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Bacteria Harnessed as Micro-Robot Motors

...simple nutrients such as glucose and are naturally sensitive to their environment. This means they can be precisely controlled. "In the future, such hybrid swimming micro-robots could even be used to deliver drugs inside the liquid environments of the human body, such as the urinary tract, eyeball cavity, ea...

Pure Gold can Cause Allergy

...gy, he says a small number of patients are in fact sensitive to pure gold. Contact allergic dermatitis to gold may develop at any age. Once this gold allergy has occurred, it persists for many years, often it will remain for the rest of your life. Body piercing can cause an increasing susceptibility to gold ...

Study Reviews Seasonal Affective Disorder

...in adults, parents of children with ADHD should be sensitive to seasonal patterns of behavior and report any changes to a doctor, Lurie said. Emerging evidence also shows that a pattern of seasonal alcohol use or abuse is associated with SAD. Patients might be self-medicating to cope with an underlying depre...

Bilcare Signs Pact With Honeywell for Packaging Solutions

...e state-of-the-art materials for ensuing safety of sensitive drugs," said Mohan Bhandari, chairman and managing director of Bilcare, at a news conference here Tuesday. "It will generate application-based packaging system for the pharmaceutical sector," he added. Rick Knight, Honeywell's global business man...

Cancer Recurrence in Older Breast Cancer Patients Reduced By Radiation Therapy

...ody, is often used to treat women whose tumors are sensitive to estrogen. One-third of the study participants were 65-69 years old, half were 70-79 and 20 percent were 80 and older. About 80 percent of the women were white, 10 percent were black and 10 percent were Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islanders. S...

Tears Reveal Some of Their Deepest Secrets to Researchers

...he composition of meibum, but mass spectrometry is sensitive enough to detect individual lipid molecules, like oleamide,” Nichols said. Oleamide was first identified as a lipid in the brain, where one of its roles is to induce sleep. It also has other key functions throughout the central nervous system. But ...

Hay Fever Season may Begin Earlier, Warns Experts

..., around 25 per cent of those with the allergy are sensitive to tree pollen, particularly that from birch trees. Experts say if winters turn out milder, the birch pollen season may start much earlier than the traditional date. Allergy UK spokesman Lindsey McManus says the changing climate could lead to const...

Relationship Between Delirium and Dementia

...CT) -- which offer the possibility of using highly sensitive imaging techniques to detect changes in the brain following episodes of delirium and thereby investigate the mechanisms and networks involved in its onset and consequences. Use of SPECT scanning to assess cerebral perfusion changes in patients with...

Horse Heart Coherence May Be Key To Non-invasive Stress Detection

...ress hormone. Horses have long been known to be sensitive to their environments. The preliminary research pr... the first step to proving horses to be as equally sensitive to the humans within that environment. For years humans have reported emotional bonds with animals...

Cocaine During Pregnancy can Cause Behavioral and Neurological Problems in the Child

...ts that were exposed to cocaine during that short, sensitive prenatal period. He found that cocaine exposure ...This implies that cocaine exposure during a brief, sensitive period of neural development can lead to long-lasting effects at the cellular level. This change a...

Cocaine's Use During Pregnancy May Cause Lasting Cellular Effects

...ts that were exposed to cocaine during that short, sensitive prenatal period. He found that cocaine exposure...This implies that cocaine exposure during a brief, sensitive period of neural development can lead to long-lasting effects at the cellular level. This change ...

Special Children Need to Be Taught Sexual Safety

...in personal safety conducted in an appropriate and sensitive manner. Quite often our community does not actively promote the ability of the person with a disability to speak up or to know their likes and dislikes and make choices. This raises the question of how we could expect children with disabilities...

Joining the Gym? Drink Coffee

...ot experience similar results, as they may be less sensitive to caffeine’s effect. Previous studies have shown caffeine also enhances resilience, and one experiment found that caffeine reduces pain during cycling. The researchers suggest that caffeine blocks the body’s receptors for adenosine released duri...

Why Immune System Doesn't Attack Small Intestine?

...n unclear how dendritic cells, which are extremely sensitive to microbial agents such as bacteria, teach T cells to resist attacking healthy intestinal cells." In the new study, Turley and her colleagues found that, in fact, dendritic cells aren't essential in creating tolerance in T cells. Instead, and unex...

New Test for Treatment of AIDS

...ure Methods, they have devised a device that is so sensitive to viral mutations or drug resistant strains that they pick up a single mutated virus among 10,000 non–mutated ones. There are about 30 well-established mutations that make HIV strains resistant to the around 20 drug used to treat AIDS. The present...

Vision Loss Can Be Prevented in People With Diabetes

...nopathy, a degenerative disease of the retina (the sensitive area at the back of the eye). Overall, diabetic retinopathy affects 5.3 million Americans 18 and older. But there’s hope. The American Academy of Ophthalmology wants Americans to know that even though diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of bl...

Anthrax Attack - Greater Potential Threat Than Thought

...ed responses in B. anthracis infection may be more sensitive than antibody responses, and he recommended that future studies of anthrax vaccines investigate cellular immunity's role in inhibiting the pathogen. Source-Eurekalert SRI...

Mercury Contamination (Hotspots) Identified

...r deposition of mercury near areas that are highly sensitive to the element or that are already affected by it could raise the risk to people and wildlife that consume fish. There is reason to believe, however, that lowering emissions can reduce risk: an analysis of levels of mercury contamination over time...

Mother’s Diet During Pregnancy Could Prevent Cancer in Childre

...s the leading cause, and the fetus and neonate are sensitive targets for toxic carcinogens. It would be important if we could affect this through maternal diet." There are particular concerns about common environmental pollutants called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, which can be produced by cig...

Adults Who Go to Bed Lonely Get Stress Hormone Boost Next Morning

...ailed and intricate methodology, the study shows a sensitive day-to-day dance between experience and cortisol. Experience influences stress hormones, and stress hormones influence experience, the study shows. “Cortisol responds to and interacts with our daily experiences in subtle and important ways,” Adam c...

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