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Regrowth of Zebrafish's Tail Fin may Offer Clues for Treating Human Injuries

... can actually increase the rate of regeneration by turning on these genes,” Moon said. The researchers also...on.” Moon added that, because the same genes for turning on and turning off growth and development are found in humans, and drugs exist that can regulate thi...

New Technique to Identify Bacteria for Food Safety

...chemistry; and Cooks. Mass spectrometry works by turning molecules into ions, or electrically charged versi...fer their extra proton to molecules in the sample, turning them into ions. The ionized molecules are then vacuumed from the surface into the mass spectrometer,...

Sex Ends as Seasons Shift and Kisspeptin Levels Plummet

...e of kisspeptin in the brain is likely critical in turning off reproduction during winter." Recent research by scientists in the U.K. and France have shown human kisspeptin triggers the release of gonadotropin-releasing hormone and luteinizing hormone, both of which are important to puberty and other sex-...

Where Burnt Out Executives De-stress in Nature's Lap

A scenic wildlife resort in Assam is turning out to be the favourite destination for burnt out executives of leading private and public sectors companies// . With performance being the latest mantra, several firms are making their key workforce take a break to de-stress themselves, virtually ...

Surfing Safer Than Soccer: Study

...ies reported. This is likely due to the aggressive turning and aerial maneuvers, which score highly in competitions, but also appear to place high stress on a surfer's knee," says Nathanson, who is also an emergency physician at The Miriam Hospital and an assistant professor at Brown Medical School, both in ...

A Secret Dossier Predicts Major Changes At NHS, England

...d to accept that change was ahead."The NHS is at a turning point. In the past few years the Government has invested huge amounts of money, many more doctors and nurses have been employed, waiting times have been cut dramatically and patient care has improved. "Over the next few years the NHS needs to conso...

Anti Cancer Drug from Blue Green Algae

... and researcher Zachary Q. Beck found the trick to turning the green gunk into gold—cancer fighting gold. "It was simply too difficult to use the native blue-green algae for high-level production using traditional fermentation approaches," said Sherman. But the compound, called cryptophycin 1, held so much...

Hypercholesterolemia Meets Its Match in an Experimental Drug

...icial in reducing blood-cholesterol levels by 51%, turning out to be the most promising in the heap of prevalent cholesterol-lowering drugs. "Anything that lowers cholesterol to a substantial degree in these patients is exciting," says lead author Daniel Rader of the University of Pennsylvania. The condit...

Obesity Surgeries Have Jumped Dramatically Since 1998

...apnea. “This report shows that more Americans are turning to obesity surgery and that an increasing number of younger people are undergoing these procedures,” said AHRQ Director Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D. “As the rate of obesity continues to climb, the health care system needs to be prepared for continued esca...

New Gene to Help in Understanding Alzheimer’s Diseas

...ugh the brain, preventing it from accumulating and turning into toxic plaque. This protection declines in patients with a defective SORL1 gene, resulting in accumulation of amyloid in the brain. Yet, having a defect in the SORL1 gene does not guarantee that a patient will develop Alzheimer's ,though it do...

'Beavertail' Surgery Helps Tongue Cancer Patients

...emotherapy, but that shrinks and scars the tongue, turning normally elastic and pliable tissue to something like wood. This reduces the patient's ability to swallow to the point that they must be fed through a tube placed through their skin directly into the stomach, because they can't take enough food to ma...

Researchers Explore the Effect of Engineered Immune Cells on HIV

...rchers in the Viterbi School of Engineering may be turning a corner. With support from a $13.9 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a multi-institutional team of scientists, including Pin Wang of the USC Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, is exploring a...

Scientists Map Key Landmarks in Human Genome

...s suggest that nucleosome positioning controls the turning on or off of genes, and the nucleosomes can be relocated if cellular needs change. Fisher, who heads Dana-Farber's Melanoma Program and is a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, conducts basic research on gene mutations involved in th...

Drug Meant to Heal Turns ‘heel’ and Hars

In a case of a therapeutic drug turning deadly, hundred of persons have been infected with Hepatitis C.// Chinese officials from the ministry of heath have ordered the recall of samples of the blood-based drug used in the treatment of immune system deficiencies. The drug manufactur...

Reactivated Genes Cause Tumors to Shrink (or) Disappear

... p53 turns back on. The study also revealed that turning on p53 has no damaging effects in normal cells. The researchers had worried that p53 would kill normal cells because it had never been expressed in those cells. "This means you can design drugs that restore p53 and you don't have to worry too much ...

Researchers Investigate Gene Linked With Circadian Liver Clock

...ssed REV-ERBa, and Bmal1 was inactive, effectively turning off the liver clocks. When the authors performed a genome-wide scan of the expression of genes targeted by BMAL1 in the presence and absence of Dox, they found arrhythmic expression of most of the targeted clock genes when the liver clocks stopped...

India Developing Oral Vaccine to Fight Diabetes

...eart problems increases. A lot of children are now turning diabetic," Mishra added. According to one estimate, a diabetes patient spends nearly Rs.15,000 on treatment a year. If the problem leads to other health related problems, the amount rises four-fold. The loss of working hours also results in revenue...

Early Treatment May Thwart Mad Cow-Type Disease

... mutant prions is toxic to brain cells, eventually turning the brain to mush. Now UK researchers report that in mice that have been infected with disease-related prions, early depletion of naturally occurring normal prion protein in neurons leads to repair of sponge-like brain damage. Their mouse exper...

Rett Syndrome Reversed in Genetic Mouse Model

...in that regulates the expression of other genes by turning them off at the appropriate time. In 1999 Huda Zoghbi, M.D., Professor, Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics, Pediatrics, Neurology, and Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine discovered that RTT is caused by mutations in the MECP2 gene....

More Funds Must Flow-NYC Mayor Talks Tough

...ng less and they (the federal government) would be turning their backs on those who responded with courage and suffered through this terrible ordeal.' NN...

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