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Gene therapy for hereditary lung disease advances

...ive patients this gene transfer vector and then to try to begin to see if we could get the dose into a range where we would begin to replace the missing protein in the blood," said Terence Flotte, M.D., a pediatrician, geneticist and microbiologist with UF's College of Medicine and a member of the Powell...

Holiday gluttony can spell disaster for undiagnosed diabetics

...ong-term tips include: If you are overweight, try to lose 5 percent to 7 percent of your body weight through exercise and eating right. Exercise regularly. Walk at least 30 minutes a day. Eat a nutritious diet high in fiber and whole grain. Reduce the intake of high-calorie food. "Vari...

Emergency contraception fails to halt abortions

...sting an abortion in 1984 said they had used it to try and prevent the pregnancy, 6% of women had done so in 1996 and 12% in 2002. Emergency contraception has been heralded as the solution to rising abortion rates, says Professor Glasier, but in the UK, abortion rates have increased from 11 per 1,000 w...

Beyond the book: Software automates access to brain atlases

...ld learn about the work, download the software and try it out, the advantages will be obvious. He hopes to build on the system to create a general visual interface for neural data, linking brain locations (specified by coordinates) to research results concerning those locations, - "a kind of Google Ea...

Does natural selection drive the evolution of cancer?

...e sucker's gambit," Maley says. "In this case, you try to increase the fitness of chemosensitive cells so that they outcompete any resistant cells that are in the tumor. And then you apply your chemotherapy. So you sucker the tumor into a vulnerable state and then you hit it with your therapy." In the...

Extreme environment changes fish appearance

...served in the same habitat? "What is it that we try to preserve -- just genetics, or the habitat that makes them unique?" Lema said. ...

SARS: No evidence that any of the treatments worked

... Steroids have also been used in SARS treatment to try to reduce the inflammation of the lungs. To find out which, if any, of the potential treatments were effective, a number of research studies were carried out, both during and since the outbreak. The World Health Organization (WHO) established an Int...

First biomarker for human sleepiness identified in fruit flies

... Like humans, flies deprived of sleep one day will try to make up for the lost time by sleeping more the next day, a phenomenon referred to as increased sleep drive or sleep debt. To identify a marker for sleep debt, Shaw decided to look in saliva. Easily accessible, saliva contains many of the substa...

Some butterflies travel farther, reproduce faster

...ve a higher metabolic rate. Future research will try to further uncover more physiological and molecular differences that account for the differences in reproduction and in flight, Fescemyer said. The researchers also hope to see what part host plant nutrition plays in these differences. ...

Rising ocean temperatures, pollution have oysters in hot water

...em. In future experiments, the researchers will try to determine whether the combination of temperature and pollution is preventing oysters from obtaining enough oxygen or whether it is interfering with the animal's ability to use the oxygen it obtains, Lannig said. These experiments on oyster physiol...

New system could drastically reduce herbicide use

...go all the way around the machine, "we're going to try and use only the camera vision for navigation," said Jeon, "which makes it a lot more difficult." The robot stands a little more than two feet tall, is 28 inches wide and almost five feet long. He can travel about three miles per hour and moves on...

Taking 'chips' to the next level of gene hunting

...ate the top and bottom layers. Next we're going to try adding another layer reading diagonally" to triple the amount of genomic information packed onto the tiny chips. ...

Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita

...n Government has finally taken specific actions to try to prevent its extinction. On 29 December 2005 the Ministry of Environment declared a Vaquita Refuge that contains within its borders approximately 80% of all verified vaquita sighting positions. In the same decree, the State Governments of Sonora an...

Teenager moves video icons just by imagination

...f brain signals from children are different. We'll try to determine if teenagers have different frequency distributions when their cortex becomes active. We might question if the frequency alterations are different, will that make a difference in performance?" Leuthardt said it is too early to make co...

Researchers identify new weapon to fight deadly bacterial sepsis

...approved for one human use, individual doctors may try it out against other conditions where it appears warranted. Srivastastava, senior author of a paper on the sepsis discovery to be published online Oct. 9 in the journal Circulation, explained that in this disease, "You can treat an infection and ...

Gene linked with mental illness shapes brain region, researchers find

...bly from the point of view of treatment, we should try to identify these people as early as possible and intervene before the 'hard-wiring' gets altered," Dr. German said. ...

MRSA toxin acquitted: Study clears suspected key to severe bacterial illness

... DeLeo says his group will shift away from PVL and try to determine exactly which toxin or other mechanism in S. aureus kills white blood cells and allows the spread of CA-MRSA infection. ...

Negative effects of caffeine are stronger on daytime sleep than on nocturnal sleep

...his habit may have important effects when you then try to recuperate during daytime." Thirty-four moderate caffeine consumers participated in both caffeine (200 mg) and placebo (lactose) conditions in a double-blind crossover design. Seventeen subjects followed their habitual sleep–wake cycle and slept...

Signal protein shows promise for blocking tumor promoters in skin cells

...gene therapy treatments. Initially, clinicians may try this method on oral cavity and skin cancers. Next, the Penn researchers will determine whether Srcasm can actually reverse tumor formation in skin. Seykora's team has already prepared an adenovirus and mice with the tumor-forming Src kinases expr...

Proteins may predict lung transplant rejection

...nning to reject the transplanted organ, they could try to head it off, she said. The study, "Proteomic biomarkers of chronic lung allograft rejection," was carried out by Wendt, Tereza Cervenka, Madelaine Haddican, Yan Zhang and Gary Nelsestuen, of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. The researc...

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