectacular rescue of vision by RPE65 gene replacement in dogs with LCA, human cli...Research says boiling broccoli ruins its anti-cancer properties
...liflower and green cabbage) from a local store and transported them to the laboratory within 30 minutes of purchasing. The effect of cooking on the glucosinolate content of vegetables was then studied by investigating the effects of cooking by boiling, steaming, microwave cooking and stir-fry. Boiling appeared...Transcontinental wildfire emissions monitored from space
... now that carbon monoxide from forest fires can be transported over long distances, but one would expect that the plume would rapidly become more diffuse the longer it travels. So, it was very surprising to find that even over Australian biomass-burning areas still up to 30% of the enhanced carbon monoxide level...Why GNEP can't jump to the future
...nd shipments of spent nuclear reactor fuel will be transported on rails and highways through cities and farmlands to the reprocessing site, posing unprecedented emergency response and security challenges. Despite DOEs claims that recycling of reactor spent fuel will solve the nuclear waste disposal problem, ...Scientists and polar explorers brave the elements in support of CryoSat-2
...Thursday12 April, a group of eight scientists were transported by helicopter to the remote Austfonna ice cap. As part of the CryoVex 2007 campaign, they will spend one month making measurements of snow and ice properties along long transects that criss-cross the ice sheet surface. Conditions on the ground are of...Where should I have my outpatient surgery?
...er be far away and need to call a ambulance and be transported varying distances to a hospital or would you rather have a full staff of physicians in the building and ready to help treat you? The study consisted of 783,558 ambulatory surgery patients, of which 4,351 were sent directly to hospital following surg...K-State National Agricultural Biosecurity Center director speaker at AAAS Biosecurity Symposium
...are now more concentrated than ever before and are transported more widely, even internationally, few technical barriers exist to prevent the intentional introduction of highly infectious and contagious biological agents that could cause significant economic damage to the livestock industry, according to Franz. ...Picture this: FSU professor's research could lead to vastly improved medical imaging
...at they can be stored for long periods of time and transported easily." ...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 31, 2007
...he solar cells and other gear that will have to be transported from Earth to the moon. Alternative approaches might avoid such sticker-shock, Morrissey notes. One proposal, for instance, calls for using the lunar rocks and the moon's intense vacuum to make photovoltaic cells on site. Another approach calls for p...Noise-immune stethoscope helps medics hear vital signs in loud environments
... best chance of recovery. These soldiers are often transported by helicopter, where noise levels prohibit the use of traditional stethoscopes. Auscultation, the act of listening to sounds within the body as a method of diagnosis, is an important tool for assessing the integrity of the heart muscle, valves and ma...New treatment for severe malaria
...hese bonds so that the infected blood cells can be transported by the blood stream into the spleen and destroyed. The research group, which is headed by Professor Mats Wahlgren, has now developed a substance that prevents infected blood cells from binding in this way. The substance also releases blood cells al......ncher has been completely refurbished and has been transported back to the launch site from the manufacturer's facilities in Samara, Russia. After the aborted launch attempts, the MetOp satellite had to be prepared to go into storage until the new launch date was set. Among other things, this meant that the s...MRI on the cheap and on the go
... through two small cells for signal encoding, then transported to a U-shaped detection area for interrogation by a pair of Budker's magnetometers. The magnetometers were oriented so that they detected the MRI signal with opposite signs. This configuration dramatically improved the signal-to-noise ratio, enablin...Researcher brings space age to surgery equipment, procedures
...uet and stabilizing that so that a Soldier can be transported for regular care." Hannaford and his team have created a surgical robot that works on a patient's abdomen. It has two arms, and a motorized carriage on the operating table lets the arms move anywhere on the table. "It's very position-able to any...Study shows escalators as source of injury to children
...en should be supervised properly and should not be transported in a stroller while riding on an escalator," said Jennifer McGeehan, MPH, lead author of the study and member of the CIRP staff. "If an escalator is used, then parents should remove their child from the stroller and carry him or her while on the esca...Standard developed for collection of suspicious powders
...onporous surfaces. Bulk samples are collected and transported in a manner that permits public health and safety, and law enforcement agencies to obtain uncompromised samples for confirmatory analysis and forensic testing. The second step, or Method B, covers swab sampling of residual suspicious powders for pre...Vitamin A deficiency linked to major intestinal surgery
...tene, and stored in the liver for up two years and transported to tissues as needed. Vitamin A is essential for the healthy working of the photosensitive pigment and superficial tissues of the eye. Night blindness is one of the most common symptoms of vitamin A deficiency. The authors warn that the increasing p...Transporter is possible target for safer pain medicine
...ich is inactivated by an enzyme, rather than being transported back into the neuron like other neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, which has a role in depression. But when he watched the activity of opioid peptides, he saw it actively taken back up into the neuronal cells. Cloning the transporter and dissectin...Falls at home among elderly cost ambulance service 145 each time
...from one organisation alone. One in four of those transported to emergency care were admitted to hospital. The authors calculate that attending to falls in the community costs the ambulance service in North East England an average of 145 per fall. And they suggest that initiatives to alert local fall teams to t...ECG transmission from ambulance cuts time to direct clot removal
...ificantly faster than the 96 minutes for those who transported themselves and the 78 minutes for those whose transmission failed," Adams said. Key to the success of the project, the researchers said, is the training of the EMTs. Currently, almost all ambulance services are equipped to perform an ECG at the scene...