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Targeting the Adrenal Gland Could Be Key Against Heart Failure

...r G protein-coupled receptor kinase 2, essentially turning them off. Using gene therapy to block adrenal gland GRK2 in animals in heart failure, the scientists were able to get the alpha 2 receptors working again and also found that the beta adrenergic receptors on the heart worked better as well. “We’ve s...

Women Will Be Paid to Donate Eggs for Science

...come to Britain to sell their eggs. That's clearly turning eggs into an object of trade and that's disturbing. Once the principle of egg donation for research is established, it will become harder to prohibit paid egg donation.' Some leading scientists have welcomed the HFEA's expected decision. Professor ...

Call for Rotavirus Vaccine Funding

...ian children in hospital each year, with many more turning up at hospital emergency wards and at doctors' surgeries with symptoms of acute diarrhoea and vomiting. The rotavirus vaccine, to be given to children aged six to 32 weeks, is only available by private prescription at a cost of up to $300 for each ...

Researchers Discover Key to Body’s Ability to Detect Subtle Temperature Change

...is extremely sensitive to light. It is involved in turning photons into electrical signals that can be decoded by the brain into visual information. But how the human body is able to sense a one-degree change in temperature has remained a mystery. “For a long time, we didn’t know how temperature sensing w...

Disturbing Trend in AIDS Cases In US

...uch a trend is still not known. Sex between men is turning out to be a matter of concern. As per a recent study 47% of gay population indulges in unprotected anal sex and 11% of them are totally unaware of the HIV status of their partner. Jaffe says that 50% of people who are affected with AIDS are the gay p...

A Call To Band Online Drug Pharmacies and Online Consultation by So Called “Cyber Doctor

...gs direct to consumer. With more and more people turning to the internet to find either cheaper drugs, drugs without prescription, the promised wonder drugs – which can so called solve all their problems, and websites that provide online consultation with cyber doctors is in fact a matter of increasing glo...

Japanese Turn to China for Organ Transplants

...ure of receiving transplants in their homeland are turning to the neighbouring nation where surgeries are less costly and quicker. Kenichi Hokamura, 63, of the southern Japanese province of Miyazaki had to wait only a week to be invited to Shanghai for his kidney transplant after calling a broker. "I would...

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo - Announce They Are To Introduce Healthy Drink

...amins and minerals as a large number of people are turning away from traditional soda drinks for their allege...re not calling them soft drinks because people are turning away from traditional soda, which has been hurt in part by publicity about its link to obesity, the ...

Successful Islet Cell Transplant in Mice With Type 1 Diabetes

...iple, tumors in these mice could be obliterated by turning p53 back on,” says Thomas-Tikhonenko. “The problem was that a protein called MDM2 sent p53 into the teeth of the proteasome shredder.” The proteasome inhibitor bortezomib (Velcade?) causes this jamming process and restores p53 function. However, if p...

Light-activated Compound May Be of Help for Epileptics in Future

Brain activity has been compared to a light bulb turning on in the head. Scientists have reversed this notion, creating a drug that stops brain activity// when a light shines on it. The unexpected result, reported online in Nature Neuroscience, turned several lights on in researchers' heads. "This is d...

Online Book Helps Children Understand the Effects of Stroke

...t and illustrations in a format that simulates the turning pages of a book. In addition to "When Grandpa Comes Home…," the Internet Stroke Center contains a national registry of clinical stroke trials and extensive information for adult family members and patients on the causes of stroke, what to expect af...

Key Science Web Sites Buried in Information Avalanche

As more and more people are turning to the Internet to find information, important science websites are in danger of becoming buried in the sheer avalanche of facts// now available online. Key science sites are failing to register in the top 30 Google search results. New research fun...

Toolkit Released To Employers Of Expecting Mothers

...omen are now nearly half the workforce. There's no turning back from this major social change, so it's vital that workplaces are equipped to make pregnancy at work a good experience. "If we fail to tackle the knowledge gap surrounding the rights of pregnant women and new parents at work we run the risk of ...

Fashion Fraternity Turns Socially Conscious

... apparently 'shallow' world of fashion seems to be turning socially responsible and is announcing to the world that it also has a heart.// Several designers across the nation have caught the bug of social consciousness. Well-known designer J.J Valaya has launched the Valaya Magic Foundation to help support...

Public Libraries Turning into Shelters for the Homeless in the US

...S, the public libraries in that country are slowly turning into de facto daytime shelters. // In bad weather -- hot, cold, or wet -- most of the homeless have nowhere to go but public places. The local shelters push them out onto the streets at six in the morning and, even when the weather is good, they...

Low-sugar Potato Cultivation Spreads in India

Indian farmers are increasingly turning to cultivation of low-sugar potato, as there is an increasing demand across the world for wafers and chips, reports say//. The trend is particularly evident in Gujarat in western India, where more than half of the land under potato has switched to t...

Outsourcing Farming, a Chinese Initiative

Plagued by scarce water supplies, China is turning to a new trading partner 15,000 miles away - Brazil - to supply more protein-packed beans essential to a richer diet//. For more than 2,000 years, the Chinese have turned soybeans into tofu, a staple of the country’s diet. In China, vanishing crop...

Court Refuses to Intervene for Law on Surrogate Motherhood

...e and the court cannot interfere," said the court, turning down the plea. Roy in a public interest petition had alleged that many foreign nationals were hiring Indian women as surrogate mothers to use their wombs to have their babies conceived. After the birth, the foreigners take away the child to their r...

Alarming Rise of Methamphetamine Use Among Australian Youth

...e youth// especially. Teens as young as 14 are turning to drugs and at least one in ten in that tender age group has tried them, according to Statistics on Drug Use in Australia 2006, released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. According to the report, an estimated 100,000 Australian's...

Genes That Spread Breast Cancer Fast Identified

...n cancer growth and metastasis. But remarkably, turning off all four genes at once almost eliminated tumor growth and spread. The tangle of blood vessels that is normally seen in a tumor was greatly reduced. Injecting cancer cells that had all four genes turned off into the bloodstream of mice also show...

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