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

...ed this work. "The study also is a good example of strong collaboration between two spinal cord injury research centers, one at the University of Louisville and the other at the University of Miami in Florida." The researchers are now investigating ways to improve this type of therapy with additional genet...

Specialized immune-system B cells play double-barreled role

...ens from the pneumococcus bacteria do not elicit a strong adaptive immune response in infants, people with compromised immune systems and the elderly. Such people may not have developed sufficient populations of B-1b cells to mount such an adaptive response. According to Tedder, such basic insights as the ...

Brown-Harvard team solves mobile DNA's surgical sleight-of-hand

...d X-ray crystallography, a technique that combines strong X-rays and sophisticated computer software, to create a 3-D digital image of λ-INT caught in the act of carrying out site-specific recombination. In complementary experiments carried out at Brown and published recently in the Proceedings of the Nati...

ORNL, UC Berkeley unravel real-world clues to Earth's mysteries

...mong the leaders in this area, as evidenced by the strong interest in Science," Hettich said. "This is an area in which there is keen interest by many research groups; however, our team has been the most successful in obtaining detailed information from actual measurements." Of particular interest to DOE i...

Arthritis: What Wnt wrong?

...only Wnt-7b was produced in arthritic joints, with strong protein localization to the synovium (or joint lin...k localization to cartilage and bone. In addition, strong Wnt-7b expression most frequently correlated with areas of high inflammation. The authors also exam...

Motor transport in bio-nano systems

...prisingly, the geometry of the system has a rather strong effect on the build-up of traffic jams. In uniaxial systems, traffic jams cannot be avoided as one increases the number of motors involved in the cargo transport. In radial systems, on the other hand, jams can be avoided, to a large extent, provided ...

Researchers use 3-D imaging system to unveil swimming behavior of microscopic plankton

...precision of centimeters, sometimes in the face of strong vertical currents, is incredible," said Genin. "It implies that these organisms have extremely sensitive depth sensors, the nature of which is yet unknown. That depth-keeping behavior has evolved in so many different species implies that this energet...

New Vaccine To Be Used For First Time In Polio Outbreak Response

...under five years old. Dedicated donor support and strong partnerships with the private sector have enabled the previous campaign in Yemen as well as swift development of the mOPV1 vaccine. However, a global funding gap of US$ 50 million must urgently be filled by July, to finance continued intensification ...

To translate touch, the brain can quickly rearrange its sense of the body

...conds of applying the vibration, suggesting a very strong and fast link between the brain systems for touch and body position. The observations showed that abnormal input into one of the body's sensory systems produced a rapid and profound change in another sensory system: The brain had changed the way it ...

Malaria killing a million a year

... recent surge in funding for vaccine research, but strong research initiatives are needed for developing new medicines and safe, new insecticides." ...

New insights into how Huntington's disease attacks the brain

...Neuropsychiatric Institute study reveals the first strong evidence that the mutant protein also elicits toxic interactions from neighboring cells to provoke the fatal brain disorder. The May 5 edition of Neuron reports the findings. "This is really important because most current disease models and drug dev...

Wild grasses and man-made wheats advance research capabilities

...," Rudd said. "They have been shown to have large, strong seed for rapid stand establishment and early growth in the fall." These synthetic spring wheat varieties must be backcrossed to make them winter wheats, he said. Then they can be looked at for other characteristics. "If we find something useful in t...

Going To Extremes To Improve Human Health

...ed research programs, Halliwill and Minson share a strong commitment to training future researchers in environmental physiology. Currently, about 40 graduate students are enrolled in the Department of Human Physiology, which also has roughly 400 undergraduate majors. (The department, previously known as Exe...

Study shows how retinoic acid enters a cell's nucleus

...om vitamin A enters a cell's nucleus, where it has strong anti-carcinogenic effects. Discovery of this basic transport mechanism opens a new door for future research on related compounds. The finding has important implications for the fight against cancer and other diseases. The research, which appears in...

Scientists track stealth DNA elements in primate evolution

...U scientist Dr. Mark A. Batzer, provides the first strong mechanistic evidence for the evolution of Alu elements to date. It appears in the May issue of the journal Genome Research. Alu elements are short, 300-nucleotide-long DNA sequences capable of copying themselves, mobilizing through an RNA intermedia...

Researchers track down cause of a disfiguring bone disorder

... region than in the normal mice. The findings are strong evidence that "the (Van Buchem) noncoding deletion removes a SOST-specific regulatory element," the team reported, indicating that the disease is caused by the absence of one or more distant enhancer elements in the deleted region that help direct th...

'Punctuated' evolution in the human genome

...ations, which are large DNA sequences that exhibit strong similarity to the euchromatic ancestral loci from which they were copied. According to Eichler, the limited number of comparisons of pericentromeric regions among closely related primates suggests extraordinary dynamism, where duplication, deletion, ...

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades

...at may not be degraded. Desertification has other strong adverse impacts on non-drylands as well. In addition to dust storms, biophysical impacts include downstream flooding, impairment of global carbon sequestration capacity, and regional and global climate change. "Given the size of population in drylan...

Deep sleep short-circuits brain's grid of connectivity

...ted a significant response: "The brain reacts in a strong and specific manner," Tononi explains. "There is a very interesting set of activations that occur over great distances in the cortex. "During deep sleep early in the night," he adds, "the response is short-lived and doesn't propagate at all. Somehow...

Frog peptides block HIV in lab study

...ted a significant response: "The brain reacts in a strong and specific manner," Tononi explains. "There is a very interesting set of activations that occur over great distances in the cortex. "During deep sleep early in the night," he adds, "the response is short-lived and doesn't propagate at all. Somehow...

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