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Link Between Nanoparticles and Kidney Stones

...icant because it is one step closer in solving the mystery of whether nanoparticles are viable living forms that can lead to disease -- in this case, kidney stones. Kidney stones are associated with pathologic calcification, the process in which organs and blood vessels become clogged with calcium deposits...

Specialists Mystified by Coughing Cases

...for pertussis have put the outbreak in doubt. The mystery began Sept. 18, when a Child was treated with symptoms of whooping cough, typically heralded by a runny// nose, sneezing, slight fever, and mild cough in the Children’s Hospital in Boston. Then in last September through early November, about three ...

Paying Attention Sets Off Symphony of Cell Synchronization

... study sheds light on how attention operates. The mystery of how attention improves the perception of incoming sensory stimulation has been a long-time concern of scientists. One hypothesis is that when you pay attention neurons produce stronger brain activity, as if the stimulus itself was stronger. That w...

Mighty Conqueror Felled by Stomach Cancer

...from US, Switzerland and Canada have put to rest a mystery of 200 years, // regarding the cause of death of the French conqueror. The most recent theory, running since the 1961 discovery of arsenic in two strands of Napoleons’ hair was that the ruler’s death was due to arsenic poisoning. Publishing result...

Tears Reveal Some of Their Deepest Secrets to Researchers

... exactly what our tears are made of has remained a mystery to scientists.// A new study sheds some light on the complex design of tears. What we think of as tears, scientists call tear film, which is made up of three distinct, microscopic layers. The middle, watery layer – what we normally think of as tear...

BMC Rushes With Samples as Mystery Fever Rings Alarm Bell in Bombay

...uthorities of Mumbai are keeping a watchful eye as mystery fever claims// two lives recently. The cases reported recently say that the patients were rushed to hospital with "flu with paralysis" symptoms. The civic authorities are sending the fluid samples to competent laboratories in Pune to determine wh...

Scientists Discover New Gene

...fective cancer therapies. This gene has remained a mystery until the discovery by Mills' team. After they located the region where the tumor suppressor resided, the Mills team sought to identify which genes in that area were responsible for tumor suppression. Their results showed that reducing expression ...

Natural Brain Substance Linked to Parkinson's Symptoms

...cience has been frustratingly slow in cracking the mystery of the peculiar pathology of Parkinson's." One thing the findings in Nature don't suggest is that smoking marijuana might help alleviate Parkinson's. Any useful therapy would have to avoid overwhelming the delicate balance of the brain's movemen...

U.S., U.K. Stem Cell Banks to Team Up

...es and cells, scientists say they could unlock the mystery of many diseases and one day lead to cures. But some people oppose the research because days-old embryos — usually leftover from fertility treatments — are destroyed in the effort to isolate the cells. The two banks said they would discuss intern...

Biochemical Chip Solves Cell-mating Puzzle

... together. The research has solved a long-standing mystery of how a specific kinase protein, Kss1, helps cells send and receive signals from one another and the environment. When this process is impaired, it can lead to diseases such as cancer. As cancer is characterised by the uncontrolled growth of cells...

Researchers Discover Key to Body’s Ability to Detect Subtle Temperature Change

...Zheng and his colleagues promise to help solve the mystery of temperature sensitivity in animals once and for all. And, because the cells with these ion channels in their membranes are also the cells that sense pain, the basic knowledge they have provided may one day prove useful to scientists looking for no...

Child Struck With Mystery Illness Shows Signs of Recovering

...ests they could not prove it, hence they named the mystery condition Bingham Syndrome. AN...

MIT Biologists Solve Vitamin Puzzle

Solving a mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard researchers have discovered// the final piece of the synthesis pathway of vitamin B12--the only vitamin synthesized exclusively by microorganisms. B12,...

Vanishing Honey Bees

... is causing confusion among scientists, //is the mystery of the missing bees. This has made the scientist work overtime to decipher the reason for this. Normal healthy adult bees abandon the hive, queen bee, food and the young. Many years ago it was seen that a mass exodus would leave the hive to be rans...

DNA Link to a Lost Colony

.... "The Lost Colony story is the biggest unsolved mystery in the history of America," said Roberta Estes, owner of DNA Explain, a private DNA analysis company based in Brighton, Mich. The company is working with the Lost Colony Center for Science and Research, an independent group based in Washington, N.C.,...

Menthol Receptor-A Thermosensitivity Determinant in Cold Temperature

...information to the brain. The finding solves the mystery of how important the ion channel TRPM8 is for alerting the body to cold temperatures.TRPM8 is the primary, if not sole, determinant of thermosensitivity in the cool range, the researchers noted. It also contributes to the detection of extreme cold, o...

Tropical Cyclones Play Important Role in Climate-control

...rding to Prof. Huber, this study also explains the mystery of the observed temperature from the distant past during a greenhouse climate. The poles were much warmer than today, about 82 degrees Fahrenheit, but the tropics were not much warmer than the present, said Prof. Huber. "Using the best, most comp...

Genes may Have a Role in Learning "tonal Languages"

...the ASPM and Microcephalin variants. An enduring mystery is about the role of natural selection. It has been debated that the newer variants of these two genes are positively selected, but until now nobody has been able to explain how they might offer a selective advantage. Dediu and Ladd do not believe ...

Researchers Document First Case of Virgin Birth in Sharks

...gin birth in cartilaginous fish, after busting the mystery surrounding the birth of a shark in an aquarium, that had only female sharks which had no contact with a male shark for three years. The birth of the pup at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo, in the US, in December 2001 led to many conclusions including a ...

New Analytical Tool to Unravel the Cause of Diabetes

...uctures, the steps in between remain somewhat of a mystery and may hold clues to what drives the transition. Researchers led by UW-Madison chemistry professor Martin Zanni, used a method, known as two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2-D IR for short), that takes advantage of the restless nature of molec...

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