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Maggots rid patients of MRSA

...on the study ulcer. All but one of the patients was cleared of the superbug. During the treatment period, no adverse reactions were reported and there was a reduction in sloughy necrotic tissue and an increase in healthy, growing tissue on removal of the ...

Alien plants attack using 'resource conservation' as weapon, researchers say

...the April 26 issue of the journal Nature. "What was very intriguing to us is that there are invasive s... efficient on short-time scales, but overall there was no difference in the long term," Funk said. "We were surprised that the invasive plants were not at ...

First clinical trial of gene therapy for childhood blindness

... During trials, the vision of dogs with the defect was restored to the extent that they were able to walk through a maze without difficulty; something they could not do before the treatment. As this trial is the first to treat an eye disease using administration of gene therapy vectors to human retinas, ...

Legal ruling may put endangered species in danger

...covery" in the Endangered Species Act. Their paper was published in the October 5, 2006 issue of the peer-reviewed journal, Conservation Biology. "The Act is intended to allow species to be restored throughout a large portion of their former or historic range. We object to the Solicitor's ruling because ...

8 plants from South Africa may hold potential for treating high blood pressure

...or Activity of Nutritive Plants in Kwa-Zulu Natal, was conducted by Irene Mackraj and S. Ramesar, both of...ueous extracts. Ten grams of ground plant material was suspended in either a methanol or distilled water solution for 48 hours. Each solution was subsequen...

Traumas like Sept. 11 make brains more reactive to fear

.... "We think that the World Trade Center experience was traumatic enough that it left them with hyperactive amygdalae." ...

Brain's white matter -- More 'talkative' than once thought

...tion processing in the gray matter. The phenomenon was unlikely, they said, because in the mouse brain, OPCs in the myelin-rich white matter are far from synapses, the points of contact between nerves where glutamate is released. Theorizing that OPCs might have experienced glutamate in some less obvi...

An ancient bathtub ring of mammoth fossils

...ds. The only outlet for this tremendous outpouring was a southern ridge-opening called Wallula Gap. But Wallula Gap was too narrow to handle all the massive flow; the water would back up, creating temporary Lake Lewis, t...

Anthrax paralyzes immune cells with lethal toxin, UF research shows

...t escaped Southwick's research team as well, which was looking for proteins that interacted directly with the toxin. "I would say it's the scientific equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack," Southwick said. The team compared before and after snapshots of neutrophils exposed to a purified form...

New knowledge improves rice quality

...reased income." The quality rice network ?which was formed electronically in 2006 ?met for the first t...fore." During the workshop, the latest research was presented in several new areas, including Breeding for better quality and geneticall...

Targeting sugar on blood vessels may inhibit cancer growth

...ell as metastasis of tumors. An important finding was that, not only could we inhibit the growth of tumors in these mice, but that other systems that rely on endothelial growth, such as the reproductive system and wound healing, remained robust." Studying mouse models with a genetic alteration in an ...

How to steer a moving cell

... pathological conditions. "A surprising finding was that many of the proteins identified in the neuronal network, the ‘wiring diagram?that controls early development of neural networks in the embryo, are also found to control the movement of normal and cancerous cells," said Klemke. "This is apparen...

Premature births may be linked to seasonal levels of pesticides and nitrates in surface water

...s, alcohol or cigarette use, or whether the mother was an urban, suburban or rural resident. Pesticide and nitrate levels in surface water were also highest in May-June and lowest in August –September, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. For the past four years, Dr. Winchester and colleagues hav...

Newborn neurons like to hang with the 'in' crowd

...them in three dimensions, the tip of the filopodia was preferentially associated with synapses already connected to other neurons," explains Toni. However, as the new neurons matured, the tiny tips filled out and started to monopolize the synaptic connections. "That's what we believe is the crux of th...

Students invent protective pouch to enhance cell therapy

... with other undergraduate projects, this prototype was unveiled May 2 at the university’s Biomedical Engineering Design Day showcase. The Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer staff has applied for a provisional patent. Animal testing is expected to begin this summer. If it is successful, human trials would ...

New technique will produce a better chromosome map

... genome of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, was sequenced in 2000, and yet its relationship to chromosome structure remains unclear. "Since we want to know what genes are involved in the development of different structures in living systems, this is the first structure to look at," Novikov sai...

UQ research heralds vaccine technology breakthrough

...Tindle said the importance of the research project was double-barrelled because, along with helping child...ofessor Tindle said gaining Dr Thomson's expertise was a coup for the project. "If anyone's going to get the (vaccine) it's going to be Scott," Professor...

Genetic roots of bipolar disorder revealed by first genome-wide study of illness

... of new, more effective medications. The research was conducted by scientists at the National Institutes...nd better tolerated," McMahon said. The finding was enabled by recent genetics technology that allows researchers to scan, in a single experiment, thous...

Gene mutation linked to cognition is found only in humans

...ies, chimpanzees and orangutans, and found that it was not present. Since these two species diverged most recently from human ancestors (about 5 and 14 million years ago respectively), this finding demonstrates that type II is a human-specific form that originated relatively recently, less than 5 million...

New Brandeis research sheds light on memory by erasing it

...d saturate the memory stores. However, when CaMKII was chemically attacked and previous memory erased, it then became possible to insert new memories in the synapses. Alzheimer's and other diseases in which memory loss plays a major role will benefit from this new understanding. Of particular importa...

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