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Buying Time Through Hibernation on Demand

...e replicated in humans, it could help buy time for critically ill patients on organ-transplant lists and in operating rooms, ERs and battlefields, Roth said. "Manipulating this metabolic mechanism for clinical benefit potentially could revolutionize treatment for a host of human ills related to ischemia, or da...

Camera Traps Catch Eye of the Tiger

...n here and around the world. "Sumatran tigers are critically endangered, with as few as 400 left in the wild," said Dr. Sybille Klenzendorf, lead scientist for WWF's tiger program. "We're racing to find out as much about them and where they live as we can, before more of their natural habitat is converted to c...

Wisconsin researchers identify sleep gene

...s the flow of potassium into cells, a process that critically affects, among other things, electrical activity in neurons. A handful of recent studies suggest that potassium channels are also involved in the generation of sleep in humans. Reported in the April 28 issue of Nature, the finding points to novel ap...

The secret lives of whales

...individual. “Knowing the history of populations is critically important to managing their future,?says Palumbi, “especially for populations like these whales that have figured out how to dodge the effects of climate change.?/p> Undertakers in the Deep Sea—A New World Discovered Earlier forensic DNA work by...

GATA: a graphic alignment tool for comparative sequence analysis

...his therapy to be effective,telomeres must be in a critically short state, requiring an extendedtreatment duration that can lead to drug resistance and other problems.Dr. Hiroyuki Seimiya from the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Researchin Tokyo and colleagues examined what happens to cancer cells whentelomerase...

Combination therapy boosts effectiveness of telomere-directed cancer cell death

...his therapy to be effective,telomeres must be in a critically short state, requiring an extendedtreatment duration that can lead to drug resistance and other problems.Dr. Hiroyuki Seimiya from the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Researchin Tokyo and colleagues examined what happens to cancer cells whentelomerase...

Bioartificial kidney under study at MCG

... that's not uncommon, but it's most dreaded in the critically ill patient," Dr. Szerlip says. ...

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