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New GI technologies improve internal organ visualization

...on dosage accordingly. Patient responsiveness was monitored by the anesthesiologist using the Modified Observer's Assessment of Alertness/Sedation (MOAA/S) scale and the Automated Responsiveness Monitor (ARM) device. The MOAA scale assesses the patient's level of sedation from alert to only responding to a p...

Dolphins at risk

...during calving season, an exclusion zone should be monitored before any activity starts and marine work should cease if a dolphin enters the work area. Other innovative ideas include creating an air bubble curtain and creating a ramped warning signal to give dolphins time to leave the area before work commence...

South Pacific plant may be missing link in evolution of flowering plants

...during calving season, an exclusion zone should be monitored before any activity starts and marine work should cease if a dolphin enters the work area. Other innovative ideas include creating an air bubble curtain and creating a ramped warning signal to give dolphins time to leave the area before work commence...

Triple threat polymer captures and releases

... when the release of the small guest molecules was monitored from just an empty TGA pan, there was a slight difference versus those guests in the presence of either the hyperbranched fluoropolymer or the polyethylene glycol," she said. "There is a slight depression of temperature at which the small molecule...

Female birds boost up their eggs when hearing sexy song

... in large aviaries where their daily behaviour was monitored in a colony before they were tested in the song experiments. The females showed a remarkable consistency in their behavioural and reproductive performance and the song stimuli alone were sufficient to elicit a profound physiological change. This stud...

Thermal imaging shatters arousal gender gap myth

... As the subjects responded, the Binik team monitored body-temperature changes to within a 100th of a degree from a computer in another room. Both the men and the women began showing arousal within 30 seconds. The men reached maximal arousal in 664.6 seconds (roughly ten minutes), the women in 743 secon...

Gene therapy study takes aim at prostate cancer

...no more than 10 minutes, although patients will be monitored in a special unit of the hospital for 23 hours to make sure there are no side effects. After that, they come to the unit for a check-up once a week." After about 30 days, the subjects undergo their surgery, which has already been scheduled, he said...

Female pronghorns choose mate based on substance as well as show

...o the offspring sired by less-attractive males. He monitored the population for several years, and found the offspring of frequently chosen males continued to have a survival advantage for as long as five years. ...

High hourly air pollution levels more than double stroke risk

...rticulate matter, and photochemical oxidants, were monitored hourly at various sites in each of the 13 areas. When the two sets of data were put together, a pattern emerged for intracerebral haemorrhage - where a blood vessel bursts inside the brain - for the warmer months between April and September. This s...

Researchers discover new gene responsible for brittle bone disease

... Baylor team with the CRTAP gene removed, and then monitored for signs of abnormalities. Results showed that the mice were unable to properly line up the fibers that make up collagen using an enzyme called 3-prolyl hydroxylase, which they determined needs to bind to CRTAP for it to function normally. As a resu...

Temperament linked to onset of cancer and early death in female rats

...ales with pituitary tumors. The researchers also monitored ovarian cycles daily from the time the rats were 55 days old until they were 450 days old. In studying their ovarian cycles, the scholars found that during puberty, the fearful rats were twice as likely as the adventuresome rats to have irregular c...

Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on human brain

...une Thierry, from the University of Wales, Bangor, monitored 20 participants using an electroencephalogram (EEG) as they read selected lines from Shakespeare's plays. In this initial test electrodes were placed on the subject's scalp to measure brain responses. Professor Roberts said: "EEG gives graph-...

Advance helps explain stem cell behavior

...ble to use a system of microarray comparisons that monitored the expression of genes and more quickly gives us an idea of how this process is working, and how patterns of development occur." The studies were done in embryonic spinal cord in mice, although the same process ultimately takes place during develo...

Vaccine for brain tumors shows promising results

... second receives weekly vaccinations. Patients are monitored for immune response before, during and after treatment. In the first group, study results showed tumor-specific immune response was detected after vaccination in all six patients. Researchers observed that patients whose disease was stable after s...

Nanotech tools yield DNA transcription breakthrough

...to key structural elements of the machine and then monitored changes in distance between tags in single molecules as transcription occurred. The researchers showed that, during initial transcription, the machine does not move to reach adjacent DNA segments; nor does it stretch to reach adjacent DNA segments (a...

Children of allergy sufferers prone to same problem

... in this high-risk group can be detected early and monitored for the possibility of later allergic respiratory disease. Produced by scientists in UC's departments of environmental health and internal medicine and at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the study is reported in the October 2006 edit...

First biomarker for human sleepiness identified in fruit flies

...ify amylase's connection to sleep loss, Shaw's lab monitored its activity level after sleep deprivation in diff...ars off, while methamphetamine does not. When they monitored fly amylase levels in response to these drugs, they found caffeine drove amylase activity up while m...

Ebola-outbreak kills 5000 gorillas

...these doubts because it was conducted in a closely monitored gorilla population where genetic tests confirmed Ebola as the cause of death. Bermejo and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Uppsala University first showed that 93% (221 of 238) individually known gorillas at ...

Train your brain to hear your friends at a party

...n a circle around the ferret and their response is monitored to see if they can detect which speaker the sound is coming from. Ferrets with normal hearing are very good at this and have excellent spatial hearing. The team then fitted each of the ferrets with a small earplug in one ear which blocks some of ...

Hopkins scientists link immune response to 'ghost' parasites and severely congested sinuses

...ge and recurring infections. All patients were monitored for a minimum of nine months to see if polyps and their resulting symptoms returned. Ten in the surgery group had their polyps return within six months, while 12 remained symptom free. The Hopkins team took samples during surgery of the mucous mem...

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