The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association Shoots Straight for the Heart
Dr. Vince Mosesso, the medical director of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association, offers heart healthy Valentine's Day gift ideas WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- February is American Heart Month, symbolized by the celebration of Valentine's Day and a great time to let your love...Bamboo Shoots Causes Botulism Outbreak
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there is an outbreak of apparent botulism, which could be due to the consumption of home-preserved// bamboo shoots. It has left more than 150 people sick after festival in northern Thailand. WHO further stated that according to the Thai Ministry of...Gene Connections Key to Brain Tumor Growth
...n parallel with a decrease in function in another gene, ANXA7, located on chromosome 10, the researchers reported. A decrease in the function of ANXA7 shoots the EGFR oncogene into overdrive, contributing to the development and progression of malicious glioblastomas, they found. Pasche also said that th...HIV handicaps itself to escape immune system pressure
...s effectively eliminate the ability of CTLs to detect the virus. so that in an infected person, once all three mutations are in place, viral abundance shoots upwards. "In this situation, HIV resembles a thief picking a lock. Once all three mutations are in place, the lock is picked and the virus can thri...3-D snapshots of eyes reveal details of age-related blindness
...e center of one's vision. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has become a standard tool for assessing AMD and other eye diseases. An OCT instrument shoots beams of infrared light into the retina, where they are reflected to greater or lesser extent by different structures within the eye. By measuring the...JMR Electronics BlueStor(TM) Storage Array Empowers HoneyShed's Post Production Process
...per week, for one to two weeks straight. "We were shooting faster than we were editing and with up to 100GB of video footage per shoot and hundreds of shoots being loaded into the eSATA arrays, we were quickly hitting their capacity limits," added Drew Coombs, assistant editor at HoneyShed. The company in t...By color-coding atoms, new Cornell electron microscope promises big advance in materials analysis
...anoscale devices. "We can look at structures people have built and tell them if they've built what they thought they did," Silcox explained. A STEM shoots an electron beam through a thin-film sample and scans the beam across the sample in subatomic steps. In addition to forming an image, the new microsco...Colonial Life Goes 'One On One' With ESPN
... College Basketball Sponsorship shoots to Reinforce Recent Corporate Rebranding COLUMBIA, S.C., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Colonial Life today announced a new p...Researchers solve first structure of a key to intact DNA inheritance
...toms in the crystal, the X-rays produce a diffraction pattern, which can be seen as a dot pattern on a monitor. A state-of-the-art X-ray diffractor shoots a different angle of the crystallized protein every few minutes. Taking between 180-300 images will produce 100,000 to 300,000 data points. Mathe...Wolf reintroduction proposed in Scottish Highland test case
...olves after decades of absence is now allowing willow, aspen and cottonwood trees to thrive once again in some places, instead of being eaten as young shoots by elk. This is helping to control stream erosion. The interactive webs of birds, insects, fish and beaver are returning to health. These processes, c...Newly discovered snow roots are 'evolutionary phenomenon'
...hem specifically adapted for the fast uptake and transport of nitrogen. "These roots help the plant to 'feed' on nutrients in snow before the plant shoots appear above the surface in the growing season", explained Cornelissen. "This gives the plant an advance on other plant species, which can only take u...Photoselective film proves effective for controlling height in potted gardenia plants
...to reduce plants' internode length, and encourage the production of lateral shoots that create aesthetically pleasing, spherical plants with plentiful flower ...der a P-PE film results in unmarketable, low-quality plants without lateral shoots and a resulting low number of flowers." Although the study determined th...Scientists identify bacteria that increase plant growth
...noculated plants formed roots very slowly. In contrast, plant cuttings that were allowed to root in the presence of selected endophytes grew roots and shoots more quickly. The analysis of genes and metabolically important gene products from endophytes resulted in the identification of many possible mecha...Gene's past could improve the future of rice
...esticated rice by using a process that focuses on one gene. Scott A. Jackson, a professor of agronomy, said studying the gene that decides how many shoots will form on a rice plant allows researchers to better understand how the gene evolved over time through natural selection and human interaction. Unde...The bonsai effect: Wounded plants make jasmonates, inhibiting cell division, stunting growth
...uced stunting remains obscure. Plant growth results from divisions of "stem cells" in apical meristems that are located in the very tips of green shoots and roots. The shoot apical meristems are not only tiny, (0.1 to 0.3 mm diameter), but are normally hidden from view by the very young leaves emerging...'Living fossil' tree contains genetic imprints of rain forests under climate change
...e neotropics? Most likely the seeds hitched rides from Africa on rafts of vegetation, as monkeys did, Dick said. Even whole trunks, which can send out shoots when they reach a suitable resting place, may have made the journey. Because Central and South American had no land connection at the time, Symphonia ...Herbicide-resistant grape could revitalize Midwest wine industry
...ls and regenerate them into plants. We use a tissue culture media and start the cells growing. After about two years in the lab, we had tiny seed-like shoots that developed from the transgenic grape cells. These were grown until they were big enough to be transferred to a limited access greenhouse where th...UCR graduate student discovers, names bacterium linked to psyllid yellows
...when the fruit is ripe. "Huanglongbing is Chinese for yellow dragon disease," Hansen explained. "Chinese farmers call the young, infected yellowing shoots of citrus 'yellow dragons' because of the symptoms this disease causes in the plant." To date, three other HLB bacteria have been identified, all...Third Wave co-founder shoots for small target in latest project
Madison, Wis. Researchers led by James Dahlberg, a founder of Madison-based bioscience company Third Wave Technologies , have found that a super-small genetic element may play a critical role in the development of certain types of cancer. Teams led by Dahlberg and collaborator Wayne Tam at t...Make Mine a $Million shoots for May program
Madison, Wis . - Wisconsin organizers of Make Mine a $Million business could hold the state's first awards program this May as Wisconsin does its part to take one million women-owned businesses to $1 million in annual revenue. Although the date of the awards program has not yet been made offi...Model predicts evolution of Mediterranean landscape following fires
...way in which vegetation will develop according to the variables introduced. It takes into consideration parameters such as the dispersal of plants (by shoots or seeds), their distribution over space and time, and the resources they compete for (primarily light and water). Such ecosystems can generally ev...