ESSP launches project on the effects of global environmental change on human health
...ence and perhaps determine the health outcomes for whole communities and populations over a long time frame," he said. According to the World Health Organisation, climate and land-use changes are responsible for putting an estimated 40 percent of the world population at risk of contracting malaria, as we......d, lateral to the SWNT film layer, and a so-called whole cell patch clamp used to measure any electrical effect on the nerve cells. When a lateral voltage is applied, a relatively large current is carried along the surface but only a very small current, in the region of billionths of an amp, is passed acro...Pulsating gels could power tiny robots
...llations in the gel's shape. "This will open up a whole new field for studying morphological transformations in this soft material," said Balazs. "It is a nice computational tool for starting to investigate shape changes in gels." In future studies, Balazs plans to take advantage of the 2D network constr...Global warming and your health
...with respect to climate change as well. It makes a whole lot more sense to me to prevent our climate from more instability rather than waiting and putting our research and resources into trying to fix problems after they've happened."...How much influence do medical publications have on your doctor? A great deal, says new SLU research
...ng up with the latest medical research' takes on a whole new meaning."...Europe's first polar-orbiting weather satellite ready for launch
...data of unprecedented accuracy and resolution on a whole host of different variables such as atmospheric temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction over the ocean, ozone and other trace gases, thus making a major contribution to global weather forecasting and climate monitoring capabilities. The pa...Eating walnuts with high-fat meals helps to protect arteries against short-term damage
...onounsaturated fat, such as fruits and vegetables, whole grains and olive oil. Study participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups. Each was provided with two high-fat meals, eaten one week apart. The meals were identical, consisting of a salami-and-cheese sandwich on white bread and a small se...Human brain region functions like digital computer, says CU-Boulder professor
...refrontal cortex," O'Reilly said. The brain as a whole operates more like a social network than a digital computer, with neurons communicating to allow learning and the creation of memory, according to O'Reilly. However, the computer-like features of the prefrontal cortex broaden the social networks, h...Williams Syndrome, the brain and music
...tic differences in modalities," she adds. Despite whole brain volumes that are about 15 percent smaller than normal, the temporal lobe, which lies above the ear canal and, among other things, is involved in processing sounds and interpreting music and language, is of approximately normal volume in people ...Study identifies part of brain responsible for tone deafness
...procedure that allows one to search throughout the whole brain for structural differences in terms of brain tissue concentration," explained Dr. Krista L. Hyde of the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University and the Department of Psychology at the Universit de Montral. "The individuals who part...Major cancer study aims to identify protein markers for early-stage disease
...a on fragments of individual proteins, rather than whole molecules, a result of a limitation of mass spectrometry: The instrumentation is not able to weigh an entire protein. The protein must first be cut, with an enzyme, into pieces. Once enough pieces of the puzzle are inputted into the database, it is e...Building trust among communities will be key in eradicating polio
...e infrastructure for polio vaccination are not the whole issue. Just as important is building trust among poor and sometimes suspicious people, through sustained education efforts about the perils of not vaccinatingFunders and policy makers in polio vaccination will need to accept the concept that engaging...Rochester launches Cancer Stem Cell Research Program
...or cells, but they have the ability to re-create a whole tumor after other cancer cells are destroyed by treatment. "Indeed, it may be that a failure of many current cancer drugs to kill the cancer stem cells is precisely what sets the stage for relapse," Noble said. He said developing therapies to tar...High levels of lipoprotein(a) in women associated with increased risk for cardiovascular events
...screening of lipoprotein(a) in the population as a whole because only extremely high levels were associated with cardiovascular risk. Determination of lipoprotein(a) levels should thus be reserved for high-risk subsets of the population such as individuals with premature [heart attack] who have otherwise ...Two-faced protein can stop metastasis or promote it, researchers say
...s is very exciting, because the findings open up a whole new field of discovery for novel therapeutics that should be applicable 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...Test can predict spread of eye cancer to liver
...on't just look at a nose or an eye. We look at the whole face. And in this project we used computer software to look at many, many features of the tumor simultaneously." Harbour's efforts identified two classes of tumors with distinct molecular signatures. One signature, called class 1, carries a low ris...Brown seaweed contains promising fat fighter, weight reducer
... seaweed and is not easily absorbed in the form of whole seaweed. However, he hopes to extract the most active form of fucoxanthin from brown seaweed so that it can be developed into a pill that people can take daily or as needed. Human studies are planned, the researcher says, but adds that it may take ...New approaches needed to promote worker health and well-being
... employment will continue to change. "Indeed the whole terrain of occupational health is transforming," he continues. "And concentration on problems such as absenteeism and accidental injury is giving way to a broader vision of what a healthier and happier and more productive workforce can achieve in ter......were provocative findings, what they meant for the whole virus was unclear. The Mayo team then developed a highly effective version of a technique called "RNA interference" to strip all detectable p75 from human chromosomes. Without its p75 partner, HIV was highly impaired. An intriguing irony is their us...