Spider Venom Could Yield Eco-Friendly Insecticides
... can disrupt the insects?nervous systems or induce paralysis in just a few minutes. King and his colleagues are now developing both engineered viruses and small-molecule mimics of the toxins in preparation for field trials. The Blue Mountains funnel-web spider is not the only source of insect-specific neuroto...Potential treatments for neurofibromatosis
...ors. Infants affected by the disease face possible paralysis or damage to the brain and other organs. The disease frustrates doctors because there's no effective treatment even though the responsible gene was identified more than a decade ago. Currently little can be done to treat a disease that affects more ...Promising new West Nile therapy cures disease in mice
...irus invades the central nervous system and causes paralysis or coma. "We could give this antibody to mice as long as five days after infection, when West Nile virus had entered the brain, and it could still cure them," says Washington University senior investigator Michael Diamond, M.D., Ph.D., who headed the...Silence the gene, save the cell: RNA interference as promising therapy for ALS
...ll their mental faculties, they experience gradual paralysis and eventually lose all motor function, becoming unable to speak, swallow or breathe. Known also as Lou Gehrig's disease, from the baseball player who succumbed to it, this harrowing disease has no cure and its pathogenesis is not very well understoo......ls' ability to move sodium in and out is hampered, paralysis and death can result. Tetrodotoxin (TTX), a powerful paralytic poison concentrated in the newts' skin, can bind to garter snake nerve cell channels and prevent sodium ions from flowing freely. "These channels are absolutely fundamental to every aspe...Real pulse of the economy? Check real estate foreclosures
...zations that have not gotten out of their spending paralysis in technology after 9/11, but now they must address rebuilding an aging tech infrastructure within their enterprise. With the recent announcements at Motorola and ABN AMRO about job cuts, I do not think that local foreclosures will be subsiding an...AT&T - BellSouth merger: Revestiture continues
...oyees and about 70 million subscribers. Analysis paralysis on net neutrality There is so much blog analysis on the recent approval of the AT&T-Bell South merger that the true issue has been overshadowed. This is not a Democratic or Republican victory or defeat, as some blogs have reported. All of the figh...Stem-cell support from Schwarzenegger could shake Wisconsin leadership
... it is time for the state to resolve the political paralysis that has kept the research back. Over the years there has been a great deal of fighting on the part of stem cell supporters against the state legislature and federal regulations that keeps things from getting done, often pushing the issues into limbo......ys. Flexibility fuzzes over into the indecision of paralysis by analysis. Communication decays into meaningless meetings and an undecipherable deluge of Web pages, e-mails and memos and our minds glaze over. Creativity fizzles into distraction and, finally, we just want to be left alone. Plugging into analog...Helping stroke patients to recover balance
... affecting the brain's right hemisphere may suffer paralysis down their left side and can lean to the right.// Caroline Tilkete and her colleagues at the Lyon neurological laboratory of INSERM the French medical research agency, gave wedge shaped spectacles with prismatic lenses to patients with postural probl...... unpleasant emotions and sensations: terror, pain, paralysis and a profound feeling of betrayal by medical staff.// For half of these patients, waking during surgery led to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a long-lasting psychological reaction that is more commonly linked with war and natural disaster.......drug used in Parkinson's disease also improves the paralysis experienced by stroke survivors.Levodopa is turned into the neurotransmitter dopamine in the body, and this may help brain cells involved in controlling movement to function more normally. It's used as a treatment in Parkinson's disease, but a new tr......ties such as loss of bladder and bowel control and paralysis of the legs. In some cases the effects can be more severe.Folate supplements can reduce this ill effect says, Judith. Folate is needed for healthy cell growth and development of men, women and children and folate is recommended in their daily diet. ...