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Gays and Lesbians can Obtain asylum in US on Grounds of Harassment and Abuse

...ect him. "Pride parades are fine, but life is very different if you grow up poor in a favela," Pilcher said. Fear of AIDS is another frequent factor in public and private harassment of homosexuals abroad. A doctor from Venezuela, who treated people with HIV and AIDS there and championed their cause within hi...

First Genetically Engineered Maize Resistant to Maize Streak Virus Produced in S. Africa

...ce to the virus requires multiple genes located on different chromosomes, thus ruling out a straightforward process. The group at the University of Cape Town mutated a viral gene that encodes a protein that the virus needs to replicate itself and inserted it into maize plants. When the virus infects one of ...

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

... diversity of floral structures that may represent different strategies for pollen dispersal, even in the same ...n patterns for a large number of genes across many different families of flowering plants. Starting with Linnaeus, plants and animals were formally classified ...

Genetic Marker That Increases Colon Cancer Risk Discovered

...netic cause for this joint susceptibility to three different cancers has not yet been discovered, but several groups are working to close in on the mechanism that might cause these cancers," Gruber said. The findings of the study were published in the July issue of Cancer Biology and Therapy....

Delay in Cancer Diagnosis for Children

...rent clinical presentations in younger children or different screening practices depending on age. Third, lower parental education status was also associated with longer delays, suggesting either socioeconomic or health care access barriers. Fourth, non-specific clinical presentations depending on the cancer...

Indonesia Confirms 81st Bird Flu Death

...than 13,000 poultry markets, where birds from many different places are exposed to each other. Scientists worry the bird flu virus could mutate into a form easily spread among humans, leading to a global pandemic with the potential to kill millions. The fear stems from past influenza pandemics. A flu pande...

Experts Need to Include Children in Research

...of children differs from that of adults: they have different metabolisms; their organs are not as mature as adults; and diseases can behave differently in childrens bodies. To create the best therapies for children we need to include them in our research, said Professor Warner. A lot of paediatricians work d...

Eyeglass Guide Launched That Aids in Choosing the Right Eyewear

...yeglassguide not only educates consumers about the different lens and frame options available, but also encourages dialogue among customers and their eyecare professionals to identify eyewear that fits their lifestyle, prescription, and eye and medical history," said Dr. Craig Tisch, O.D., Penn Optical Group. ...

Spicy Cuisine Originated in Mexico 1,500 Years Ago

...ins from two caves in the region, which yielded 10 different cultivars of chilli pepper. "This analysis demo...he period circa A.D. 500-1500. Perry distinguished different cultivars among the abundantly preserved chilli peppers, a type of analysis that had not been comple...

Gene Therapy Eradicates Pancreatic Cancer in Mice

...lly forces cancer cells to kill themselves, in two different types of mice. Boffins created the more lethal mutant and named it BikDD. Untreated control mice in both experiments all died within 40 days, while mice treated with the mutant gene delivered via a less-targeted viral promoter driven expression sys...

Completely Neutral Evolutionary Changes Helped Shape Our Genome

...mparing the sequences of human numts with those in different animals. How closely the different species' sequences match can provide an estimate of when that particular sequence got inserted into ...

Parkinson's Targets Two Distinct Brain Networks, Finds Study

...rkinson's and signed them on to get brain scans at different points all through the study. Some were on medicines and some were not. The first networks to be identified were the basal ganglia, thalamus and brain stem that regulate movement. The scans they used measured glucose metabolism - the brain's fuel - a...

Now, 'virtual' Mouse Brains Available on the Net

...vailable at http: www.civm.duhs.duke.edu/ show two different mouse brains-one from a normal animal and the othe...tructures, the ventricles and hippocampus, showing different volumes resulting from specific genetic differences. National Center for Research Resources is fun...

Teens Seems to Be Smoking Less

...ot just seen among the teens in Canada but also in different parts of the world. A study conducted in the US show that there is a steady decline from 1997. It reached record-low levels in 2002. The percentage of eighth-, 10th-, and 12th-graders who said they had ever smoked fell 4 to 5 percentage points. In N...

Roches Arthritis Drug Successful in III Stage Trail

...zumab), a humanized monoclonal antibody works by a different mechanism than today's rheumatoid arthritis treatments. Actema is the first biologic to inhibit the interleukin-6, or Il-6, receptor. IL-6 is considered an important mediator of the acute inflammatory response. Sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis, or ...

Advancement in Gene Associated With Colon Cancer

...netic cause for this joint susceptibility to three different cancers has not yet been discovered, but several groups are working to close in on the mechanism that might cause these cancers. Gruber is an associate professor of internal medicine and of human genetics in the U-M Medical School, and of epidemiol...

Reduction in Drug Costs

...one person in ten is treated for hypertension. The different classes of antihypertensive are all effective but their costs vary widely. Thiazides, for example, are a tenth of the price of many non-thiazide drugs. In Norway, as in many other developed countries, guidelines were introduced to encourage doctors...

Study Confirms No HRT Benefit for Older Women

...ractures and overall deaths were not significantly different in these two groups. This study confirms an early increase in thromboembolic and cardiovascular risk in older women starting hormone replacement therapy many years after the menopause, say the authors. It shows that there is no overall disease p...

Fat Tax Could Avoid Considerable Amount of Heart Attack and Stroke Deaths Annually

...nge of complementary foodstuffs. They used three different approaches. They first applied the tax to dairy products containing high levels of saturated fats, such as whole butter and cheese, baked goods, puddings. In the second approach, they applied the tax to foods attracting an SSCg3d score of more t...

Contamination of the Environment by Antibiotics Fed to Livestock

...pecially vegetables that are consumed raw, and how different plants absorb different antibiotic compounds. Research is ongoing at the University of Minnesota to further investigate the ...

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