Tag: "recovery" at biology news

The secret lives of whales

... populations is unprecedented and is hampering the recovery of other whales, pointing to the need for resumed whaling. Yet the whales?varied DNA reveals a different story, a past with an ocean teeming with whales. It also shows a steadily growing population, with drastic declines only showing up in recent hi...

Dinosaur DNA? New Patent Covers Degraded DNA recovery

...3,883 was granted to Ambergene Corporation for the recovery of live ancient bacteria and fungi fossilized in amber. By reconstituting nucleic acid molecules that have been degraded but still contain useful information scientists at MatrixDesign are able to create a template from which to multiply the genetic...

Gene Therapy For Parkinson's Disease Moves Forward In Animals

...iving the therapeutic enzyme mixture show complete recovery in their paws. Researchers say not only did the rats recover substantial degrees of function in their impaired forelimbs, continuous levels of L-dopa were being produced in their brains, blocking side effects. ...

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

...iving the therapeutic enzyme mixture show complete recovery in their paws. Researchers say not only did the rats recover substantial degrees of function in their impaired forelimbs, continuous levels of L-dopa were being produced in their brains, blocking side effects. ...

Pulsating ultrasound enhances gene therapy for tumors

...ns, reduced risk of other complications, shortened recovery time, significant reduction in costs and the potential for many procedures to be done on an outpatient basis. ...

Low level of extinction during ice age linked to adaptability

...eozoic ice age were caused by the loss and lack of recovery of those that had existed in narrow latitudinal ranges." Powell believes that those brachiopods that existed within narrow latitudinal ranges became victims of the extremes in the annual minimum and maximum temperatures that were typical of the late...

Heart repair gets new muscle

...renewal and repair, impeding the chances of a full recovery from a heart attack. However, recent evidence suggests that the heart might harbor stem cells after all and that such cells can be transformed into cardiomyocytes. In a new study published in the premier open-access online journal PLoS Biology, Neal...

Buying Time Through Hibernation on Demand

...by made headlines around the world ?and a complete recovery ?after she wandered outside at night and nearly froze to death. Before she was resuscitated her heart had stopped beating for two hours and her temperature had plunged to 61 F. "Understanding the connections between random instances of seemingly mir...

U-M team recovers ancient whale in Egyptian desert

...by made headlines around the world ?and a complete recovery ?after she wandered outside at night and nearly froze to death. Before she was resuscitated her heart had stopped beating for two hours and her temperature had plunged to 61 F. "Understanding the connections between random instances of seemingly mir...

Brain-injury rehabilitation depends on acetylcholine circuitry

...g that the cholinergic system is involved in brain recovery is particularly intriguing in light of the fact th...gning therapeutic strategies to enhance functional recovery following nervous system injury," the researchers wrote. "The present study makes a significant cont...

Measuring hormone cuts antibiotic use in half in pneumonia patients

...ed a full course of antibiotics, in terms of their recovery and number of days spent in the hospital. "We showed we were able to cut the number of days patients were on antibiotics in half, without compromising their outcome," Dr. Tamm said. ...

Doctors closer to using gene analysis to help trauma patients

...tand the genetic features that enhance a patient’s recovery as well as the elements that cause people to die s...e scene, taken to the hospital, have an uneventful recovery and they’re discharged. But there’s a certain fraction who go on to develop complications that lead ...

To sea or not to sea: When it comes to salmon sex, size sometimes doesn't matter

.... "However, if we write salmon off as incapable of recovery and so justify actions and inactions that harm them, we will turn our pessimism into their reality, and that would be unforgivable." ...

Low oxygen likely made Great Dying worse, greatly delayed recovery

...efore the main event and was followed by a delayed recovery that lasted for millions of years. New research by...on likely increased the extinction rate and slowed recovery following the mass extinction, Huey said. "Biologists have previously thought about the physiologic...

Scientists reveal the shape of a protein that helps retroviruses break into cells

...efore the main event and was followed by a delayed recovery that lasted for millions of years. New research by...on likely increased the extinction rate and slowed recovery following the mass extinction, Huey said. "Biologists have previously thought about the physiologic...

Insects, viruses could hold key for better human teamwork in disasters

...n technology to support preparedness, response and recovery tasks; and the emerging role of civil engineers as...king process during the preparedness, response and recovery phases of a disaster." For example, soon after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, inaccurate site maps...

Tsunami-damaged coral reefs should be left to recover naturally, say scientists

...s in the majority of cases, so as to allow natural recovery processes to take place. Coral reefs have been subject to natural disasters for millions of years, and they have survived and adapted over a long time." Poorly planned reconstruction programmes undertaken on the land can also adversely affect marine...

Best research work in the area of wine growing

...ainfall". The communiqué continues, "the level of recovery of the photosynthetic activity is evaluated once t...ated immediately. After two or four days after the recovery irrigation, the gaseous interchange was measured, comparing it with plants that had not suffered str...

Stem cell treatment improves mobility after spinal cord injury

...even days after the initial injury, which led to a recovery of motor skills. But the same treatment did not work on rats that had been injured for 10 months. The findings point to the potential of using stem cell-derived therapies for treatment of spinal cord damage in humans during the very early stages of t...

Combination therapy leads to partial recovery from spinal cord injury in rats

...s P, Wood PM, Bunge MB, Whittemore SR. "Functional recovery in traumatic spinal cord injury after transplantation of multineurotrophin-expressing glial-restricted precursor cells." Journal of Neuroscience, July 27, 2005, Vol. 25, No. 30, pp. 6947-6957. ...

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