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Train your brain to hear your friends at a party

...ut will be vital in the future for engineering new ways of helping people with hearing impairment cope with difficult situations. They could be helped by computer generated training programs which run like regular computer games, but can target weaknesses in listening skills. By incorporating training exe...

BC catalyst discovery promises faster, cheaper drug production

...s that silyation is already one of the most useful ways ?if not the most effective way ?to protect an alcohol from undesired reactions while a molecule is being modified somewhere else," Prof. Snapper said. Because of the new catalyst, what used to take four to five steps to accomplish ?each step adding ...

A new approach to growing heart muscle

..." The new paper actually compares two different ways of using fibrin gel as a basis for creating BEHM: layering on top of the gel, and embedding within it. In the end, the layering approach produced a more cohesive tissue that contracted with more force ?a key finding because embedding has been seen as...

Need to pull an all-nighter?

...fore ever reaching the brain. However, one of the ways nitric oxide promotes sleep is by stimulating production of a signaling molecule called cyclic GMP, and it may be possible to achieve the same effect by using drugs that block cyclic GMP's breakdown, Rosenberg says. One surprise in the research wa...

Controlling antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in hospitals

...nt development of antibiotic resistance as well as ways to stop its spread. The researchers reported that if hospitals implemented specific measures to control the use of antibiotics they were more likely to have succeeded in controlling antibiotic resistance. Surprisingly, use of information technolog...

Computer scientists unravel 'language of surgery'

... models to represent the safest and most effective ways to perform surgery, including tasks such as suturi...quire computers to absorb data concerning the best ways to complete surgical tasks. As a first step, the researchers have begun collecting data recorded by ...

University of Iowa scientists explore function of 'junk DNA'

...ay an important role in development and disease in ways that scientists are only just beginning to understand. "Not so many years ago our understanding was that DNA was transcribed to RNA, which was then translated to protein. Now we know that the levels of control are much more varied and that many R...

End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources

... consistency of measurement protocols and reliable ways of translating area, volume, and tons across countries. Among the 50 nations studied, forest area in percentage terms shrank fastest from 1990 to 2005 in Nigeria and the Philippines, and expanded fastest in Viet Nam, Spain and China. Growing ...

Artificial cornea offers better results for infants, some blind patients

...y severe cornea disease or injury and creating new ways to treat them. Among the efforts has been a series of designs for artificial corneas, which in adults are primarily for patients whose previous transplants using traditional tissue have failed, oftentimes because of rejection by the immune system....

Key to lung cancer chemo resistance revealed

...d levels of NRF2 and its enzymes, suggesting other ways of dismantling KEAP1, such as splicing the gene to make a shortened, ineffective protein, he said. The researchers plan to confirm their findings with a larger set of samples and then to screen for appropriate drugs. Funding for the study was p...

Evolution and the workaround

...t genes, allowing the original copies to mutate in ways that help the cells survive stresses (such as drugs) that are meant to kill them. The observation that both yeast and cancer cells evolve chromosome duplications to work around lethal stresses suggests that drugs aimed at defeating this process...

From managing sugar to managing healing

... molecules are involved, we may be able to develop ways in which we can make insulin work even better or find ways in which more affordable molecules that mimic these functions of insulin can be developed to treat p...

Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

...rative medicine -- could in the future provide new ways to deal with old health problems plaguing millions of people." ...

Mayo discovers protein as potential tactic to prevent tumors

...nctions of CDK2, the cancer community can focus on ways to regulate a mechanism that the cell contains to prevent damaged genetic messages from being inherited and spread in proliferating tumor cells." ...

LSU professor discovers new species

...ferences in scale count, which is one of the basic ways scientists distinguish between species; and significant genetic variations. These traits combined to confirm the original hypothesis that the lizard was, in fact, an entirely new species. Austin spent the entire summer of 2006 in New Guinea, ...

Climate experts search for answers in the oceans

...using these data 20, 50, and 100 years from now in ways that we can’t even imagine, so we need to do a lot of things today to ensure this irreplaceable information remains useful and understandable for decades to come," NODC’s Dr Ken Casey said. The data and services being provided by GlobCOLOUR and M...

Silver bullet: UGA researchers use laser, nanotechnology to rapidly detect viruses

...iness model, seeking venture capital and exploring ways to mass produce the silver nanorods. Next year, they plan on moving their enterprise to the Georgia BioBusiness Center, an UGA incubator for startup bio-science companies. Presently, viruses are first diagnosed with methods that detect the antibod...

New tool helps blood specialists improve patient care

...ollected and analyzed provide feedback on specific ways in which their patient care could be improved, and are used as a basis for designing and implementing a practice improvement plan. The Self-Directed PIM makes it easy to enter the data, design the improvement plan, and report to ABIM on the changes m...

A fisheye view of the deadliest breast cancer

... they labeled human MDA breast cancer cells in two ways to mark the parental MDA cells and to mark tumor cells that overexpress RhoC. They injected both tumor cell lines into the immune-suppressed fish and watched the cancer’s progress over several weeks. The tumor cells homed in on blood vessels, formi...

Researchers discover mechanism that determines when detailed memories are retained

...more acetylcholine available in the brain. Finding ways to control the levels of this key transmitter would be crucial for treating a number of memory-related disorders." Weinberger is a pioneer in research in the field of learning and memory in the auditory system. In a study published in 2005, he dis...

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