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Does manganese inhaled from the shower represent a public health threat?

... shower. It was conducted by reviewing the medical literature and calculating, based on animal studies, the amount of manganese people would absorb by showering 10 minutes a day. Because manganese is monitored in public water supplies, high levels of this naturally occurring metal are especially found in wells...

Many smokers fail to quit after cancer diagnosis

...er in Houston, researchers reviewed the scientific literature to provide a comprehensive overview of smoking ces...atment for smoking addiction. They found that the literature provides ample evidence that patients who quit smoking around the time of diagnosis have improved di...

Anti-cancer Compound In Beer Gaining Interest

...emistry in the College of Pharmacy. "The published literature and research on its properties are just exploding at this point, and there's a great deal of interest." Quite a bit is now known about the biological mechanism of action of this compound and the ways it may help prevent cancer or have other metaboli...

Did feathered dinosaurs exist?

...ed the new findings in the context of the existing literature and furthered the knowledge base with additional experiments. Theagarten Lingham-Soliar of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa examined the skin of modern reptiles, the effects of decomposition on skin, and the fossil evidence relating to...

Mining biotech's data mother lode

...ssion, protein interactions and the vast output of literature both inside and outside laboratories ?to find out ...apers. Currently PubMed, the most important public literature database available, has 15,000,000 entries, and the number is growing every day. Finding relevant da...

Bacteria that cause tooth decay able to survive without important biochemical pathway

...can cope without this pathway; all of the existing literature indicated it is vital." The signal recognition particle, or SRP, pathway is a primary mechanism by which proteins are chaperoned from cellular assembly lines, where they are made, to the protective outer surface of the cells, where they are inserted...

Infants can organise visual information at just four months

...se two categories over the timescale studied. "The literature talks about the short-looking and long-looking categories, and links to later abilities are suggested. Unusually, we looked at this longitudinally, so we were able to pick up that these categories weren't stable" says Dr Farran. "So these differences...

Largest study of human 'interactome' reveals a novel way

...-protein interactions collected from the published literature and stored in a format suitable for rapid study and comparison with other animal cells. HPRD was developed by the IOB and the Pandey laboratory. "Using HPRD and several other databases, we have been able to develop a gold mine of new information for...

Free access to a digital library for developing countries

...l have free access to the peer-reviewed scientific literature of Springer and other leading international publishing houses. Springer's Environmental Online Library covers a range of publications in topics spanning the uncharted depths of the oceans to the outer reaches of our atmosphere. Springer, one of the...

Simple idea to dramatically improve dengue vaccinations

...sponses against all four versions of Dengue. "The literature about immunodominance is new and growing," Deem said. "Ours is the first model that can predict immunodominance, and when we compare our results with experimental data from Dengue vaccination trials, they match quite closely. There may be other facto...

UF scientists reveal ancient origin of vertebrate skeleton

... "One of the classic characters in the scientific literature for the past 100 years that has been argued to link all vertebrates, to the exclusion of lampreys and hagfishes, is bone, pure and simple," Caldwell said. "It is the lack of bone in these animals and the supposed uniqueness of their cartilage, that h...

Powerful new tool for studying brain development

...of the drudgery of digging up information from the literature or from other databases." The BGEM already contains detailed information and images of the expression of hundreds of genes that play key roles directing brain development, controlling the expression of other genes, guiding protein production and tra...

Low-cost drug gaining favor for use in HIV-infected children in poor countries

...in poor countries. The reviewers surveyed medical literature on the preventive use of Bactrim -- one of several brand names for the generic medicine cotrimoxazole -- for children to ward off common infections that can be deadly to a person whose immune system is weakened by HIV. Dr. Kate Grimwade, with the H...

UF scientists reveal ancient origin of vertebrate skeleton

... "One of the classic characters in the scientific literature for the past 100 years that has been argued to link all vertebrates, to the exclusion of lampreys and hagfishes, is bone, pure and simple," Caldwell said. "It is the lack of bone in these animals and the supposed uniqueness of their cartilage, that h...

Less is more, gene study shows

... which they added 13 that had been reported in the literature but not included in the original database, bringing the total to 80. Next, Zhang and his team consulted another database called Gene Ontology, which lists the functions of all genes for which such information is known. That's when things got intere...

Patients now surviving once-fatal immune disease

...his study, there was almost nothing in the medical literature about adults with XLA," said Mary Ellen Conley, M.D., a member of the Department of Immunology at St. Jude and senior author of the report. "In fact, old reports we read stated that the vast majority of these patients have chronic lung disease by age...

Mice lacking social memory molecule take bullying in stride

...homas Insel. "These new findings add to a growing literature on the molecular basis of social behavior, helping us to know where as well as how social information is encoded in the brain." The results reveal neural mechanisms by which social learning is shaped by psychosocial experience and how antidepressa...

Component in soy products causes reproductive problems in laboratory mice

... the product. This study adds to a growing body of literature demonstrating the potentially adverse consequences of genistein on the reproductive system. "Although we are not entirely certain about how these animal studies on genistein translate to the human population, there is some reason to be cautious," sa...

Paleontologists learn how not to become a fossil

...nation of museum specimens, combing the scientific literature and conducting statistical analyses. They determined the fossil occurrence of all 1,282 major types living today, then assessed why 24 percent of them failed to become fossils. In some cases, key factors were inextricably linked. "For example, deep-w...

The diversity of marine life in the Gulf of Maine region is much greater than previously thought

... curators Lou Van Guelpen and Gerhard Pohle, mined literature dating back 100 years for species records and assured that the list is presented using standard species classifications. Though still in preliminary form, the register is a tremendously useful resource to investigators of biodiversity in the Gulf of...

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