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Study highlights new and cheaper way to treat heroin addiction

...rt from the danger of contracting AIDS, drug users run the real risk of exposure to the potentially fatal liver disease, Hepatitis C. We face an epidemic of Hepatitis C in Scotland, with 40% of young people who have been injecting drugs for more than two years being infected with this serious illness." ...

Supercomputing equipment to advance the frontiers of computational biology

...p researchers develop algorithms and software that run efficiently on Blue Gene technology, which is a ke...alers. To be successful, these simulations must run efficiently and effectively on the latest generation of high-performance computing equipment. The pr...

Mysterious 'neural noise' actually primes brain for peak performance

.... "The cortex appears wired at its foundation to run Bayesian computations as efficiently as can be possible," says Pouget. His paper says the uncertainty of the real world is represented by this noise, and the noise itself is in a format that reduces the resources needed to compute it. Anyone familiar...

Train your brain to hear your friends at a party

...lped by computer generated training programs which run like regular computer games, but can target weaknesses in listening skills. By incorporating training exercises much like those performed by the ferrets, they can lead to auditory learning and an improved ability to listen." ...

A buffet for early human relatives

...h is marked by tiny ridges called perikymata. They run parallel to the tooth's crown and represent tooth growth, similar to tree rings. Perikymata are produced under the gums during the animal's juvenile years, when teeth are growing. Each laser sampling vaporized enamel that formed during several mo...

Scientists show drug can counteract muscular dystrophy in mice

...althy mice, the mice with MD were unable to either run on a treadmill or swim. MD mice given TSA daily for two to three months, however, were virtually indistinguishable from healthy mice, and biophysical studies showed virtually no difference between the muscle strength of the mice with MD given the dea...

Sequencing of the oyster mushroom genome

...folio size and are placed side by side, they would run for a distance of 3.5 kilometres; the letters ther...eof, written and placed one after the other, would run to 141 km. The genome of the mushroom has twin sets of the genes and, thereby, each set has about 6,...

NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective

...t high-density sample arrays on glass chips and to run sequencing by synthesis reactions on them in an automated, high-throughput fashion. ...

New gene linked to bipolar disorder

... on chromosome 12. Bipolar disorder is known to run strongly in families, but the Slynar gene is one of just three genes now known to be implicated in susceptibility to the disorder. This gene appears to be present in around 10 per cent of bipolar disorder cases. Previous studies of families have alre...

Vaccine-producing 'plant-factories'

...technology and Natural Resources (a centre jointly run by the CSIC, the Public University of Navarre and the Government of Navarre), made up of Javier Pozueta, Francisco José Muñoz and Edurne Baroja. These scientists have been aided by a research team from Niigata University (Japan). Specifically, the...

Protein averts cell suicide but might contribute to cancer

... as the bases ?the ‘A's, ‘C's, ‘G's and ‘T's ?that run the length of a DNA helix. A complete step is formed by pairs of bases according to a rule: ‘A' always pairs with ‘T,' and ‘C' always pairs with ‘G.' When cells make new DNA, the two strands separate, and each old half becomes a template for a ne...

'Exercise pill' switches on gene that tells cells to burn fat

...durance of normal mice. Because they were able to run an hour longer than a normal mouse, they were dubbed "marathon mice." Subsequent work in the Evans laboratory found that activation of PPAR-d in these mice also suppresses the inflammatory response associated with arthrosclerosis. But the gen...

Brain works more chaotically than previously thought

...pidly and fiercely. In this event so many impulses run through the axons that large quantities of glutamate are released all at once. "In these concentrations the neurotransmitter damages the insulating cells," says Dietrich. "It's the dosage that makes it harmful." ...

When smell cells fail they call in stem cell reserves

...eally bad.? The only nerve cells in the body to run directly from the brain to the outside world, olfactory cells are under constant assault from harsh chemicals that one might happen to catch a whiff of by accident, risking damage or death. To figure out how the olfactory system repairs severely ...

New hereditary breast cancer gene discovered

...women with a certain hereditary deformity syndrome run a nearly twenty times higher risk of contracting b... "Our findings show that women with this syndrome run a nearly twenty times greater risk of contracting breast cancer than expected. Moreover, many of the...

Meeting the ethanol challenge: Scientists use supercomputer to target cellulose bottleneck

...e key molecular events required the simulations to run for some six million time steps over 12 nanoseconds (a nanosecond is one billionth of a second) in order to capture enough of the motion and shape changes of the enzyme as it interacted with the cellulose surface. This is an extremely long time i...

Lower carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fueled power plants possible with technology development

...Actual tests of the carbon capture process will be run on a small, pilot plant at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus. Rochelle is an expert on reducing industrial emissions. For these studies, he will draw upon two decades of experience developing and testing similar technology to remove hydrogen sulfide...

Bacteria research offers hope for new vaccine against meningococci

... with treatment some 10-15 percent. Patients also run a high risk of serious disability after recovery. Only humans are susceptible to infection from meningococci. In its modeling system Ann-Beth Jonsson’s research team therefore used mice that produce the human receptor that the bacteria bind to. Ma...

Chemical switch triggers critical cell activities

... E2, but also because enzymes related to E1 and E2 run similar relays with other important protein batons, said Brenda Schulman, Ph.D., associate member of the St. Jude Structural Biology and Genetics and Tumor Cell Biology departments. "Our study shows that this simple switch could control comparable re...

Ethanol vehicles pose a significant risk to human health, study finds

...' he wrote. Jacobson programmed the computer to run air quality simulations comparing two future scenarios: A vehicle fleet (that is, all cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc., in the United States) fueled by gasoline, versus A fleet powered by E85, a popular blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent...

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