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New Oncogene for Brain Cancer

...istant tumors. Overabundance of IGFBP2 has since been shown to be an indicator of poor prognosis for gli...ion of K-Ras and a third gene, Akt, previously had been shown to develop astrocytomas. Activation of Akt fuels cell growth and survival. None of the three g...

Influenza Virus Samples of 1918

... preserved samples of the 1918 influenza virus has been a pursuit of both historical and medical importance . The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most devastating single disease outbreak in modern history, and examining the virus that caused it may help prepare for, and possibly prevent, future pandemics....

Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies

...nie Muss Professor of Neurological Surgery. "We've been studying this region of the brain for many years a... neural function." The finding, he says, has not been without its hints. In 1996, the lab reported (PNAS, Dec. 1996) what he describes as "an amazing netw...

France Steps Up Vigilance After Bird Flu Outbreak

...rms, a one-kilometre (0.6 mile) exclusion zone has been established around the Assenoncourt pond, as well as a wider 15-kilometre "observation" zone. France's only outbreak of H5N1 was early last year, when it was detected in 62 dead wild birds, contaminating a turkey farm in central France. The World...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...nt certain that the man-made greenhouse effect had been detected -- and that it was starting to affect the...ollege Park, Maryland, says two other factors have been big in changing opinion in the United States. One is former US vice president Al Gore who "has cha...

Wordlist for Allergies to Help Cross-border Travellers

...m nuts and shellfish to soya and gluten, that have been translated into 30 languages. The list, available on (http: www.food-info.net/allergy.htm), can be shown in restaurants when ordering a meal and to compare ingredients on food labels and packagings, say the compilers, from Wageningen University in ...

Skin Cancer can Be Triggered by P53 Mutation

... Mutations in the p53 tumor suppressor gene have been implicated in tumor formation: some give rise to a loss-of-function whereas the majority of mutations result in a gain-of-function. In the first of these two studies, Dennis Roop, Carlos Caulin, and colleagues from Baylor College of Medicine, set o...

Pre-packed Sandwiches Saltier Than Crisps

...and strokes a year. The health risks claims have been challenged by the Salt Manufacturers Association .They insist that a certain level of salt is needed for the body to function properly. Salt is also used as a preservative to preserve the food. Earlier this year the Food Standards Agency listed san...

Dinner Guest Recover Bodies in Freezer

...ed the man. It is believed that the bodies have been kept in the freezer for several weeks. Christin... a domestic quarrel had escalated and his wife had been stabbed, but she said he had not explained the circumstances of the child's death. Mr. Charron, 42, ...

NHSs Golden Handshake Shocks People

... for the chief executive's job. Mr. Town, who had been acting chief of the Cambridgeshire PCT, also faile...nd disappointed that such a large sum of money has been paid out to one individual. The Strategic Health Authority has some tough questions to answer. This ...

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

...TIs). An international consortium of doctors has been testing etravirine on NNRTI-resistant patients in ... Etravirine, made by a Belgian firm, Tibotec, has been closely followed by AIDS campaigners. Antiretroviral drugs, as drugs to combat HIV are known, can ...

EpiCept Accelerates Development of Phase I Clinical Study for Cancer

... lymphomas. The first two cohorts of patients have been completed according to schedule at Scottsdale Heal...cal in vitro and in vivo studies. The molecule has been shown to induce tumor cell apoptosis and selectively inhibit growth of proliferating cell lines, inc...

Scientists Discover Key to Manipulating Fat

...ators at Georgetown University Medical Center have been able to use non-toxic chemical injections to add and remove fat in targeted areas on the bodies of laboratory animals. They say the discovery, published online in Nature Medicine on July 1, could revolutionize human cosmetic surgery and treatment of...

US Baby Dies of Salmonella from Pet Turtle

... which had a 3.2-centimeter (1.25-inch) shell, had been given to the family in January by a friend who bought it at a flea market. The 1975 law bans the sale of turtles with a carapace fewer than 10 centimeters (four inches) long. "Small turtles have posed a particular danger to young children because...

Dozens More H5N1 Bird Flu Cases in Germany

...irmed to have had H5N1 bird flu. Cases have also been reported near Leipzig in the neighbouring eastern ... chicken farms. In Germany, the new outbreak has been restricted to swans, geese and other wild birds and has not affected poultry farms. Germany battle...

SKorean Online Dogmeat Retailer Closes Site Amid Uproar

... cuisine. The online shop (www.e-bosin.com) has been under fire from critics, including animal rights activists, since local media reports about it Tuesday. "We're too exhausted by the controversy to speak. We no longer run the website. We erased all photos," Jo Chang-Geun told AFP. He operated the...

New Asthma Gene Identified

...suggests. "In terms of an asthma gene, there have been quite a few reports but not one that can be clearly reproduced in samples," said Goncalo Abecasis, associate professor at the U-M School of Public Health. "I think eventually it will lead to new therapies because it points to a specific biological mo...

Protestors Strip, Don Horns Against Spain's Running of the Bulls

...r trampled by the running bulls and 14 people have been killed in the event since 1911. The bulls that run in the morning are used in bullfights the same evening. Thursday's protest was organised by the animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), which said people from more...

Curative Qualities of Tamil Nadus Kuttralam Waterfalls

...curative qualities by thousands of people who have been visiting Kuttralam regularly. The water that come... Annad, a tourist from Kanyakumari, said: "I have been coming to Kuttralam since four or five years. The season has started. We take bath here because the ...

When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!

... Forget the politics of it all, the CIA has indeed been resourceful, even if they came to grief every time... Juan Orta, identified as a Cuban official who had been receiving kickback payments from gambling interests, who still had access to Castro and was in a fin...

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