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Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola update

...o collect the body for safe burial because of poor road conditions. Fortunately, spread of the disease beyond Uige Province, located in the interior of the country, has been limited. Of the 266 cases and 244 deaths, 197 cases and 183 deaths occurred in Uige municipality. Other municipalities in Uige Prov...

Road salt affects mitigation wetlands

...tructed wetlands to replace those destroyed during road building, but a Penn State Erie biologist is monit...tate 90 with the Erie waterfront. A portion of the road crossed the Penn State Erie campus. PennDOT asked researchers if they wanted to use the road buildin...

Fox Chase study shows that weakened T-cell receptor signals change T-cell lineage

...e difference." "Gamma-delta T cells represent the road less traveled," Wiest said. "However, the role of the TCR in determining lineage is controversial, particularly whether different forms of TCR predetermine a cell's fate and whether or not their signals control the choice." In the new study, Wiest a...

Breakthrough: Scientists create world's tiniest organic particles

...work will have a profound positive impact down the road on human health care. This includes, but is not limited to, chemotherapy, gene therapy, disease detection and drug delivery." A report on the findings appeared online this morning (June 21) in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Other auth...

Survival of heart patients on beta-blockers varies greatly with genetic variation

...int of what medical practice will be like down the road when we can put such knowledge to practical use every day."The study consisted of 735 ACS patients from two Kansas City, Missouri hospitals. Patients' average age was 60, and 81 percent of the patients were on beta-blocker therapy. Next, the research...

Digging in the dirt for life's biochemical foundations

... like a four-lane highway than a two-track country road in shuttling the nitrogen into plant roots. More than a third of the total nitrogen taken up by the plants came by way of the fungus, Shachar-Hill and his collaborators report in the June 9 issue of Nature. "The really fascinating part is the mechan...

Fresh water affected by salt from deicing roads

...deicers. Despite being a major aquatic pollutant, road salt is not currently regulated as a fresh water contaminant. ...

Breath of the dragon: ERS-2 and Envisat reveal impact of economic growth on China's air quality

... troposphere from power plants, heavy industry and road transport, along with biomass burning, lightning in the atmosphere and microbial activity in the soil. The emission of nitrogen oxides has increased about six-fold since pre-industrial times and in cities above a thousand times more NOX is present th...

Gene therapy for muscular dystrophy fixes frail muscle cells in animal model, Stanford study finds

...at cell." Both Rando and Calos point out that the road to a gene therapy cure for muscular dystrophy is still a long one. However, Calos is confident that her technique will be a part of the journey towards a cure for the disease and for other diseases such as hemophilia and the skin disease, epidermolys...

Ancient anthropoid origins discovered in Africa

...the probable pattern of relationships. If down the road we find out that our phylogeny was wrong, Biretia could end up being very significant for our understanding of the origin of anthropoid activity patterns." According to Simons, analyses of the teeth of the two species clearly place them as members o...

Geoscientists follow arsenic from chicken feed to streambeds

What happened to the chicken when she crossed the road is less important that what happens to what she eats when it is used as fertilizer. Organic arsenic is fed to poultry to prevent bacterial infections and improve weight gain. A little bit of arsenic is taken up by the tissue and the majority of it i...

New class of antibiotics effective against drug-resistant bacteria discovered in fungi

What happened to the chicken when she crossed the road is less important that what happens to what she eats when it is used as fertilizer. Organic arsenic is fed to poultry to prevent bacterial infections and improve weight gain. A little bit of arsenic is taken up by the tissue and the majority of it i...

Penn Surgeons Use Completely Robotic Surgery to Successfully Treat Prostate Cancer

...l surgical techniques to put patients on a quicker road to recovery with better outcomes,?said Dr. Lee. ...

Scientists learn to predict protein-stabilizing ability of small molecules

...l surgical techniques to put patients on a quicker road to recovery with better outcomes,?said Dr. Lee. ...

UF scientists reveal ancient origin of vertebrate skeleton

...ong thought to have taken a different evolutionary road than almost all other backboned animals, may not be so different after all, especially in terms of the genetics that govern their skeletal development, according to findings to be published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

UF scientists reveal ancient origin of vertebrate skeleton

...ong thought to have taken a different evolutionary road than almost all other backboned animals, may not be so different after all, especially in terms of the genetics that govern their skeletal development, according to findings to be published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Hyena mothers give their cubs a helpful dose of hormones

...covered that a dominant hyena puts her cubs on the road to success before they are born by passing on high levels of certain hormones that make her budding young leaders more aggressive and sexually advanced. The report, published in the April 27 issue of Nature, is the first study in mammals to demonstr...

Nanotechnology may find disease before it starts

...is work is to label nanoparticles with a molecular road map of sorts, which would direct the particles to go to specific locations in the body. "The liver takes up foreign substances in the body, so it's not surprising that that's where we saw the particles," Rosol said. "But we ultimately want to be abl...

The Amazon in 2050: Implementing the law could save a million square kilometers of rainforest

...forestation rate, although rising initially due to road paving, declines over time, simulating the effects of emerging markets for carbon retain in native forests. Under this scenario, 73 percent of the original forest would remain in 2050. The future expansion of deforestation will not affect all forest...

Inflammation and drugs to control this activity studied in a variety of tumors sites

...le is or the specific mechanisms, but we're on the road to finding out. "This again points to the fact that brain tumors are caused by a combination of several environmental, endogenous and genetic factors," he said. "They are not related to one specific cause, but rather, to several that are interplayin...

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