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New Study Questions Cannibalism As A Worldwide Selective Force

...mmon polymorphism in the PRNP gene were relatively resistant to the disease. Over time, homozygotes who participated in the cannibalistic rituals purportedly decreased in number due to their increased susceptibility to kuru. This indicated that cannibalism conferred an effect of balancing selection on the PRNP...

Sunflowers Could Hold the Key to New Class of AIDS Drugs

...It was found that some varieties of sunflower were resistant to a disease called "white stem rot' that destroys...that confers protection on the sunflowers that are resistant to this fungal disease. The substance was dicaffeoyl quinic acid, or DCQA. "Dicaffeoyl quinic acid c...

Tobacco plant based Vaccine against Plague

...s been an increased threat of genetically modified resistant strains of Yersinia pestis produced as a bioweapon to cause bio terrorism. Scientists are not sure whether these antibiotics would work effectively against this mutated bacterium which has led to an increase need to produce vaccine against plague inf...

TMC 114 and 125 experimental drugs to be tested on four HIV patients

Four HIV patients who have found resistant to most of the HIV drugs in the city of Vancouver ... effective in a study in which patients were found resistant to nevirapine. TMC 114 is a HIV protease inhibitor, which is found to be an analogue to TMC 126 and ...

Methyl-DNA binding Proteins To Fight Cancer

...o-zero' mice were then used which were found to be resistant to cancer. The same resistance to cancer was acquired by the mice whose DNA methylation had been suppressed by other methods. The Kaiso protein can be potentially used for early detection of cancer, as its content in a majority of tumors is much hi...

Malaria May Gain Resistance To Single Drug Prescriptions

..., on its own would result in the parasite becoming resistant to the drug, and will have disastrous consequences for malaria treatment. Kochi added that the WHO feared that using artemisinin as a single drug would lead to it going the same way as other anti-malarial drugs such as chloroquine, sulphadoxine-py...

Older Malarial Drugs Vs New Ones

...g Artemisinin is very effective against multi-drug resistant strains of the falciparum type of malaria. Artemisinin are not widely available in some of the African countries due to the low production, high cost, dosing complexity and the lack of clinical experience with artemisinin-based combinations. Dr....

Sodium Nitrate Destroys The Bacteria That Plugs The Air Passage In CF Patients

...sed as one of the way to destroy bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and white blood cells. White blood cells are unable to destroy the bacteria because they're enmeshed in the thick mucous and the White blood cells end up destroying the lungs and airway tissue. The biofilms blocks the entire airway p...

Breakthrough In Tasmanian Devil Disease

...ory of diseases like this is that some animals are resistant to a disease - I mean it doesn't matter what infectious disease it is usually," he said. "It is an animal resistance [which is the] same that applies to people and so what often happens is the [extent to which the] animal population goes down to vari...

Resistant Influenza strains creates panic in US

...20 influenza a virus samples that were tested were resistant to these two drugs. Presently a total of 209 influenza isolates (including the original 120) from 26 states across the United States were collected and analyzed. Overall resistance was found to be 92 %. The researchers were very surprised at the ...

Detecting Epidemics using statistics

...ection algorithms thereby looking for outbreaks of resistant pathogens that may be regional or national in scope. The researchers have three areas to concentrate such as model specification, which gives the number of people using the health care services. Model building, which includes models that have the ...

Indian Scientists Identify New Way Of Combating TB

...y will contribute towards combating the multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. Iron is essential for the mycobacterium to survive and for its enzymatic action, according to Gokhale. It takes the iron from the host cell and to get it the mycobacterium develops siderophores, molecules synthesized by it for its ow...

New 'PPUD Syndrome' Prevalent Among Indian Doctors In Britain

...); keep checking the mail again and again; and are resistant to any counselling from others. Hallucinations: Visual and auditory hallucinations of a job that exists nowhere and interview calls that never comes. Omniphagia: Patients eat just about anything they can get and can be seen cooking strange recipe...

Treatment Resistant Tumors Can Be Targeted Better Using Botox

...ure of the tumor opened, destroying the previously resistant cancer cells. The study is the first of its kind t...Botox as an adjuvant in the effective treatment of resistant tumors. In addition, pre-treatment with Botox delayed further growth of the tumor and promoted ap...

Killing Power Of Bleach Enhanced By Addition Of Vinegar

...disinfection solution against surfaces with dried, resistant bacterial spores, at varying levels of pH. The alkaline solution killed 2.5% of spores after 20 minutes of application while the acidic version was found to achieve a 100% success with respect to destruction of spore forms. The researchers recommen...

New Drug Promises Hope In Multiple Drug Resistant And Latent TB Treatment

...has offered hope in the treatment of multiple drug resistant and latent infections as well. The mechanism of ac...on of the patient to prevent the emergence of drug resistant strains in the population. In worst cases, it may be even required to perform surgical resection of ...

Parental Supervision Reduces Likelihood of Teenagers Having Sex in the Afternoon

...x and its untoward health consequences have proven resistant to simple interventions, including those focused only on sexual abstinence." It was also found that teen behaviour was influenced by the general mood of the partner, parental supervision and the amount of sexual activity in the previous week....

Australia’s Antibiotic Favouritism Needs To Be Plugge

...aph, infections, and in most cases caused by drug resistant strains. Since Australia does not have proper resources to probe into this problem, this figure is bit of a guess work. According to him, this is a case of bad habits dying hard. This practice of indiscriminate antibiotic use, has been in practice f...

African American Children More Pone to Develop Diabetes

...lysis, that African American kids are more insulin resistant than their counterparts was established. Although none of the study participants were diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, a significant difference in the insulin level was observed, that could be attributed to different ethnicity. Static levels of beta...

Infections Of The Oral Cavity Can Be Treated By Photodynamic Therapy

Anti-biotic resistant bacterial and fungal infections of the oral cavity can be effectively treated by using photodynamic therapy (PDT)//, argue researchers from the University at Buffalo's School of Dental Medicine. Photodynamic therapy is commonly employed in cancer t...

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