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Anti Cancer Drug from Blue Green Algae

...e a synthetic form of the compound in large enough quantities for clinical trials. Developing an efficient synthetic route to natural product compounds and their analogs is often an essential step in drug development. With drugs such as penicillin and tetracycline, it can easily be done, but cryptophycins pre...

Fast Food (Low-Cost Diet) for Obesity

...e Volumetrics diet encouraging people to eat large quantities of low-energy-dense foods rather than small portions of energy-dense foods. But Volumetrics and similar health-food diets miss an important element: the economic factor, which, for somebody on a tight budget, is not feasible. A British study titled...

A Novel Vaccine to Combat Bird Flu in the Pipeline

...upposedly easier to manufacture ensuring that vast quantities of the vaccine can be stocked up for prevention of global outbreaks of flu. Since the strains of influenza virus ,keep on changing frequently, it has been impossible to develop a single vaccine to suit every strain. The new universal vaccine use...

Mayo Researcher Discovers Target Site for Developing Mosquito Pesticides

...ito enzyme. Such pesticides could be used in small quantities to harm mosquitoes, but not mammals," Dr. Pang says. "We've developed a blueprint for a pesticide that could incapacitate malaria-carrying mosquitoes. We are currently making a prototype of the new pesticide." Most pesticides today work by cripplin...

Researcher Discovers Target Site for Developing Mosquito Pesticides

...ito enzyme. Such pesticides could be used in small quantities to harm mosquitoes, but not mammals,” Dr. Pang says. “We’ve developed a blueprint for a pesticide that could incapacitate malaria-carrying mosquitoes. We are currently making a prototype of the new pesticide.” Most pesticides today work by cripplin...

Scientists Devise a Novel Way to Organize Stem Cells

...used a robotic inkjet-style machine to shoot small quantities of different proteins in a typical pattern. Stem cells are positioned on the top of this pattern and allowed to grow, in a manner mimicking the pattern of the base. Subsequently, the team would be working on creating cartilage and fat cells. This t...

Uses for Botulinum Toxin — A Miracle Poison — Continue to Grw

...rves and muscles. Food poisoning occurs when large quantities are ingested, causing paralysis of the muscles that control breathing. About 30 years ago, doctors found that injecting small amounts could safely immobilize muscle movements for as long as several months. The Food and Drug Administration has appr...

Ban On Trans Fats Comes Into Effect From July 1

...go out and have the kind of food they want, in the quantities they want.” “We are just trying to make food safer,” he added. Restaurants have time until next July 1 to reduce usage of oils and margarine. Admissible fat level is a half-gram of trans fat per serving. Posting caloric content also takes effec...

NMNAT Protein Protects Against Nerve Cell Degeneration

...he said. When they exposed flies that made large quantities of NMNAT in the eye to bright sunlight for 30 days, they found that only 20 percent of the neurons died – not the 80 percent that would have been expected. "This protein can delay the neuronal degeneration process if it is present at a high level,"...

Holiday Baking Frenzy May Mask Eating Disorder in College Kids

...the presence of others. When alone, they eat large quantities of food at one sitting—such as whole bags of cookies, tubs of ice cream and bags of chips. Missing food may the only clue. ? Change in personality – 'Eating disorders change your personality completely,' Dr. Fassihi said. 'A normally outgoing perso...

Revolutionary Eye Cancer Treatment

...te and colon cancer are caused by abnormally large quantities of MDMX in the cells," Dyer explained. "So knocking out MDMX in those cancers might also dramatically reduce tumor size. And administering the drug directly to the site of the tumor could make the treatment especially effective while avoiding the tox...

HIV Takes Advantage of Rivalry among T cells

...nners – the T cells that the body produces in mass quantities to fight the disease – are the ones with the best overall record against the most recogniztable strains. Among the losers, however, there may be T cells that better control the other less recognizable, but still deadly, strains. "Once the immune sys...

Tooth Decay affects 3-in-4 Irish kids

...aying baby// teeth due to the consumption of large quantities of sugary foods. Dr Helen Whelton, director oral health services research centre in University College Cork, said, "Irish people eat more sugary sweets than almost all other European countries and fail to brush their teeth as often. " In spite ...

A Bad Swirl for the Good Old Whiff–Coffee

...ients in this study had actually consumed abnormal quantities of coffee or tea. Researchers said that the symptoms of caffeine abuse could show up as insomnia, palpitations, tremors, sweating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, chest pains, and neurologic symptoms. It was also observed that caffeine was consumed in ...

When Her Lot is maligned by HER-2, Staying Abreast is Imperative

... and repair. HER2 positive women portray excessive quantities of HER2 in the breast cells. Breast cancer is becoming one of the leading causes of death amongst women in the 35 to 55 age group. Armed with statistics, The International Agency for Research on Cancer has said that in 2001 nearly 79,000 women were...

First Major Study of Mammalian “Disorderly” Proteis

... that uses heat to isolate IUPs in large, purified quantities from extracts of a standard type of cultured mouse cells called NIH3T3 fibroblasts. The IUPs were resistant to the heat, unlike more structured proteins, which fell apart. Based on these studies, the investigators were able to classify all proteins i...

"New" Clear Advantages In Nuclear Medicine

... Nuclear medicine involves giving minute quantities of radioactive substances to patients to study molecular processes within the body for the purpose of diagnosis and treatment of any disease thereby detected. This is a field which over the years has grown and evolved diversely. Today every reput...

Amphetamine Abuse Worst In Asia

...ets for under eight cents and they're producing in quantities way beyond demand ... it means the drugs are moving and they're moving quite rapidly through the region." RAS...

Kerala to Appeal against Lifting of Ban on Colas

...sed Centre for Science and Environment showed high quantities of pesticides in 12 branded samples. In their petitions, the cola giants pointed out that their products were safe and no scientific studies had shown any harmful contents. Both Pepsi and Coke have bottling plants in Palakkad district. Source-IA...

Bird-Flu Vaccine to go for second round of testing on humans

... capacity of their production unit, to enable huge quantities of human bird-flu vaccine, after the envisaged two rounds of trials prove successful....

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