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Researchers create artificial enzyme that mimics the body's internal engine

...disease and other illnesses, he added. The good news is that CcO rarely fails, said Stanford postdoctoral fellow Neal K. Devaraj, whose doctoral dissertation was the basis of the Science paper. According to Devaraj, CcO has more than 99 percent efficiency in transforming oxygen into water. To unders...

Scientists use nanoparticle to discover disease-causing proteins

...tions. The study also is featured in the journal's news publication Chemical Biology. "The problem with the current method of using proteomics - protein profiling - is that we use very small sample amounts so sensitive that we can't effectively use existing technologies to study them," Tao said. "In ad...

Are we killing the world's oceans?

...try and individuals do about it? Members of the news media are invited to join leading international re...ing practices. All sessions will be open to the news media and interviews with speakers and panelists can be arranged closer to the event. WHAT: "Are...

Radiation therapy combo cures prostate cancer long-term

...attle Prostate Institute in Seattle. "This is good news for men with prostate cancer since radiation therapy is less invasive, spares healthy tissue and helps patients return to regular activities sooner than surgery."...

Robotic exoskeleton replaces muscle work

...p users regain limb function, which is encouraging news for people with partial nervous system impairment, say University of Michigan researchers. The ankle exoskeleton developed at U-M was worn by healthy subjects to measure how the device affected ankle function. The U-M team has no plans to build a co...

Massive coral death attributed to earthquake

...sil reefs" says Dr Baird. Dr Campbell adds "The news from Simeulue is not all bad. At many sites, the worst affected species are beginning to re-colonize the shallow reef areas. The reefs appear to be returning to what they looked like before the earthquake, although the process may take many years. ...

Arsenic in chicken feed may pose health risks to humans, C&EN reports

...sue of Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly news magazine of the American Chemical Society. Roxarsone, the most common arsenic-based additive used in chicken feed, is used to promote growth, kill parasites and improve pigmentation of chicken meat. In its original form, roxarsone is relatively ben...

Study suggests some drug resistance to influenza B medications

... of policies for use of antiviral drugs. While the news about resistance is not good and certainly calls i...g-resistant viruses, an effective response to this news can help contend with the new challenges of influenza.? (JAMA. 2007;297:1492-1494. Available pre-em...

Palau's coral reefs show differential habitat recovery following the 1998 bleaching event

...gh sea water temperatures. "The rare piece of good news in the problem of climate change is that good local management practices might aid recovery of coral reefs." Van Woesik, a professor of biological sciences at Florida Institute of Technology, examined the recovery rates of reefs in Pa...

Parasites' impact goes beyond host to affect ecosystem

... may not be infected by a parasite. But the better news is, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire, that you might have more to eat if plenty of your neighbors are infected. The research, published in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition ( http...

Study offers clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'

... patient died of acute heart failure. The good news is that most patients who survived the first 48 hours had a steady recovery. Thirty one, or 78 percent, of patients had follow-up echocardiography within a few weeks. Heart function was found to be normal in 29 of 30. Dr. Regnante said that long-...

Resistant HIV quickly hides in infants' cells

... launch an attack that NNRTIs could not stop. The news was not all bad: a different class of antiretroviral drugs, protease inhibitors (PIs), was effective in controlling HIV viral load and NNRTI-resistant virus strains for all infants studied. These findings have important implications when it comes ...

Philandering female felines forgo fidelity

...tion than we thought,” added Durant. “This is good news for cheetahs, and a reminder that future conservation strategies need to encompass large landscapes if females are to continue to have access to many males.” In addition to helping save cheetahs in Africa, WCS is also studying the last remaining p...

Mutating the entire genome

...normally short limbs and tail (see photo with this news release)....

Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan

... over much of its former range, so it is very good news that what we believe is a viable population has survived in Southern National Park,” said Elkan. Many non-migratory wildlife species on the east side of the Nile were also significantly reduced. “We did not observe a single zebra during the system...

New study reports hotel guests at risk from carbon monoxide poisoning

...artment and searches of legal databases and online news databanks, the researchers found 68 incidents of CO poisoning occurring at hotels, motels, and resorts between 1989 and 2004. In these incidents, 711 guests, 41 employees or owners and 20 rescue personnel were accidentally poisoned. Of those poisoned...

Nicotine rush hinges on sugar in neurons

... that opens a gate in the cell membrane and brings news of nicotine’s arrival. Structural biologist Raymond Stevens of The Scripps Research Institute, who was not involved in the study, called it “a landmark accomplishment for the fields of structural biology and neuronal cell signaling.” Besides subs...

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

... While this finding presents itself as important news to tired new moms and dads for whom a soundly sleeping child spells out well-deserved respite it may carry even more value for babies. For them, sleep ranks as one of the most highly regarded indexes of healthy development, and plays a critical rol...

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