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Cytokine IL6 as a New Chemotherapeutic Target for Ras-driven Cancers

...an integral step in the development of a number of human cancers, particularly pancreatic and lung cancer. Unfortunately, though, attempts to target Ras for inhibition in a clinical setting have proved unsuccessful. "We knew Ras was really important for cancer, but time after time it defied attempts to ...

Prostitutes Fume as Norway Bids to Criminalise Sex Purchases

...ex, but not the sale. Procuring, or "pimping", and human trafficking are already illegal. The bill, expec...re taking part in an international crime involving human beings who are trafficked for sex," Norwegian Justice Minister Knut Storberget told AFP. "Criminal...

Key Mechanism to Emergence of Strep Bacteria

...ating bacteria that has evolved to produce serious human infections worldwide. The incidence of serious s... and Pharmacy. The consequences of this event on human health are still being felt three decades later.The research, reported in the July 15 advance online...

Walking Upright Saves Humans 75 Pc More Energy Compared to Apes

...s of bipedal walking in chimpanzees, revealed that human walking was around 75 percent less costly, in terms of energy and caloric expenditure than bipedal walking and quadrupedal knucklewalking in chimpanzees. The energy savings could have provided early hominids with an evolutionary advantage over oth...

Spacesuits of the Future Will Be as Flexible as Spidermans

...ally must design for greater mobility and enhanced human and robotic capability," she said. Newman further said the BioSuit could also help astronauts stay fit during the six-month journey to Mars. Studies have shown that astronauts lose up to 40 percent of their muscle strength in space. But, the new ...

Character Test for Australian Visa Subjective

...ibunal had cleared Tekriti of criminal activity or human rights abuses that would have prohibited him from being granted a visa. Such is the fickleness of the authorities or the utter subjectivity of the character test invoked in denying Haneef freedom, it is pointed out. The government is indeed deman...

Researchers Find New Target for Anti-cancer Drugs

...st one-third of all cancers. In experiments with human cells and animal models, the researchers studied t...to drugs, and if these findings are proven true in human trials, we could have a new way of treating ras-dependent cancers, Counter added. The researchers ...

Scorpion Venom may Help Treat Cancer

...ribbean. The majority of scorpions are harmless to human beings although the sting is extremely painful and...millimetre in diameter. They are now preparing for human clinical trials. The researchers said the technique could be used in operating theatres in the US in...

Dangers Lurking in the Garden in Britain

...ch year causes more than 350,000 reported cases of human contact dermatitis in Britain. This year, an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air has contributed to an abundant crop with a more powerful toxin. The extremely itchy plant not only causes blisters but also the exposure to th...

Nigerian Health Authority Crackdown On Sub-Standard Health Institutions

...unlawful disposal of gauzes, needles, syringes and human parts removed during surgeries, warning that perpetrators would henceforth be prosecuted. The commissioner stressed that the "government is ready to raise the standard of health facilities in the state and stop the operation of fake personnel or su...

Human Membranes Crystal Structure may Help Tailor Asthma Drugs

... have managed to reveal the crystal structure of a human membrane protein, LTC4 synthase, which has a major...e way for the determination of structures of other human membrane proteins....

High Court Upholds Ban on Teenager's 'purity Ring'

...ool in Horsham, West Sussex, denies infringing her human rights, saying that the ring is not an integral part of the Christian faith and violates its uniform policy. "As a Christian I do not agree with sex before marriage," Playfoot said, adding that she was "very disappointed by the decision ... not to ...

Wrestler Chris Benoits Son was Sedated - Says Investigators

...BI said it could not perform tests for steroids or human growth hormones on the son because of a lack of urine. Benoit's wife, Nancy, tested positive for Xanax, hydrocodone and the painkiller hydromorphone, but the decomposition process hindered the ability to determine the precise levels of the drugs at ...

Study Finds Abdominal Fat Not the Prime Cause for Metabolic Syndrome

...dy in both insulin resistant and insulin sensitive human subjects which included young, lean, non-smoking, healthy people who were sedentary and matched for physical activity. The volunteers had no confounding factors typically associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes, which have been thought to play ...

Human Trial for Universal Influenza Vaccine Underway

...ion against all A strains of the virus that causes human influenza, including pandemic strains. In the 1...the so-called M2 protein, remains unchanged in all human flu viruses known, including the strains that caused the pandemics in the last century. On the ba...

Gardasil Could Be Effective, but Aggressive Marketing Raises Ethical Concerns

...the increasingly permissive ways of the West , the human papilloma virus is a looming danger and one has to go all out to fight cervical cancer. But the multi-million marketing by the multi-national drug manufacturer has made experts uneasy. To give the impression that it could completely eliminate ce...

HIV Drug Combo can Boost Immune Marker in Long-term Patients: Study

...e for HIV Medicine looked at 1,835 people with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) before and after they were put on antiretrovirals. On average, these individuals had a CD4 count of 204 cells per microlitre of blood at the start of the study. In the first year of taking antiretrovirals, there was a...

PETA Hails McCartney for Boycotting Animal-testing Charities

...d their bodies cannot reliably predict results for human conditions," Alistair Currie, Senior Research and Campaigns Co-ordinator of PETA, said. "Thankfully, there are plenty of charities that go for the triple win: they don't cause animal suffering; they do support modern non-animal research that increa...

Male Circumcision can Cut HIV Infection, Studies Show

...sions during intercourse, making it easier for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to enter the man's bloodstream. Another is that the foreskin is rich in Langerhans cells, whose surface is configured in such a way that the AIDS virus readily latches on to them....

Asia Must Overcome HIV Stigma, Say Research Chiefs

...But people are still very much concerned about the human rights issues and how people with HIV are treated in Chinese society." China estimated last year that it had 650,000 HIV cases, although UN officials estimate the actual number is now higher. A recent paper in British medical journal The Lancet p...

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