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Tiny Sphere Of Nanoparticles Can Fight Cancer

...estion has been how to get it into tumours.' Short pieces of RNA don't make it to a tumour without being injected directly, and injection methods used in the lab are not practical for clinical use. The research team took siRNA that targets a protein that helps ovarian cancer cells survive and spread and r...

Education Helps Understanding Importance of HIV protection and prevention

...cted a detailed analysis after studying nearly 600 pieces of research on girls’ education, sexual behavior and HIV, which revealed that educated girls and women felt a lot more empowered to take decisions on sex that will prevent then from getting into a mess. Report author, Tania Boler said: "Young wome...

Is There a Connection between Hearing loss and High-speed Dental Tools?

...t long-term exposure to sound from high-speed hand pieces contributed to their high-frequency hearing loss a...h the research being divided about high-speed hand pieces playing a role in hearing loss, prompted our study. We hope the study is a good first step toward sc...

New Studies On Zebrafish Could Aid in Treating Birth Defects

...amount of copper available and disabling different pieces of the molecular mechanisms that cells use to handle this potentially toxic material. The consequences were quite dramatic because copper-containing enzymes play a number of critical roles in the life of the cell. They are involved in the process by ...

XVI International AIDS Conference To Be Held In Toronto In August

...om around the world would be presenting some 4,500 pieces of research and there is an as-yet-unknown number of late-breaking papers that could probably include everything from the latest efforts in producing an effective vaccine to the results of the clinical trials of microbicide gels (for use by women to ...

Depression - a Puzzle of Many Pieces

...ing major depression is only one of many potential pieces in the puzzle according to a newly published UCLA study.// Published in the August 2006 edition of the American Journal of Psychiatry, the study used electroencephalogram (EEG) measurements to demonstrate an association between eventual clinical ...

Scientist Move A Step Closer To Treating Genetic Obesity

...vides more detail and it starts to put some of the pieces of the puzzle together. It's an important part of getting to the next step." UF researchers spent three years collecting data from cells, studying how mutated receptor cells reacted to the molecules that normally stimulate the body to eat or stop e...

Metallic and Glass Objects Retreived from Women's Stomach

...s bangles, one silver coin, iron screws, nails and pieces of magnets were taken out. "Owing to these met...ady was undergoing a severe pain. It is really the pieces of magnet, which saved her life. Had she not swallowed the magnets, most of these objects would have...

Missing Your Daily Vegetables Takes out Years of Your Life

...d that the minimum recommended daily intake is two pieces of fruit and five serves of vegetables at least. ...revealed that 51 per cent ate at least two or more pieces a day....

Susceptibility Of TB In Humans Might Be Due To Three Human Gene Variants

...variations of SP110 emerged from an analysis of 20 pieces of genetic material called SNPs that were culled from an original set of 27 SNPs taken from samples provided by 219 families in The Gambia. Two of the variations and their association with tuberculosis were further replicated in samples from 99 famil...

Scientists Discover Non-dietary Therapy For Celiac Diseases

...eam therapy, EP-B2 first cleaved gluten into small pieces under gastric conditions that were then easier for PEP to fully detoxify under duodenal conditions. "Our results suggest that recombinant EP-B2 should be effective as supportive therapy to help celiacs cope with the 'hidden' gluten in everyday life, ...

Bioinformatics Made a Boon In Immune Response Study - LIAI Finds

...stem to attack a virus-infected cell. Epitopes are pieces of a virus that the body's immune system focuses o...itiate an immune response. Peptides are amino acid pieces that potentially can be recognized by the immune system. ‘There are literally thousands of peptides,...

Tooth Deccay is Still The Most Common Human Disease

...strokes. These are but a few of the thousands of pieces of information which will be presented when the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) holds its 84th General Session & Exhibition, June 28-July 1, 2006, at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre (BCC) in Brisbane, Australia. It wi...

Insight Into The Risky Health Decisions On Bird Flu

...angle, then that may help us see all the different pieces of information that are relevant. If we do that, we may end up making a different choice, but even if we don't, we can be confident that we have made an informed choice.’ The study also highlights another human tendency that arises when we're in t...

Ban On Philippine Poultry To Japan To Be Lifted Shortly

...at least 1.6 million kilograms of yakitori chicken pieces before the ban was imposed in July 2005. The Philippines has remained free of the bird flu virus, which has killed 124 people in 10 countries since it re-emerged in Asia in 2003. The WHO cautioned that there is no known evidence yet that the virus ...

Shares Of AVI BioPharma Drops On Reports Of Disappointing Early Drug Trail

.... Antisense drugs, like AVI-4065, are artificial pieces of genetic material that are meant to prevent genes from expressing disease-causing proteins. Sadly the technology has not yet achieved great success despite high earlier hopes....

Save Budhia - The Indian Wonder Kid

...e, the ligament can tear of, drawing with it small pieces of bone. These injuries are very painful and do not show up on X-rays. Budhia ran the 65 km in the summer heat. Although he started in the morning he finished around midday when the Cuttack temperature was soaring above 105 degrees. Concerns about ...

Lactic acid a potent energy giver if used properly!

...e Physiology Laboratory add one of the last puzzle pieces to the lactate story and also link for the first time two metabolic cycles - oxygen-based aerobic metabolism and oxygen-free anaerobic metabolism - previously thought distinct. "This is a fundamental change in how people think about metabolism," ex...

Shock Wave Therapy Increase The Risk Of Diabetes

... an impassable kidney stone into smaller, sandlike pieces which can be passed spontaneously, usually within a month. The patient and the lithotriptor that emits the shock waves are placed in a water bath. Water allows easier conduction of the shock waves through the patient’s tissue and precise focus on the...

Bridging People’s lives, Post Upheava

...in-center aimed at people, who need to pick up the pieces of their life, after its fallen apart. // Founded in 1994, the centre is aided by the Norfolk social services and administered by mental health charity Rethink. The centre will be launching an initiative in Norwich that will strive to remove the stig...

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