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Putting feelings into words produces therapeutic effects in the brain

...ot likely to say it’s because they think this is a way to make themselves feel better,” Lieberman said. “...d response in the amygdala,” he said. “In the same way you hit the brake when you’re driving when you see a yellow light, when you put feelings into words,...

Modified mushrooms may yield human drugs

...ut nobody has been able to come up with a feasible way of doing that." Dr. Romaine and his colleague... other diseases," Dr. Romaine said. "We need a new way of mass-producing protein-based drugs, which is economical, safe, and fast. We believe mushrooms are...

New vaccine prevents CMV infection and disease in mice

...directing the host’s immune responses. We found a way to teach the host immune system to not be tricked ...n’t work to eradicate the virus. “We needed a way to make the host defense system sit up and take notice,” said Christopher S. Morello, Ph.D., first a...

Understanding why C. difficile causes disease -- it's hungry

...ntifying such a protein, Sonenshein hope to find a way to change the appetite of the bacteria. "If we find a way to shut down toxin production in the hypervirulent strain, we might have a new way to treat the dise...

How plague-causing bacteria disarm host defense

... poisoning. All three bacteria species find their way past the body's immune system through a sophisticated invasion system that injects the effector proteins directly into the host cell's cytoplasm. "More than a decade after its discovery, our understanding of YpkA is still incomplete," Navarro said...

Adult stem cells from human cord umbilical cord blood successfully engineered to make insulin

...d store neutral fats, or lipids. "But we’re a long way from that," Denner warned. Denner said this research, which reflects a fruitful collaboration with co-authors Drs. Colin McGuckin and Nico Forraz at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in the United Kingdom, used human umbilical cord blood beca...

Experimental gene therapy 'abolishes' arthritis pain and lessens joint damage

...ts the first proof that gene therapy can work in a way that is clinically applicable," said Stephanos Kyr... to brain inflammation may provide an entirely new way to treat inflammatory neurological conditions that affect millions."...

Skimmed milk -- Straight from the cow

... about dairy products is taste, so this would be a way of giving the benefits of taste without the disadvantage of saturated fats,’ according to Komorowski. This may also overcome the problem of waste. ‘If you can genetically produce milk without fat then that may turn out to be a very good solution t...

Lessons from the orangutans: Upright walking may have begun in the trees

...aters, as orangutans are, they would have needed a way to navigate the thin, flexible branches at the tree's periphery, where the fruit typically is. Moving on two legs and using their arms primarily for balance, or "hand-assisted bipedalism," may have helped them travel on these branches. The researc...

Moths mimic sounds to survive

...s not chemically protected. This is similar to the way birds avoid butterflies that look like the bad-tasting Monarch. The two species of bats used were big brown bats and red bats. Barber raised the bats in the lab so behavior learned in the wild would not influence the results of the experiment. ...

A cherry on top: Tart cherries may alter heart/diabetes factors

...risk factors," he says. "But there is still a long way to go before we can advocate any course of action for humans. Still, the growing body of knowledge is encouraging." Bolling and Seymour performed the study using 48 male Dahl Salt-Sensitive rats, which are bred for their susceptibility to salt-li...

Machine preservation may promote more organ sharing

...ns of preserving organs out of body and provides a way to assess the viability of the organ." Stratta said machine preservation has played an important role in the Medical Center’s success transplanting kidneys at the outer limits of the ECD acceptance criteria, such as organs donated after cardiac de...

Technique monitors thousands of molecules simultaneously

...in St. Louis is making molecules the new-fashioned way ?selectively harnessing thousands of minuscule ele...e receptor. Traditionally, probing a receptor this way has been done by making a library of molecules, treating it with the receptor, washing away any exce...

'Insulator' helps silence genes in dormant herpes virus

...how viral chromatin is organized in a very similar way to host chromatin," Zhou says. "Learning more about the similarities and differences in these chromatin structures may help finding ways to develop therapies that can target the virus and not the host." ...

How the brain's backup system compensates for stroke

... networks can flexibly reconfigure processing in a way that is rapid, functionally-specific, and preserves behavior." ...

pHLIP, a novel technology to locate and treat tumors

...University of Rhode Island have demonstrated a new way to target and potentially treat tumors using a sho... be injected into the abdomen of a mouse, find its way into the blood and then specifically accumulate in tumors. Within 20 hours after injection of label...

Amphibians in losing race with environmental change

... and does not always allow a species to adapt in a way that meets rapidly changing conditions. Through genetic variation and natural selection pressures, some species or populations will be able to adapt ?while others fail and go extinct. The systems developed over millions of years to give amphibians...

The sound of proteins

...ome Biology describes how researchers have found a way to present human proteins as musical notes. Rie Takahashi and Jeffrey H. Miller from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, have so far transcribed segments of two human proteins into music. But to make their melodies more pleasing on the e...

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

...ht on how invaders achieve success, may change the way scientists think about invasive species and how to curb them, according the authors of the study published in the April 26 issue of the journal Nature. "What was very intriguing to us is that there are invasive species that are capable of invading...

Corals -- More complex than you?

...d almost that many already and clearly have a long way to go yet. "Based on the rate of gene discovery, we estimate that corals have as many as 20 or 25,000 genes, compared with the human complement of 20-23,000." Why a simple creature should have such a huge genetic repertoire is a mystery, but sc...

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