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New Therapies for Kidney Diseases

...ing up novel ways to treat the disease. Our mice show striking similarities with NPHP patients, says Mathias Treier, group leader at EMBL. Very early on in their lives their kidney cells start to die and the mice develop all the characteristic disease symptoms. It is the first time that a mouse model...

Alcohol Does Not Destroy Brain Cells

...cells. "Some of the best studies, done in Italy, show a bottle of wine a night can reduce the risk of dementia in old age," News.com.au quoted Professor Bartlett, as saying. Research also suggests we have an inbuilt repair kit, replenishing more than 100 billion cells in our brain every day of our liv...

Invisible Gases Form Most Organic Haze in Urban, Rural Areas: Study

...tudy by researchers Qi Zhang and Jose-Luis Jimenez show aerosols formed chemically in the air account for about two-thirds of the total organic haze in urban areas and more than 90 percent of organic haze in rural areas. Zhang and Jimenez compared concentrations of directly emitted, or primary, aerosols...

Now, 'virtual' Mouse Brains Available on the Net

... images available at http: www.civm.duhs.duke.edu/ show two different mouse brains-one from a normal anima...ene linked to mental abnormalities. These pictures show two colour-coded brain structures, the ventricles and hippocampus, showing different volumes resulti...

Plant Growth Regulated by Both Internal Clock and External Light: Study

...nd, found that the shoots of Arabidopsis seedlings show a spurt of growth once a day. They claimed that the timing of that growth spurt is controlled by both the plant's internal clock and its exposure to light, acting on two genes called PIF 4 and PIF 5. Julin Maloof, assistant professor of plant biolo...

Teens Seems to Be Smoking Less

...nt parts of the world. A study conducted in the US show that there is a steady decline from 1997. It reached record-low levels in 2002. The percentage of eighth-, 10th-, and 12th-graders who said they had ever smoked fell 4 to 5 percentage points. In Norway too, teenagers who smoke tobacco daily has decl...

Hormone Inhibitor in Prostate Cancer Treatment

...sentations at the ESMO Conference Lugano this week show that the drug, called abiraterone, reduced levels of prostate specific antigen, a marker of cancer activity, and shrank tumors in patients in whom hormone therapy had stopped working and also in patients who had previously been treated with chemothe...

Reduction in Drug Costs

... in a research article published in PLoS Medicine, show that the change in prescribing practices reduced drug costs per Norwegian by US$0.16 in the first year. Antihypertensive drugs are a major part of national drug expenditure in developed countries, where as many as one person in ten is treated for hy...

MEN as Partners to MEND Maternal Health A World Population Day Initiative

...is family well. The Men Problem . Statistics show that every sixty seconds an expectant mother breat...one hand we glorify our women, and on the other we show scant disregard for their health and well being. Respect for women, their health and status is clear...

HIV Prevention Programs on a Massive Scale Turn Out Economical

...rs, leading to billions of dollars in spending, we show that this additional funding could not only increase capacity but potentially also increase efficiency by lowering unit costs of prevention services. This means that more HIV infections may be averted, said the studys principal investigator, James G....

WBC Selective About Sugar

...een two nearly identical chemicals. These results show that engulfment and killing by neutrophils varies, depending on cell wall properties of the microbe, explains Whitehead postdoctoral researcher Ifat Rubin-Bejerano, first author on the paper, which appears July 11 in the journal Cell Host & Microbe. ...

Too Skinny Models Banned from Performing in Rome Fashion Show

Fifteen models were kicked out of a Rome fashion show late Tuesday for being too thin, sparking new debate on anorexia in the fashion industry . "I asked that girls with abnormal measurements shouldn't work ... (and) had to fire 15 who were under (French) size 36 (US size eight)," Raffaella Curiel tol...

Envisat Captured Breath of Volcano

...adar instruments aboard Envisat can simultaneously show the ash plume, the ash falling area, the lava streams and the volcanic cone shrinkage or expansion. Atmospheric sensors are used to identify the gases and aerosols released by the eruption, and quantify their wider environmental impact. Having acce...

Late Nights may Make Preteens Antisocial and Aggressive

...eadings taken in the morning and afternoon usually show a significant drop, and scientists associate small differences in the readings with clinical depression and antisocial behaviour. As a part of the study the researchers analysed the preference for morning or evening activities among a group of 111...

New Understanding on Growth of Human Stem Cells

...e McMaster Cancer and Stem Cell Research Institute show that human embryonic stem (ES) cells can actually ...ulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF-II), which they now show could be the protein to sustain hESCs. Researchers are interested in the relationship between stem ...

Protein Interaction is a Drug Target for Blood Clot Prevention

...eagues from the University of California San Diego show that the binding of the protein talin to alpha-IIb beta 3 is critical for integrin activation in mice, and that selective disruption of the talinalpha-IIb beta 3 interaction protects mice from pulmonary thromboembolism the formation of blood clots i...

Larger HIV Prevention Programs in India are Cheaper, Increase Efficiency

...rs, leading to billions of dollars in spending, we show that this additional funding could not only increase capacity but potentially also increase efficiency by lowering unit costs of prevention services. This means that more HIV infections may be averted," said the study's principal investigator, James ...

Eap1 in the Brain Regulates the Female Reproductive Cycle

...that EAP1 activated GnRH. The authors went on to show that inhibition of EPA1 expression in the rat hypothalamus delayed the onset of puberty and disrupted estrous in these animals. The data suggest that EPA1 is an important regulator acting within the brain and contributes to the control of female repr...

Wear Headgear While Playing Soccer

...ther injuries. At least for these injuries, it may show that wearing headgear does not encourage people to play more aggressively, stated Dr. Delaney. Unfortunately, adolescents who regularly wear headgear are not the rule and do not represent the majority of young athletes: most of them are young girls...

Research Reveals Anatomy of Suppressed Memories: Study

... in this study neuroscientists used brain scans to show that volunteers who have been asked to banish disturbing memories show very specific patterns of brain activity. The scans showed that two specific regions of the prefro...

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