Smoking Women May Give Birth To Deformed Babies
Pregnant women who smoke may end up giving birth to deformed babies, according to study published in the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Even smoking half a packet of cigarettes // a day may raise the risk by 29% for the unborn child. The effects may be felt even before the woman is aware that ...Certain Arthritis, Crohn's Drugs May Raise Kids' Cancer Risk: FDA
... benefits, White added. "The risks of the side effects are often very small, but the chance that a person with juvenile arthritis will be disabled and deformed is very high if they don't take therapy," she said. "People often focus on risks and forget the benefits." Deciding whether or not to take these d...UCF researcher developing computer program to detect, measure brain tumors
...by a variety of factors, such as tumors that are irregular in shape or have jagged edges, tumors with liquefied centers, or surrounding tissue that is deformed or changing shape. "Not only are the changes visually hard to see, we also want numbers to quantify the types of changes we are talking about," Ri...Ankle Replacement System Lets Feet Move
...usion surgery THURSDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) -- A total ankle replacement system that may preserve some range of motion in arthritic or deformed ankles has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The Scandinavian Total Ankle Replacement (STAR) system is the first of its type ...CSHL scientists show how a protein that determines cell polarity prevents breast cancer
...erated using genetically engineered cells that had stopped producing the Scribble protein. In such mice, the researchers found that breast ducts were deformed and tumors typically developed after about one year's time. This dramatic result pointed to Scribble, a cell shape regulator, as a tumor suppressor i...Plastic Surgery 2008 to Showcase Future of Plastic Surgery Through Groundbreaking Research
... Body Mass in Body Contouring Complications -- Creating the Beautiful Smile -- Perioral Rejuvenation -- Mastopexy and Augmentation of the Severely deformed Breast after Massive Weight Loss, Aging, & Pregnancy -- Treating Devastating Maxillofacial Trauma -- Lessons Learned from the War Abroad a...The MOTHERS Act: Thalidomide Revisited?
...- a condition called phocomelia. In November, 1961, Widukind Lenz, a German pediatrician, blamed thalidomide. He determined that half the mothers with deformed children had taken thalidomide in the first trimester of pregnancy. Before it was over, more than 10,000 such children in 46 countries had been born. ...MR imaging accurately determines prostate cancer treatment failure
...positives than DCE-MRI, but DCE-MRI had fewer false negatives. After HIFU ablation, the normal anatomy of the prostate gland is completely lost or deformed making it difficult to distinguish benign tissue from cancer, said Dr. Kim. The two imaging studies together, which can be done in about seven minutes...Kaneda Anterior Scoliosis System (KASS)
Description:...rior Scoliosis System (KASS) is a two-rod, multi-segmental instrumentation system that provides both flexibility of the implant for application to the deformed spine, overall rigidity to correct spinal deformities, and the ability to maintain structural support of disc spaces to avoid settling during graft in...T-STAR grant funds genetic studies on shrimp and papaya and endangered cycad rescue
...ses. Dr. Wall's studies have found that a local variety is tolerant to PRV but needs genetic improvement to reduce the incidence of male character and deformed fruit. "We intend to take our selections to an F4 generation with this grant project and ultimately to an F7 or beyond," says Wall. WPTRC research ...How mitochondria get their membranes bent
...n the current issue of the the Journal of Cell Biology Rabl, Soubannier et al. report on their quest of slow-growing baker`s yeast mutants harboring deformed mitochondria. Thereby, they discovered the protein Fcj1 ("Formation of criasta junction protein 1"), which is embedded in the inner membrane and accum...Bone deformities linked to inbreeding in Isle Royale wolves
... The wolves on Isle Royale are suffering from genetically deformed bones. Scientists from Michigan Technological University blame the extreme inbreeding of the small, isolated wolf population at the island National Pa...NIST-Cornell team builds world's first nanofluidic device with complex 3-D surfaces
...ls and elongated in the shallower ones. These results show that the 3-D nanofluidic device successfully excluded rigid nanoparticles based on size and deformed (uncoiled) the flexible DNA strands into distinct shapes at different steps of the staircase. Currently, the researchers are working to separate an...'Freaks' help scientist unravel nature and nurture
... Tom Thumb, The Elephant Man, the Bearded Lady, the Siamese Twins -- at fairs and circuses. In Elizabethan England during the 16th and 17th centuries, deformed children were advertised on illustrated birth announcements, or through folk songs. People paid the families money to get a peek at the infants. S...Vanderbilt scientists invent world's smallest periscopes
...e of individual yeast cells with unprecedented accuracy. In addition, Wikswo and Markov plan to create mirrored microchannels to measure how cells are deformed under stress induced by fluid flowing through hair-width channels in order to determine how fluid flow affects cell behavior and attachment. A popu...January-February GSA Bulletin media highlights
...working of Earth's surface by geological processes. A few remnants of early crust (greater than 3.7 billion years ago) do remain, but are often highly deformed and the original rock features are often obliterated. David et al.'s study of the Nuvvuagittuq volcano-sedimentary sequence in the northeast Superior ...January GEOLOGY media highlights
...ain aspects of the cosmic-ray-climate theory. Testing the Mojave-Sonora megashear hypothesis: Evidence from Paleoproterozoic igneous rocks and deformed Mesozoic strata in Sonora, Mexico Jeffrey M. Amato et al., Department of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico ...Biomedical engineers' detective work reveals antibiotic mechanism
...oscopic protein-making agents inside all cells, which led to the production of misfolded proteins. Collins group's pathway picks up from there. These deformed proteins get delivered to the cell membrane, and the cell is quick to notice the changes. The bacteria's two-component molecular emergency systems w...Researchers putting a freeze on oscillator vibrations
...understanding phonons -- vibrations that carry energy -- is becoming increasingly important. For their project, Wang and Park purposely manufactured a deformed silica microsphere about 30 microns in diameter, about the size of a human hair. A combination of cryogenic pre-cooling of the sphere to 1.4 Kelvin...Latest issue of Science: Nanosonar uses electrons to measure under the surface
...retical calculations into an experiment, "that they can be measured as spherical patterns on the surface using the scanning tunnelling The somewhat deformed rings on the surface allow us to draw direct conclusions on the shape of the Fermi surfaces and the depth of the cobalt atoms, similar to how sonar re...Latest issue of Science: Nano-sonar uses electrons to measure under the surface
...retical calculations into an experiment, "that they can be measured as spherical patterns on the surface using the scanning tunnelling The somewhat deformed rings on the surface allow us to draw direct conclusions on the shape of the Fermi surfaces and the depth of the cobalt atoms, similar to how sonar re...Engineering nanoparticles for maximum strength
...ittle and might have been expected to break easily, but instead the spheres deformed by as much as 20 percent of their original diameter before they shattered. ...nosphere 450 nanometers in diameter with a shell about 69 nanometers thick, deformed by compression to some eight percent of its original diameter, experiences ...Penn researchers demonstrate a flexible, 1-step assembly of nanoscale structures
...e and applied the solution to the PDMS membrane. As the PDMS swells, the convective assembly of the nanoparticles follows, faithfully replicating the deformed PDMS membrane. Once dry, the elastic membrane returns to its original state and can be reused. ...Nanomaterials show unexpected strength under stress
... the smaller the particles in the aggregate the more ductile the material behaved. Crystalline structures exhibited greater strength when stressed and deformed long after the critical yield point observed macroscopically. Namboodiri explained that although the work is very basic, these findings might one d...