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Gene malfunctions cause schizophrenia, depression symptoms in mice

...idepressant drugs on the two mutant strains "might provide clues to effective medications for these patient groups. Indeed, these mice could represent a model system to explore novel treatment and preventative strategies for certain symptoms of major mental illness," they wrote. "We have shown that two in...

Amphibians in losing race with environmental change

... eggs in shallow, open water in direct sunlight to provide a more oxygenated environment, increase growth rate of larvae and reduce predation. But the increased levels of UV-B radiation in today's sunlight, due to erosion of the Earth's ozone layer, is causing mutations, impaired immune systems and slower gr...

US control strategies may make flu epidemics worse, UCLA study shows

...health crisis could be reduced if programs were to provide several years of free vaccinations to individuals who pay for only one year. Interestingly, however, some incentive programs could have the opposite effect. Providing free vaccinations for entire families, for example, could actually increase the fre...

Novel system developed to turn data into real-time, interactive 3-D images

...technology developed at Kent State University will provide doctors with a dramatically improved ability to evaluate medical images that are commonly used. This patent-pending technology allows for interactive viewing of large image data sets from virtually any medical imaging device and has led to a licensin...

Keeping the immune system from starting a 'food fight'

...s designed to reinforce that barrier may therefore provide the "next frontier" of therapies to combat the rising tide of chronic metabolic disease, they said. "Humans were not meant to deal with little to no exercise and a constant bombardment of nutrients," said Gökhan Hotamisligil of the Harvard School ...

Master regulatory gene of epithelial stem cells identified

...ogy at HMS, to show that p63’s key function was to provide the enhanced potential of stem cells to divide. "The fact that p63 is essential for these epithelial stem cells, while other master regulators have been identified for blood stem cells and spermatocyte stem cells, suggests a fundamental requirem...

First clinical trial of gene therapy for childhood blindness

... results from this first human trial are likely to provide an important basis for many more gene therapy protocols in the future, as well as potentially leading to an effective treatment for a rare but debilitating disease." ...

8 plants from South Africa may hold potential for treating high blood pressure

...ction to the brain and heart. ACEI, in particular, provide beneficial properties to patients with type 1 diabetes. In an effort to identify indigenous plants consumed by the local population in Kwa-Zulu Natal that hold potential antihypertensive properties, the researchers examined 16 plants to identify A...

Anthrax paralyzes immune cells with lethal toxin, UF research shows

... findings demonstrate. "Together, these studies provide important clues about how anthrax escapes the immune system during infection," said Nick Duesbery, Ph.D. deputy director for research operations and senior scientific investigator at the Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Mich. In 1998, Duesbery...

New knowledge improves rice quality

...millions of poor rice farmers and at the same time provide consumers with more nutritious, better tasting foo...veloping varieties that would boost production and provide some insect and weed resistance to help farmers reduce their use of pesticides; quality was not a hi...

Students invent protective pouch to enhance cell therapy

...as the potential to benefit many people. "It could provide an important new way to treat diabetes and fulmina...ted cells need to settle in a place where they can provide effective treatment without interfering with healthy body functions. Arepally and Bulte have ove...

New technique will produce a better chromosome map

... about 10 percent of the slides processed this way provide useable images and even those rarely offer crisp structural details, Novikov said. The new approach includes two components: the use of mechanical devices to spread and flatten the cells, and the application of computer-based image processing to a...

Healthy coral reefs hit hard by warmer temperatures

...retions of each tiny coral, or polyp. While polyps provide the framework, coral's vivid hues come from symbiotic single-celled algae that live in the polyps. The algae supply much of the food coral need to survive. When disease or stressful environmental conditions strike a coral colony, the polyps expel ...

Fat screen delivers plant-derived chemical with antidiabetic effects

...attributed to TZDs, Tontonoz said. The findings provide "a second example of a small molecule that both promotes fat cell differentiation in vitro and improves glucose tolerance in vivo," Tontonoz's team concluded. The biological activities of harmine and TZDs underscore the fact that links between fat ti...

Scientists identify prion's infectious secret

...ermine much of their behavior. "These findings provide a new framework for us to begin exploring properti...tory construct not found in nature, these findings provide researchers with a new way to approach old questions, such as why some prion diseases can jump from ...

World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

...nd conservation. "The Encyclopedia of Life will provide valuable biodiversity and conservation information...s well. The pages, housed at www.eol.org , will provide written information and, when available, photographs, video, sound, location maps, and other multime...

Tissue engineered scaffolding allows reproduction of cartilage tissue

...st-procedure. "The cell-derived scaffold could provide a favorable environment for cartilage cells to maintain their characteristics while synthesizing cartilage in the scaffold structure in vivo," notes study author Dr. Byoung-Hyun Min. "Cell-derived scaffolding may hold great promise for the future. A ...

New host species for avian influenza identified

...ost species for avian influenza A virus (H5N1) and provide important information on the distinctions between the ecology and epidemiology of various global strains of the virus. An eight-year surveillance study, which included more than 36,000 wild migratory birds tested for low pathogenic avian influenza, ...

DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis

..."The simulated datasets constructed by the authors provide a much-needed test bed for evaluation and comparisons of these tools. Their findings will no doubt have a very significant impact on the field of metagenomics in general. It will help groups like mine to choose efficient strategies for the developme...

Asexual worm quickly adapts to soil contamination

...cology, molecular biology and evolutionary biology provide insights into the effect of soil pollution at different levels of biological organisation. Genetic adaptation The nematode was exposed to a combination of different pH and copper values. As well as their individual effects, the pH and the copp...

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