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Australian State Approves Therapeutic Cloning

...ng holy communion to lawmakers who did not toe the line but stopped short of threatening to excommunicate them. The archbishop was roundly condemned both within and outside parliament for what lawmakers described as unacceptable interference in politics....

Cars in UK to Be Fitted With Black Boxes to Reduce Fatalities

...e day to see if they are parked on a double yellow line or driving somewhere at four in the morning, he said. There is also fear that the technology could be developed to track vehicles or pave the way for "pay-as-you-drive" congestion charging. According to the Daily Mail, the British government is ...

Cord Blood Transplant Benefits Blood Cancer Patients

...is that cord blood need not be considered a second line therapy any longer. The fact that cord blood is banked and readily available with little notice is a great advantage. Today, leukemia patients can wait months for an appropriately matched bone marrow donor, during which time their disease might retur...

Cord Blood Yields Better Results Than Bone Marrow Transplant for Cancer Patients

...is that cord blood need not be considered a second line therapy any longer. The fact that cord blood is banked and readily available with little notice is a great advantage. Today, leukemia patients can wait months for an appropriately matched bone marrow donor, during which time their disease might retur...

Why We Feel a Sense of Dj Vu

...ine-tuned. In this study, the researchers used a line of genetically altered mice to pin down how the dentate gyrus contributes to the kind of pattern separation involved in identifying new and old spaces. While the mice behaved normally in most situations, they became confused when required to distingu...

WHO Cautions Against Spread of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis.

...g resistant.This means they are resistant to first line and a number of secondline drugs,'' according to a recent interview of Dr Mario CRaviglione, director of WHO's tuberculosis department. This has prompted WHO to undertake statistical modelling studies toestimate how prevalent the drug-resistant tub...

Scientists Spotted Out Tumor Vessel by Molecular Markers

... expression patterns in the endothelial cells that line blood vessels derived from normal resting tissues, regenerating tissues, and tumors. A comparison of the normal vessels revealed several organ-specific endothelial genes that could potentially aid in the delivery of molecular medicine to specific ana...

Photodynamic Therapy can Scramble the Immune System to Fight Cancer Spread

...These early results were obtained using a specific line of cancer cells and using one particular type of PDT. A lot more research is required before we will know the full potential of PDT. This type of lab work is interesting, however, because it raises the prospect of a future treatment that could be a...

A Boon to Hearing Impaired-Gene Transfer

...said. Hair cells have hair-like projections that line the cochlea. In people with normal hearing, hair cells convert sound into electrical signals, which are ultimately transmitted to the brain. People with hearing loss suffer from too few, damaged or missing hair cells. Holts past research uncovered...

Men and Women Change Attitudes to Sex When in an Intimate Relationship

...e said. Men in our sample appear to walk a fine line between wanting the risky sex that society says they should have and paying the price for having had it, he said. Not surprisingly, women were more likely to believe that being sexually active had negative social consequences, Perrin said. Women...

Equality Among Genders in Terms of Sex Dreams

..., the men almost never had to put their ego on the line and come on to a woman. In about 90 per cent of the erotic dreams they logged and reported to investigators, the women made the first move....

Radical Gastric Bypass Surgery Heightens the Effects of Alcohol

...nts have to be aware of," Morton said. "The bottom line is alcohol use after gastric bypass should be used with caution, and certainly patients shouldn't have even a single drink and drive."...

Doctor Advises Caution Over Flu Drug

...s, vaccination still offers a cost effective first line of defence....

HIV Drugs Unaffordable for Common Man: Kalam

...l Kalam today said the available first and second line treatment of the deadly disease is still out of re...job in bringing down the price of first and second line HIV drugs, Kalam said: "Even this reduction does not make the drug affordable to the common man in o...

The Only Time When Older Men Like to Be Pushed Around By a Woman

...m the Prostate Cancer Foundation said,"It's an old line that men look after their cars more than they look after themselves, but this data has shown that actually this is true. Men just are not looking after themselves the way they should be. Really, if it wasn't for these women these men would probably n...

70-year-old, Three Sons Seek Mercy Death

...ey have not been included in the below the poverty line list and have not been able to get a house under the Indira Awas Yojana," said Mayinuddin Khan, a neighbour. Despite repeated requests, neither government officials nor local political leaders have done anything for Hakimuddin's family. Finally the...

Anti-osteoporosis Drugs Could Result in Irregular Heart Rhythm, New Study

...Fosamax, worried some researchers because it is in line with the results of a new study published in the same issue of the medical journal. This study of 7,736 postmenopausal women with bone-thinning osteoporosis focuses on Reclast. Novartis recently won approval to sell Reclast, known generically as zo...

West Wants Developing Countries to Cut Down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

...ountries is reduced and eventually capped to be in line with our 2 degree objective," he told reporters. In its first report this year, the UN scientific panel asserted that global warming is being caused largely by the accumulation of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. The ...

Drinks and Breast Cancer – How It Happen

...mice, or those lacking an immune system. Without a line of defense, the mice’s bodies would let the foreign cells grow and scientists could run experiments. “In regular mice, if you implant a human tumor, it won’t grow because it’s foreign [so the immune system would stage an attack],” says study team m...

A Realistic Arm on the Anvil for Injured Soldiers

...then be provided for military personal hurt in the line of duty. As of the end of February 2007, 897 service men and women have had amputations since the start of the Iraq War in 2003. Of those amputations, 612 were a complete limb, hand or foot, and 285 were fingers and/or toes only, according to Cynth...

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