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Sunita Returns June 21 After 194-day Record Space Odyssey

...riments across a wide variety of fields, including human life sciences, physical sciences and Earth observa...ical insight into the effects of weightlessness on human bodies while others show ways to prevent effects already known about like muscle and bone loss. In...

Animal Research Uncovers Another Mechanism of Cholesterol Lowering Drug

... not only in the intestine, but is abundant in the human liver, said Ryan E. Temel, Ph.D., lead author. The scientists made the discovery about Zetias dual action by studying mice that were specially engineered to produce NPC1L1 in the liver. When there were high levels of the protein in the liver, which...

Some Common Human Injuries Also Common in Dogs

Like their human owners, dogs are at risk of suffering broken bones, torn ligaments, arthritis and congenital diseases. Fortunately for both pet owner and pet, there are veterinarians who can treat these ailments and get pets back on their feet. James Roush, an orth...

Rare Womens Lung Disease May Yield Insights Into Common Diseases

...the strongest biological sex predisposition of any human disease, except for diseases of the genital organs, and it is often fatal. Scientists estimate that there could be as many as 250,000 LAM patients worldwide. LAM affects young women, and can strike suddenly during pregnancy, Henske said. LAM causes...

Autism Case Hearing Still to Produce Clinching Evidence on Vaccine Linkage

...mal studies were nearly always reliable models for human effects. This is not a belief to which most toxicologists would subscribe. Also under cross-examination, Aposhian said that he was not an immunologist and that he had composed his theory of thimerosal-induced immunological damage "three or four wee...

Genetic Tests Could Help Decide the Right Anti-depressants

...e inserted into a mouse a defective variant of the human gene for brain-derived neurotrophic factor, a protein that is increased in the brain with SSRI treatment and is critical to the health of neurons. Then he subjected these humanized mice to stress and found that they did not respond to Prozac with dec...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine for the 12 Year Old

...ion and Immunisation want the vaccination against human papilloma virus (HPV) to be done for secondary school first year. And there is expected to be a "catch-up" programme for those of 13 to 16. The vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix have been developed to protect against strains of HPV that cause cervical...

Severe Human Bite Wounds are 12 Times More Common in Men

... 12 times more likely than women to sustain severe human bite injuries for which surgery may be necessary, ... reviewed the 92 patients requiring assessment for human bite wounds by the plastic surgery service at St Jamess Hospital Dublin, Ireland, between January 20...

Protein That may Prevent Eye Damage in Premature Babies Identified

...ther body tissues. But in studies of mice and of human cells in cultures, scientists from the Program in ...tic instrument after analyzing data from mouse and human studies. "This discovery has a big future in helping premature babies," said Alexander V. Ljubimov...

Two, Not One Networks Rule Brain's Voluntary Chain-of-command

...cent research, examining the upper echelons of the human brain's chain-of-command, has found that there are not one but two corresponding commanders in charge of the brain . Neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that these two commanders are networks of brain regi...

Boffins Link Atkins Diet With Bowel Cancer

...d in this study are the largest ever reported in a human dietary trial," Flint said. Flint also said that a similar study on women is likely to show the same results....

Research in the Origin of Microtubules

...agged the growing ("plus") ends of microtubules in human retinal epithelial cells with a fluorescent molecule, videotaped their growth and carefully followed the tracks back to their origin. "We show that not only the centrosome, but the Golgi also makes microtubules," Kaverina said. "And unlike centroso...

Girls Could Be Vaccinated Against Cervical Cancer in Britain

...commended the use of vaccines to guard against the human papilloma virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection which causes most cases of cervical cancer. The Department of Health said it had agreed "in principle" to accept the body's advice, but would wait for an independent review of the costs to the...

Smoking Hampers Healing of the Ligament

...ovides a good paradigm for what happens in injured human knees. "This is a good model for knee ligament injury, but it could be a model for ligament injuries anywhere in the body. It's likely the biology is transferable to other knee ligaments, elbow ligaments, shoulder ligaments, you name it," says co-i...

Scientists Trace New Pathway That may Stem Antibiotic Resistance

...ween polymerase enzyme in bacteria RNA and that in human RNA , a significant development that may lead to i...ion about the similarities and differences between human RNA polymerase and bacteria RNA polymerase will help them get a more detailed picture of the structu...

Scientists Identify Broad Neural Response Behind Speech Reception

...ntral to perceiving the highly complex dynamics of human speech, for previous studies had explored the responses of individual neurons to speech sounds, but not the response of the auditory cortex as a whole. During the course of study, the researchers asked volunteers to listen to spoken sentences such a...

Bush Again Vetoes Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill

...cell research, saying it violates the sanctity of human life. Risking new criticism from the scientific co...nst using federal funds for any research involving human embryo destruction. It is only the third time in six years as president that he has wielded his ve...

Buckyball Has the Ability to Fight Against Allergy: Research

... buckyballs are able to block allergic response in human cell culture experiments. Buckyballs, or fullerenes, are nanoparticles containing 60 carbon atoms. Owing to their exclusive structure, unresponsiveness and steadiness, researchers from a number of scientific fields have been investigating the tiny,...

Vietnam Plans Human Trial of Bird Flu Vaccine

Vietnam plans to start its first human trial of a locally-made H5N1 bird flu vaccine as e...st month. "Preparations for the clinical test of a human vaccine have been basically completed," said Nguyen Tran Hien, director of the National Institute of...

Researchers Have Found the Role of Protein in Accelerating Breast Cancer Progression

... progression but that by itself PTN secretion from human breast cancer cells may be sufficient to shift that progression to a more aggressive form of breast cancer," he said. As a part of the study, three animal models were tested to determine if inappropriate expression of PTN alone was sufficient to ind...

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