Cancer gene mystery to be cracked!
...e next challenge for scientists was to unravel the mystery of each human gene and find out what each gene was doing. This would help in working out which of them are playing important roles in cancer and other diseases....Scientists crack dengue fever puzzle
Experts may have solved the mystery of why dengue fever, unlike other infections, is usually more severe the second time around. Dengue is a debilitating, sometimes fatal illness endemic to much of the tropics. Caused by a virus, it is characterized by high fever, bone and muscle pain ...Women who conceive after a year have a higher chance of giving birth prematurely
The reasons for premature birth are a mystery in nearly half of the cases, Some pre-term births are caused by maternal or fetal stress,// infections, high blood pressure, bleeding or stretching of the uterus. But in the rest, the reason is unknown , experts say fertility troubles could explain p...Women who conceive after a year have a higher chance of giving birth prematurely
The reasons for premature birth are a mystery in nearly half of the cases, Some pre-term births are caused by maternal or fetal stress, infections, high blood pressure, //bleeding or stretching of the uterus. But in the rest, the reason is unknown , experts say fertility troubles could explain p...China says patient may have SARS
...through a region that was severely affected by the mystery virus last year. The WHO, which is working closely with Chinese authorities, said it could not confirm the finding, as details of the Guangdong tests had not been shared with the WHO. Earlier this week, Guangdong health bureau spokesman Feng Shaomi...Scientists Unveil Mechanism Behind Resistance to Severe Malaria
...d red blood cells accumulate in the brain. But the mystery is how does hemoglobin C confers this protection to the person. To solve the mystery, Dr. Wellems and his colleagues studied laboratory-infected red blood cells and blood drawn from children with malaria from the African nation of Mali and studied ...Weighty problem: Protein is the solution?
...h beach diet? Hey! hang on! What follows is not a mystery novella written on the south beach but a write up on a new concept to weight loss, which proclaims to be a way of life. Created by Dr. Arthur Agatston, a cardiologist, to work with the body safely and effectively. It started as a fad diet like many o...Secret Of Heart Failure Revealed
... Researchers in a breakthrough have unraveled the mystery surrounding heart failure. They found that in the early stages of heart failure, the heart uses too much fatty acid and not enough carbohydrate; and then, later, it doesn't use enough fat, reports UPI. Gary Lopaschuk, a pharmacologist and professor ...The mystery of what causes the fatal autoimmune disease Systemic Lupus Erythematosis has been solved by the identification of a possible genetic link. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine (UCSD) uncovered the possible geneti...Malignant virus in polio vaccine combined to Cancer
... the market in 1963, leading to the still-unsolved mystery of how the virus is being transmitted. Friday's reports indicate that SV40 may be involved in a much broader group of human cancers, playing a possible role in nearly half of the 50,000 new cases of non- Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosed annually. The canc...Brain defect may play role in stammering
...versity Medical Center in Durham, N.C., agreed the mystery behind stuttering has not been completely solved, though these findings provide important clues. According to him, speech is a really complicated sequence of motor movements that requires coordination between different brain areas....Biotech drug causing anemia-EPREX
...-chaired the session, said that the answer to this mystery lies in the way Eprex is formulated and not in the...an Jerome Rossert, one of the first to report this mystery says, its link to method of injection is puzzling, since the number of PRCA cases in France is 33 wh...New Gene Silencing Mechanism To Prevent Cancer
...ecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad has unraveled the mystery behind gene silencing, paving the way for detecting the mechanisms that prevent cancer in human beings//. Two scientists - Manika Pal Bhadra and Utpal Bhadra have been instrumental behind this novel finding to fight a disease, which has remained a g...Cholesterol Mystery Solved By Nobel Laureates
A 72 year old mystery about cholesterol synthesis which has been bugging...seph Goldstein and Michael Brown finally solve the mystery of the Shoenheimer effect. The authors show that Insig (insulin-induced gene) proteins are essential...Stem cells Can Generate Organs In Labs
...h today. The scientists who are able to solve this mystery will instantly revolutionise medical treatment. The current research is one step towards this path. Emmanuel Baetge of CyThera Inc., in San Diego, and colleagues report their findings in the December issue of Nature Biotechnology. They report to h...Researchers discover mechanism behind protein folding
...ing. The new theory on protein folding unfolds the mystery of // how a protein is incorrectly folded which leads to diseases and the study is to be published in the Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers used a technique called Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)......rtions performed early in pregnancy. The biggest mystery relating to the tragedy is the incidence of all four cases in a single state while the FDA confirms the uniform frequency of drug usage throughout California. The CDC is hoping to raise awareness about the potential risks with the new report. In vi...