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(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) After studying noise in one French Quarter neighborhood of New Orleans to determine whether or not noise levels exceeded municipal ordinances, Annette Hurley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Audiology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and Eric Arriaga, a third-year LSUHSC doctor of audiology student, recommend that people use today's technology to protect their own hearing health.
Impacts conference on climate change effects
(Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)) Droughts. Floods. Health risks. Crop failures. Climate change impacts of today and tomorrow appear in the public debate with a raft of buzz words. But the science behind our understanding of climate change impacts is both much broader and much more fragmentary. To provide robust information for decision makers, we need a quantitative synthesis of impacts -- including consistent estimates of uncertainties.
Going live -- immune cell activation in multiple sclerosis
(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried have now presented not one, but two studies introducing new indicator molecules which can visualize the activation of T cells. Their findings provide new insight into the role of these cells in the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis. The new indicators are set to be an important tool in the study of other immune reactions as well.
A new strategy required in the search for Alzheimer's drugs?
(VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology)) In the search for medication against Alzheimer's disease, scientists focused -- among other factors -- on drugs that can break down Amyloid beta (A-beta). After all, it is the accumulation of A-beta that causes the known plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Starting point of A-beta is APP. Alessia Soldano and Bassem Hassan were the first to unravel the function of APPL -- the fruit-fly version of APP -- in the brain of healthy fruit flies.
A majority on Earth face severe self-inflicted water woes within 2 generations: Scientists
(Global Water System Project) A conference of 500 leading water scientists from around the world today issued a stark warning that, without major reforms, "in the short span of one or two generations, the majority of the 9 billion people on Earth will be living under the handicap of severe pressure on fresh water, an absolutely essential natural resource for which there is no substitute. This handicap will be self-inflicted and is, we believe, entirely avoidable."
New fluorescent tools for cancer diagnosis
(Journal of Clinical Investigation) In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Thomas Tuschl and colleagues at Rockefeller University developed a multicolor fluorescence labeling method that can be used to visualize miRNAs in tissue sections, such as those recovered from biopsies.
Modulating the immune system to combat metastatic cancer
(Journal of Clinical Investigation) In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers led by Ronald Levy at Stanford University found that regulatory T cells that infiltrate tumors express proteins that can be targeted with therapeutic antibodies.
JCI early table of contents for May 24, 2013
(Journal of Clinical Investigation) The following release contains summaries, links to PDFs, and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published online, May 24, 2013, in the JCI: Modulating the immune system to combat metastatic cancer; new fluorescent tools for cancer diagnosis; malnutrition exacerbates Giardia infection in mice; and many more.
Monkey teeth help reveal Neanderthal weaning
(University of California - Davis) Studies on monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center at UC Davis have helped US and Australian researchers calculate when a Neanderthal infant was weaned.
New microsphere-based methods for detecting HIV antibodies
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Detection of HIV antibodies is used to diagnose HIV infection and monitor trials of experimental HIV/AIDS vaccines. New, more sensitive detection systems being developed use microspheres to capture HIV antibodies and can measure even small amounts of multiple antibodies at one time.
(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) After studying noise in one French Quarter neighborhood of New Orleans to determine whether or not noise levels exceeded municipal ordinances, Annette Hurley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Audiology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and Eric Arriaga, a third-year LSUHSC doctor of audiology student, recommend that people use today's technology to protect their own hearing health.
Impacts conference on climate change effects
(Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)) Droughts. Floods. Health risks. Crop failures. Climate change impacts of today and tomorrow appear in the public debate with a raft of buzz words. But the science behind our understanding of climate change impacts is both much broader and much more fragmentary. To provide robust information for decision makers, we need a quantitative synthesis of impacts -- including consistent estimates of uncertainties.
Going live -- immune cell activation in multiple sclerosis
(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried have now presented not one, but two studies introducing new indicator molecules which can visualize the activation of T cells. Their findings provide new insight into the role of these cells in the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis. The new indicators are set to be an important tool in the study of other immune reactions as well.
A new strategy required in the search for Alzheimer's drugs?
(VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology)) In the search for medication against Alzheimer's disease, scientists focused -- among other factors -- on drugs that can break down Amyloid beta (A-beta). After all, it is the accumulation of A-beta that causes the known plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Starting point of A-beta is APP. Alessia Soldano and Bassem Hassan were the first to unravel the function of APPL -- the fruit-fly version of APP -- in the brain of healthy fruit flies.
A majority on Earth face severe self-inflicted water woes within 2 generations: Scientists
(Global Water System Project) A conference of 500 leading water scientists from around the world today issued a stark warning that, without major reforms, "in the short span of one or two generations, the majority of the 9 billion people on Earth will be living under the handicap of severe pressure on fresh water, an absolutely essential natural resource for which there is no substitute. This handicap will be self-inflicted and is, we believe, entirely avoidable."
New fluorescent tools for cancer diagnosis
(Journal of Clinical Investigation) In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Thomas Tuschl and colleagues at Rockefeller University developed a multicolor fluorescence labeling method that can be used to visualize miRNAs in tissue sections, such as those recovered from biopsies.
Modulating the immune system to combat metastatic cancer
(Journal of Clinical Investigation) In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers led by Ronald Levy at Stanford University found that regulatory T cells that infiltrate tumors express proteins that can be targeted with therapeutic antibodies.
JCI early table of contents for May 24, 2013
(Journal of Clinical Investigation) The following release contains summaries, links to PDFs, and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published online, May 24, 2013, in the JCI: Modulating the immune system to combat metastatic cancer; new fluorescent tools for cancer diagnosis; malnutrition exacerbates Giardia infection in mice; and many more.
Monkey teeth help reveal Neanderthal weaning
(University of California - Davis) Studies on monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center at UC Davis have helped US and Australian researchers calculate when a Neanderthal infant was weaned.
New microsphere-based methods for detecting HIV antibodies
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Detection of HIV antibodies is used to diagnose HIV infection and monitor trials of experimental HIV/AIDS vaccines. New, more sensitive detection systems being developed use microspheres to capture HIV antibodies and can measure even small amounts of multiple antibodies at one time.
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