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Drug - resistant microbes raise concerns

.... Simon Lauder reports, that the ability of the mutated microorganisms to resist antibiotics is an ever-growing universal problem. The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the bugs that cause infections may have built up the antibiotics resistance within the past decades. New research shows mo...

Rare Nerve Disease Causing Gene Identified

...ning about the discovery of the PLA2G6 gene, whose mutated forms trigger several genetic disorders categorize...pholipase A2. They explained that when the gene is mutated it alters the processes inside a cell that leads to the build up of iron, which incidentally is also...

The Deadly Evolution of SIV to HIV

...searchers said that the virus appears to have been mutated which resulted in the loss of an immune system proactive mechanism in apes and monkeys. The study results were published in the journal Cell. It was found that the Nef function which conferred immunity in monkeys infected with SIV from causing the...

Gene Mutation May Influence Age at Onset of Parkinson's Disease

...tion develops; even individuals who carry just one mutated //copy may be more susceptible to Parkinson's dise...rly-onset (before age 50) Parkinson's disease have mutated parkin genes. Mei Sun, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Bo...

Genetic Link to Adrenal Tumor Revealed

...rms of the enzyme. The form of the enzyme that was mutated in the patients who took part in the study was found in large amounts in normal adrenal glands and in even larger amounts in normal prostate glands, Dr. Stratakis added. Other forms of PDE11A are found in several other tissues, including the testes, ...

Transport of Proteins Unravels the Mystery behind Neurodegenerative Diseases

...is co-workers were able to show that polyQ-AR, the mutated protein in SBMA, caused inhibition of fast axon transport by activating an enzyme called JNK that can inhibit these transport proteins. Brady said this is the first proposed mechanism for polyQ diseases that explains why only nerve cells die and why ...

Brid Flu Threat May be a Cause of Concern for Years to Come: Experts

...hile there is no indication yet that the virus has mutated in a way as to spark human-to-human infections, experts said. Source: IANS News...

Fao Declares Humans Spread Avian Influenza Virus

...sed by viruses leads to Avian flu. Since it can be mutated it can even infect and deaths in poultry and humans. FAO’s chief veterinary officer, Joseph Domenech, reported that more studies has to be done regarding bird flu in future years, but now to control its rapid spread, FAO needs $308 million (P16.3 ...

Japan Lifts Ban on Poultry from Philippines

...oned that there was no evidence that the virus has mutated to allow it to pass easily among people. Philippines exported 5,000-6,000 tonnes of poultry to Japan....

Ban On Philippine Poultry To Japan To Be Lifted Shortly

... there is no known evidence yet that the virus has mutated to allow it to pass easily between people. They announced earlier this week that the limited human-to-human transmission of bird flu might have occurred in an Indonesian family, raising fears of a possible pandemic....

Bird Flu: WHO probing possibility of human-to-human infection

..., the agency also reassured that the virus has not mutated to a more deadly form. To date, WHO said, the investigation has found no evidence of spread within the general community and no proof that efficient human-to-human transmission has occurred. Despite highly cautious statement by the agency, the larg...

WHO Officials Investigating Eight Suspected Bird Flu Cases

... and officials are examining whether the virus has mutated into a form easily transmissible between humans. Experts fear that if this happens there could be millions of casualties worldwide....

Mice Aids in Shedding Light on Origin of Autism

... Pten in these mice.This gene has been known to be mutated in some autistic people. It was found that these genetically engineered mice displayed several social traits consistent with autism in humans. Mice are normally social animals. However these mutant mice showed little or no interest in new mice int...

Molecular Basis Of ALS Found

...ing neurologists and biochemists worked on how the mutated form of superoxide dismutase (SOD1) protein render...le to formation of intermolecular aggregates. This mutated protein is associated with a familial form of ALS. The findings, which have implications for new t...

New Screening Techniques to Lead Advances In Pain Therapy

...ein, whose individual amino acid residue has been, mutated it has to be passed through the ion channel protein// and examine the effect that these mutations have on the channel's function. But it is a very laborious process. Hence the new high-throughput screening methodology has come to our rescue which ha...

Controversial Theory Says DNA Can Be Pushed To "Dark States"

...un, given that the genetic carriers were so easily mutated or destroyed during this very brief but very vulnerable time. "When the bases of DNA were first being formed billions of years ago, the atmosphere was actually quite hostile," Kong said. "It was a period prior to any protective ozone layer on Earth a...

Ibuprofen and Vitamins C and E Could Halt Alzheimer's

...ears to be of maximum benefit in people who have a mutated gene for apolipoprotein, APOE-4, which is a high-risk condition predisposing them to Alzheimer's disease. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore monitored nearly 5000 elderly residents of Cache County in Utah for about 8 years a...

Gene Therapy Helps To Cure 'Incurable' Illness

...ration of a person's genome to repair or replace a mutated gene. After years research, the technique has finally seems to have proven its potential with a handful of successful operations. The treatment of two men with chronic granulomatous disorder (CGD) is the latest success. The men suffered repeated life...

Britain Prepares For Mass Burials To Encounter Future Bird Flu Deaths

... because no drugs can cure the disease caused by a mutated form of bird flu virus, reports foodconsumer.org. A pandemic like the Black Death that swept through Britain in the 17th Century could kill people quickly, justifying that mass burials similar to the plague pits are to be enforced should a human fo...

Hungary Develops New Bird Flu Vaccine

...at the vaccine is likely to be ineffective against mutated version of the avian influenza virus. So far, no case of human-human bird flu transmission has been reported so far. However, it is feared that the virus may acquire this ability, sparking bird flu pandemic. A high demand for the much-awaited vacci...

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