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New Bird Flu Cases Suspected In South Korea

...ort comes as the farm being investigated lies on a migration path, the ministry said, where migratory birds typically pass through the Korean peninsula, heading south for the winter from places like Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Around 400,000 poultry at South Korean farms were reported for bird flu cases...

Frozen Yet Potent Viruses Found

... A virus deposited as the birds begin their autumn migration could be preserved in lake ice and released as the ice melted. This in turn could be picked up again by migrating birds and spread along their paths of flight. SRM...

Researchers Discover Internal Compass of Immune Cells

...nterfere with the amplification system impair cell migration to inflamed tissues. “These findings are very important because they suggest that novel classes of anti-inflammatory drugs could be developed to prevent rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases, asthma, and many other chronic inflammatory...

Social Vaccine Is New Mantra To Fight AIDS

...nerable to HIV/AIDS due to poverty and large-scale migration from the state" he said. The UN official said the message has to be simple: "Maintain a responsible sexual behaviour, be faithful to your sexual partner and use condom during sexual encounter". "If the people know how to protect themselves, we wi...

Cellular Cues Identified for Stroke Recovery

...ular cues are for this process of regeneration and migration to take place. Now, in the Journal of Neuroscience, currently online, S. Thomas Carmichael, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, and colleagues report that in the mouse model, th...

Stem Cells as Cancer Therapy

...hers took advantage of the tumor-tropic (selective migration towards cance r cells) properties of neural stem cells engineered to express an enzyme that activates an anti-cancer drug. It is much too early to know whether this study in mice will lead to any kind of valuable treatment for humans with cancer. ...

Migration is the Cause for Fresh Polio Cases in the Capital: Sheila Dikshit

...o but the occurrence of fresh cases, mostly due to migration of polio affected children from neighbouring states, has posed a new challenge," Dikshit said. Delhi reported six cases of polio in 2006 as against one in 2005. The chief minister Saturday launched a fresh polio immunisation drive after administeri...

Number of TB Cases Continuing Challenge for Thai Government

...andards. The HIV/AIDS epidemic, increased rates of migration because of economic growth and an influx of migrant workers are factors fueling the spread of TB, according to the Nation. Daranee Viryakijja, a TB expert, said 15% of new TB cases occurred among HIV-positive people. Somchai also said many people ...

Tuberculosis : Growing Number of TB Cases Continuing Challenge for Thai Government

...dards. The HIV/AIDS epidemic, increased rates of migration because of economic growth and an influx of migrant workers are factors fueling the spread of TB, according to the Nation. Daranee Viryakijja, a TB expert, said 15% of new TB cases occurred among HIV-positive people. Somchai also said many people wit...

Estrogen Linked to Immune Surveillance in Breast Cancer

Estrogen is known to enhance the growth and migration of breast cancer cells. Now researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found that estrogen// also can shield breast cancer cells from immune cells. In a study published online this week in Oncogene, the researchers report th...

U.S. Issues Guidelines in Case of Flu Pandemic

...demic,” said Dr. Martin Cetron, director of global migration and quarantine for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in releasing the guidelines. “It’s not easy. The only thing that’s harder is facing the consequences. That will be intolerable.” In an innovation, the new guidelines are modeled on ...

The Longest Living Ulcer Bug With Humans

...e. It has remained //in the same place despite the migration of early humans from Africa to other parts of the ...an understanding about ulcers and also about human migration and diversification. H.pylori is the only microbe known to thrive well in the acidic environment o...

New Microchip for Protein Sorting

...ses proteins of different sizes to follow distinct migration trajectories, leading to efficient continuous-flow separation. The current sieve has an array of nanofluidic filters of about 55 nanometers, or billionths of a meter, wide. "The proteins to be sorted are forced to take two orthogonal paths. Each pa...

Rhythms of Life

...hms refer to long-term cycles, which include the migration of animals and birds. Ultradian Rhythms are the short cycles, like the 90-minute REM cycle. Tidal rhythm is a twelve hour cycle that influences marine life, and which fluctuates between the rising and the ebbing tide. Circadian rhythm...

New Cost-cutting Cancer Drug Delivery System

...y, and will also reduce side effects by preventing migration of the drug to normal tissues. The research team at the company carried out animal tests to establish the efficacy of the polymeric carrier, using a chemotherapy drug in a single cancer model. The findings from the trials were very promising, with...

New Imaging Technique Tracks Traffic Patterns of White Blood Cells

...e of Nature Methods, the new research displays the migration and inner workings of white blood cells in the small veins and bone marrow of mice. “Intravital micropscopy (IVM) has contributed enormously to the recent mechanistic advances in leukocyte trafficking,” wrote Mount Sinai School of Medicine research...

UCI Scientists Reconstruct Migration of Avian Flu Virus

...ince of Guangdong, and they identified many of the migration routes through which the strains spread regionally... analysis is the first to systematically track the migration of H5N1 through its evolutionary history, adding new details that identify the relative importance o...

Delhi Kids to Be Immunized Against Polio

...states, which contribute substantially to the huge migration into the capital,' she said, adding the floating population was a headache for her government. Calling for a success of Pulse Polio Programme, she said: 'Delhi is regarded a role model and it would continue to strive hard to completely eliminate po...

Stigma, Lack of Education, Prevent the Spread of HIV in Afghanistan

...st-growing HIV/AIDS epidemics worldwide -- and the migration of its residents are fueling the spread of HIV. The country, which produces the largest amounts of opium and heroin in the world, has about one million injection drug users, according to United Nations estimates. In addition, about 30% of blood used ...

Tooth Decay Bacteria Evolved Along With Man

...ch, extending from Asia back to Europe, traces the migration of a small group of Asians who founded at least one group of modern-day Caucasians." Additional branches, tracing the coevolution of humans and bacteria from Asia into North and South America, will be drawn in the next phase of Caufield’s analysis....

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