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Understanding the Mechanism Underlying Embryo Development

... provide information about these same processes in humans and other animals. The Developmental Biology of Drosophila Group from the IRB Barcelona, led by Marco Milan, studies the signals that guide wing development in Drosophila. The wings are generated from a set of cells grouped into different segments...

Scientists Identify "master Switch" for Brown Fat in Mice

... believes that turning up the equivalent switch in humans may be a new strategy for treating obesity. The researchers are now planning to rev up the control in mice and overfeed them to see if they are resistant to becoming obese. "Brown fat is present in mice and in human infants, where it keeps them ...

Researchers Develop First Mouse Model of Lung Transplantation

...l help explain why the success of the procedure in humans lags far behind other solid organ transplants. U... simulates the same immune response that occurs in humans following lung transplantation. Before Okazaki and his Washington University colleagues developed...

Mild Stress During Pregnancy may Worsen Offspring's Risk of Cerebral Palsy

...cal research agency, believed that it can apply to humans also. As a part of the study, the boffins adjusted the normal cycle of light and dark that the pregnant mice were accustomed to for half of the mice, subjecting them to a mild level of stress. They then exposed the brains of the developing foetu...

Human Pain-controlling Molecule's Structure Identified

...olecule called 'P2X receptor' that control pain in humans . The research might lead to the development of painkillers for recurring migraine and backache. The study was conducted by a team of researchers including Dr Chris Thompson, Professor Alan North and Dr Sam Fountain at The University of Mancheste...

Cancer Cures for Canines

...posium in London that studying tumours in dogs and humans could give us a better understanding of their shar...cers, skin cancers, and lymphomas is increasing in humans and dogs and there are significant similarities between certain types of human and canine cancer su...

Tumours in Dogs may Give Insight into Human Cancer Development

...he underlying genetic causes of cancer in dogs and humans and finding treatments that may be to the benefit ...ch to cancer research will be of mutual benefit to humans and companion animals. That is because cancer is cancer. It is a similar disease in animals and huma...

Key Mechanism to Emergence of Strep Bacteria

... white blood cells that play a front line role in humans immune defense by pathogenic microbes. The same genetic mutation that allows the strep bacteria to acquire plasminogen and activate it throughout the body also increases production of the bacteriophage-encoded enzyme that blocks neutrophil killing....

Walking Upright Saves Humans 75 Pc More Energy Compared to Apes

Though as to exactly when humans started walking on two legs is something yet to be...the first study to fully examine this theory among humans and adult chimpanzees, the team of scientists from Washington University in St. Louis, University of...

Researchers Find New Target for Anti-cancer Drugs

...cers driven by the ras oncogene could be tested in humans in the near future. A biotechnology company has already developed a monoclonal antibody specific to IL-6 which could be used to neutralize IL-6. A phase II trial is underway testing a monoclonal antibody against IL-6 for patients with multiple myel...

Human Trial for Universal Influenza Vaccine Underway

...t University is being tested for the first time on humans by the British-American biotech company Acambis . ...erium. At the moment, Phase I clinical trials on humans are underway - that is, the candidate vaccine is being administered to a small group of healthy peop...

PETA Hails McCartney for Boycotting Animal-testing Charities

... on medical progress. Animals are not furry little humans and 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 suffer...

Briton Set for Pacific Solo Odyssey to Highlight Warming

...people out of their complacency," said Savage. "We humans have a real inability to see past the immediate." She will be steering far south of the North Pacific Gyre, sometimes called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a 13 million square mile (34 million square kilometer) clockwise whirlpool of ocean trash....

Clinical Trials Registry Launched in India

...Any researcher who plans to conduct drug trials on humans is expected to declare the details of the exercise in the Registry that is jointly funded by the Department of Science and Technology, WHO and ICMR. The registry will require 20 items to be declared at the time of registration. These items meet the r...

Toxic Algae Pose New Health Scare in China

...lgae that destroy plant and fish life and threaten humans in the country's latest pollution scare, state media reported on Sunday . New satellite pictures of eastern China show the blue-green foul-smelling algae spreading in Taihu and Chaohu lakes, the Workers Daily newspaper said. The toxic algae scare i...

Alzheimer's-associated Enzyme Linked to Seizures

...nction is known to cause seizures in both mice and humans is altered in the brains of Alzheimer's patients as compared with non-demented individuals of similar age. "Our study suggests that the BACE inhibitors currently being developed to reduce amyloid-beta generation in Alzheimer's disease patients may ...

Smoking Hampers Healing of the Ligament

...then again after surgery to mimic the behaviour of humans who continue to smoke following an injury. Soft tissue healing that occurs following ligament injuries occurs in stages. There is an immediate pooling of blood near the injury, the sort of hemorrhaging that will cause swelling right away. This init...

River Blindness Becoming Drug Resistant

...ess is caused by a thin worm that's transmitted to humans by black flies. The worms can cause intense itching, elephantiasis of the genitals and blindness if they reach the eyes. Millions of persons are still infected with onchocerciasis (the cause of river blindness) in 30 countries in Africa. Eleven count...

Japanese Humanoid Happy to Work on in the Rain

...develop robots that can perform tasks only done by humans now," the statement said. "If a humanoid can substitute human functions, the entire social cost would be reduced," it said. Kawada Industries said the company hoped eventually to put the HRP-3 Promet Mk-II to commercial use. Project manager Takaka...

H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed at Czech Turkey Farm

...lower hygiene standards and the close proximity of humans and birds in Asia, where most deadly cases of bird flu have occurred. "People living in the area should not fear that it will spread," Vit added. Nonetheless, Czech health minister Tomas Julinek said that health workers at the turkey farm would "p...

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