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Gene increases risk of depression after stress

...wn as the serotonin transporter gene, controls the recycling of the chemical messenger....

Watch Out! Pollution hazard from E-waste recycling in India & China

...ncluding heavy metals, in the surrounding areas of recycling yards yielding reason for concern in India and Chi...ic chemicals are released during each stage of the recycling process into the workplace and in many cases into the surrounding environment. Concentrations of le...

Decoding the Fungi Genome Will Save Millions of Lives.

...lmost all degradation of plant material as well as recycling nitrogen. Aspergillus fumigatus is a major constituent of compost, and mould fungi have been important sources of drugs including penicillin and cyclosporin," said The David Denning, who coordinated the project. However, they also produce toxins kn...

Christmas trees to yield key Tamiflu ingredient

...o be donated by Toronto-based Gro-Bark, a forestry recycling company. Most shikimic acid is now extracted from star anise, the fruit of a slow-growing evergreen in China, which is harvested for several months each year. That's why Roche's production of Tamiflu takes about 12 months and there isn't nearly enou...

A New Focus For The Mechanism Of Nerve Growth

... motor, myosin II, as a key part of the process of recycling the actin networks and ultimately sensing and dire...her. "Instead, this paper investigates turnover or recycling of the actin networks. As the complement to actin network assembly, recycling is necessary to preven...

Genes Responsible For Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Identified

...lgium found that three genes involved in potassium recycling could be implicated. The study led by Professor Guy Van Camp identified the genes during a study of 1,000 men who were exposed to high noise courtesy their work at paper pulp mills and steel factories in Sweden. The scientists tested the men and con...

Recycling Boxes Are Too Heavy And Could Cause Injuries

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) says that recycling boxes are unreasonably heavy and could injure anyo...ity for back injuries incurred while putting their recycling out." GMB spokesman Justin Bowden said. Jonathan Straight, chief executive of Straight plc, said t...

Idursulfase Is Effective Treatment for Hunter Syndrome

...zyme iduronate-2-sulfatase, which is essential for recycling complex carbohydrates such as glycosaminoglycans, or GAG. The accumulation of GAG in tissues and organs leads to severe problems that can include joint stiffness, breathing difficulties, heart problems, enlargement of the spleen and liver, coarsening...

Gene linked to Hearing Loss in Aged Identified

...ed in the hair cells of the cochlea to help in the recycling of potassium that is needed to trigger a nerve signal to be sent to the brain transmitting it back into inner ear fluid. Scientists are already aware that a mutation in this gene linked to hereditary hearing loss happens early in life, irrespective...

Drugs Activating PXR May Help In Treating Niemann-Pick type C disease

...people worldwide. In these disorders, disposal and recycling units within cells known as lysosomes become jammed, preventing proper degradation of certain compounds and leading them to build up to dangerous levels. In NPC, the molecule that builds up in the lysosomes is cholesterol. Cells use compounds made...

Clues to the Mystery of Lou Gehrig's Disease

...in neurodegenerative diseases. They are tagged for recycling by the protein ubiquitin, but instead of being broken down they are dumped in the neurons. However Dr Lee said that the specific ubiquitinated protein involved in ALS and frontotemporal lobar degeneration had not been earlier identified. She and he...

Prestigious Wilson Award Goes To Yale Cell Biologist Joel Rosenbaum

...of the flagellar core to the tip for assembly, and recycling turnover products from the tip back to the cell body. Over the next several years, IFT particles were isolated, their polypeptides identified, and many of the genes for IFT cloned. When the IFT genes were compared with the various available “on line...

Fresh Water, HIV Biggest of India's Six Challenges: Chidambaram

...0-km coastline for desalinating water, as also for recycling water and more efficient irrigation practices. As for energy supplies, he contended that India would have to "depend on the world" till it made additional discoveries at home. On the issue of globalisation, he did not foresee any "backlash", sa...

Explosion Of Rat Population Poses Health Threat In UK

...d.// Fortnightly garbage collections, compulsory recycling policy and composting bins are said to be the cause of the increasing brown rat population. John Davison of the National Pest Technicians Association (NPTA) said: "It's a grave problem." "The way this is growing it is going to give rise to some ki...

The Uncommon Pathway of Campylobacter Jejuni

...TPases, proteins involved in the maturation of the recycling compartments. These and other experiments gave additional evidence that campylobacter leaves the normal endocytic pathway early and that the separated campylobacter vacuoles move near to the nucleus where they become closely associated with the Golgi...

New Gene to Help in Understanding Alzheimer’s Diseas

...y, the gene SORL1, plays a key protective role by recycling amyloid through the brain, preventing it from accumulating and turning into toxic plaque. This protection declines in patients with a defective SORL1 gene, resulting in accumulation of amyloid in the brain. Yet, having a defect in the SORL1 gene do...

New Method May Treat Brain Injuries

...r humans. Though the brain has its own means of recycling glutamate, injury causes the system to malfunction, leading to glutamate build up. Prof. Teichberg reasoned that this problem could be circumvented by passing glutamate from the fluid surrounding brain cells into the bloodstream. But first, he had to...

Study Focus on Environmental Hazards Posed by IT Scraps

...anufacturer free of charge or brought to community recycling centers. Yet this is still not a wonderful solutio... for the environment: even with the most modern of recycling technologies, a significant amount of material is sent to the landfills. One important element for...

Wipro Goes Green With Eco-friendly Desktops, Laptops

...The following year, it began offering free e-waste recycling to its customers. "GreenWare range of products does not carry a premium price tag. They are available at regular price points," Vaidya said....

Brazil Opens a 'green' Fashion Week

...hich highlights such issues as water conservation, recycling and alternative energy. 'We've been talking for a long time about a Brazilian identity for the Sao Paulo Fashion week,' said event organizer Paulo Borges, adding that weaving an ecological theme into the event allows Brazil to celebrate 'the quest...

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