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Dogs keep dying: Many owners unaware of toxic dog food

.... Some kennels and consumers around the nation and possibly in more than two dozen other countries remain unaware of the tainted food, and as a result, they continue to give dogs food containing a lethal toxin. To better screen affected dogs so they can be treated as soon as possible, Cornell veterinarians ...

Creation of antibiotic in test tube holds promise for better antibiotics

...ercent of breast cancers. Preventing farnesylation possibly could prevent the cancerous effects, because the mutant protein would no longer be localized at the membrane, Nair said. An accompanying Perspectives article in Science, written by chemist David W. Christianson of the University of Pennsylvania, sug...

Leave it to salmon to leave no stone unturned

... decreasing the amount of algae there is to eat to possibly influencing when aquatic insects emerge, spawning salmon can be extraordinary "environmental engineers," says Jonathan Moore, a UW graduate student in aquatic and fishery sciences. Ignoring this role can cause missteps in managing salmon runs or att...

Insects and mammals share common fat-building pathway, study suggests

... get older. Drugs that stimulate the pathway could possibly help to reverse or prevent this trend, building stronger bones while reducing fat." The researchers found that flies in which the Hh pathway in the fat bodies was overactive gained less fat than normal. Conversely, treatments that blocked the action...

Molecular mechanism may explain how fevers spark seizures

... prevent them from developing febrile seizures and possibly epilepsy," Macdonald said. Vulnerable patients include children who suffer recurrent febrile seizures, febrile seizures that involve only part of the body (partial instead of generalized), and long-lasting febrile seizures, as well as children with g...

New test to detect rare proteins in blood

... cancer), Alzheimer's disease, prion diseases, and possibly psychiatric diseases relatively easy and more accurate compared with the current methodology, including the widely used ELISA (enzyme-linked immunoadsorbent assay). ELISA is a common immune-system-based assay that uses enzymes linked to an antibody...

Lizard 'third eye' sheds light on evolution of color vision

...istinguishes two different colors, blue and green, possibly to tell the time of day. Specialized nerve cells in that eye, which looks more like a spot on the lizard's forehead, use two types of molecular signals to sense light: those found only in simpler animals, like scallops, and those found only in more c...

Curry and cauliflower could halt prostate cancer

...e ?individually and in combination ?to prevent and possibly treat prostate cancer." The researchers injected the mice with curcumin or PEITC, alone or in combination, three times a week for four weeks, beginning a day before the introduction of the prostate cancer cells. They found the injections significant...

Stem cell study for patients with heart attack damage seeks to regenerate heart muscle

...em cells from healthy donor bone marrow that might possibly reverse damage to heart tissue. A unique benefit of the stem cell product is that it is given to patients through a standard IV line. Other therapies require delivery to the site of the disease through catheterization or open surgical procedures, b...

CU, USDA team to curb two invasive, poisonous vines

...gi," said DiTommaso. Through the altered soil, or possibly because of chemicals directly released by the swallow-worts, other plant species have a hard time establishing themselves wherever swallow-worts grow, DiTommaso said. The pink-flowered pale swallow-wort grows rapidly in both forest understories and ...

First wolverine radio-collared in Pacific Northwest

...ld," said Aubry. "It's likely that her parents and possibly siblings are in the same general area, so chances are good that we will collar additional individuals in the traps we've set." Rohrer and Fitkin will continue to monitor three wolverine traps placed before snowfall in locations where wolverines ha...

Mice studies illustrate potential of chimp/human antibodies to protect against smallpox

...that can occur following smallpox vaccination--and possibly may even protect against the deadly disease itself. The study, led by researchers with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), appears online this week in the Proceedings of ...

Marine mammals are on the frontline of failing ocean health

... really open a Pandora's box in these animals, and possibly in humans. Manatees are the 2000 pound canary." Bossart is also concerned about new data indicating that fish and other food sources - once thought to die too quickly to pass on brevetoxins ?can concentrate and carry the toxin long after an algal b...

Boosting newborns' immune responses

...harnessed to boost immunity in these tiny infants, possibly making infections like respiratory syncytial virus, pneumococcus, pertussis, HIV and rotavirus much less of a threat. For about a decade it's been known that people's first line of defense against infection is a group of receptors known as Toll-like...

Researchers get neurons and silicon talking

...re potentially limitless. In the long term it will possibly enable the creation of very sophisticated neural prostheses to combat neurological disorders. What's more, it could allow the creation of organic computers that use living neurons as their CPU. Those applications are potentially decades away, but in...

'Uniquely human' component of language found in gregarious birds

...of times during the experiments I said 'they can't possibly do that,' and they did." "There has long been a temptation," writes cognitive neuroscientist Gary Marcus of New York University in a commentary, "to sum up the differences between human and other species in a neat turn of phrase ?but most posited di...

Carbon nanotube absorption measured in worms, cancer cells

...derstand if they'll pass through the food webs and possibly threaten the health of ecosystems and lead to uptake by humans, Petersen said. "This approach has virtually limitless potential for facilitating important future investigations of the behaviors of carbon nanotubes in environmental and biomedical ap...

Carnegie Mellon scientists show brain uses optimal code for sound

...way via our discovered coding, then we could quite possibly design implants that would convey sounds to the brain that are much more intelligible," he said. ...

Newly identified mechanism helps explain why people of African descent are more vulnerable to TB

...s, and the susceptibility of people of African and possibly Asian descent to tuberculosis. The researchers suggest a need for clinical trials to investigate the effect of vitamin D supplementation. "Our results indicate that we have much yet to learn about human immune responses to infections. They also em...

Wisconsin scientists discover a master key to microbes' pathogenic lifestyles

.... The discovery could lead to new treatments, and possibly vaccines for the diseases caused by these Jekyll and Hyde microbes, says Bruce Klein, a UW-Madison professor of pediatrics, internal medicine and medical microbiology and immunology, and the senior author of the new study. "These microbes have to un...

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