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A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

..., twisting tangles of threads made up of chains of tiny “tau” proteins are being assembled inside billions of nerve cells (neurons). Outside the neurons, other amyloid-beta (AB) proteins are fusing together into sticky clumps (plaque) -- akin to the substance that clogs heart arteries. Together, these tan...

Pharaoh Hatshepsut Died in Pain Due to Cancer

...atshepsut's health problems. "We found numerous tiny spots within Hatshepsut and the Tuthmose family, w...iac bone. From its location, character and the few tiny foci of bone rarefaction in the spine, we concluded that this tumour is a metastatic deposit rather ...

Pond in High Artic Drying Up Due to Global Warming

...aterfowl, drinking water for animals and homes for tiny invertebrates like shrimp, which are a food source for larger animals. "It's really interesting to see how quickly it is happening. We could see this trend had started a while ago but at no time did we expect it to accelerate," said Douglas. In the ...

Dengue Surge in Singapore, Man Prosecuted for Breeding Mosquitoes

...o breeding sites. Dengue-carrying insects breed in tiny pools of water found in flower pots, discarded bottles or cans, or old tires. Only recently Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Yaacob Ibrahim. had declared that the country was ready to fight dengue should the situation worsen in the ...

Dark Chocolate Possible Medicine for Blood Pressure

...lood pressure lowering effect, you may only need a tiny piece of dark chocolate daily for a couple of weeks, if you are healthy. The study led by Dirk Taubert, M.D., Ph.D., of University Hospital of Cologne, Germany, and colleagues, who have studied cocoa rich food for quite some years, found eating no ...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...a greenmongering scare. Thirty years ago, only a tiny number of individuals -- "climate scientists and the granola-and-sandals brigade," says US historian Spencer Weart -- took notice of the idea that unbridled burning of oil, gas and coal might eventually mess up the climate system. In fact, the apoc...

New "second-line" AIDS Drug Shows Promise in Trials

...NRTIs, HIV can sidestep existing drugs with just a tiny mutation in a single amino acid. The treatment options narrow further if a patient is found to suffer bad side effects from these powerful molecules. The hope for etravirine is that it will open up a new front against resistant virus and raise th...

Chinese Mayor Urges Residents to Stop Buying Cars

...aused by exhaust fumes," he said. Shenzhen was a tiny fishing village in 1979 when it was singled out by China's leader Deng Xiaoping for reform as a "Special Economic Zone" to lure much-needed foreign investment into the country's industrial sector. By 2006, its factories produced exports worth 136 b...

New Device to Treat Snoring and Sleep Apnea

...re - which takes just 15 minutes - surgeons make a tiny incision in the side of the neck and then implant a small metal anchor-shaped device, about one millimetre long, in the base of the tongue in the throat. Another metal anchor is implanted into the lower jawbone, reported the online edition of the Dai...

An Offbeat Suit With Electronic Monitor

...ne wearing a smart T-shirt or a suit embedded with tiny electronics that can monitor your heart or respiratory function wirelessly. When dirty, you take it off and throw it in the wash or have it dry-cleaned. And theres no need to worry about your heart skipping a beat while your garment is being cleane...

Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US

...ations are now minimally invasive procedures using tiny devices mounted at the end of long, flexible plastic catheters that are threaded into the heart through veins. Full-scale clinical trials have not yet demonstrated the long-term benefits from the catheter-based treatment. But, based on promising re...

Global Warming: Lessons of History Help the Future

... were fragile. Ireland's potato growers each had tiny strips of land in vast, open fields, making it easy for a blight to rampage through their single crop. In India, forests which could have preserved moisture when water was scarce were massively cut down by the British to make way for tea plantations....

Size and Position of Floral Anther Plays a Vital Role in Pollination

...tures, anthers, release the pollen gradually, like tiny gumball dispensers. Unlike moths and butterflies that are often brilliantly colored to warn potential predators that they carry toxins, flowers and the fruits they produce have brilliant colors and unusual shapes because they want to attract the a...

Invisible Gases Form Most Organic Haze in Urban, Rural Areas: Study

...had believed that sources that spew soot and other tiny particles directly into the air were the primary culprit in the formation of organic haze. But the new study by researchers Qi Zhang and Jose-Luis Jimenez show aerosols formed chemically in the air account for about two-thirds of the total organic...

Now, 'virtual' Mouse Brains Available on the Net

...solution, three-dimentional microscopic images of tiny mouse brains, which unveil every layer of the organ. The researchers could materialise this task by extending the capabilities of conventional magnetic resonance imaging. "These images can be more than 100,000 times higher resolution than a cli...

Medical Science Strides-No Guarantee For Pre-Mature Babies

...ey fall well below the lower limit for extremely tiny babies. Doctors who care for these low-weight b... fact remains that doctors can never predict which tiny babies will do well and which will not. Says neonatologist Siva Subramanian of Georgetown Univers...

WBC Selective About Sugar

... neutrophils respond to beta-glucan. After coating tiny beads with a variety of substances (including beta-1,3-glucan and beta-1,6-glucan), she exposed them to the neutrophils and was surprised to see a striking difference in their response to the two sugars. The neutrophils quickly engulfed many of the b...

New Nano-power Could Make Biopsies Sensitive and Efficient

...e spread to other parts of the body in amounts too tiny to sample with an ordinary needle. The researchers...niques that have recently made it easier to detect tiny amounts of leukaemia cells in biopsies. "I am tempted to think that this technique will not be an...

Now, a Tattoo That can Be Easily Removed

...le polymer coating. The microcapsules, that are as tiny as pins, can bear a molecule that requires protection or restrained release. The process is widely used in manufacturing plant food, stain remover, and even scratch-and-sniff perfume ads, where scent is released upon scratching a treated paper. ...

India to Monitor Pregnancies to Check Girl Foeticide: Report

...s. In a gruesome discovery last month, dozens of tiny bones were found in the septic tank of a clinic belonging to a man posing as a doctor in wealthy Gurgaon, a suburb of the Indian capital. The suburb is part of a state with one of the country's worst gender ratios -- just 820 females for every 1,00...

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