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( Wiley-Blackwell ) A newly published report reveals that children with epilepsy are more likely to have psychiatric symptoms, with gender a determining factor in their development. Findings showed that girls had more emotional problems, while boys had more hyperactivity/inattention problems and issues regarding peer relationships. Details of this study in Norwegian children are now available online in Epilepsia, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International League Against Epilepsy.
March 25th, 2011 | Posted in Biology | Read More »
( Oregon State University ) A prototype scanner aboard the international space station has been taking new images of Earth’s coastal regions during the 16 months since it was launched, providing scientists with a new set of imaging tools that will help them monitor events from oil spills to plankton blooms.
March 24th, 2011 | Posted in Biology | Read More »
( Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ) A study of Yup’ik Eskimos in Alaska, who on average consume 20 times more omega-3 fats from fish than people in the lower 48 states, suggests that a high intake of these fats helps prevent obesity-related chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
March 24th, 2011 | Posted in Biology | Read More »
( The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ) Two Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine professors were named today as winners of the Canada Gairdner International Awards, which are presented annually to researchers from around the world for outstanding contributions to medical science. The awards are presented annually in October in Toronto.
March 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Biology | Read More »
( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) In the March 22 online edition of the journal Science Signaling, researchers from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital report that they have created a new computational model that describes how intestinal cells in mice respond to a natural chemical called tumor necrosis factor (TNF).
March 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Biology | Read More »
( University of Houston ) In a study that literally analyzed competing bacteria fighting it out to the death, a University of Houston researcher and his colleagues identified evolutionary “winners” and “losers.” Continuing research to understand the basis of these fates may become a useful tool is designing roadblocks to antibiotic resistance. The report appeared March 18 in Science, the world’s leading journal of original scientific research, global news and commentary.
March 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Biology | Read More »
( University of Notre Dame ) A paper by University of Notre Dame and Cornell scientists appearing in this week’s edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences announces how use of a histone deacetylase inhibitor corrects the damage done by the genetic disorder Niewmann-Pick Type C and allowed once-diseased cells to function normally.
March 21st, 2011 | Posted in Biology | Read More »
( Edelman PR ) New data published in Nature Genetics demonstrates that tiny LNA-based compounds developed by Santaris Pharma A/S can inhibit entire disease-associated microRNA families. Tiny LNA-based compounds are well tolerated in preclinical studies and can be delivered without the use of complex delivery vehicles. This provides a potential new approach for treating a variety of diseases including cancer, viral infections, cardiovascular and muscle diseases.
March 20th, 2011 | Posted in Biology | Read More »
( Wiley-Blackwell ) More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, yet we know little about how urbanization affects biodiversity. In one the first studies of its kind, ecologists in Indianapolis, USA have used 70-year-old dried plant specimens to track the impact of increasing urbanization on plants. The results are published this week in the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Ecology.
March 18th, 2011 | Posted in Biology | Read More »
( University of Montreal ) A team of researchers from the University of Montreal and McGill University have discovered a type of “cellular bilingualism” — a phenomenon that allows a single neuron to use two different methods of communication to exchange information.
March 18th, 2011 | Posted in Biology | Read More »