Bilateral in Biological News

Women often opt to surgically remove their breasts, ovaries to reduce cancer risk

... of the women who were mutation carriers underwent bilateral risk-reducing mastectomy; 45 percent had bilateral risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (surgical ... and ovarian cancer. Evaluated by gene type, bilateral risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy was more ...

Snails and humans use same genes to tell right from left

... in the last common ancestor of all animals with bilateral body organization, creatures that include ... the common ancestor of humans, snails and other bilateral organisms had a common strategy for left-right ... deuterostomes, one of the three subgroups of bilateral animals that includes not only vertebrates, but ...

Discovery of giant roaming deep sea protist provides new perspective on animal evolution

... into halves that are mirror images. The bilateral animals, or "Bilateria," appeared in the fossil ... that could be the Precambrian ancestors of bilateral animals, and even those are highly controversial. ... "We used to think that it takes bilateral symmetry to move in one direction across the ...

NWO and Academy launch research program with China

... and the Academy will work together on developing bilateral cooperation with Chinese ministries and ... for many years run the Dutch Science Ministry's bilateral cooperation programmes with China. Earlier this ... Memorandum of Understanding confirming the bilateral cooperation. Mr Plasterk also renewed the ...

Breaking news: Study revives Olympic prospects for amputee sprinter

... that the prostheses worn by Oscar Pistorius, a 21-year-old South African bilateral amputee track athlete, provide him with an unfair advantage in the ... performance depends on both mechanical and metabolic factors, said Herr, a bilateral amputee who heads the MIT Media Labs Biomechatronics research group. ...

Japanese and German researchers meet to discuss climate change

... There are also plans to follow up this round table meeting with further bilateral conferences between young Japanese and German scientists on other major ... Professor Yasuo Tanaka. Both of the funding organisations hope that these bilateral symposia will lead to a deepening and intensification of research ...

Oscar Pistorius: Previously confidential study results released on amputee sprinter

... Dallas, TX (June 29, 2009) -- A team of experts in biomechanics and physiology that conducted experiments on Oscar Pistorius, the South African bilateral amputee track athlete, have just published their findings in the Journal of Applied Physiology . Some of their previously confidential findings ...

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker awarded the Order of the Rising Sun

... of German science and research funding worldwide," said the current President of the DFG, Professor Matthias Kleiner. "Expanding and maintaining bilateral contacts in science and research depend critically on the dedication of individuals. Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker did a great deal during his time as ...

Oh baby, interventional radiology makes childbirth safer

... The interventional radiologists guided balloon catheters into a woman's left and right uterine artery (preoperative prophylactic insertion of bilateral internal iliac artery occlusion balloons) before deliveryto be ready to inflate (just like in angioplasty), if needed at delivery to block excessive ...

Engineering technology pinpoints earliest signs of animal life

... sufficient to support simple multicellular animals at least 100 million years before the rapid diversification of bilaterians early animals with a bilateral symmetry during an interval known as the Cambrian explosion by palaeontologists. Colin Snape, Professor of Chemical Technology and Chemical ...

Embryo biopsy does not affect early growth and risk of congenital malformations in PGD/PGS babies

... the groin). In the SC group, a surgical intervention was performed in one child with a transposition of the great arteries and in another child with bilateral cryptorchidism. One or more minor malformations were recorded in 24 PGD/PGS children, 23 ICSI children and 13 SC children. Skin anomalies (moles ...

Urologists identify 7 biomarkers that may help pinpoint prostate cancer recurrence

... and his team measured the levels of seven biomarkers in 423 patients who were subsequently surgically treated with a radical prostatectomy and bilateral lymphadenectomy. Of the study participants, 75 had a recurrence of their cancer. All 75 had elevated levels of at least several of the seven ...

Remarks Prepared for Delivery By Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey At the Ministerial Press Conference

... and citizens of both of our countries have been safer as a result. I am honored by the opportunity to join you today for the initialing of the bilateral agreement between Germany and the United States that permits access to biometric data and spontaneous sharing of data about known and suspected ...

HU scientist finds way to catch terrorists red-handed

... and urea nitrate under neutral conditions. The initial findings of the project, which was supported in part by the US/Israel bilateral Committee on Counter-Terrorism, were published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. The second part of the work, carried out by research student ...

Improving science, technology in Africa is aim as G-8, African, UN experts convene in Berlin

... practices will be reviewed. A flexible funding mechanism will help promote engagement from a wide range of donors (e.g. development banks, bilateral development agencies, foundations, and NGOs). AMCOST is the overall governance structure for setting continental priorities and policies for the ...

News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience

... During the reappraisal, nondepressed subjects showed increased activity in the left prefrontal cortex (PFC), whereas depressed subjects showed bilateral increases, indicating greater recruitment of right PFC in the depressed subjects. Control subjects with the highest ventromedial pre-frontal cortex ...

Anemone genes reveal versatile building blocks for body plans

... set of genes responsible for establishing the bilateral body axes in animals as diverse as flies and ... body plan that is distinct from the familiar bilateral body plan exhibited by vertebrates and many other ... how these shared genes are used by radial and bilateral animals to learn how different body plans are ...

St. Jude announces breakthrough in eye cancer treatment

... of the paper. Retinoblastoma can occur as a unilateral (one eye) or bilateral (both eyes) disease. In the case of unilateral disease, surgeons generally ... in order to prevent the disease from spreading. However, children with bilateral retinoblastoma pose a significant challenge to physicians, who are ...

Drug-resistant bacterial infections serious complication after corrective eye surgery

... community isolates expected to reach as high as 25% in the next decade. The authors cite the case of a male nurse who underwent an "uneventful" bilateral LASIK procedure that resulted in 20/20 (right eye) and 20/70 (left eye) visual acuity. Within 2 weeks, he had developed an infection in his left eye ...

How did bilaterally symmetric flowers evolve from radially symmetric ones?

... stage, than plants with radially symmetric flowers. "This study reveals that natural selection can play a key role in the evolution of flower bilateral symmetry," says Camacho. "Our data also suggest that it is possible to understand the evolution of complex forms by means of microevolutionary ...

Finding an answer to Darwin's Dilemma

... liberated oxygen through photosynthesis. This began an evolutionary radiation that led to complex communities of filter-feeding animals, then mobile bilateral animals, and ultimately to the Cambrian "explosion" of skeletal animals 542 million years ago. ...

Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

... are India, China and Brazil. The authors say the study results represent a potential guide for the policy formulation at international and bilateral aid agencies, and within developing countries. And they recommend: An initiative on Grand Challenges in Non-communicable Diseases, modelled ...

Highly concentrated botulinum preparation for cosmetic injections can result in severe illness

... approximately 14,286 adults by injection if disseminated evenly. "Botulism is a potentially fatal disease, which invariably presents with acute bilateral cranial neuropathies, regardless of exposure mechanism. Early recognition of botulism, treatment in an intensive care setting, provision of ...

Tsunami + 1 year: Reviving exhausted fisheries should trump replacing boats, gear, experts say

... committed to specific projects. There has been a total pledge of at least $7.5 billion from the following sources: multilateral donors $2 billion; bilateral donors $1.6 billion; NGOs $1.8 billion; and the Government of Indonesia $2.1 billion (not including local government contributions). Devastation ...

Scientists find microRNAs regulate plant development

... we uncovered in our study. This result implies that the Arabidopsis embryo relies on microRNA restriction of ARF17 activity to achieve normal bilateral symmetry." A second report focuses on the function of the protein ARGONAUTE1 (AGO1), a major component of the RNA-induced silencing complex in ...