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A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...nce, we have really tried to focus our research on ways in which we can make a difference in the lives of ... Alzheimer’s drug research is focused on different ways to attack Aâ42, believed to be the most vulnerable target -- the Achilles’ heel -- of Alzheimer’s di...

UN Calls for Pedal Power to Reduce Environmental Damage

...d and Vietnam have gathered to identify innovative ways to combat climate change. Omi said proposals from the gathering to fight climate change would be discussed at an inaugural regional forum on environment and health in Thailand next month. A key UN report released earlier this year warned that bil...

Tougher Tobacco Rules Urged at Global Anti-smoking Talks

...cials from 145 countries met in Bangkok to discuss ways of boosting global efforts to stop smoking. The...y the World Health Organisation (WHO) aims to find ways of harmonising national laws to tighten tobacco controls, particularly limits on advertising and pro...

Translating Structure into Function

Scientists have perfected ways to determine the knot-like structure of enzymes, b...rmine the substrate, says Shoichet. Theres so many ways that the approach can go wrong. Were all very gratified. For their experiments, the team extracted...

Humans are Gobbling Up a Quarter of Nature's Resources, Reveals Study

...ns, and the rest was used up in a variety of other ways related to industrialisation, such as transport, the study revealed. According to the study, the Earth can just about cope if the future needs are met by producing food more efficiently, but things could get worse, "if plants like palm oil and rape...

War Trauma-hit UK Veteran Population Set to Increase

...s. Dr. Hunt hopes to identify the most effective ways of treating the condition. He has already visited Finland to examine the country's well-established infrastructure for supporting veterans. War trauma is a psychological condition caused by experiencing a traumatic event during conflict. The memory...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission

...ing formaldehyde. "They were ordering us to find ways to reduce costs and satisfy lobbyists," she said, adding that the governor's chief of staff, Susan Kennedy, and Cabinet Secretary Dan Dunmoyer took the lead on pressuring the agency staff and board chairman. The departures, along with the planned r...

Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies

...is is just not going to be the case unless we find ways to reprogram these cells genetically." The insight, says Merkle, is a key step toward understanding the molecular mechanisms of neural stem cell potential. "Now you could compare adult stem cells in different regions at the genetic level. Since dif...

Skin Cancer can Be Triggered by P53 Mutation

...ignant SCC. Future studies will hopefully discover ways to target these mutations for therapeutic purposes. A link between skin inflammation and SCC formation was first reported in the 19th century. In the second of these 2 new JCI studies, Robert Nibbs, Gerard Graham, and colleagues from Glasgow Univer...

Scientists Find Single Circuit Channeling Depression in Rats

...any treatments that act in fundamentally different ways -- how do we make sense of all that complexity?"...

Snack Foods Fortified With Fiber

... State University researcher is experimenting with ways to add fiber to the foods we love without changing what we like about our favorite snacks. Sajid Alavi is an assistant professor of grain science and industry at K-State's College of Agriculture. His expertise is in extrusion processing, which is ...

Fibrinogen may Inhibit Spinal Cord Regeneration

...itors that impede the repair process could provide ways to regenerate and connect the damaged nerves and initiate recovery from paralysis after spinal cord injury. Inhibiting the damaging effects of fibrinogen on neurons may potentially facilitate repair in the nervous system after injury said Akassoglou...

An Inconvenient Truth-Coal to Liquid

...University of Kentucky, though, has been exploring ways to increase the efficiency of converting coal to l...R), Burt Davis is refining the process to identify ways to reduce or capture carbon dioxide generated by the Fischer-Tropsch method of converting coal to di...

The Hospital Superbugs

... C.diff and MRSA scientists at CHAI are working on ways of incapacitating the bacteria and leaving the immune system to deal with the infection. This will reduce the selection pressure for antibiotic resistance that arises from the use of traditional antibiotics. Professor Richard James, Director of CH...

Now, Fibre-enriched Tasty Snacks in the Making

... State University researcher is experimenting with ways to add fibre to the foods we love without changing what we like about our favourite snacks . Sajid Alavi is an assistant professor of grain science and industry at K-State's College of Agriculture. His expertise is in extrusion processing, which...

Now, Dads to Get Text Alerts on How to Raise Their Children

...ion fund to encourage support services to find new ways to reach parents....

Autism Children can Be Diagnosed Within One Year of Age

...prolonged opportunities to learn new words and new ways to play with toys while having an emotionally satisfying experience with their parent. Irregularities when playing with toys: Instead of using a toy as it is meant to be used, such as picking up a toy fork and pretending to eat with it, children wi...

Deep Insights into Type2 Diabetes by Wesley Researchers

...we continue to look for better, more user friendly ways of managing this condition, he said. A major problem in Type 2 Diabetes management is the lack of understanding of how lifestyle influences day to day variations in blood glucose levels. If the particular cause of the unhealthy level is better unde...

BMA Scotland Calls for Public Debate on How Best to Increase Organ Donation Rates

... the current organ donation system and look at new ways to improve donation rates. Dr George Fernie, a member of the BMAs Scottish Council, said: The BMA has actively supported efforts to improve transplantation rates in the UK. But despite an increase in the number of donors, there is still a desper...

Novel Light Weight Polymers Made Up of Carbon Nanotubes

... we reached this milestone, we began investigating ways to reduce the weight even further. Guptas team then added a foaming agent a chemical that creates air pockets to the material. The results astounded even the researchers; this extra step reduced the weight of the material by 50 percent and increa...

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