recovery

The secret lives of whales

... populations is unprecedented and is hampering the recovery of other whales, pointing to the need for resumed whaling. Yet the whales?varied DNA reveals a different story, a past with an ocean teeming with whales. It also shows a steadily growing population, with drastic declines only showing up in recent hi...

Dinosaur DNA? New Patent Covers Degraded DNA recovery

...3,883 was granted to Ambergene Corporation for the recovery of live ancient bacteria and fungi fossilized in amber. By reconstituting nucleic acid molecules that have been degraded but still contain useful information scientists at MatrixDesign are able to create a template from which to multiply the genetic...

Gene Therapy For Parkinson's Disease Moves Forward In Animals

...iving the therapeutic enzyme mixture show complete recovery in their paws. Researchers say not only did the rats recover substantial degrees of function in their impaired forelimbs, continuous levels of L-dopa were being produced in their brains, blocking side effects. ...

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

...iving the therapeutic enzyme mixture show complete recovery in their paws. Researchers say not only did the rats recover substantial degrees of function in their impaired forelimbs, continuous levels of L-dopa were being produced in their brains, blocking side effects. ...

Pulsating ultrasound enhances gene therapy for tumors

...ns, reduced risk of other complications, shortened recovery time, significant reduction in costs and the potential for many procedures to be done on an outpatient basis. ...

Low level of extinction during ice age linked to adaptability

...eozoic ice age were caused by the loss and lack of recovery of those that had existed in narrow latitudinal ranges." Powell believes that those brachiopods that existed within narrow latitudinal ranges became victims of the extremes in the annual minimum and maximum temperatures that were typical of the late...

Heart repair gets new muscle

...renewal and repair, impeding the chances of a full recovery from a heart attack. However, recent evidence suggests that the heart might harbor stem cells after all and that such cells can be transformed into cardiomyocytes. In a new study published in the premier open-access online journal PLoS Biology, Neal...

Buying Time Through Hibernation on Demand

...by made headlines around the world ?and a complete recovery ?after she wandered outside at night and nearly froze to death. Before she was resuscitated her heart had stopped beating for two hours and her temperature had plunged to 61 F. "Understanding the connections between random instances of seemingly mir...

U-M team recovers ancient whale in Egyptian desert

...by made headlines around the world ?and a complete recovery ?after she wandered outside at night and nearly froze to death. Before she was resuscitated her heart had stopped beating for two hours and her temperature had plunged to 61 F. "Understanding the connections between random instances of seemingly mir...

Brain-injury rehabilitation depends on acetylcholine circuitry

...g that the cholinergic system is involved in brain recovery is particularly intriguing in light of the fact th...gning therapeutic strategies to enhance functional recovery following nervous system injury," the researchers wrote. "The present study makes a significant cont...

Measuring hormone cuts antibiotic use in half in pneumonia patients

...ed a full course of antibiotics, in terms of their recovery and number of days spent in the hospital. "We showed we were able to cut the number of days patients were on antibiotics in half, without compromising their outcome," Dr. Tamm said. ...

Doctors closer to using gene analysis to help trauma patients

...tand the genetic features that enhance a patient’s recovery as well as the elements that cause people to die s...e scene, taken to the hospital, have an uneventful recovery and they’re discharged. But there’s a certain fraction who go on to develop complications that lead ...

To sea or not to sea: When it comes to salmon sex, size sometimes doesn't matter

.... "However, if we write salmon off as incapable of recovery and so justify actions and inactions that harm them, we will turn our pessimism into their reality, and that would be unforgivable." ...

Low oxygen likely made Great Dying worse, greatly delayed recovery

...efore the main event and was followed by a delayed recovery that lasted for millions of years. New research by...on likely increased the extinction rate and slowed recovery following the mass extinction, Huey said. "Biologists have previously thought about the physiologic...

Scientists reveal the shape of a protein that helps retroviruses break into cells

...efore the main event and was followed by a delayed recovery that lasted for millions of years. New research by...on likely increased the extinction rate and slowed recovery following the mass extinction, Huey said. "Biologists have previously thought about the physiologic...

Insects, viruses could hold key for better human teamwork in disasters

...n technology to support preparedness, response and recovery tasks; and the emerging role of civil engineers as...king process during the preparedness, response and recovery phases of a disaster." For example, soon after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, inaccurate site maps...

Tsunami-damaged coral reefs should be left to recover naturally, say scientists

...s in the majority of cases, so as to allow natural recovery processes to take place. Coral reefs have been subject to natural disasters for millions of years, and they have survived and adapted over a long time." Poorly planned reconstruction programmes undertaken on the land can also adversely affect marine...

Best research work in the area of wine growing

...ainfall". The communiqué continues, "the level of recovery of the photosynthetic activity is evaluated once t...ated immediately. After two or four days after the recovery irrigation, the gaseous interchange was measured, comparing it with plants that had not suffered str...

Stem cell treatment improves mobility after spinal cord injury

...even days after the initial injury, which led to a recovery of motor skills. But the same treatment did not work on rats that had been injured for 10 months. The findings point to the potential of using stem cell-derived therapies for treatment of spinal cord damage in humans during the very early stages of t...

Combination therapy leads to partial recovery from spinal cord injury in rats

...s P, Wood PM, Bunge MB, Whittemore SR. "Functional recovery in traumatic spinal cord injury after transplantation of multineurotrophin-expressing glial-restricted precursor cells." Journal of Neuroscience, July 27, 2005, Vol. 25, No. 30, pp. 6947-6957. ...

Scientists show that tick-borne flaviviruses use a novel mechanism to evade host defenses

...ver from infection. Interferon is so critical for recovery from these infections that it is being tested in clinical trials to treat infection with various flaviviruses. But the treatment appears to fail in about half of cases. Dengue virus, West Nile virus and yellow fever virus have a protein called NS4B ...

Investigating 'brain shrinkage' in alcoholics

...might play a role in cognitive deficits as well as recovery and repair of the brain. Together we can develop strategies for public education and new approaches to therapy in people who use and abuse alcohol. People who abuse alcohol," he added, "should be informed that some of the brain damage could be revers...

UNC computer, marine scientists collaborate to predict flow of toxic waters from Katrina

...ormation that will be vital as cleanup efforts and recovery continue. The two also have extended their work with RENCI, Reed and colleagues to analyze various aspects of last weekend's Hurricane Rita and its effects in Texas and Louisiana. "We are trying to be prepared and generate reliable information that...

Lance Armstrong through a physiological lens: hard training boosts muscle power 8%

... provides insight, although limited, regarding the recovery of 'performance physiology' after successful treatment for advanced cancer." Muscular efficiency through possible fiber change: making it look easy Coyle concedes in the study that the "physiological mechanisms responsible for the 8% improvements i...

Study shows eutrophic lakes may not recover for a millennium

...eutrophication fast track, a new study shows their recovery may take a thousand years under the best of circumstances. Writing in today's (June 13) online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), University of Wisconsin-Madison limnologist Stephen R. Carpenter reported results o...

Defect in gene causes 'neuralgic amyotrophy'

... disappear within a couple of weeks, but sometimes recovery can take months or even several years. Many HNA patients also have particular facial features, such as eyes that are somewhat closer together, a fold in the upper eyelid that covers the inside corner of the eye, and sometimes a cleft palate. HNA is...

Molecular miners find pain relief drugs from the sea

...property that it appears to accelerate the rate of recovery from a nerve injury." "We are very excited that clinical trials to test the effectiveness of ACV1 in humans with diabetic neuropathies will soon be underway and we expect that the potential of ACV1 in treating a range of other painful conditions wil...

Muscle repair: Making a good system better, faster; implications for aging, disease

... injury. But when they don't, otherwise successful recovery following damage from overuse during exercise, sur...e drugs." Striking, rapid differences in strength recovery In the current study, the investigators found that in mice lacking PAI-1, the activity of an enzyme...

Researchers find molecule that inhibits regrowth of spinal nerve cells

...bition is going to provide some sort of functional recovery for spinal cord injury patients, understanding eph...st be overcome before spinal-cord regeneration and recovery from injury can occur in a meaningful way for patients. "We have to figure out how to dissolve the ...

Traditional models underestimate extinction rates

...n density--to accurately evaluate risk and enhance recovery programs for at-risk populations. As threats to endangered species continue to mount, biologists will need ever more robust methods to estimate extinction risk. Unfortunately, field biologists typically can't generate the large, high-quality datasets...

World-first technology enables study of ancient bacteria

...know little about gas hydrates as they melt during recovery due to the fall in pressure. Professor R. John Parkes, of the School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences at Cardiff University, is leading part of a major European Union project, called HYACINTH which is developing systems to recover gas hydrates...

The ecological effects of the Chernobyl disaster

..."Temporal trends in radiation doses, survival, and recovery in wildlife populations at Chernobyl." Organized Oral Session 7: "Ecological effects of the Chernobyl disaster: Genes to ecosystems," will take place Monday 8 August 2005, 1:30 - 5:00 PM in Meeting Room 510 A, Level 5, Palais des congrès de Montréal...

NIEHS launches website with information for assessing environmental hazards from Hurricane Katrina

...so provides other ongoing NIEHS efforts related to recovery efforts, including collaborations with other federal agencies. ...

FDA approves child-friendly AIDS medicine

...so provides other ongoing NIEHS efforts related to recovery efforts, including collaborations with other federal agencies. ...

Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history

...ability to recover over time, with lessons for the recovery of such fishing grounds as the Gulf of Maine and Newfoundland, prolific until comparatively recently. Other research to be showcased at the conference describes: * How Imperial Rome developed a fish processing industry by smoking, drying, salti...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

...ccident; among the more than 200,000 emergency and recovery operation workers exposed during the period from 1...ever, in the most exposed cohorts of emergency and recovery operation workers some increase of particular cancer forms (e.g., leukemia) in particular time perio...

Marine conservation organizations team up to conduct Indonesia coral reefs assessment

...nd may provide some early insight into the natural recovery process including the success of corals to reproduce and grow. "The health of the coral reef ecosystem along the Sumatra coastline is vital to the well-being of the people of Indonesia who depend upon the rich resources of the sea. This survey wil...

Shorter colds, milder flu may follow from newly revealed immune mechanism

...ves. Boosting this mechanism may be a way to speed recovery from respiratory infections. The researchers foun...the role of CCL5 may lead to new methods to hasten recovery from respiratory viral inflections like influenza or the common cold, which at present have no pharm...

Penn Surgeons Use Completely Robotic Surgery to Successfully Treat Prostate Cancer

...ed blood loss, a shorter hospital stay and reduced recovery period for a quicker return to daily activities. ...al techniques to put patients on a quicker road to recovery with better outcomes,?said Dr. Lee. ...

Scientists learn to predict protein-stabilizing ability of small molecules

...ed blood loss, a shorter hospital stay and reduced recovery period for a quicker return to daily activities. ...al techniques to put patients on a quicker road to recovery with better outcomes,?said Dr. Lee. ...

Cord blood cells may widen treatment window for stroke

...o investigate the ways cord blood cells aid stroke recovery in animals, and will begin a study to determine the timing of brain inflammatory responses in acute stroke patients. Researchers working with Dr. Willing were Jennifer Newcomb, Ted Ajmo, Lisa Collier, Cyndy Davis Sanberg, PhD; Keith Pennypacker, PhD...

One small step means giant leap for spinal cord research

...king speed. "This is a group of patients in which recovery is not expected," says Professor Milos Popovic of the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering and the study's senior researcher. "We got them on a treadmill and worked with them and 18 weeks later we saw quite a considerable improvement....

Scientists crack code for motor neuron wiring

...se alterations may constrain the capacity for full recovery of motor function. So, the more that is understood about the basic workings of this locomotor circuit, the better chance there is of developing regenerative strategies to restore motor function in a precise way," Jessell continued. "And in motor neur...

Stem cell mobilization therapy appears to be ineffective in repairing damage caused by heart attack

...erived stem cell does not improve left ventricular recovery in patients with acute myocardial infarction after successful mechanical reperfusion," they write. ...

Animal models show that anabolic steroids flip the adolescent brain's switch for aggression

... He hopes that adolescents don't take the ultimate recovery of the vasopressin system to mean it's OK to use the drugs. "It's our hope that people considering the use of these drugs weigh the long-term health risks and the serious potential for aggression and violence. Muscle mass and medals aren't worth th...

Hormonal male contraception reversible after few months for all men

...le for around 1500 men. The average time for sperm recovery to 20 million/mL was 3? months. Various factors were associated with higher rates of recovery including older age, Asian origin, shorter treatment duration, and higher sperm concentrations at ba...

Tiny polyps gorge themselves to survive coral bleaching

...nternal energy reserves. However, after a month of recovery on the reef (where plankton is naturally available) Porites continued to use up its reserves while Montipora had somehow managed to completely replenish them. To explain that, Grottoli and colleagues closely examined the bleached and healthy corals...

'Bad' enzymes may wear white hats after stroke

... hours, and find ways of manipulating peri-infarct recovery over several weeks." Currently, the only FDA-approved drug for treating stroke--tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA--must be given within three hours after a stroke occurs. Otherwise, said Lo, the drug can amplify the "bad" effects of MMPs, increas...

BiovaxID?yields 89 percent survival in patients with aggressive non-Hodgkins

... B-cell depletion, but vaccine boosts after B-cell recovery may be necessary for optimal humoral responses," concluded the investigators. Lymphocytes are a type of white blood cell. There are two types of lymphocytes: B-cell lymphocytes, which produce antibodies ("humoral" immunity) in response to immune sti...

Genetic study shows humans have pushed orangutans to the brink of extinction

...etic study. "Developing effective conservation and recovery programs depends on determining when the decline of a population began, its trajectory, and the original population size." For their study, the researchers collected hair from tree nests and feces found under nests or near orangutans encountered a...

Typhoid fever led to the fall of Athens

...ion of ancient microbial DNA. Aided by modern DNA recovery and amplification techniques, Papagigorakis et al used dental pulp to identify DNA sequences similar to those of the modern day Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, the organism that causes typhoid fever. The results of this study point to typhoid fev...

Georgia Tech accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster

...ge volumes of research data and provide a disaster recovery backup. Force10 TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers are also integrated into the IBM BladeCenter cluster to provide resilient interconnectivity enabling predictable cluster performance and scalability that will allow Georgia Tech to seamlessl...

Robot assisted surgery more accurate than conventional surgery

...ide effects from using robot assisted surgery, and recovery from surgery was quicker in most cases. Profess...dures without the risks of error, providing faster recovery and better functional outcomes for patients." The study involved both surgeons and engineers from I...

UMaine teams with fishermen to study affects of trawling on seafloor ecology

... reestablish themselves, but cautioned that a full recovery of the habitat would take much longer. "I am pre...losed for six years. We're already seeing signs of recovery after a significant amount of time. We're not seeing a huge trajectory change, but we can say it is ...

Gene variation increases SIDS risk in African Americans

...nnels tended to pop back open, delaying the cells' recovery after a burst of activity. In the heart, changes like this are known to increase the risk for abnormal rhythms and sudden death. Fortunately, a drug called mexiletine, used to treat patients with arrhythmias, blocks late re-openings of sodium chann...

Brittlestar provides new model for stem cell research

...rchers are particularly interested in studying the recovery of the nervous system which could have possible applications in the future for understanding and treating neurodegenerative diseases. Using the brittlestar as a model is particularly useful as it is more closely related to vertebrates than previous m...

Stem cell transplants improve recovery in animal models for stroke, cerebral palsy

...orns with cerebral palsy can significantly enhance recovery from these types of injuries, researchers say. Us...efully will translate to incremental but important recovery advances, said Dr. David Hess, adult stroke specialist, chair of the MCG Department of Neurology and...

Biodiversity key to sustainable biofuel according to University of Minn. researcher's findings

...rage net effects of diversity on resistance to and recovery from drought, pests, disease and other disturbances. Tilman and his collaborators began the work in the early 1990s and began publishing a series of landmark papers in 1994. Biodiversity of global ecosystems has decreased as global population has i...

Scientists find Antarctic ozone hole to recover later than expected

...y a small impact on the Antarctic stratosphere and recovery of the ozone hole. The upper ozone layer is impor...orward to refining our understanding of ozone hole recovery time scales." The researchers included ozone data from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) ...

Iraq's marshes show progress toward recovery

...ose in one marsh that remained undrained. The fast recovery of plant production, overall good water quality, a...f most wetland functions seem to indicate that the recovery of ecosystem function is well under way. Richardson and Hussain are not complacent about the marshe...