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Common contraception

...hat this channel is involved in giving the sperm's tail a kind of turbocharge at the last instant, when it needs more power to penetrate the zona pellucida," Dr Chapman speculated.A contraceptive designed to prevent fertilisation would not interfere with the gene but simply inhibit the ion channel protein...

Artificially made protein to inhibit angiogenesis

...t is produced. The new protein with its amino acid tail will stop the VEGF from leaving the site of production inside the cell, thereby minimizing its potentials. Researchers have used an approach used in gene therapy by putting the manmade gene that makes the interceptors in a carrier called plasmid tha...

Limiting sperm motility for contraception

...m triggers the sperm’s motor proteins, causing the tail to beat.// The CatSper ion channel is found only in a principal section of the sperm’s tail and nowhere else in the body, making it likely that a contraceptive that targets CatSper would have ...

Consumers of soft drinks to be more alert

...wyer from Kerala has claimed to have found a rat's tail in a 200 ml bottle of Fanta, (Batch number 1143 B dated April 13, 2005) a soft drink from the Coca Cola Company.There has been no doubt over the finding and it has been decided to file a petition against // the company under the Prevention of Food Ad...

Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibody Production Is More Profitable Than Small Molecule Drugs

...r of the Propagate study. There are signs that the tail end of a biotherapeutics products life cycle might be more profitable than that of a small molecule drug. However, this high level of success may be difficult to sustain as competition increases, especially in the cancer market, says Propagate’s Coll...

Acute Toxicity Of Nano-Scale Zinc Powder: Severe Renal Damage And Anemia

... catalyst in organic hydrogen reaction, automobile tail gas disposal, environmental protection, paints, pigment, metallurgy additives. Although zinc is an essential metal needed by mammals and commonly found in nutritional supplements, acute, high-dose oral exposure to zinc and its compounds generally r...

Detrimental Effect Of Chronic Alcoholism On Male Fertility

... normal morphology and an increase in irreversible tail defects. It has been reported that ethanol abusers might exhibit sperm alterations, such as changes in the count, morphology, and viability of the spermatozoa. Alcohol exerts a dose-related toxic effect on testicular function. In a recent study, pub...

Fear of Listeria outbreak in Australia.

...days. However similar cases were reported in the tail end of last year in some of the south Australian hospitals. Two deaths were witnessed by the Royal Adelaide and Gawler hospitals late last year. They were also found to have Listeria. But they also suffered from other ailments, one from advanced st...

Researchers Develop Potent Cancer Killer From Vitamin E Derivative

... vitamin E molecule has a long, coiled, protruding tail that keeps the molecule from fitting tightly, and ...g the molecule's structure – basically cutting the tail short – allowed a tighter fit and improved the agent's ability to kill cancer cells by five- to ten-...

A Major Break Through in Treatment for Metabolic Syndrome

...w SREBP and ARC105 interact. They found a flexible tail on the SREBP molecule that fits into a specific gr...olecule that attaches to and inhibits the flexible tail of SREBP is unlikely, but a search for inhibitors to fit the grooved KIX site looks much more promis...

Hope For Patients With Macular Degeneration From Manmade Protein

...ith a four-amino-acid peptide tail,' he says. 'The tail essentially handcuffs the manmade molecule within the protein-making machinery of the cell so that it stays there and anything that binds with it, namely VEGF, stays there too. So it's a very specific way of down-regulating a target protein.' In Ma...

Scientists Uncover Complex Workings of Sperm

... hundreds of proteins that constitute the head and tail of the sperm, which is the smallest cell in a man's body -- so small that about 500 million of them can fit into a teaspoon, The Independent newspaper reported Monday. The study was carried out on the sperm of fruit fly but the scientists believe t...

Male Contraception: Discovery Stirring Interest Among Scientists, Drug Developers

... the discovery// of a new protein within a sperm’s tail that could prove a key target for male contracepti...ion in the distal sperm tail. “The distal sperm tail does not have mitochondria, which means that SFEC operates in a different environment than the other...

Regrowth of Zebrafish's Tail Fin may Offer Clues for Treating Human Injuries

If a zebrafish loses a chunk of its tail fin, it’ll grow back within a week. //Like lizards...ish can replace surprisingly complex body parts. A tail fin, for example, has many different types of cells and is a very intricate structure. It is the fis...

A New Drug To Address Canine Obesity

...“You hear pet owners say: ‘The dog really wags his tail when I give him a treat. It’s hard to hold back,’ ” Mr. Fennell said. Veterinarians complain that the pet owners overindulge in feeding and spoil them with treats, which makes them pretty heavy. Slentrol is in a liquid form and can be added to a ...

Bill Clinton Says US Healthcare System Immoral

...d. "We're letting the health insurance financing tail wag the health-care dog," he said. Clinton, who has spent much of his post-presidential years working to address the worldwide AIDS epidemic, said American taxpayers spend 10,000 dollars a year for AIDS treatments that cost only 3,500 dollars in ot...

Dinos may Have Died in Agonizing Death Throes of Asphyxiation

...ssic pose of head thrown back, jaws open, back and tail reflexed backward and limbs contracted". Dinosaurs and their relatives, ranging from the flying pterosaurs to Tyrannosaurus rex, as well as many early mammals, have been found exhibiting this posture. Till now, the explanation usually given by pa...

Immune System Protein Could Be the Key Infertility

...termining which end becomes the head and which the tail in sperm cells." To see if JAM-C played a similar role in human sperm, they studied its distribution in human testes. They found a pattern that was strikingly similar to the one found in mice. Dr Adams said: "We discovered JAM-C had a similar p...

Sunita Returns June 21 After 194-day Record Space Odyssey

...air a thermal blanket that had come loose near the tail during its June 8 launch. Although it is only her first space flight, Sunita became the world's most experienced woman walker in space Feb 4 with four excursions over 29 hours and 17 minutes to top Kathy Thornton's 21-hour space walking record. "...

Nurse Has Miraculous Escape as Window is Blown Off an Air Ambulance

...craft. "I have a vivid picture of looking at the tail of the plane and seeing my headset dangling out of the plane," Fogg said. He fell back into his seat, and grabbed one of the patient's pillows to stop the blood pouring from his head. He said the pilot knew the cabin had decompressed but was not aw...