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Researchers Develop Resin Beads That Capture Mad Cow Disease Agent From Blood

... The researchers found that while leukoreduction itself removed a good deal of the bad proteins – approximately 72 percent – none of the nearly 100 hamsters inoculated with the leukoreduced, resin-filtered blood were infected with scrapie by the end of the 550-day test. Fifteen of 99 hamsters receiving le...

Circumcision Does Not Prevent Spread of HIV, Experts Warn

...terparts. The scientists found that the cut in itself was causing many new AIDS cases among adolescents as it was performed in unhygienic situations with un-sterilized and often, shared instruments. The researchers based their findings on data analyzed from the 'Demographic and Health Surveys', which ...

Scientists Produce Neurons from Human Skin

...ch they then proceeded to cultivate in vitro. Skin itself does not contain neurons, which are hosted in the spinal cord, but contains only their extensions, called "axons." The researchers’ challenge was thus to produce neurons from undifferentiated cells rather than multiply neurons from nerve cells. Tes...

Drug Companies May Be Penalize For Overcharging NHS Tax Payers Money on Branded Drugs

...en more acute// |as it tries desperately to repair itself from collapsing. A recent report by the Office of Fair Trading, has expressed that the NHS may actually be paying Drug companies millions of pounds more then they should, for branded drugs. A conclusive study carried out by the watchdog from 19...

Computer Tool Helps Pinpoint Risky Gene Mutations

...he researchers cautioned that the computer tool by itself cannot yet predict future cancer cases. But they believe it can be a fast and useful supplement to traditional biochemical tests, which are far more time-consuming, costly and labor-intensive, and do not always yield conclusive results. “When peopl...

Exercise Benefits Breast Cancer Patients

... by the women may have been caused by the exercise itself or by the group experience, or a combination of both. They conclude that clinicians should encourage activity during cancer treatment for patients, and policy makers should consider including opportunities for exercise in cancer rehabilitation ser...

Researchers Warn Against the Use Of Garlic To Treat Childhood Ailments

...ldren. However, it was unknown how much the garlic itself contributed to the pain relief. There were no significant improvements when using garlic to treat cardiovascular disease in youngsters, and more study is needed to explore the plant's effects on blood pressure and lipid concentrations in children a...

Influenza Virus also Protects Against H5N1

... in the annual influenza shot can act as a vaccine itself and trigger some cross protection against H5N1 in mice; and that some human volunteers already had antibodies directed against the same part of this virus. The finding also suggests that the annual influenza vaccine might be especially beneficial t...

New Mechanism for Nutrient Uptake Discovered

... molecule, binds with it, and changes the shape of itself and its neighbor thereby activating all the pores in the complex," continued Loqué. "The pores can't function without this physical stimulation." "The rapid chain-reaction among the different pores allows the system to shut down extremely fast and ...

Carbon Nanoneedles For Drug Delivery

...terial are occurring almost daily, and the product itself is therefore likely to become more refined over time. Although difficult to assess the cost of a potential drug delivery product resulting from the technique, Kostarelos noted that there is so many possible applications for carbon nanotubes that they...

Rett Syndrome Reversed in Genetic Mouse Model

...ed from progressing, but the course of the disease itself may be able to be reversed," stated Fred Gage, Ph.D. of the Salk Institute of Biological Studies. "Dr. Bird's astonishing results usher in a new era for Rett Syndrome and other autism spectrum disorders. The reversal experiments provide justificat...

Early Treatment May Thwart Mad Cow-Type Disease

...." They note, however, that normal prion depletion itself had no effect on behavior and cognition in uninfected animals in the current study. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

The Other Side of Transsexuals

...ing a boy. I am an aravani. "During adolescence itself I realised I am different. I stopped going to school and went to work in a hospital, which fired me for dressing like a woman. I began working as a commercial sex worker near the Salem railway station, earning about Rs.300 a day, half of which I had ...

HIV Spread May Be Arrested By A New Compound

...e future. As the HIV virus can modify and defend itself against treatments, finding a cure for this deadly disease is becoming difficult. 2-5AN6B is said to refurbish the natural anti viral defense system of the body against HIV virus. All along, the drugs intended for HIV infection targets the virus re...

Indian Scientists Develop Dipstick Test for Dengue

... effective vaccine against it. While the disease itself is rarely fatal, a complication known as dengue haemorrhagic fever kills 20 per cent of victims if they do not receive treatment. Dengue has recently undergone a dramatic expansion in several parts of Southeast Asia (see A killer arises: the global...

Pure Gold can Cause Allergy

... he adds. "No one ever thought to test pure gold itself because it has always been assumed that gold is th...kel. In fact the allergy is not caused by nickel itself but by the nickel salts which are formed under the effect of perspiration in contact with the piece ...

Disabling Key Protein may Give Physicians Time to Treat Pneumonic Plague

...a is introduced, the versatile pathogen can modify itself to infect the lungs (pneumonic plague), the lymph glands (bubonic plague), or the bloodstream and organs (septicemic plague). Bubonic plague was spread by bites from infected fleas; pneumonic plague can spread through droplets of moisture expelled by...

How Ion Channels are Organized to Control Nerve Cell Communication?

...mple, in the control of seizures. The G protein itself is activated by another protein, a receptor, which gets its cue to carry out its task from chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters. But neurotransmitters are general messengers – they can inhibit as well as excite, and the receptors can respon...

Reactivated Genes Cause Tumors to Shrink (or) Disappear

...ge is irreparable, p53 induces the cell to destroy itself by undergoing apoptosis, or programmed cell death. When p53 is turned off by mutation or deletion, cells are much more likely to become cancerous, because they will divide uncontrollably even when DNA is damaged. In this study, the researchers us...

Hormone Therapy: An Alternative To Estrogen For Menopause

...s first made about 40 years ago, when progesterone itself was not available in an oral form – said Dr.Jerilynn Prior, professor of endocrinology and medicine at the University of B.C. and Vancouver Hospital. Previous studies released in 2002 indicated that HRT with estrogen and progestin increased women's...

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