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Drug - resistant microbes raise concerns

...concern." SIMON LAUDER: "So does this answer the mystery somewhat, as to where the resistance is coming from - in hospitals?" HATCH STOKES: "Well, not entirely. I think the problem of multi-drug resistance in hospitals is a relatively complex one, but it is certainly the case that the fact that humans, w...

Sound Separated into Sound Frequencies

It has long remained a mystery how even in loud environments - like a factory with rattling machines, or a party with music and a cacophony of people// talking - we can hear the voice of our conversational partner. This showed that the brain chooses what to hear. Neurophysiologi...

Skin Cells Make Use of Geographic Co-Ordinates to Reach Their Destination

...Library of Science-Genetics. Until now it's been a mystery as to how adult skin, which consists of basically the same components all over the body, knows to grow hair in some areas like the scalp, while manufacturing sweat glands, calluses and fingerprint whorls in others. In 1969, well-known developmenta...

Researchers Find 'Secret Weapon' Used by SARS Virus

In 2003, the highly contagious and often-deadly mystery disease now called SARS emerged explosively out of Southern China. It eventually killed an estimated 916 people// in Asia, Europe, and North and South America—nearly one in ten of those it infected. When scientists identified the virus that caused...

Cancer-Killing Compound From A Fungus

...er six years, however, rasfonin's secrets remain a mystery because researchers can't make enough of it to carry out tests. To bring about a new drug, organic chemists must produce a new chemical in enough quantity to test it under many different circumstances to tease out its modus operandi. Until now, no ...

Mystery of the dead crocodiles solved

...s believe that they might have finally cracked the mystery of the deaths of thousands of baby crocodiles in captivity in the Top End.// Eye and throat disease had killed the young farmed crocodiles at four of the Top End's five crocodile farms in recent past weeks. Veterinary pathologist Dr Ian Jerrett sa...

Solution to Bacterial Mystery Promises New Drugs

...phospholipid,” Rock said. “That discovery solved a mystery that has puzzled researchers for 25 years.” Scie...teria make phospholipid building blocks remained a mystery for over more than two decades. Now, however, the St. Jude team reports that the gram-positive patho...

Cholera In Nigeria Kills 80

... clear how the disease had spread. "It is still a mystery to us but we strongly suspect it could be from contaminated water. Because we asked the same questions and the response was that whenever it rained some people collect water from rooftops, water coming down an they believe, may be it is from there," ...

Nobel Prize for Gene ‘Silencing

...ined unanswered until Mello and Fire unraveled the mystery of RNA interference, now widely known as RNAi. Fire and Mello carried out their study on a nematode worm called, Caenorhabditis elegans . Injecting these worms with ‘sense’ mRNA or RNA strand that had complementary base pairs to the transcribing ...

Clues to the Mystery of Lou Gehrig's Disease

...ers have recently reported clues to unraveling the mystery of the disease best known for striking down New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig nearly 70 years ago//. According to Virginia Lee, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania a team of researchers has identified the misfolded protein that causes b...

Evolution of Plant Life Cycle

...to towering redwoods has always been an intriguing mystery to scientists. A research team led by University .... In the history of life on earth, one intriguing mystery is how plants made the transition from water to land and then went on to diversify into the array of...

Naturally Occurring Enzyme Can Break Down Key Part of Alzheimer's Plaques

...rovocative but as yet unproven theory about an old mystery of Alzheimer's disease: why plaques continue to increase in number over time but only grow to a certain size. "Even though everything we know about the fibrils suggests they should constantly grow, plaques reach a mature size and stop growing," Lee...

Brain stem Defects associated with SIDS

...These findings provide evidence that SIDS is not a mystery but a disorder that we can investigate with scientific methods, and some day, may be able to identify and treat." A spokeswoman for the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths said: "The findings in the new paper are important, taken with previou...

Mystery Killer Disease In Nepal Diagnosed As Cerebral Malaria

The mystery disease that has spread in some villages of Banke district in mid-western Nepal for the past two weeks was diagnosed as cerebral malaria, The Himalayan Times reported Thursday. // Talking to the daily, advisor to the Health Ministry Mahesh Maskey sa...

Cot Death Could Be Linked To Brain Defect

...These findings provide evidence that SIDS is not a mystery but a disorder that we can investigate with scientific methods, and some day may be able to identify and treat." Source-IANS...

Monkey Virus Identical to HIV Endemic in Gorillas

...llas became infected in the first place is still a mystery because gorillas are vegetarians and encounters with chimpanzees are thought to be rare. Knowing the origin of the HIV and its crossing of species is important in the understanding of what happens to the virus when it jumps species. Although there ...

Eye Surgeries Remain Cancelled Due To TASS Outbreak In Toronto

...d identified at TSH for the first time, is still a mystery and a national TASS network has been launched to track cases and to pinpoint possible causes. SR...

Zinc – A New Key Player In Brain Circuitr

...he new findings of a study shed light on a nagging mystery in neurobiology: why the connections among certain...erekplexia. The findings shed light on a nagging mystery in neurobiology: why the connections among certain types of neurons contain considerable pools of fr...

7 Workers Tested Positive For Polonium In London Hotel

... where Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB spy, whose mystery death was reported a few days after he lunched with two Russian businessmen — Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun on November 1. It is inferred that Polonium-210 contamination is the cause for his death. While speaking in a press conference, the Hea...

Clues to Allay Aging

...tists who are trying to do their best to unravel a mystery that has baffled many over the past centuries. MST...

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