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New Rotavirus vaccine joins routine infant immunization schedule

...tis. In the United States, children under age five experience an estimated 2.7 million episodes of rotavirus gastroenteritis each year, resulting in 250,000 emergency room visits and an estimated 70,000 hospitalizations. In developing countries, where appropriate medical care may be unavailable, rotavirus kills...

Gene needed for butterfly transformation also key for insects like grasshoppers

...h step of nymph development in insects that do not experience complete metamorphosis, and the researchers found that juvenile hormone correlates with the expression of the broad gene during the nymphal stage. Juvenile hormone disappears in the last nymphal stage and the broad gene is no longer expressed, allowi...

Great (taste) expectations: Study shows brain anticipates taste, shifts gears

... a cue that suggested the taste they were about to experience would be less bitter, the taste was perceived as such, and the regions of the brain that code tastes were activated less. "When the subject sees the warning signal, portions of the brain activated by the misleading cue predict the decreased brain re...

Chemotherapy gel may fight breast cancer and reduce breast deformity

... breast cancer followed by radiation therapy often experience breast deformities that can only be corrected through reconstructive surgery. Researchers at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, in collaboration with bioengineers at Carnegie Mellon University, have developed a polymer-based therapy for...

Study finds drug may cut down involuntary movements

...n inherited brain disorder that causes patients to experience uncontrollable jerky movements (chorea), as well as changes in personality, behavior, thinking and memory. There are no FDA-approved treatments for the chorea. Anti-psychotic drugs like haloperidol (Haldol) are commonly used to suppress chorea, but ...

Bringing the zoos to the zebras

...ervation in captivity, and will take home valuable experience with zebra behavior and habitat needs in the wild. Earthwatch has a long tradition of putting zookeepers in the field, including one from Saint Louis Zoo on Grevy's Zebras last year and one from Zoo New England on the same project in 2002. By expan...

Sweet 'water taste' paradoxically predicts sweet taste inhibitors

...ficial sweeteners such as saccharin with a sensory experience in which plain water takes on a sweet taste has gu... the mouth with water, resulting in the aftertaste experience known as sweet 'water taste.' The Nature article describes the phenomenon of sweet 'water taste' an...

Born with a love of speech

...of experience, or does it come from their prenatal experience in the womb? I think we've shown that there's an experience-independent component to newborns' preference for speech," says Dr. Vouloumanos, an Assistant Professor in McGill's Department of Psychology in Montreal, Canada. She'll be presenting the f...

Concern over fast tracking of new drugs

...iple sclerosis are not likely to be effective, and experience with natalizumab should be taken as a signal to change the way we treat this disease, he concludes. ...

Stem cell study for patients with heart attack damage seeks to regenerate heart muscle

...s can regenerate damaged heart muscle in those who experience a first heart attack. The study involves an intravenous infusion of adult mesenchymal stem cells from healthy donor bone marrow that might possibly reverse damage to heart tissue. A unique benefit of the stem cell product is that it is given to pati...

Butterflies lose body fat during metamorphosis

...tists from Oregon have discovered that butterflies experience a great loss in body fat during metamorphosis. Th...onnor and his colleagues surmised that butterflies experience a great loss in body fat during metamorphosis. Using the Blue Morpho butterfly from the Butterfly F...

Faster immune system testing set to improve poultry quality

...mpanies with an early warning for flocks that will experience secondary infections because of immunosuppression. The MOLECULAR TESTS project is the outcome of research initiated at the University of Georgia and continued at the Institut Ruder Boskovic in Zagreb. Project leader Dr William Ragland of Zagreb Bio...

How 'hot' emotional brain interferes with 'cool' processing

...tal design mimicked the kind of distraction people experience in everyday life," Dolcos added. "For example someone driving on a highway, attempting to pay attention to the driving task might encounter an emotional distracter such as an accident. As everybody knows, at that moment drivers lose focus on the task...

New possibilities to fight pests with biological means

...sociate the two. Young, "naive" wasps without this experience could not distinguish between scent-producing plants and control plants, or failed to move at all. ...

Watching the brain switch off 'self'

...These findings go against common models of sensory experience that assume that there is some kind of "homunculus... report about the occurrence of his or her sensory experience to the outside world. "To conclude, the picture that emerges from the present results is that, duri...

Brain differences could explain why males and females experience pain relief differently

...es in the brain may explain sex differences in the experience of pain and in the effects of certain drugs on pai... functional explanation for sex differences in the experience of pain and responses to the drug morphine in the treatment of pain. Morphine is currently the dr...

Findings advance use of adult stem cells for replacement bone

...ikos's lab during her freshman year. "My research experience at Rice has been life-changing in ways I could never have imagined four years ago," Datta said. "I never anticipated I would be traveling to international conferences, for example, but from the very beginning Dr. Mikos treated me as a valuable member...

Report finds cruise industry is protecting the precious places it visits

...ise passengers are attracted by the opportunity to experience new places and cultures," stated Russell Mittermeier, president of CI, in the From Ship to Shore Foreword. The report also makes specific recommendations for how these groups can more effectively work together to manage increased cruise passenger vi...

Parts of the Caribbean and Central America are likely to have less summer rain

...of the Caribbean and Central America are likely to experience a significant summer drying trend by the middle of this century, UCLA atmospheric scientists will report in the April 18 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Their research is based on an analysis of 10 global climate com...

Georgia Tech accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster

...our hosting background, we had the flexibility and experience to quickly create a one-of-a-kind solution that could support Georgia Tech, IBM and the supercomputing cluster that will power the groundbreaking research of Dr. Skolnick," said Bill Smith, BellSouth's Chief Technology Officer. The new supercompu...

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