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Scent of a Rose may Give More Than Pleasure

... Olfactory sensing pathways in the brain lead more directly to the hippocampus than visual and auditory ones. That may be why smells can be linked so closely to memory, and may revive forgotten joys, humiliations and other remembrances of things past. According to Born, who published these findings in the j...

Drugs to Tackle Anemia may Be Playing Dracula

...lion dollars last year. The drugs are advertised directly to consumers, even though they are extremely expensive and given only by injection. Recent studies suggest that the drugs, which are commonly prescribed to cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, may actually make tumors grow faster and increase th...

Scientists Identify 120 New Cancer Genes

...e is to try to assess whether these mutations were directly involved in "driving" cancer development, or whether they were harmless "passenger" mutations, which accumulate in the body with age, according to the researchers. They hope the study of the cancer genes will lead to the design and development of n...

Healing Bone With Stem Cells

...s their growth and survival. The cells can then be directly implanted into the patient. "The field is just beginning," says Lee. "It will be exciting to see how much ability this gives us to change materials, and how they react with the body." Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Major Gene Study Uncovers Secrets of Leukemia

...tified in “PAX5,” “EBF” and “Ikaros” are likely to directly contribute to this block in normal lymphocyte differentiation, according to Downing. These genes encode proteins called transcription factors, which orchestrate the expression of a large number of other genes involved in B cell development. Together ...

Weed Killer Plays a Pivotal Role in Those With Genetic Vulnerability to Parkinson’

...quired to make dopamine, as well as those involved directly in dopamine synthesis. It was found that some flies, which had a mutated gene that resulted in the production of very little dopamine, were more susceptible to the effects of paraquat, while those with mutated genes that resulted in the production ...

J591- an Antibody Exclusively Targets Tumors

...advanced tumors with established blood vessels. By directly targeting tumor blood vessels, however, J591 treat...he tumor -- for example, combining therapies aimed directly at the malignant cells, along with therapies to both directly kill the tumor's blood supply as well ...

Outpatient Treatment Kills Benign Bone Tumors Nonsurgically With Heat

...ion of the lesion and deliver a targeted treatment directly to the site, destroying the tumor inside the bone ...n radiofrequency ablation (RFA), heat is delivered directly into the tumor via a probe that is inserted through the skin using CT, MR and/or ultrasound imaging ...

Steroid Use Fails to Boost Pregnancy Rates in Infertility Treatments

...lization practice where a single sperm is injected directly into a harvested egg. The meta-analysis pooled data from 13 studies including 1,759 couples. Every study was a randomized controlled trial, which is considered the most reliable form of scientific evidence. The review found no overall improvemen...

Pregnant Smokers Raise Their Child's Risk of Stroke, Heart Attack

...ounds in tobacco smoke go through the placenta and directly damage the cardiovascular system of the fetus," Uiterwaal said. "The damage appears to be permanent and stays with the children." When study participants were born, about 30 percent of the mothers smoked during pregnancy. But the current rate has ...

Antidepressants Improve Post-Stroke Mental Abilities

...pressants may foster recovery of neural tissue not directly destroyed by the stroke, yet because the process is slow, it takes months. "Drugs such as antibiotics start working right away to kill germs. However, antidepressants may be reorganizing brain structure and re-establishing neuronal connections that...

Typhoid Outbreak Linked to Samoa

...n another family," Dr Nesdale said. "They're not directly known to each other but the most likely source of infection was that they had all eaten some food that came from Samoa with a returning traveller." She said the cases were not linked to the cases in Clendon, South Auckland, last month. "We've looke...

Industry-funded Breast Cancer Trials More Likely to Yield Positive Results

...f research funding, clinical questions that aren’t directly related to drug development may be neglected, Peppercorn said. Such questions include the optimal duration for giving a medication or whether certain groups of patients benefit from a medication more than others, he said. Source-Nwswise SRM...

No Scientific Evidence to Support Drug Safety Recommendations

...ort recommends a two-year ban on advertising drugs directly to consumers because it may lead to increased exposure to unsafe drugs, but it would also mean that fewer consumers would benefit from these medications. Also, it is not clear if restricting this advertising would limit consumption since it represe...

Kids Living Near Parks Less Likely to Be Overweight

.... One of the researchers says it's difficult to directly link green space and children's weight. He says socioeconomic factors also play a part in children's activity levels. Source-IANS...

Spring is Time for Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Awareness

...ve vision. At the current time, these are injected directly into the eye. Two drugs have already been approved by the FDA, Macugen and Lucentis, and the makers of several others are looking to gain FDA approval. ? Conventional laser therapy and photodynamic therapy are also treatments for wet AMD and have b...

C-Reactive Protein Induces Hypertension

...culating CRP, which is produced by the liver, were directly manipulated by altering the mice's diets, and the effect on blood pressure was determined. In this manner the actions of CRP were segregated from the actions of other mediators of inflammation. "We found that when we switched on the gene that cause...

Primitive Yeast Yields Secrets Of Human Cholesterol And Drug Metabolism

...s essential for cell survival. To show that Dap1 directly works with P450s and not through some other biochemical steps, Espenshade’s team tested the ability of human Dap1 protein to bind to four of the 57 known human P450 enzymes, essentially challenging Dap1 to bind to P450s that perform totally different...

Treat Childhood Trauma by Building on Parental Memories of Loving Care

... This can occur even when the child himself is not directly harmed. Other speakers at the AAAS session discussed the effects of fears generated by news coverage of danger and by children’s experience of large-scale catastrophes. Trauma is an everyday experience, hardship is the everyday norm, and danger...

Convict Felled by Legionnaires

...iscovery comes six months after a similar incident directly opposite the facility. A province-wide alert was sparked in August after a luxury hotel in Donegal closed its spa pool due to high levels of legionella bacteria. Guests at the Carlton Redcastle Hotel were ordered out of the pool after test results...

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