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Japanese Firm Develops Glove That 'feels' 3D Images

...feel" them, according to NTT Comware, the software development unit of telecom giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. Without any need for awkward 3D glasses, users could feel a far-away object as if it were right in front of them, NTT said at a virtual reality exhibition. The developer was exploring commerci...

US to Detain Seafood Imports from China

...d about long term exposure as well as the possible development of antibiotic resistance." One of the banned agents, fluoroquinolones, is approved for use in China. The FDA said its use "may increase antibiotic resistance to this critically important class of antibiotics." Two other contaminants, the antimicr...

Mice can Produce Embryonic Stem Cells Similar to That of Humans

... concerns over embryo research, and help speed the development of treatments for incurable diseases. According to researchers, the findings will make it easier to use mice and other animals to study human diseases, and can lead to new treatments for conditions such as diabetes and cystic fibrosis in as little...

Adopting Healthy Lifestyle in Middle Age Lowers Heart Disease Risk

...States. This was intended to examine the basis and development of various atherosclerotic diseases. Follow up visits every three years through the end of 1998 included an interval medical history, weight, height, diet questionnaire, updated smoking history and current participation in sports and leisure exercise...

Cognitive Skills Focused Curriculum may Lessen Kids' Behavioural Problems

...o cope in stressful situations, are related to the development of the prefrontal areas of the brain starting in t...ovides children with coping strategies to stop the development of behavioural and emotional difficulties. This study entitled "Promoting Resilience in Children a...

UK to Support Third Phase of India's AIDS Control Programme

... The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) and development partners will jointly monitor the programme twice a year....

Hong Kong's Shopping Spree Surges On, and on

...will provide the retail portion of a sprawling new development that will also include the city's tallest building...nal pastime," said Betty Leong, MTR's chief retail development manager, who is confident there is room for another mall despite concern that traditional market sta...

Kalam Urges for Using Tele-radiology to Help Rural Poor

...ality healthcare to the people in remote areas and development of skills in the country. "It will also give a great boost to manufacture of indigenous DICOM compatible equipment. The availability of tele-radiology in hospitals enables easy data storage and retrieval of patients' history and use of this history...

Proteins Behind Mad Cow Disease may Protect Against Alzheimer's

... Sciences, are significant as they may lead to the development of new treatments for the disease. In the human...hat the prions may have a preventive effect on the development of Alzheimer's. The researchers are now planning to study whether ageing has an effect on the abi...

Alteon Initiates Phase 2 Trial of ALT-2074 in Diabetes and Haptoglobin 2-2

...tudy 201 is a key milestone in our program for the development of ALT-2074 as a treatment for diabetic patients w...l models and we are aggressively pursuing clinical development in this indication.' Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome, diseases linked to obesity and increased oxid...

Immune System Protein Could Be the Key Infertility

...iscovered a molecule that played a key role in the development of sperm. Sperm cells develop in the testes and undergo a series of changes until they are mature and viable. They begin life as round cells and as they mature they elongate and develop a tail. Defects at any stage of this process can prevent t...

Bayer and Onyx Submit Supplemental New Drug Application for Nexavar to Treat Liver Cancer

...standard of care in HCC, and will help advance our development program, which includes clinical trials studying Nexavar alone and in combination with other therapies across many different cancer types, including melanoma, non-small cell lung and breast cancer."...

First Bacterial Genome Transplantation Changing One Species to Another

...lications of synthetic genomics research including development of new energy sources and as means to produce pharmaceuticals, chemicals or textiles....

Benoits Son Suffered from Fragile X Syndrome, a Rare Mental Disability

...ge or prominent ears, hyperactivity, delayed motor development and/or poor sensory skills are among the wide range of symptoms associated with this disorder. Winthrope, whose son also suffers from the condition, told the Canadian radio News 1130 that her husband had tried to reach out to Benoit five years ago ...

RNA Play a Vital Role in Gene Activity

.... It also suggests they may be important in cancer development and stem cell maintenance. Overall, the work adds another brick to the growing wall of evidence suggesting that RNA is more than a mere genomic servant. RNA is best known for ferrying protein-coding instructions from DNA, once thought to be the mas...

Loss of Antenna Leads to Cancer in Insects

...g may have broad implications for studies of human development and disease. The authors are now investigating possible roles for HEF1 and Aurora A in PKD. They are intrigued by the fact that a study published last year showed that important gene, PKHD1, commonly mutated in PKD has also been found as a target o...

INVEGA Receives Marketing Authorization In EU For Treatment Of Schizophrenia

...ficacy and safety results of an extensive clinical development program that included: three six-week, placebo con...of a menstrual period; breasts producing milk; the development of breasts by males; and the inability to achieve an erection. There is no known connection between ...

Vaginal Lubricants can Reduce Cervical Cancer Risk

...ld be key in understanding the early events in the development of cervical cancer," Walker said. The study noted that intact cells in the genital tract lining were HPV resistant and would not bind to the virus. "The crucial step for infection seems to be the virus binding to the basement membrane that under...

Early Indicator of Kidney Disease May Also Predict Risk of Pre-Diabetes

...those with the highest levels ofcystatin C and the development of pre-diabetes, said Donahue. Theassociation didn...ange when factors that traditionally are relatedto development of diabetes such as weight, amount of blood glucose atbaseline, smoking history, high blood pressure...

INVEGA(TM) Gets Marketing Authority from EU to Treat Schizophrenia

...ficacy and safety results of an extensive clinical development program that included: three six-week, placebo controlled clinical studies involving more than 1,600 patients with acute schizophrenia in 23 countries,(i) a longer-term (up to 40 weeks) double blind, placebo controlled study in 207 randomized patient...

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