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A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...unkin helped discover that a single brain protein, known as amyloid-beta 42 (AB42), appears to be the centr...o disruption of tau inside neurons. The concept is known as the amyloid cascade hypothesis and is now accepted by many Alzheimer’s researchers almost as a go...

White Blood Cell Booster May Help Cancer Patients Avoid Deadly Complications

...orer outcomes, she added. "Patients taking a drug known as granulocyte colony-stimulating factor early in ...uderer said. While white blood cell boosters were known to help patients receiving very intense doses of chemotherapy, this study showed that the drugs are ...

Infertility Breakthrough With First Birth from Lab-matured Egg

...n thawed, and not before. "Until now, it was not known whether oocytes (human eggs) collected from unstimulated ovaries, matured in vitro and then vitrified could survive thawing, be fertilised successfully and result in a viable pregnancy after embryo transfer," said Hananel Holzer, who led the team fro...

A Glass of Wine can Keep Tooth Decay and a Sore Throat at Bay

...he drink's antibacterial qualities, although well- known by the ancient Romans, have been little investigated," the Daily Mail quoted Professor Gabriella Gazzani, as saying. "Overall, our findings seem to indicate that wine can act as an effective anti-microbial agent against streptococci bacteria and up...

Scientists Identify Antibodies That Block Human and Animal SARS Viruses

...likely to neutralize all strains of the virus with known sequences. There are no other reports for such antibodies available," said lead researcher Dr. Dimiter S. Dimitrov. The discovery of two effective antibodies has the advantage that a newly emergent variation of the SARS coronavirus might be insensi...

Blood Protein may Hold Key to Why Healthy People Get Heart Attacks

... part of a larger community-based research program known as the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) and took their baseline blood samples and froze it for future analysis. After an average of eight years, 1,138 EPIC-Norfolk participants had been admitted to the hospital o...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...appy that China too has been roped in, despite its known reservation on the global warming issue. Kevin Wall, the executive producer of Live Earth, said, We're on Chinese TV with 800 million people, ' he told The Observer. 'People often think on a parochial basis, so it's vital to be there. We've got to ...

Acute Mountain Sickness may Lead to Pulmonary or Cerebral Edema

...ever, a fundamental mode of treatment, oxygen, was known to less than 10 percent of travellers. 47 percent of those surveyed suffered from AMS and nearly 25 percent of the participants did not know that AMS could be prevented. Additionally, 15 percent of those surveyed believed AMS to start above 4,000m,...

Adult Stem Cells Show Promise for Peripheral Vascular Disease

... disease of the lower extremities. Beike is best known for its research and treatments for ataxia, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury and MS which are often covered by China Stem Cell News, a leading stem cell news site. However, Beike also has broad experience in research and treating vascular diseases ...

Sea Snail Venom Paves Way for Potent New Painkiller

...nals in the body. It targets a particular subgroup known as N-type calcium channels , which play a role in some kinds of pain. Prialt is 1,000 times more potent than morphine but, unlike that drug, is not addictive. The treatment based on synthetic venom will not be administered orally, but directly in...

Translating Structure into Function

...nts, the team extracted an enzyme from a bacterium known as Thermotoga maritima, a microbe that normally lives at very high temperatures and pressures near volcanic ocean vents. Its structure was determined as a part of the structural genomics project, a large-scale, worldwide effort to determine the struc...

Napoleon Love Letter Seduces Bidders at Manuscript Auction

...comtesse de Beauharnais, before their marriage are known to exist, the auction house said in a statement. The collection of letters, which were written between the 13th and 20th centuries, was put together over 30 years by Albin Schram, a professor of law who died last year in Switzerland. He amassed the...

Five Killed by Methane Gas on Virginia Farm

...above rolling fields. The Showalter clan is well known in the community where neighbors do each other's laundry. On Tuesday, friends tended to the family's animals. "The cows have to be milked twice a day, even in an ordeal like this," said Frank Showalter, Scott's great uncle, standing a few feet from...

Mira Nair Takes AIDS Message to Indian Cinema Halls

...they needed to do," she said. Nair herself is well known and respected for her directorial ventures like "Salaam Bombay", "Monsoon Wedding" and the most recent, "The Namesake". She assembled impressive talent for the four films. "I chose the directors I most admire," she told USINFO. Director Vishal Bhar...

Skin Rashes Signifies Longer Survival in Cancer Patients

... makes some sense, Wacker said, because rashes are known to occur with use of gemcitabine chemotherapy. But, unlike the BR.21 study, these pancreatic cancer patients with rashes in the placebo group did not experience an increase in survival compared to placebo group patients without a rash. In the Tarce...

Swans Checked in France for Deadly Bird Flu Virus

...H5N1 strain,' the ministry said. Results will be known Thursday, and in the meantime measures have been taken to seal off the lake in the Moselle department where the birds were found. France's only outbreak of H5N1 was early last year. On June 24 France stepped up surveillance after several cases of...

UK Uneasy Over Involvement of Doctors in Terror Attacks, but Not Panicking Over Non European Medics

... and is also under arrest. Mr. Maher said he had known Dr. Abdullah when both men were students in Cambridge, two years ago and believed the man he knew then was the same person in the airport attack. There was no immediate corroboration of his association with Dr. Abdullah. But Mr. Maher described him...

Aguilera's Dad Confirms Her Pregnancy Rumours

...rk's Maternal Fetal Medicine Association, which is known for its state-of-the-art ultrasounds and expertise in high-risk pregnancies. The singer married marketing manager Bratman in November 2005 after dating for three years, and this will be the couple's first child....

Ambitious Gastric Cancer Research Project Proposed in Singapore

...ence of a bacterium called Helicobactor Pylori are known to be risk factors of gastric cancer. If gastric cancer is detected at early stage, it is a curable disease. This makes understanding the nature of gastric cancer, its prevention and early detection essential to reduce the risk of gastric cancer, t...

Dengue Surge in Singapore, Man Prosecuted for Breeding Mosquitoes

...to internal bleeding and sometimes death. Though known for making a fetish of cleanliness, these days Singapore, the island of nation of 4.5 million, is unable to escape the fury of dengue, generally associated with poorer tropical countries. The disease had killed 25 people and infected thousands in 2...

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