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Living laboratory found on shoreline statues

...hat allow them to feed in the water column without getting battered by waves and currents. The Gormley statues not only provide a perfect anchor point but sheltered parts of the figures such as the inner thigh protect them from extreme harsh conditions. "This particular breed is a cross-fertilising herma...

Gene therapy research switches off joint inflammation; switches on genetic process of joint repair

...ter bricklayer and not just the simple approach of getting more bricks." Elaborating Bobrowski said, "By activating the joints master bricklayer Reparagen offers a more effective approach for regaining joint health." ...

Too mellow for our predatory world

...arket. With growing mass tourism, the situation is getting more difficult. The National Park Management is considering raising the entry fee from the currently charged $100 to $500 in order to reduce the number of visitors - possibly the only possibility to create sustainable tourism, thereby ensuring the ne...

PNAS study reveals why organs fail following massive trauma

...ll us which patients are recovering, and which are getting worse, in almost any disease that involves the immune system." ...

Cellular traffic backups implicated in skeletal malformations

...ssed the first leg of its journey out of the cell, getting stuck at the first transit station, the ER. The researchers have identified the source of the defect ?a gene called sec23a, which is a critical component of the vesicles that transport proteins from ER to Golgi. But since the gene is supposedly a...

MIT designs portable 'lab on a chip'

...itary use - imagine going to a doctor's office and getting test results immediately. The technology could also be useful for first responders. If emergency personnel knew immediately whether a person had suffered a heart attack or a stroke, they could start the appropriate treatment right away. Labs on a ...

Holiday gluttony can spell disaster for undiagnosed diabetics

...n. The holidays also are a perfect time to start getting healthy, she said, offering these tips: Set consistent meal times. Avoid fast food. At parties, cut food portions in half or don't eat large portions of food, even healthy food. Eat skinless chicken or turkey. Use low-calorie ingredien...

A natural chemical found in strawberries boosts memory in healthy mice

...t status there may be little financial interest in getting it into human clinical trials for diseases associated with memory loss such as Alzheimer's, where the treatment options are currently very limited," says Maher. Besides strawberries, fisetin is found in tomatoes, onions, oranges, apples, peaches, ...

Scientists get best look ever at water-life connection

...om a common bacterium, Staphylococcus. The key to getting a good view of the interaction was to precisely lo...protein at all. So I think this is nature's way of getting the interaction just right." ...

Male circumcision reduces HIV risk, study stopped early

...erry way without additional tools to fight against getting infected." Opponents of circumcision have speculated that circumcised men may feel they are not at risk of contracting HIV and may be more likely to engage in risky behavior. The Kenya study suggests that circumcision did not increase risky behavi...

Rescuing injured hearts by enhancing regeneration

...n and heart function. The findings suggest that getting cardiomyocytes to replicate is not enough to rescue heart function, but that angiogenesis is also needed, Engel says. "Regeneration is not just making more cardiomyocytes," he says. "Cardiomyocytes need a blood supply and oxygen to survive. FGF1 d...

Fast-freeze snapshot yields new picture of nerve-muscle junction

When nerve cells excite muscle fibers to flex, getting synaptic proteins and components into the right place can mean the difference between feats of strength or lapses of drowsy lethargy. Several proteins that have been shown to be major players in synaptic transmission have now been studied using a fl...

Researchers develop technologies to devour food pathogens

...al of keeping food safe and preventing people from getting sick, and have each progressed to the point where they could be commercialized, Linton said. Patents are pending on both technologies, and the laser technology is available for licensing. Linton says there is a definite need for these new methods. ...

Train your brain to hear your friends at a party

...ight. This is a feedback system where the brain is getting information from the eye about its surroundings, processing that information, and sending messages back to the eye to help it cope with different situations. We think something very similar is happening with the ear in spatial hearing." "The brain...

To slow AIDS in Russia, treat HIV-positive addicts, Stanford study says

...rs. "Almost no injection drug users in Russia are getting antiretroviral drug therapy," said Owens. Antiretroviral therapies now combine multiple individual drugs to reduce the amount of virus in a person's body. The cumulative effect of two or three medicines works better than a single one to keep the ...

A buffet for early human relatives

... 3 million years ago when Africa's climate started getting drier and more seasonal. That was shortly before the first appearance of stone tools and of Paranthropus and Homo, the genus to which modern humans (Homo sapiens) belong. The researchers noted that Paranthropus often has been portrayed as a speci...

Transplanted brain cells hold promise for Parkinson's disease

...ongan notes. This would be equivalent to a patient getting treatment very early in the disease process, which rarely happens since there is no screening test to catch it early. "Right now we are saying if you are able to identify Parkinson’s in the early stage, we think this therapy will work. An importa...

Cracking the egg

...unique to egg cells. Interestingly, the process of getting ready for fertilization requires more genetic activity than early embryo development. There's a far greater diversity of RNAs in the egg cell than in the two-cell embryo, perhaps because the embryo is independent and the pre-ovulatory egg must still ...

Male contraception: One door opens, another closes

...traceptive is "five to ten years" away. But are we getting any closer? The answer may finally be "yes." Thi...the expensive part: actually testing it in men and getting it to market." This problem of moving leads from the lab to human studies affects all types of co...

Science researchers genetically transform immune cells into tumor fighters

...oviruses, putting genes into cells efficiently and getting them expressed." ...

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