A new century of Alzheimer's disease research
...ing to develop the disease and when it is going to show up,” says Dr. Graff-Radford. “The crucial point is...d in this trial, suspects that r-flurbiprofen will show some benefit, but that newer, designer AB42-lowering agents might be better. “A more potent drug wou...Inability to Recognize Familiar Smells Could Signal Alzheimers
... lesions of the degenerative brain disease tend to show up in an area of the brain that is home to olfactory senses. Doctors at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago tested 589 people aged between 54 to 90, and asked them to identify 12 common odors such as lemon, chocolate, black pepper, banana...Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore
...Wall, a veteran concert producer, attended a slide show about global warming presented by Gore, as featured in the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. 'Over the course of the 90 minutes my wife and I were very emotionally moved by the climate crisis,' said Wall, 54, a father of three. 'We u...Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected
...sts today, said the problems it found at Texas A&M show that the US government needs to reduce the number of people and facilities that handle bioweapons agents and bring a hodgepodge of federal lab rules into a unified, mandatory, and enforceable system to ensure lab safety and accountability. In its s...Pond in High Artic Drying Up Due to Global Warming
...n of salt in the remaining water. Weather records show there has been no decline in rain and snowfall in the region but Environment Canada has reported that Arctic temperatures have been rising, and 2006 was the warmest year on record for that part of the Arctic. Some arctic ponds have drained when the...Strange Sex Life of Mole-rats may Provide Clues About Human Infertility
...r members of the colony around. She shoves them to show whos boss. We believe that the stress induced in the lower-ranking animals by this behaviour affects their fertility. There appears to be a total block to puberty in almost all the non-breeding mole-rats so that their hormones are kept down and their...Translating Structure into Function
...ow, in an expedited article in NATURE, researchers show that a solution to the puzzle is finally in sight. A team co-led by UCSFs Brian Shoichet, Steven Almo of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Frank Raushel of Texas A&M describes the first success decrypting an enzymes function from its str...Mira Nair Takes AIDS Message to Indian Cinema Halls
...r has joined India's top directors in a project to show short films on the impact of the Acquired Immuno D... the problem firsthand. Figures of a 2006 UN study show that 72 percent of the 2.6 million global AIDS deaths were in sub-Saharan Africa with devastating so...Embryo Protection Law in Germany
... from the ESHRE European IVF monitoring consortium show that out of 8,500 deliveries in Germany in 2004 th... he concluded. Other figures from the consortium show that the number of ART procedures in Germany has nearly halved since state funding for them was cut....UK Uneasy Over Involvement of Doctors in Terror Attacks, but Not Panicking Over Non European Medics
...hown on British television on Tuesday, appeared to show a young man. He was severely burned in the fire, and is under guard in a hospital near Glasgow. On Tuesday, Britains BBC-2 broadcast an interview with Shiraz Maher, a former member of the Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical Islamic group, who described himse...Too Much of Videogames Hampers Study Time in Children
... doing homework, there have been some studies that show that high academic achievers spend less time doing homework," Cummings said....Chemical Injections for Fat Removal
...to work on the study. This is the first study to show that stress has a direct effect on fat accumulation, body weight and metabolism, she said. In humans, this kind of stress-mediated fat gain may have nothing to do with the brain, and is actually just a physiological response of their fat tissue. An...Alternative Splicing in Neuronal Development
...s remained elusive. Dr. Black and colleagues now show that a switch in expression between PTB and nPTB induces changes in a large number of alternative splicing patterns during neuronal development. "This reprogramming of splicing by the switch in PTB proteins adds a new layer of genetic change determin...Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials
...oing therapeutic cancer vaccine trials have yet to show evidence of vaccines spurring a patients immune sy... vaccination, de-spite the fact that trials do not show the vaccines can induce the immune system into shrinking tumors, said Jeffrey Schlom, Ph.D., chief o...In China, Online Gamers Raking in the Cash
...for bragging rights. "It's about vanity, just to show off," Zhao said. The vanity, however, is by no means confined to China. Players of various games worldwide who do not have time or patience to advance to higher levels or acquire virtual items often outsource the uninteresting parts of game play ...Anti-depressants Do Not Increase the Overall Risk of Most Birth Defects
...ut they are different birth defects. The studies show how important post-market surveillance is in assessing the safety of medications in pregnancy. During pre-approval, drugs are tested on relatively few subjects and only side effects with a large frequency are detected. Once approved, many people take...Cat Exposure Increases Bronchial Responsiveness
...es if exposed to cat allergen, even if blood tests show that they are not allergic to cats. Dr. Chinn, of the Imperial College in London, and 12 other researchers reported their findings in the first issue for July 2007 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the ......that its actually causing cancer. In this paper we show for the first time that insulin-like growth factor binding protein 2 (IGFBP2) connects with two other proteins to fuel development and progression of brain tumors, says senior author Wei Zhang, Ph.D., professor in M. D. Andersons Department of Pathol...Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies
... if these cells are heterogeneous. If human brains show a similar regionalization of stem cells, it might also be possible, says Alvarez-Buylla, to harvest them from the brains of patients, expand their numbers in the culture dish to obtain a particular neuron type, and transplant them back into patients.......evels found in affected Caucasians. The findings show that ethnic differences in MS extend to the immune response system, which plays a central role in MS, said study author John R. Rinker, MD, with the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, and member of the American Academy of Neur...