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A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...eer a mouse to express a mutation of the gene that controls tau production, and in 2000 they reported in Nature Genetics that the “tau” mouse develops the same kind of neurofibrillary tangles seen in human dementia. In 2001, the Mayo Clinic team produced another new engineered mouse, the first to exhibit tang...

Tougher Tobacco Rules Urged at Global Anti-smoking Talks

...need cooperation from other countries to put tough controls on this, on top of our attempts on the national level," he added. Douglas Bettcher, the head of the WHO's Tobacco Free Initiative, said free trade deals were also bringing down tobacco prices in many countries and contributing to a rise in consumpt...

Annual Tobacco-related Deaths to Reach 8.3 Million by 2030

...Asia, unless more is done to tighten trans-border controls on the trade, international health experts warned ...nd to mull new legislation to improve trans-border controls over the trade. The conference is discussing a new illicit-trade protocol that would clamp down on...

Prions Prevent Alzheimers Disease

...be to look in more detail at how the prion protein controls beta amyloid, knowledge that could be used to design anti-Alzheimers drugs. Theoretically, if we can find a way of mimicking the prions function we should be able to halt the progress of Alzheimers. However, theres still a lot of work to be done in l...

Gene Variation Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer

...een more than 1,500 lung cancer patients and 1,700 controls at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. More than 80 percent of the cancer patients in the study were current or former smokers. Among the 59 variations in 37 inflammation-related genes studied, the researchers discovered that some vari...

Variation in Genes Related to Inflammation Increase Lung Cancer Risk

...een more than 1,500 lung cancer patients and 1,700 controls to examine the relationship between inflammation and lung cancer risk. More than 80 percent of the cancer patients in the study were current or former smokers. Researchers found that among the 59 variations in 37 inflammation-related genes studie...

Dutch Customs Deploys Special Bird Flu Dogs

...a and Turkey, the Dutch ministry of finance, which controls the customs service, said in a statement. They are trained to sniff out all kinds of poultry -- alive or dead --, feathers and eggs. The dogs have been working on Schiphol airport since May this year. In Europe only the Czech customs are also worki...

Smoking Linked to Lower Parkinson's Disease Risk

...816 individuals with Parkinson's disease and 8,993 controls of the same age and sex but without Parkinson's disease) involved in 11 studies conducted between 1960 and 2004. They found that there is an inverse association between cigarette smoking and Parkinson's disease. "Recent studies also suggested th...

Scientists Revealed the Key Molecule That Controls Pain

...ed to unravel the structure of a key molecule that controls pain in humans.The findings published in the top scientific journal Nature could rapidly advance research into the next generation of painkillers for relief of chronic conditions such as migraine and backache. Complete and lasting relief of chroni...

Eap1 in the Brain Regulates the Female Reproductive Cycle

...acts as a regulator of the neuronal signaling that controls female reproductive function. The authors found that EPA1 expression was selectively increased at puberty in the hypothalamus in monkeys, rats, and mice. They also showed that the protein product of EPA1 was expressed in neurons involved in the cont...

EPA to Improve Nanotechnology

...ars to be on a faster track to develop appropriate controls and to give a predictable nanotechnology regulatory environment for industry and consumers, he continued. The first generation of nanotechnology applications and products is here. In an inventory maintained by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologi...

Shed Off Your Shyness With a Nasal Spray!

...ormone had an effect on the part of the brain that controls fear response. He also said spraying into the nasal passages was the most effective method of its administration, as it was absorbed into the body more rapidly, reports the Sun. The researchers are now planning to conduct large-scale trials of ...

Indian Researcher Duo Finds Automated Tailgating can Save Fuel, Cut CO2 Emissions

... According to the two, adding sensors and safety controls that allow vehicles to drive at such a small separation would make automated tailgating a real possibility. "As populations grow and the number of vehicles on the roads in cities and motorways across Europe, North America and the developing world, ...

Key Mechanism to Emergence of Strep Bacteria

... specific genetic mutation in the M1T1 strep clone controls the shift to this invasive form a property which they traced to an event that occurred about 30 years ago when a virus known as a bacteriophage infected the strep bacteria and introduced a new gene. The new gene allowed the bacteria to resist cleara...

Health Insurance- Play It Safe And Reap The Benefits

According to experts, the relaxing of tariff controls on fire and engineering insurance is set to have a far-reaching effect on the entire general insurance sector, particularly health insurance . This would be so as new competition is expected to drive down the premiums in marine, fire and engineer...

Boffins Find Evidence for Novel Brain Cell Communication

...tanding of how the brain processes information and controls muscles in the body. There is, however, another means for nerve cells to communicate with one another, called gap junctions. Gap junctions allow electric current to flow directly from one cell to another, without involving the release and diffusio...

20 Mg Rimonabant Per Day may Help to Quit Smoking

...f the hormonal control mechanism in the brain that controls energy balance and food intake. Over time the body alters the nature of its energy mechanism to compensate for this effect. Stopping smoking removes the nicotine and once again disturbs the mechanism, adding to the withdrawal symptoms and leaving a...

Scottish Engineer Devises Versatile Hand

...uter housed in the back of the artificial hand and controls the motors hidden in the fingers. Small objects such as coins can be picked up between the index finger and thumb, while other grips allow turning a key in a lock, holding a plate and handing over a business card. So flexible are the fingers th...

Longer Term Breast-feeding Reduces the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Women

... for RA. Individuals were matched with four female controls for every case. Controls were identified as those alive and free from diagnosed RA when the index individual was diagnosed with RA. The median age of the onset of RA in the sample population was 63.3 years, with an average length of 5.5 years betw...

Smoking, Glucose Tolerance Level may Increase Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk

...rticipation in the health surveys were compared to controls without RA from the PMP and MDCS, matched for age, sex and year of screening. The first study found that smoking and a low level of formal education, such as elementary school education only versus university degree status, might independently incr...

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