Haller presented his findings this month at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San francisco. PROFOUND RESULTS Conventional diabetes wisdom says that within just a few months of the onset of Type 1 diabetes,
#Bionic pancreas passes 5-day test in real life The latest version of a bionic pancreas device worked successfully in two five-day clinical trialsne with adults, the other with adolescentshat imposed
Damiano, and El-Khatib previously published a 2010 Science Translational Medicine report that described successful use of the first-generation system in controlling the blood sugar of adults for 27 hours.
ADJUSTING FOR TEENS Additional inpatient trials conducted after the 2010 paper extended the study period to two days and included adolescents as well as adults.
but also to the very different needs of adults and adolescents. The rapid growth and hormonal changes of adolescence produces insulin requirements that are two to three times greater than those of adults of the same body weight,
explains Damiano, associate professor of biomedical engineering at BU. And even though the dosage needs of adults are more predictable,
contracting a typical illness like a cold or upset stomach can dramatically change the need for insulin over a period of days to weeks.
Both groups had quite good levels in the usual care armsverages of 159 for both adults
with average blood sugar levels of 133 for the adults and 142 for adolescents. Fewer instances of hypoglycemia on the bionic pancreas also reduced the need for carbohydrate doses to raise blood sugar.
they ease the burden on families, who no longer need to travel many hours for expert care,
we also want to protect the child. Strong evidence may result in a plea bargain, eliminating the added stress for children of having to testify in court.
and the California Department of public health Material, Child & Adolescent Health Program. The Maternal and Child Health Bureau of Health Resources and Services Administration and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation supported the work F
#Handheld terahertz cameras could replace MRI Rice university rightoriginal Studyposted by Mike Williams-Rice on June 11 2014scientists have used carbon nanotubes to create compact terahertz sensors that operate at room temperature.
and shape of spermnd perhaps put young men fertility at riskccording to a new study. In the world largest study to investigate how common lifestyle factors influence the size
249 men from 14 fertility clinics in the UK and asked them to fill out detailed questionnaires about their medical history and their lifestyle.
and start a family. Previous research has suggested that only sperm with good sperm morphology are able to pass into the woman body following sex
and make their way to the egg and fertilize it. Studies in the laboratory also suggest that sperm with poor morphology also swim less well
Although the study failed to find any association between sperm morphology and other common lifestyle factors, such as cigarette smoking or alcohol consumption,
says Sally Temple, director of the Neural stem cell Institute of Rensselaer, New york, who was involved not in this research. t really interesting to see how innervations are coming into play now in the subventricular zone.
Temple explains. t a really hot area because it a beautiful stem cell niche to study.
Clinicians count how long it takes for the child attention to shift in response to the changing stimulus. The second test passes a toy across the infant field of view
and looks for any delay in the child tracking its motion. In the last test
a clinician rolls a ball to a child and looks for eye contact afterward sign of the child engagement with their play partner.
he or she is also counting how long it takes for the child to reactn imprecise science at best.
and Treatment. he software has the potential to automatically analyze a child eye gaze, walking patterns,
Esler says. hese signs would signal to doctors that they need to refer a family to a specialist for a more detailed evaluation.
and automatically report any potential red flags. Any parent teacher, or clinician would simply need to download the app
and sit their child down in front of it for a few minutes. The efforts are part of the Information Initiative at Duke,
and sometimes death. But doctors haven known with any precision which patients are likely to suffer a drug-related bleed.
and the Seton Healthcare Family supported the research. Other researchers from Johns Hopkins and from Emory University contributed to the study.
including suicide. hese pilot study results give us preliminary proof of the concept that we can detect mood states in regular phone calls by analyzing broad features and properties of speech,
and his or her care team and even a chosen family member. Standardized weekly mood assessments with a trained clinician provide a benchmark for the patient mood,
and European Jews. Genetic admixture occurs when individuals from two or more previously separated populations begin interbreeding.
in ethnically diverse regions like the UK or US, where many people know only a few generations of their descendants,
we need a better culture system that can reliably produce more target cells that function well.
#Treatment cuts H1n1 flu deaths in mice A new study reveals that a drug that inhibits a molecule called prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) increases survival rates in mice infected with a lethal dose
of the H1n1 flu virus. Flu epidemics cause up to half a million deaths each year, and emerging strains continually threaten to spread to humans and cause even deadlier pandemics.
Divangahi research team found that mice genetically engineered to lack a member of the prostanoid family,
and cause inflammatory responses in a cell culture model of human epithelial cells, which compose the lining of the lung airway. ut comparing these consequences of infection did not provide hints as to why RSV and PIV3 produced such differences in disease severity.
affecting approximately one in 1, 500 live human births in the United states, it is understood not completely.
500 live human births and is characterized by a cleft palate, shortened lower jaw, and displacement of the tongue base.
Published in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, the new research could significantly change the quality of life for scleroderma patients
A donation from Jon and Lisa Rye, a Michigan family who has experienced the effects of scleroderma,
and the family crowdfunding site, the Scleroderma Cure Fund, helped support the research h
#Anticancer drug reverses schizophrenia symptoms in teen mice An experimental anticancer drug appears to reverse schizophrenia-related behavior
and Carmel Toomes studied local families, particularly from the West yorkshire Pakistani community where such conditions are common,
they sequenced every gene in patients from families in which multiple members were blind from birth due to conditions such as Leber congenital amaurosis, cone-rod dystrophy,
As well as directly benefitting families it allows researchers to build a more comprehensive list of the genes needed for the eye to develop
#Melanoma in families linked to mutations in one gene The discovery that mutations in a specific gene are responsible for a hereditary form of melanoma could make it easier to detect and treat,
These mutations deactivate the POT1 gene. his finding significantly increases our understanding of why some families have a high incidence of melanoma,
it may be possible that early detection will facilitate better management of this disease. ith this discovery we should be able to determine who in a family is at risk,
The team found that there were also cases of other cancer types in families with these hereditary mutations such as leukemia
and patience from the families that suffer from these devastating, inherited forms of melanoma. Cancer Research UK and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute funded the work.
and the frustration they and their families feel about the lack of treatment options, says the new research could take treatment of bipolar disorder into the era of personalized medicine.
FAT10 belongs to a family of genes that act as recyclers of cellular proteins and was found to be induced by inflammation.
and protein sequences of the FAT10 gene are conserved highly between man and mouse. If it serves the same functions in humans
a professor of human development and family studies and of psychology at Penn State. ut the glucose levels under the skin trail blood glucose levels from anywhere between 8 and 15 minutes.
and that could lead to death. According to Molenaar, a person blood glucose levels fluctuate in response to his or her insulin dose, meal intake, physical activity, and emotional state.
The findings are the first roof of principlethat 3d MRI technology accurately measures tumor viability and death.
where it is among the top-three causes of cancer death in the world. ur high-precision 3d images of tumors provide better information to patients about
the 3d technology distinguishes between dead and live tissue, giving an accurate assessment of tumor cell death.
The new tree of life is dated the first evolutionary tree of this magnitude says coauthor Akito Kawahara assistant curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural history at University of Florida. ntil now we didn t
and affect our daily lives from pollinating our crops to vectoring diseasessays lead author Bernhard Misof with the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn Germany. e can only start to understand the enormous species richness
at the Cleveland Museum of Natural history. he findings not only advance our understanding of the origins of insects but add confidence to our organization of the groups.?
and adults alike. here is great interest in the development of objective biomarkers of dietary intake especially biomarkers that can be measured noninvasivelysays coauthor Susan T. Mayne professor of epidemiology at Yale university
If cancer markers are found in a cell the circuit could for example activate a cellular suicide program.
To date the researchers have tested the function of their activation-ready sensor in cell culture of human kidney
and there s a huge family of spider toxins that target different ion channels. We ve tagged a Ford;
Researchers led by Christian Degen professor at the Laboratory for Solid State Physics at ETH Zurich developed a different and vastly more sensitive measurement technique for MRI signals.
and give zero net piezoelectric effect. his adds another member to the family of piezoelectric materials for functional devicessays Wenzhuo Wu a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech.
These are part of an even larger family of 2d materials whose piezoelectric materials remain unexplored. Importantly as has been shown by Hone
Foley and the students are working with the Association Of late Deafened Adults in Atlanta to improve the program.
The breakthrough is the latest in a string of recent discoveries by a research team working to develop materials that mimic the camouflage abilities of cephalopods the family of marine creatures that includes squid octopus
The team will present its research at the Association for Computing Machinery s International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous computing this month in Seattle.
isolationsays Christian Rabeling assistant professor of biology at the University of Rochester. e now have evidence that speciation can take place within a single colony. n discovering the parasitic Mycocepurus castrator researchers uncovered an example of sympatric speciation
whether two species can evolve from a common ancestor without being isolated geographically from each othersays Ted Schultz curator of ants at the Smithsonian s National Museum of Natural history
which makes it impossible for them to sexually interact with their host species. Other researchers on the project are from the Smithsonian Institution s National Museum of Natural history Harvard university and the Center for the Study of Social Insects at Sao State university Rio
Researchers are developing a new system that scans a child sâ fingerprints to track when vaccinations are due
Once the electronic registry is in place health care workers simply re-scan the child s fingers to view the vaccination schedule.
the Ministry of Education Culture Sports Science and Technology-Japan; and the Murata Science Foundation supported the research.
The labels work because an array of tiny pillars on the top of a surface effectively hides images written on the material beneath.
Shyu compares the texture of the pillars to a submicroscopic toothbrush. The hidden images appear
when the pillars trap moisture. ou can verify that you have the real product with just a breath of airkotov says.
because the pillars were made from materials that preferred adhering to the mold rather than whatever surface they were supposed to cover.
This allowed the pillars to release easily. They are also strong enough to withstand rubbing ensuring that the label would survive some wear such as would occur during shipping.
what Wi-fi typically requires. he researchers will publish their results at the Association for Computing Machinery s Special interest Group on Data communication s annual conference this month in Chicago.
which occurs in more than one per thousand human births around the world. e
#Butterfly tree decodes evolution of 160,000 species University of Florida rightoriginal Studyposted by Stephenie Livingston-Florida on August 4 2014butterflies are more closely related to small moths than to big ones according to new
and assistant curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural history at University of Florida. ith a tree we can now understand how the majority of butterfly
and director of the University of Hawaii Insect Museum. his study adds to a growing body of knowledge by bringing new techniques to the table
and a postdoctoral researcher with the Florida Museum. he few Lepidoptera fossils we have are from about 15 million years ago.
and the Hedylidae family commonly known as American butterfly-moths were dismissed as moths and found to be true butterflies.
and social problems associated with hunger and malnutrition. Now with the completely sequenced African rice genome scientists
Keeping families together they housed the birds in separate areas of the aviaries for three to five months before releasing them back to the wild.
As it turns out this is a very challenging task for both corvids (a family of birds that includes crows ravens jays and rooks) and children.
researchers recruited 239 adults through Craigslist. The participants, whose ages ranged from 18 to 65,
Lead researcher Bayden Wood, an associate professor at Monash University, says to reduce mortality and prevent the overuse of antimalarial drugs,
The researchers found a significant positive association between the presence of black queen cell virus
and K-wing. nterestingly the only clinical symptom previously associated with black queen cell virus is death of honey bee broodssays Ostiguy.
In addition the scientists found a significant negative association between black queen cell virus and deformed wing virus. The results of the study appear in PLOS ONE. his result is interesting as we do not see the same negative association between these two viruses in colonies infested with Varroa destructorsays Ostiguy. n colonies with Varroa
destructor frequently there is a positive association between the two viruses and co-infection in the same bee is common. ccording to Ostiguy the team will continue to investigate the relationships between various pathogens
and parasites of honey bees along with various stressors such as pesticide exposure with the goal of providing information to help keep honey bees healthy. ur ability to find European honey bee populations free of invasive
is what makes children more flexible learnersre they just free from the preconceptions that adults have,
while others have difficulty recognizing members of their own family. For the study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences researchers studied 198 families with a single autistic child
because these families are known to show a wide range of variability in facial recognition skills. Two-thirds of the families were from the United kingdom and the remainder from Finland.
Researchers had previously found the oxytocin receptor is essential for olfactory-based social recognition in rodents like mice
and voles and wondered whether the same gene could also be involved in human face recognition. They examined the influence of subtle differences in oxytocin receptor gene structure on face memory competence in the parents non-autistic siblings
and autistic child and discovered a single change in the DNA of the oxytocin receptor had a big impact on face memory skills in the families.
This suggests an ancient conservation in genetic and neural architectures involved in social information processing that transcends the sensory modalities used from mouse to man.
which was funded by grants from the US National institute of mental health and the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs as well as the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation and National Alliance for Autism Research.
But NEIL also makes associations between these things to obtain common sense information that people just seem to know without ever saying##that cars often are found on roads that buildings tend to be vertical
It has connected the dots to learn 2500 associations from thousands of instances. One motivation for the NEIL project is to create the world s largest visual structured knowledge base where objects scenes actions attributes
As its search proceeds NEIL develops subcategories of objects tricycles can be for kids for adults
And it begins to notice associations##that zebras tend to be found in savannahs for instance
Jenniskens calculates the object may have come from the Flora asteroid family in the asteroid belt but the chunk that hit the Chelyabinsk area was broken apparently not up in the asteroid belt itself.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Japan found that the rock had been exposed to cosmic rays for only about 1. 2 million years unusually short for rocks originating in the Flora family.
and another three weeks for the new workers to emerge as adults. This reduces the workforce
The theoretical calculations pointed to new families of materials where this often mutually exclusive combination of properties could in fact be stabilized. his structure is something known as a perovskite crystal.
and cost of the solar cell. he family of materials we've made with the bulk photovoltaic effect goes through the entire solar spectrumrappe says. o we could grow one material
This family of materialsspanier says s all the more remarkable because it is comprised of inexpensive nontoxic and earth-abundant elements unlike compound semiconductor materials currently used in efficient thin-film solar cell technology. he research was supported by the Energy Commercialization Institute of Ben Franklin Technology Partners the Department of energy's Office of Basic Sciences
of early childhood development functioning neurons can self-adjust and return to their set-point average firing ratehengen says.
and the projectâ#lead researcher. aking this information available to anyone with a smartphone or computer especially when a tsunami or other type of disaster occurs could help save lives. elodia will present his paper at the Association for Computing Machineryâ
About 200 million years ago GD 61 entered its death throes and became a white dwarf yet parts of its planetary system survived.
#Lava pillars in Iceland may have formed without a boom University at Buffalo rightoriginal Studyposted by Charlotte Hsu-Buffalo on October 9 2013land-based lava pillars in Iceland may have formed through an unusual reaction typically seen
That finding is more likely than the one that suggests the rocky pillars dotting Icelandâ#Skaelingar valley were tossed projectiles into the fields by warring trollsâ##a theory University at Buffalo geologist Tracy Gregg heard from a tour guide and local hiker.
The pillars hollow and made from basalt likely formed in a surprising reaction where lava met water without any explosion occurring. sually
This has implications for the way we view volcanic risk. eep-sea basalt pillars form
when columns of super-heated water rise between pillows of lava on the ocean floor cooling the molten rock into hollow pipe-like minarets.
and Geothermal Research the scientists propose that the same phenomenon sculpted the land-based lava pillars in Iceland.
Each of these distinctive characteristics is also prevalent in deep ocean pillars says Gregg. knew as soon as I saw them what they were.
'n the future Gregg says scientists could hunt for land-based lava pillars near oceans to learn about the height of ancient seas
It causes more than 600000 deaths a year from cryptococcal pneumonia and meningoencephalitis accounting for a third of all AIDS-related deaths.
Researchers have been interested in the sexual cycle of Cryptococcus because it is the only way this fungal pathogen can produce spores to infect its host.
or motions to the user to guide a child s hand as they play computer games designed to help writing.
As the child plays the games the robots arm helps them learn the correct movements by pushing
and Liam Hill at the University of Leeds in partnership with the Bradford Institute for Health Research and colleagues at the University of Indiana. n trying to support a child with handwriting
Mycorrhiza for instance is a fungus capable of forming an association with the vast majority of land plants.
The association also helps activate genes and physiological changes in the plant to help them survive drought conditions Beattie says.
In a series of experiments using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana researchers discovered a key regulator S3h that acts as a brake on the process of leaf death
In addition to affecting the timing of leaf death it also affects its rate: While normal plants take more than nine days for a leaf to progress from living green to yellow plants without the gene yellowed in fewer than three days.
What we have found is the convergence point between the slow and fast death systems Gan says.
NOTTINGHAM (UK)# Scientists have identified the genetic mutation responsible for the first blue chicken eggs in South american Mapuche fowl and their European descendants Araucana 200 to 500 years ago.
While only 15 of the 40 known imprinted human genes were identified in this set their expression bias was identical to that of humans indicating a highly conserved function for these genes between the horse family and humans.
The Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics Zweig Memorial Fund and Morris Animal Foundation funded the research h
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Neumann says. e needed to create a system that could handle the waste of a family of four with just two treatments per week,
but it a matter of life and death for 2. 5 billion people, Halas says. or this to really work,
when to self-destruct Brown University rightoriginal Studyposted by David Orenstein-Brown on June 20 2013brown (US)# New research identifies genes that may control the death of pollen tubes during plant reproduction.##
##Pollination essential to much of life On earth requires the explosive death of the male pollen tube in the female ovule.
but a dialogue that ends in death#Leydon says.##It s a really well-controlled cell death situation.#
#Agricultural applications? Future work Johnson says will include tracking down the relevant genes more fully
assistant professor of social and decision sciences and lead author of the study. t could be used to assess an individual emotional response to almost any kind of stimulus, for example, a flag, a brand name,
More ticks were found on younger otters than adults. Scientists reason that this is likely due to younger otters tending to spend more time in the holt (an otter den.
The findings showed for the first time how the extraordinarily stable compound#calcium-aluminum-silicate-hydrate (C-a-S-H)# binds the material used to build some of the most enduring structures in Western civilization.
As a woman who finds almost all of the smart watches on the market today to be too large
and work much in the way that a home pregnancy test does they are not nearly as sensitive
Early detection is helpful for instance in pregnant women; the sooner they start taking antiretroviral meds the less likely they are to pass the disease to their babies.
This is why HIV screening is common in all pregnant woman across the US. The CDC reports that the risk of transmission to the fetus can be reduced to 1 percent
#It has huge implications#Karen Lightman executive director of the trade association MEMS Industry Group told me.#
whereby a small number of skilled geneticists is able to remove the nucleus of a donor woman egg (the part that plays host to some 25,
but yet the biological child of the parents. OHSU The resulting egg can then be fertilized with the intended father sperm using traditional in vitro fertilization,
and an embryo is born. o then the child born will have 99.9 percent DNA from the parents,
and those will come from another woman, Mitalipov said. hat where the term 3-parent baby comes from.
or personality traits of a child those reside in the nucleus, which still belongs wholly to the intended mother.
causing a wide range of problems that include extreme fatigue, dementia, stunted growth, deafness, blindness, multi-organ failure, and even death.
but would permit clinics to begin offering a risky and experimental fertility procedure. Mitalipov counters that the UK vote to permit select clinics to offer the procedure is in reality a clinical trial
Additionally it was presented at the United nations during a meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO
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