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Study shows eutrophic lakes may not recover for a millennium

...n rich farming areas, like southern Wisconsin, the routine application of chemical fertilizers and phosphorus-laden manure, has resulted in the gradual accumulation of phosphorus in the soil, which, ultimately, has nowhere to go but into the streams, lakes and rivers of the watershed where it is applied. "T...

MERIS monitoring tracks planetary photosynthesis levels

...nding data-processing task only made possible on a routine basis through the Earth Science Grid-On-Demand service available from ESRIN, the European Centre for Earth Observation, in Frascati. Maps of anomalies in photosynthesis levels over European countries have then been produced by scientists at the Insti...

Why do aneurysms form? New studies suggest leading role for white blood cells

... are detected during this stage, for instance on a routine physical exam, X-Ray, MRI or CT scan, they can be repaired successfully 95 percent of the time. Recently, new ideas about why aneurysms form have begun to take shape. "We're finding that in general, an aneurysm is an inadequate response to injury," ...

Old drug, new tricks: Prospects for slashing the impact of malaria

...tablet to an apparently healthy child during their routine infant immunization visits dramatically reduced the impact of any subsequent malaria infection. Used in this way, Fansidar does not prevent malaria but seems to produce a massive 50% reduction in death, debilitation and complications of malaria, such...

Newfound roadblock to interferon effectiveness against malignant melanoma

...late, and most aggressive, stage. In the future, a routine analysis of the STAT5 status in melanoma patients might help to improve and personalize therapies. ...

U-M researchers identify new blood test for prostate cancer

...to undergo a biopsy. The new test requires only a routine blood draw for patients. Most blood-processing laboratories could easily be equipped to scan for these 22 biomarkers, Chinnaiyan says. Researchers are conducting further studies to validate the findings with a larger, community-based group of patient...

Hospitalizations because of chicken pox down dramatically since implementation of vaccine

...sue of JAMA. Varicella vaccine is recommended for routine immunization of children aged 12 to 18 months and for older susceptible children and adults in the United States, according to background information in the article. Before its licensure in 1995, almost everyone developed chicken pox; thus, incidence...

Results of world's first gene therapy trial for arthritis show approach safe, feasible

...ransduced cells were removed after one week during routine joint replacement surgery. Nonetheless, with safety a key concern, the authors report no clinical side effects up to five years after the procedure and no evidence that the vector, a replication-defective retrovirus called Maloney Murine Leukemia Vir...

New technique could alter field of mouse genetics

...e from the cabbage looper moth and modified it for routine use in mice and other vertebrates. If the new tool works as they expect, it will speed understanding of genes involved in human biology and disease and accelerate the search for effective new therapies. The researchers report their study in the Augu...

Retina adapts to seek the unexpected, ignore the commonplace

...ontal features, the retina adjusts to suppress the routine vertical features while highlighting the singular horizontal elements. Meister and his co-authors examined neural signals in retinal ganglion cells, which convey visual images from the eye to the brain. These cells generally record local spatial dif...

NHGRI expands effort to revolutionize sequencing technologies

...le the sequencing of individual genomes as part of routine medical care. The ability to sequence an individual genome cost-effectively could enable health care professionals to tailor diagnosis, treatment and prevention to each person's unique genetic profile. The new grants balance NHGRI's sequencing resea...

Scientists show how thinking can harm brain cells

...erve impulses that are passed between cells during routine activities like learning and memory can become toxic. Instead of triggering the formation of memories, these impulses can inflict injury on neurons and disrupt neurologic function. Understanding this mechanism could provide a new path for drugs to t...

Ultrasounds show mothers' drinking shrinks fetal brain

... of every 100 births. The study authors obtained routine ultrasound data from 167 pregnant women who had re...There may have been measures that were not part of routine ultrasound examinations that would have been more sensitive to the pre-recognition drinking," said H...

New Rotavirus vaccine joins routine infant immunization schedule

...d vaccinations today recommended a new vaccine for routine use against rotavirus infection, a common childhoo...ses of rotavirus gastroenteritis and 74 percent of routine cases, compared to a placebo. Furthermore, the vaccine showed no increased risk of intussusception, ...

Unique equine cataract surgery offered on routine basis

...a new form of equine cataract removal surgery on a routine basis, which could save the sight of thousands of ...elt and his team are now offering the surgery on a routine basis to horses suffering from cataracts. The team spent several months testing out various surgical...

Ahead of the game

...in the social realm of modern human life, allowing routine use of distant resources and more extensive division of labor, may be better indicators of why Neanderthals disappeared than hunting practices. "The establishment of larger social networks allowed the replacement of Neanderthals in the Caucasus," wr...

Pittsburgh researchers discover that certain chemicals in the blood may indicate brain injury

... which children had SBS, which mostly likely had a routine childhood illness, and which were possible cases of missed SBS. "One of the interesting aspects of the study was that in many of the children who were ultimately identified as having SBS, the caretaker who brought the child to the hospital for eval...

Virginia Tech helping to develop higher quality, disease-resistant wheat varieties

...ve been awarded $5 million from the USDA to enable routine use of modern breeding technologies to produce hig...rkers associated with such traits can be used on a routine basis to develop superior wheat varieties," said Carl Griffey, professor of crop and soil environmen...

Aspirin reduces cardiovascular risks in men and women -- but differently

...597 strokes and 1,023 heart attacks. However, the routine use of aspirin does not come without potential ris...f major bleeding episodes. The analysis found that routine aspirin use for an average of 6.4 years would lead to 2.5 major bleeding events per 1,000 women and ...

Common enzyme is a key player in DNA repair

...enes that code for the proteins that carry out the routine and complex tasks necessary for life. Now, researchers in Walker's lab have discovered that the enzyme DinB is exceptionally skilled at copying over a particular kind of damage to the G nucleotide. When the main DNA replication machinery stalls at ...

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