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Gene therapy prevents the onset of diabetic symptoms in mice

...oved by acid rain," said Fahey. "Our treatment was designed to replace just that amount of calcium to bring the system to what it was like prior to the acid rain era." The study used two 10-hectare (25-acre) watersheds. On one 25-acre site, a calcium-rich mineral called wollastonite was spread in pellet for...

Acid rain causing decline in sugar maples, say researchers

...oved by acid rain," said Fahey. "Our treatment was designed to replace just that amount of calcium to bring the system to what it was like prior to the acid rain era." The study used two 10-hectare (25-acre) watersheds. On one 25-acre site, a calcium-rich mineral called wollastonite was spread in pellet for...

A rice future for Asia

... and nine young Filipinos for a week of activities designed to boost their interest in rice and science. Dr. Zeigler says it's vital for Asia's future development that the rice industry attract the region's best and brightest young people. "Rice and agriculture are still fundamental to the economic developme...

K-Staters design and build a low-cost remote sensing tool for environmental studies

...er-reinforced fuselage. A K-State graduate student designed and built an autopilot for first phases of the project. However, the researchers have opted for incorporating a commercially available autopilot so the sensing tool can be reproduced easily by others. "This will be very easy to use. Its weight and s...

'LEGO-Like' building blocks to halt cell growth wins Hebrew University prize

...ed "scaffolding." Each scaffold is specifically designed to combine the peptides in such a way that they will form an effective medicinal combination and so that they will bind to the receptors of specific targeted cells. Qvit refers to his process as somewhat analogous to building different kinds of struc...

Dopamine drug leads to new neurons and recovery of function in rat model of Parkinson's

...in treating the symptoms of PD, they have not been designed to prompt development of new neurons, he adds. Altering how the current drugs work or developing new compounds to enhance neurogenesis could provide an entirely new avenue for treating this disease. "These findings are very exciting for several rea...

Smokers invite to test vaccine against nicotine addiction

...keep nicotine away from the brain. The vaccine is designed to help smokers quit and to limit the urge to start smoking again. Called NicVax, the investigational vaccine is being developed by Nabi Biopharmaceuticals to prevent and treat nicotine addiction and to help people quit smoking. Normally when a smok...

Mice learn tasks that may help treat human psychiatric disorders

... disorders in people." Garner and his colleagues designed a task to measure a process called set shifting in which a focus on one object must be abandoned in favor of another object or task. This test long has been used to monitor brain processes involved in human psychiatric disorders and also has been tai...

Brain's 'gambling circuitry' identified

...earchers. However, they wrote, "Since our task was designed to minimize the involvement of these high-level processes, in the future it may be utilized with clinical populations to determine whether alterations in risk perception accompany their changes in risky behavior. This may lead to a better understandi...

Triple threat polymer captures and releases

...hen they looked at the complex materials ?the ones designed to be anti-fouling materials -- they found a progression of decreasing temperature as they went with different amounts of poly(ethylene glycol) relative to hyperbranched fluoropolymer in the composite material. "What's amazing is that there is a 5...

In drug design, a loose fit may be best bet

... could help change the way that drug therapies are designed for a host of health problems, from smell and taste disorders to heart disease, asthma, migraine, and pain. The study is published in the May 12, 2006, issue of the "Journal of Biological Chemistry". The researchers looked at thyrotropin-releasing h...

Speeding the search for elusive chromosomal errors

...he types of gene chips, or microarrays, originally designed to identify genes involved in common, complex diseases like diabetes and hypertension. Microarrays contain short fragments of DNA, called oligonucleotides, that bind to complementary stretches of DNA within a sample being tested. These microarrays ho...

Scientific issues associated with carbon-neutral energy sources such as cellulosic ethanol

...ed Energy Initiative is a landmark research effort designed to help break the nation's addiction to oil. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Somerville recently published the guest editorial in Science (June 2, 2006, Volume 312) concerning bioenergy research. He is a grantee of the DOE Office of S...

Science captures the essence of fruit

New research designed to build scientific understanding of fruit genes could revolutionise the way foods, cosmetics and perfumes are created. Researchers at New Zealand-based life sciences company HortResearch say they have fine-tuned the science of gene discovery to su...

A sweet solution for Alzheimer's disease?

...drug candidates for Alzheimer's disease. A vaccine designed to destroy amyloid â, for example, was first teste...e in humans, patients will likely still need drugs designed to attack other aspects of Alzheimer's pathology, such as tau neurofibrillary tangles, St George-Hys...

Gut microbes' partnership helps body extract energy from food, store it as fat

...logical extension of the human genome project ?one designed to define the microbial side of ourselves," Gordon says. "This project should help answer a number of fundamental questions, including: How different are our individual gut microbiomes? How are our gut microbiomes evolving as a function of changes in...

3-D model reveals secrets of metastasis

...h data because the microscope wasnâ?super>TM t designed for high-throughput experiments," he says. Fortunately, the BioImaging Center has one of the most powerful sets of computers at MIT and the imaging processing and analysis went quite quickly. "Muhammad was successful for two reasons," says Matsudai...

Snakes' virtual glasses, leopard spots and all-optical transistors

...s evaluations, the Illinois study focused on tests designed by instructors with little or no formal training in writing exam questions. Nevertheless, the researchers conclude that multiple choice exams in the University's physics classes A) are just as reliable and valid as other types of tests in gauging stu...

Researchers unveil strategy for creating actively-programmed anti-cancer molecules

...ies are proteins produced by immune cells that are designed to recognize foreign pathogens harmful to the body...k of toxicity and the fact that they can be easily designed and produced. For cancer treatment, the ability of antibodies to direct immune system responses to s...

Research links protein to breast-cancer migration

... body. Current breast-cancer treatments have been designed to kick start the anoikis process and kill these rogue cells. But the cancer cells are clever and learn how to avoid being destroyed, which means these treatments no longer work and patients often see their breast cancer return. Dr. Gilmore said: "U...

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