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Using dental X-rays to detect osteoporosis

...femur, hip, and spine, using the technique that is common for this kind of expensive examination (Bone Mass Density, BMD). In addition, one panoramic and two intra-oral radiographs were made. X-rays are used widely in dental practice for several reasons. Using the image information from these radiographs...

Experimental vaccine given during pregnancy reduces stillbirths from common virus

...n to mothers infected with cytomegalovirus (CMV)—a common virus that can also cause mental retardation and h...first step in protecting newborns against the most common viral disease of newborns in the developed world." The study appears in the March 15, 2007, issue...

Bumblebee house warming -- it takes a village

...hers studied Bombus huntii, a species of bumblebee common in the Pacific Northwest. Bumblebees, unlike most...d. "Task switching was previously thought to be common among bumblebee workers," said O'Donnell. "But this study indicates that there is strong specializa...

Pregnancy hormone key to repairing nerve cell damage

...earch was based on evidence that MS, which is more common in women than men, goes into remission when women become pregnant. MS is a neurodegenerative disease where the body's own immune system attacks the myelin surrounding nerves, leading to progressive loss of sensation and movement. MS affects approxima...

Gene hunters close in on Lou Gehrig’s disease

...nome-wide search for the genetic roots of the most common form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Johns... understanding how genetics may influence the most common form of ALS,?says co-researcher Jeffrey D. Rothstein, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Department of Ne...

Study of planarians offers insight into germ cell development

...l growth is called inductive specification, and is common to mammals and a number of other animals. Graduate student Yuying Wang and the other team members were able to show that nanos is essential for inductive specification in planarians. Blocking nanos expression by means of RNA interference immediate...

New protein implicated in autism

Autism is a common neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by severely impaired social, communicative, and behavioral functions. It is thought that genetic make-up predisposes an individual to autism, and several genes have been associated with the development of aut...

'Ancestral eve' was mother of all tooth decay

...n a clear line that can be traced back to a single common ancestor who lived in Africa between 100,000 and 2...employed to trace human evolution back to a single common African ancestor, known as "ancestral Eve." "As humans migrated around the world and evolved in...

Chimpanzees found to use tools to hunt mammalian prey

...nkeys, hunted mainly by males, are the chimps?most common prey—and on the other hand, the tool use appeared to be primarily restricted to females and immature individuals. These two behavior characteristics could both be related to the fact that the Fongoli community inhabits a mosaic savannah that is relat...

Quitting smoking reduces risk of lung cancer mortality by 70 percent

...nants of stroke, coronary heart disease, and other common causes of death in Asia-Pacific populations. It aims to produce region-, age- and sex-specific estimates of the cardiovascular disease risks associated with blood pressure, smoking, cholesterol, diabetes and other major risk factors. ...

Salamanders suffer delayed effects of common herbicide

Pollution from a common herbicide might be causing die-offs in stream sala...ronmental Protection Agency, it is one of the most common contaminants in ground and surface water. Rohr and his colleagues Timothy M. Sesterhenn, doctora...

Lower carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fueled power plants possible with technology development

...a high-pressure, liquid form. Sandstone formations common in Texas and some other states are already being considered nationally for this type of storage. Colleagues at the Jackson School’s Bureau of Economic Geology will also study this storage option at the bureau’s Gulf Coast Carbon Center. They will ...

Scripps Research study reveals new activation mechanism for pain sensing channel

...ve no structural similarity; instead, they share a common potential for chemical reactivity, and their binding is long-lasting." TRPA1 is not unique among proteins to be activated by cysteine modifying agents, the study noted. Another signaling protein known as Kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1 (KEAP1)...

Study finds mercury prevalent in many western fish

...tspots' out there," Hughes said, "but they are not common in the West. What we found, though, is that mercury is in fish throughout the western United States, and at higher levels in piscivores than in salmonids." ...

Army research mission focused on autism

...o allow the scientists and advocates to focus on a common cause, improving the lives of children with autism, to produce research that will lead to making a real difference," said Peter Bell, executive vice president of Autism Speaks, who also has a 14 year old son with ASD. "Parents have been playing a sig...

Reminding doctors which antibiotics to prescribe cuts C. difficile infection rates

...ridium difficile infection (CDI)---one of the most common and increasing types of hospital-acquired infection---can be reduced in hospital wards if doctors prescribe narrow-spectrum antibiotics rather than broad-spectrum agents. Researchers at the Royal Free Hospital in London, which now has the lowest CD...

New measure of sexual arousal found for both men and women

...hysiological genital response; this challenges the common notion that women don't know their bodies," says Tuuli Kukkonen, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology at McGill University and lead author of the study. "I predict that the major physiological measure of sexual arousal for most future clinical trials o...

Fruit fly gene research may shed light on human disease processes

...uman diseases caused when genes malfunction. "One common misconception is that individual humans may carry ...pose an individual to a disease." "Studying the common fruit fly ?Drosophilia melanogaster -- lets us conduct more sophisticated experiments than can be un...

How fish conquered the ocean

...leosts succeeded in the oceanic environment. It is common knowledge that water is essential for life," continues Dr. Finn, "so it seems a surprising paradox that fishes that live in water should have a problem acquiring it. Yet it was this paradox that provided the trail of clues for us to follow". "The ...

Common parasitic infection leads to increased risk for HIV infection

...increased risk of HIV infection among women with a common sexually transmitted disease, trichomoniasis. Although studies have been undertaken in the past to show the link between sexually transmitted infections and susceptibility to HIV, the study published in the March 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious ...

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