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Antioxidant protects against lung damage in silicosis

...orkers are believed to have been exposed to silica dust in the U.S. More than 10,000 silicosis patients are currently being followed in Japan. "Pulmonary HO-1 expression is increased in silicosis," said Dr. Ishigatsubo. "HO-1 suppresses reactive oxygen species activity, and its subsequent pathologic ch...

An artificial cornea is in sight, thanks to biomimetic hydrogels

...e panes in those windows. They shield the eye from dust and germs. They also act as the eye's outermost lens, contributing up to 75 percent of the eye's focusing power. On Sept. 11 in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, chemical engineer Curtis W. Frank will present a nov...

Faster, low cost sequencing technologies needed to drive era of personalized medicine

...ometer by 100 micrometer chip, about the size of a dust mite, by 2009. The award to Zhang and his team was one of nine grants given by the NIH to achieve the $1,000 genome goal. Zhang's effort also joins two other ASU research teams, led by Stuart Lindsay and Peter Williams, who have more than $2 mill...

Satellites shed light on global warming

...y enables scientists to correct for the effects of dust and haze, which degrade measurements of surface te...cientists to derive new measurements of the actual dust and haze, which are needed by climate scientists." ...

New findings blow a decade of assumptions out of the water

...e oceans, the Atlantic is peppered with iron-laden dust blowing off the African continent. Winds can't carry such dust all the way across the Pacific Ocean because it is so vast. Iron may still be a limiting factor in n...

Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles

...ckling electricity in the atmosphere" Howling red dust storms" Sounds that become muffled from just a few feet away" At session 3aPAb, researchers will present the latest theoretical and experimental knowledge on acoustical conditions on several other terrestrial bodies in our solar system. In addit...

Early exposure to indoor fungus molecules may protect infants against future allergies

...often exposed to these molecules when they disturb dust on carpet or floors in their homes. Study lead ... allergy development. UC researchers collected dust samples from each infant’s primary activity room and analyzed them for indoor allergens, fungal gluc...

Snoring in children might be an allergic type disease

...controlled trial of dietary intervention and house dust mite avoidance during the first five years of life. 219 children within the original study group had rhinitis and of these, 213 could provide information on snoring. Almost 60% of these children snored at least once per week including 26% who sno...

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