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Clot-dissolving agent may be beneficial in treatment of severe frostbite

... “Additional studies are warranted to confirm our findings and to determine the best methods of assessing tissue damage and administering thrombolytics [anti-clotting drugs] in terms of timing, duration and route,” they conclude....

UCF nanoparticle offers promise for treating glaucoma

...ter and the Nanoscience Technology Center. The findings will be published in an article appearing in the June 28 issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Seal and his colleagues from North Dakota State University note in the article that while barely 1-3 percent of existing glaucoma medicines pene...

Researchers demonstrate way to control tree height

...tory hurdles can be overcome – a big “if.” The findings were recently published in the journal Landscape Plant News. “From a science perspective, this is a very interesting accomplishment and there’s no doubt it could be made to work,” said Steven Strauss, a professor of forest science at OSU. “But...

Endosome-mediated signaling in plants

...latforms in plants, as well as in animals. "These findings will influence our thinking of the evolutionary origins of endosomes and hopefully help us to understand why cells use them as signaling compartments," noted lead author of the paper, Dr. Niko Geldner. Endosomes were once thought to function solel...

Human genetic 'deserts' are teeming with significant life

...fferent overlapping transcripts, together with our findings that suggest we have only uncovered a portion of its complexity, has important implications for medicine, says Professor Reymond. “They increase the size of the genomic regions that might harbour disease-causing mutations, and they could impair clo...

Restricting hospital-based services during SARS outbreak had modest impact

...Area resulted in a 12% decrease in admissions. The findings suggest that the ability of a health system to admit large numbers of affected patients during a future epidemic would be limited by continued high levels of hospital occupancy. For example, the 12% decrease in overall admissions seen during the SARS...

Researchers identify protein pathway involved in Parkinson disease development

...ified in Parkinson disease development. These new findings show how the mutations affect cellular function and could provide a target for drug therapies to treat the disease. The research by a team of Emory University scientists will be published June 18 in the Public Library of Science Biology (PLoS Biolog...

Prey not hard-wired to fear predators

...r conservation and ecosystem integrity. These findings come at a time when, after more than $23 million was spent to re-establish wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains, the animals are to be down-listed from federal protection. The states of Wyoming and Idaho have already proposed plans that would allo...

Surprising origin of cell's internal highways

...particular subset of these microscopic fibers. The findings point to a novel cellular mechanism that may guide cell movement and possibly cancer cell invasion. Microtubules are the largest of the three main types of filaments that make up the cytoskeleton -- a web of microscopic fibers inside the cell. ...

Researchers develop buckyballs to fight allergy

... to control allergy, no cure has been found. These findings advance the emerging field of medicine known as na...hat they were compatible with water. The new study findings were published online in the June 19 issue of the Journal of Immunology and will appear in the July ...

Turn-ons and turn-offs for neurons

...“un-silencing” of previously silenced genes. These findings have important implications in experimental research that makes use of reversible gene expression tools to switch genes on and off. Neuroscientists need such gene switches to investigate the cause-and-effect relationship between gene activity, neuron...

Study identifies 5 genetic themes key to keeping stem cells in a primitive, flexible state

...he emerging field of regenerative medicine. “These findings may help us to understand how the key genes which control cell fate are regulated, and how, when dysregulated, they can lead to disease. This may ultimately allow us to develop targeted therapies to stimulate adult stem cells within our own bodies to...

Male circumcision overstated as prevention tool against AIDS

...e.0000543 . The study has a number of important findings that should impact policy decisions in the future. First, male circumcision, which in previous studies had been found to be important in controlling AIDS, becomes statistically irrelevant once the study controls for the number of prostitutes in a cou...

Smoking rate has plummeted in New York City

...against smoking was launched in 2002, according to findings issued today in the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The 2006 rate was nearly 20% lower than the 2002 rate -- a decline that represents 240,000 fewer smokers. The City’s rate for 2006...

Putting feelings into words produces therapeutic effects in the brain

...frontal resources to turn down the amygdala. These findings may help explain the beneficial health effects of ...gical reason for doing mindfulness meditation. Our findings are consistent with what mindfulness meditation teachers have taught for thousands of years.”...

St. Jude study shows genes play an unexpected role in their own activation

...tors to activate all its target genes. The new findings showed that phosphate-tagged CREB binding to CBP/p300 at KIX does not account for most gene activation controlled by the cAMP messenger molecule. Instead, the binding of CREB to KIX is necessary for only part of the activation of certain target genes...

Definitive evidence found of a swimming dinosaur

...early Cretaceous 125 million years ago. The team's findings are reported in the June issue of GEOLOGY, published by the Geological Society of America. The trackway consists of 6 asymmetrical pairs of 2-3 scratch marks each. Each set of scratch marks, preserved in a layer of sandstone, averages approximatel...

Genome of Clostridium botulinum reveals the background to world's deadliest toxin

...the C. botulinum genes are common to all five. Our findings emphasise just how different clostridia are from each other." C. botulinum toxin stops nerves from working — the basis of its use in medicine to control tremors and in cosmetic treatments. For the prey of its opportunistic attacks, death is swif...

'Smart' mice teach scientists about learning process, brain disorders

...he animals’ health and behavior over time. The findings may have applications in treating post-traumatic stress disorder, where getting a patient to learn that a once-threatening situation no longer poses a danger is a major goal. In addition, Cdk5 is heavily implicated in Alzheimer’s disease and addic...

'Virtual autopsy' helps identify drowning as cause of death

... sediment that are indicative of drowning. "Our findings show that MDCT can be used either to facilitate or... be a secondary rather than primary event. Autopsy findings that support the diagnosis of drowning include but are not limited to frothy fluid in the airways or...

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