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Finding Cures For Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source An Answer?

...are for tropical diseases, such asAfrican sleeping sickness and dengue fever. While patent incentiveshave driven commercial pharmaceutical companies to make Western healthcare the envy of the world, the commercial model only works ifcompanies can sell enough patented products to cover their R&Dcosts and p...

New strategies to reduce hospital-aquired infections

The current goal to reduce sickness and death from infections that patients acquire in hospitals has created a renewed focus on identifying ways to reduce the problem at its source. Hospital water for drinking, bathing, showering, to make ice cubes or to rinse medical equipment is incr...

Distributed Basic Local Alignment Search Toolkit (W.ND-BLAST)

The current goal to reduce sickness and death from infections that patients acquire in hospitals has created a renewed focus on identifying ways to reduce the problem at its source. Hospital water for drinking, bathing, showering, to make ice cubes or to rinse medical equipment is incr...

Analysis Of Human Genome To Predict The Development Of Illnesses

...s and provides information on the evolution of the sickness using the gathered data. Using the appropriate analyses, it enables the measurement of the efficiency of and patient response to the different treatments administered, thus enabling the identification of new, more effective therapeutic targets. This...

Newly discovered protein an important tool for sleeping sickness research

...ich are spread by the tsetse fly. African sleeping sickness affects approximately 500,000 people in sub-Sahara...antigenic variation, has severely limited sleeping sickness treatment options and essentially ruled out the possibility of a vaccine. MBL trypanosome experts i...

Breakthrough System for Understanding Ocean Plant Life Announced

...ich are spread by the tsetse fly. African sleeping sickness affects approximately 500,000 people in sub-Sahara...antigenic variation, has severely limited sleeping sickness treatment options and essentially ruled out the possibility of a vaccine. MBL trypanosome experts i...

Gifts from the sea

...disorders, including Meniere's disease; and motion sickness and dizziness. Surf clam (Spisula solidissima): Surf clam eggs are popular among scientists studying cell division and the proteins associated with it. Female clams are fertile from May to July, and millions of eggs can be harvested from a single fe...

Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month

...rug for early stage (blood stage) African sleeping sickness in 50 years, and the only oral drug that's ever be...C-based scientific consortium for African sleeping sickness and other devastating diseases such as TB, which together affect millions of people annually," Tidwe...

Lactose intolerance linked to ancestral environment

...y investigated why spices are used and why morning sickness occurs. "Both appear to serve an important function to protect the individual," Sherman said. "Spices contain antimicrobial compounds, and they may be used to destroy food-borne pathogens, especially in hot climates. Nausea and vomiting early in pre...

North & South American researchers find architectural abnormalities in T. cruzi ribosome

...elatives Trypanosoma brucei, which causes sleeping sickness in Africa, and Leishmania, a parasite spread by sand flies. Higher resolution models of the ribosome structure will be needed to design targeted drugs, Frank said. ...

A large step forward in the fight against African sleeping sickness

... year, over 300,000 people die of African sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis). Researchers from the Flanders I...ave contracted this disease. >African sleeping sickness About 400,000 people worldwide suffer from the deadly African sleeping sickness. The disease produc...

Viagra improves high altitude exercise performance up to 45% for some

...e and may develop illnesses such as acute mountain sickness or high altitude pulmonary edema while others adapt quickly. Studies like this may help identify some of the underlying differences between people and lead to better treatments. In future studies, Friedlander wants to identify: what steps individua...

DNA to the defense

... that the parasite known to cause African sleeping sickness has evolved an unusual chromosomal structure as a result of environmental adaptation. In this parasite, the chromosomes are highly enriched in subtelomeric sequences ?dynamic and variable regions that connect the chromosome ends to the gene-rich cor...

Gene chip technology shows potential for identifying life-threatening blood infection

...the new research, Cobb and his colleagues mimicked sickness in four groups of mice: each of three groups had a... of thousands of genes 24 hours after the onset of sickness with the goal of identifying all the genes that might be markers of inflammation and infection. They...

Resistance and genetic sensitivity to sleeping sickness

...all in the number of subjects infected. Sleeping sickness classically manifests itself in two forms, corresponding to two parasite subspecies. The chronic form, encountered in Central and West African countries, is caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (T.b. gambiense). Its development cycle in the host va...

New study suggests promising drug combinations for sleeping sickness

...cal Trials. African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness affects many tens of thousands of people each year in sub-Saharan Africa and is a serious disease for which there are few treatment options. The most commonly used drug, Melarsoprol, is highly toxic. MSF and Epicentre jointly carried out a trial ...

Underweight women at greater risk of miscarriage

...nfirmation for the widely-held belief that morning sickness is an indicator that the pregnancy is progressing well. Women who suffered from nausea and sickness in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy were almost 70% less likely to miscarry, and the more severe ...

Viral protein is an effective preventative against infection

... "Secondary bacterial infections cause much of the sickness and about 25 percent of all deaths during flu seas...ese secondary infections could dramatically reduce sickness and death rates."...

NIAID DNA vaccine for H5N1 avian influenza enters human trial

...ave emerged in the past decade, causing widespread sickness and death in domestic and wild bird populations. As of December 27, 2006, 261 laboratory-confirmed human cases of H5N1 had been reported to the World Health Organization, resulting in death of more than half of infected individuals. While human cases...

The insect vector always bites twice

... pressure from human activities. Malaria, sleeping sickness and so on lead to the death of millions of people in the world. African countries are particularly strongly hit. The expansion of Dengue fever and the recent epidemics of Chikungunya and West Nile disease illustrate the trend. The pathogens responsi...