'Smart' nanoprobes light up disease
...t perhaps more significantly, in understanding and monitoring the efficacy of therapeutic interventions, including the growing class of drugs that act as protease inhibitors. What is particularly powerful about the protease imaging probes described in this study is the combination of the contrast enhancement ac......ide. "This is the most complete study to date for monitoring resistance to Bt crops," said team leader Bruce E. Tabashnik, the head of UA's department of entomology, a member of UA's BIO5 Institute and an expert in insect resistance to insecticides. "We found no net increase in insect resistance to Bt. If any...Scientists must offer solutions for conserving tropical forests in a rapidly changing world
...idly in the eyes of scientists working on tropical monitoring plots around the globe, while human populations and their economic activities grow. Old-growth forests become agricultural lands, degraded land is abandoned, urbanization intensifies, and the populations of tropical countries will increase by two bil...Breath of the dragon: ERS-2 and Envisat reveal impact of economic growth on China's air quality
...nly way to carry out effective global and regional monitoring of the atmosphere. While GOME demonstrated the first satellite sensitivity to tropospheric nitrogen dioxide, SCIAMACHY possesses superior performance, with a spatial resolution of 60 x 30 kilometres compared to 320 x 40 km for its predecessor. SCIA...A new window into structural plasticity in the adult visual cortex
...ung Allen Lee and colleagues report the continuous monitoring of neurons in the mouse adult visual cortex over the course of a few months, revealing that the adult brain can indeed rewire its circuits under normal conditions. The authors focused on the surface layers of the neocortex. To allow direct observ...Oil spills and climate change double the mortality rate of British seabirds
...stributed over a wide area. However, our long-term monitoring of individually marked birds on Skomer Island has enabled us to see a direct correlation between major oil pollution events and a twofold increase in winter mortality rates of common guillemots. "Our research has also shown that the NAO index has h...Cyberkinetics, Case to develop system to help restore extremity function
...ed for temporary (less than 30 days) recording and monitoring of brain electrical activity. The NeuroPort TM System can contribute to the diagnosis and treatment of neurological conditions in patients who have undergone a craniotomy by providing neurologists and neurosurgeons a new resource to detect, transmit...MIT researcher finds neuron growth in adult brain
...g an innovative new imaging technology that allows monitoring of neuronal structural dynamics in the living brain, they found evidence for adult neuronal restructuring in the less-known, less-accessible inhibitory interneurons. "Maybe the inhibitory network is where the capacity is for large-scale changes," Ne...Researchers: Treated wood poses long-term threat
... yet much evidence of groundwater contamination in monitoring wells around those landfills, that could well become a problem, said John Schert, director of the Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management. "The leaching research conducted by the team suggests that arsenic contamination of the ground...Deep treasure to be found in Oculina Bank
... is the start of a sustained and critically needed monitoring program to complement , and evaluate the effective...oupers and choose sections of the reef for initial monitoring surveys to be used as benchmarks. Through comparisons over time with repeat visits scientists will b...Software might revolutionize glucose monitoring in critically ill patients
... that GRIP, a computersoftware that assists in the monitoring of glucose levels incritically ill patients, saves nurses time and effort and is moreefficient than the paper-based method currently used in manyintensive care units (ICUs). Monitoring blood glucose levels isnecessary to avoid stress hyperglycemia, a...Is it Possible to Change Prescribing Habits?
...em of medication errors is to install computerized monitoring systems, which can reduce ADEs by 28%?5%. Apart from the obvious benefits to patients, these systems can save hospitals as much as $500,000 annually in direct costs. However, despite the potential, fewer than 10% of hospitals have implemented such sy...PET imaging reveals the immune system at work
...e spleen. With this technique, the sensitivity for monitoring the immune system is incredible because you're seeing the whole body." That global perspective makes it possible to see critical ancillary responses in addition to the specific cellular battles of the immune system at the site of a tumor, for exampl...Jefferson biologist coaxing human embryonic stem cells to make dopamine with simpler, faster method
...e spleen. With this technique, the sensitivity for monitoring the immune system is incredible because you're seeing the whole body." That global perspective makes it possible to see critical ancillary responses in addition to the specific cellular battles of the immune system at the site of a tumor, for exampl...Health of coral reefs detected from orbit
...he world every three days, a bottleneck for global monitoring could be data processing," Dekker concludes. "Howe...alian scientists plan to progress to perform MERIS monitoring of bleaching events up to the scale of the whole Great Barrier Reef. ...Sahara's edge studied from ground, air and space to improve water management
...oject to apply satellite remote sensing to improve monitoring and management of vast water aquifers concealed beneath the desert. High-resolution radar as well as hyperspectral optical imagery was acquired during flights across two test areas in southern Tunisia. Meanwhile ground teams precisely documented gro...Feds give researchers ok for safety test of adult stem cells in patients with heart disease
... and will establish an independent data and safety monitoring board to ensure patient safety and data integrity. "This is a first step in a long process to determine if this method can someday be used to help patients with this heart condition," said Adler. The trial is one of three ongoing studies in the ...HIV-infected adults in Botswana respond positively to ARV therapy public treatment program
...wana. "These results underscore the importance of monitoring not only clinical outcomes, but also ARV drug tolerability and toxicity as well," said William Wester, M.D., lead author of the article and research associate, Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease at HSPH. "Patients will respond to ARV the...New Therapeutic Target Identified In Inherited Brain Tumor Disorder
...wana. "These results underscore the importance of monitoring not only clinical outcomes, but also ARV drug tolerability and toxicity as well," said William Wester, M.D., lead author of the article and research associate, Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease at HSPH. "Patients will respond to ARV the...Largest computational biology simulation mimics life’s most essential nanomachine
...wana. "These results underscore the importance of monitoring not only clinical outcomes, but also ARV drug tolerability and toxicity as well," said William Wester, M.D., lead author of the article and research associate, Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease at HSPH. "Patients will respond to ARV the...