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Prenatal Stress Keeps Infants, Toddlers up at Night, Study Says

...ant women living in Avon, England, who were due to give birth in a 21-month window. More than 14,000 women an estimated 85 to 90 percent of those eligible responded to questionnaires that gauged how depressed or anxious they were at multiple points early on in, late in, and after their pregnancy. Later ...

Art and music for the birds

...ckoo” by Belle and Sebastian. “If we’re going to give birds music, we might as well give them what we consider to be our masterpieces. But the only gauge humans have on what’s good music is...

Enzyme delivered in smaller package protects cells from radiation damage

... efficiently into all of the cells of the body and give patients receiving total body radiation for systemic cancers better long-term outcomes. This also has implications for the prophylactic protection of those who may be the first responders to a nuclear accident or a terrorist attack, such as a "dirty ...

Innovative smallpox vaccine research study to be conducted at Case Medical Center

...ed, the side effects should be minimized enough to give the vaccine to all individuals, even those whose immune systems are suppressed,” says Dr. Salata. “Our hope is that the new vaccine will be a safer alternative to the current vaccine.” UHCMC and the School of Medicine will act as a subunit of St. ...

Studies to find better ways to preserve human eggs, ovarian tissue under way

...with Dr. Ying C. Song, cryobiologist, will one day give her more to say. They are collecting ovarian tissue from volunteers age 16 to 37 who need the tissue taken for some reason other than cancer, such as a hysterectomy for benign disease, says Dr. Song, MCG clinical associate professor at MCG and dir...

Brightening prospects of using fluorescent nanotubes in medical applications

...researchers routinely mix it with special soap and give it a dose of ultrasound to break apart clumps of nanotubes and force them to dissolve. The result is a dark liquid that is routinely put into an ultracentrifuge that subjects them to forces a few thousand times that of gravity. Centrifuging separates...

Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming

... the presence of Norway's high carbon taxes, which give green technologies an advantage by discouraging carbon emissions. Carbon taxes are charged to a company for every ton of carbon dioxide it emits, so that it becomes increasingly costly to be dirty. Thus the taxes encourage companies to be green. ...

Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing

...to observe inside the swarm itself and see workers give the queen a signal, known as “piping” that tells her to fly. “Researchers have never reported worker piping being done on the queen before, so some of what we found was exciting,” Pierce said. “It was generally surprising to see the level of inter...

Physicist cracks women's random but always lucky choice of X chromosome

... Dr Nicodemi believes the randomness actually does give an evolutionary advantage. The mechanism means equal numbers of both the maternal and paternal X chromosome are preserved in the gene pool and the resultant population thus has more chance of surviving any biological threat targeted at a single versi...

Study shows lizard moms dress their children for success

...archers reported that female side-blotched lizards give an extra dose of the hormone estradiol to their eg...o their social environment--they would just always give their eggs estradiol." To understand these complex interactions more fully, the researchers plan ...

MU researchers to study the status of black bears in Missouri

... Missouri, but only a few females. This study will give the Missouri Department of Conservation a better understanding of the population. “This study is important to us because we need to have a better idea about the nature of the bear population in Missouri,” Hamilton said. “We get lots of questions...

Gene therapy study shows safety and statistically significant improvement in Parkinson's disease

...ted brain region, as surgical approaches typically give rise to immediate, short-lasting benefit around the time of surgery, while prior studies of AAV-mediated gene therapy show that gene expression gradually increases to a maximal level over a period of weeks. “We are very encouraged by the results ...

New vaccine prevents CMV infection and disease in mice

...n antibody response. Neither approach alone would give complete protection. “In mice, the vaccine not only fought the disease, but prevented the infection from being established in the first place,” Morello said. Researchers at UCSD hope to begin pre-clinical work on development of a human vaccin...

Skimmed milk -- Straight from the cow

...and have discovered that some cows have genes that give them a natural ability to produce skimmed milk and plan to use this information to breed herds of milkers producing only skimmed milk. The researchers also plan to breed commercial herds producing milk with the unique characteristics required to ma...

Treating HIV in war zones -- Public health emergencies need rapid advice from WHO

... I had a month’s worth of treatment. If we have to give up this treatment we will return to how we were at the start, sick." The authors acknowledge that their results have been achieved with the resources of an international nongovernmental organization (MSF), in an urban setting, with the episode of ...

An 'elegant' idea proves its worth 25 years later

...stonishing," he says. "His elegant idea was to give patients chemicals they already make in small amounts in large doses to make up for the missing urea cycle enzyme they inherited," says Ada Hamosh, M.D., M.P.H, clinical director of the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine. "Sodium phenylac...

'Insulator' helps silence genes in dormant herpes virus

...t genes the virus uses to hide and re-emerge could give pharmaceutical companies targets for designing drugs that disrupt those mechanisms. The studies also have implications for treating and manipulating other types of viruses, Zhou says. "This study provides one of first examples of how viral chromat...

Amphibians in losing race with environmental change

... The systems developed over millions of years to give amphibians survival advantages have now turned against them, scientists say. Examples include: Many amphibians lay their eggs in shallow, open water in direct sunlight to provide a more oxygenated environment, increase growth rate of larvae and ...

Keeping the immune system from starting a 'food fight'

...e flood control protein may become overwhelmed and give out, leading to the chronic, low-grade inflammation characteristic of obesity and other metabolic diseases, the researchers suggest. Treatments designed to reinforce that barrier may therefore provide the "next frontier" of therapies to combat the ri...

Newborn neurons like to hang with the 'in' crowd

...s, a brain region harboring neural stem cells that give rise to new neurons. Newly born neurons infected with virus were marked by a fluorescent dye enabling the researchers to follow their fate over time as they tried to get accepted into the existing circuitry. With the help of a whole arsenal of hig...

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