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Scientists Have Invented New Device to Reap Fresh Water from the Air

...al Malka of Malka Architects designed a four-sided structure shaped like an inverted pyramid, with each panel a...ward into tanks, wells or bottles at the bottom. A structure 315 square feet in size can extract a minimum of 48 litres of fresh water daily. But the dimensions ...

World Epilepsy Week - 2007

...ether problems with these abilities are due to the structure of the epileptic brain, the effect of continuing to have seizures or the side effects of anti-epileptic medication. Ketogenic diet for Epilepsy Prevention : Studies have shown that sometimes, children may experience fewer seizures if they maintai...

Obesity is Linked to Enlarged Heart

...ers studied moving images of the heart to evaluate structure and function. Results showed that narrowing of the aortic valve, the main valve that carries blood away from the heart to the rest of the body, was the strongest predictor of LVH, followed by gender and Body Mass Index. While the cause of LVH in ob...

Weizmann Researchers Developed Control Switch for Protein Activity

... proteins can cause disease , the study of protein structure and function can lead to the development of drugs and treatments for numerous disorders. Despite enormous research efforts led by scientists worldwide, the cellular function of numerous proteins is still unknown. To reveal this function, scientists...

Individual Differences in Sleep Structure are Biologically Determined

...ood sleep. How much sleep people need and what the structure of their sleep looks like depends in large measure...logically determined individual differences in the structure of sleep for a group of 21 carefully screened healthy young adults, and compared these individual di...

Research in the Origin of Microtubules

... hold its shape and divide, originated from a tiny structure near the nucleus, called the centrosome. The fi... nascent microtubule "seeds" must be anchored at a structure near the cell's nucleus called the centrosome or microtubule-organizing center (MTOC). From the MT...

Scientists Trace New Pathway That may Stem Antibiotic Resistance

... will help them get a more detailed picture of the structure of the essential enzyme. "Knowing how RNA polymerase differs in human and bacterial cells means antibiotics can be designed with a greater probability that they will interact with and kill bacteria, while leaving healthy human cells alone," Vassyly...

Buckyball Has the Ability to Fight Against Allergy: Research

... response. The researchers found that the unique structure of the buckyball allows it to attach to free radicals noticeably better than any anti-oxidant currently available, such as vitamin E. Free radicals are molecules that cause oxidative stress, which experts believe may be the basis of aging. "The immu...

New Vaccine for CMV Infection

...s simplex have the same or very similar sequence, structure and function whether in human or mouse viruses, and present a novel target for the hosts T-cells to muster forces and attack the virus. Secondly, the vaccine also contains a boost from an inactivated virus, which generates an antibody response. Ne...

Iraq's Orphans Left to the Kindness of Strangers

...red the breakdown of social services -- and family structure -- in a country gripped by war. "Iraq has never been a more difficult and dangerous place to be a child," according to the UN children's agency (UNICEF), whose website gives a litany of problems including: a serious decline in immunizations, signs o...

Human Vaccine for Herpes Virus on the Anvil

...s simplex have the same or very similar sequence, structure and function whether in human or mouse viruses, and present a novel target for the hosts T-cells to muster forces and attack the virus. Secondly, the vaccine also contains a boost from an inactivated virus, which generates an antibody response. Neith...

Gene Therapy Awakens the Brain Despite Blindness from Birth

...s that blindness in infancy permanently alters the structure and function of the brain, leaving it unable to pr...o the treatment. Aguirre's team then studied the structure and function of the visual brain of human patients with the same form of blindness. It was found tha...

Too Much of Acidic Foods can Cause Permanent Damage to Teeth

...ts known as tooth erosion, the break down of tooth structure caused by the effect of acid on the teeth that lea...yer of hard tissue that helps maintain the tooth's structure and shape while protecting it from decay. Soft drinks, which contain acids, break the tooth surfac...

Potential Cure for HIV Discovered

...cted cells by recognizing and then recombining the structure of the virus's DNA. This ability to recognize HIV's DNA might one day help overcome one of the biggest obstacles to finding a cure: the ability of the HIV virus to avoid detection by reverting to a resting state within infected cells which then cea...

Boffins a Step Closer to Solving Puzzle of Lou Gehrig's Disease

...or zinc, or how the copper and zinc influenced the structure of the enzyme. She and her colleagues were among the pioneers in taking the copper and zinc out and putting other metals in to see what would happen. Her laboratory put more emphasis on biological factors over time. "When I moved to UCLA in 1980, w...

Experts in Istanbul Seek Nature and Measure of Happiness

...and psychology and we'll learn much more about the structure of human beings," said Gert Wagner of the German Institute of Economic Research. "But this is nothing for politicians," he hastened to add, ruling out the prospect that governments could plug into their citizens' brains to make them happy....

Motion Analysis Helps Teen With Cerebral Palsy Regain Ability to Walk

...he relationships between lower and upper extremity structure and function, said Howard Hillstrom, Ph.D., direct...e laboratory floor is completely detached from the structure of the building it resides in, explained Dr. Hillstrom. Constructing the floor in this fashion was p...

"Decryption" of Enzyme's Functions Paves Way for Future Drug Discovery

...ng researchers to first determine the atom-by-atom structure of an enzyme and then screen many thousands of mol...tures and pressures near volcanic ocean vents. Its structure was determined as a part of the structural genomics project, a large-scale, worldwide effort to dete...

Fertility Rates Felled By Diabetes

...no significant differences in sperm concentration, structure of the sperm or their ability to move, within the two groups. Defective sperm DNA is one cause of male infertility, pregnancy failure and miscarriage yet the implications for sperm affected by diabetes are unknown. Writing in the journal Human Re...

American Cancer Society Launches Major New Study

...department with a unique community-based volunteer structure like Relay For Life; we can reach diverse populations nationwide who have a shared commitment to cancer research and to eliminating this disease; and because we are a non-profit organization with the ability to partner with volunteers, we can conduct...

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