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Mechanical forces drive early heart development

...wo days of age in chickens (three weeks in humans) bends outward and rotates to the right. This must happen perfectly to avoid misconnections of arteries in the herat walls and holes in the heart, among other serious developmental problems. His research could help scientists better understant the roles ph...

No Cure for the New Mosquito-Borne Disease, Chikungunya

...disease. Chikungunya is Swahili means that which bends up and refers to the stooped posture of the patients. It is characterized by high fever and severe rashes, and severely reduces one’s immunity level that other opportunistic infections attack the patient. France fears that this disease would spre...

New System Monitors Tiny 'Earthquakes' in Bones to Prevent Fractures

...vers that are placed in a machine that continually bends the bone until it cracks. Akkus is working with researchers at the University of Toledo to develop a wearable prototype that will record crack-formation data, which could be downloaded to a portable digital assistant, or PDA, for review by medical ...

Chikungunya Reaches Sri Lanka

...ientific literature.Chikungunya, means 'that which bends up'in Swahili and the virus was first isolated in the blood of a patient with fever in Tanzania in 1953, the CDC said. 'With the ongoing rains, such diseases could reach an epidemic proportion by next month unless drastic measures are taken to clea...

Olive Oil Emulsions Prevent Cardiac Bypass Surgery

...ne such obstacle. It occurs when there are extreme bends in the vessels leading to or from the heart artery which taxes the limited flexibility of stainless steel stents. Dr. Savage likens attempting to place a stent through a tortuous vessel to "trying to move a couch around a narrow stairwell." Other obs...

Triptolide: A Potential Drug for Polycystic Kidney Disease

...D1 and PKD2, located on a bristle-like cilium that bends in response to fluid flow across the cell. During ... as sensed by fluid flow in the tubule. Fluid flow bends the primary cilium, giving a signal to stop cell growth. PKD is caused by a mutation in the PKD1 or ...

Chinese Medicinal Compound Stops Formation of Cysts in Polycystic Kidney

...urine begins flowing through the tubules, the flow bends the cilia that sets off the signal that no more growth is needed. In people who have a mutation in one of these growth regulatory proteins, however, the message to stop growing never gets delivered, even when urine is flowing and the cilia are ben...

Catholics Should Halt Amnesty Support Over Abortion Issue: Vatican

...an organisation as worthy as Amnesty International bends to the pressures of these groups," he said. The Vatican statement reproduces statements by Martino on the US Internet site National Catholic Report. The site also quotes Widney Brown, one of the heads of Amnesty International, who pointed out that ...

Scottish Engineer Devises Versatile Hand

...ts out for the first time, the artificial hand can bends its fingers to grip objects. The i-LIMB has a flexible wrist and rotating thumbs. 'And it's the first to come to the market that has bending fingers just like your own,' said Mr Gow. Lighter than a real hand, the device capitalizes on the brain...

A Mechanical Prosthetic Close to the Real Thing

...r even play musical instruments. When the wearer bends the remaining portion of his or her finger, the tight fit causes it to depress a lever on the X-Finger, articulating the device in proportion to the pressure exerted. The precision mechanism guides the digit's movements to match those of adjacent f...