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New study suggests promising drug combinations for sleeping sickness

...ied out by the international humanitarian medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), and its research arm, Epicentre, have now been published in the journal PLoS Clinical Trials. African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness affects many tens of thousands of people each year in sub-Saharan A...

Scientists discover toxin that causes gastro disease

...rmined its three-dimensional structure, which will aid in the development of treatments for toxin-related diseases. "This toxin belongs to the family of toxins that cause whooping cough, a very serious bacterial infection that affects children," Dr Beddoe said. He said the research breakthrough ma...

Antibody extends life of mice with breast cancer

...as a vehicle for the targeted delivery of drugs to aid cancer diagnosis and therapy. ...

Funding to tackle hospital superbugs

...nventional antibiotic and require new therapies to aid the treatment of infection. A team in the School of Medicine's Institute of Nephrology has been awarded £800,000 by the Wellcome Trust to commercially develop a protein based therapeutic to help treat infectious diseases. Professor Nicholas Tople...

First biomarker for human sleepiness identified in fruit flies

...ylase the first of a panel of biomarkers that will aid diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders and may one day help assess the risk of falling asleep at the wheel of a car or in other dangerous contexts. "As we prepare for the holiday season and long drives to distant relative's houses, I hope this...

Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

... policy formulation at international and bilateral aid agencies, and within developing countries. And they recommend: An initiative on Grand Challenges in Non-communicable Diseases, modelled on the success of Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, sponsored in part by the Bill and Melinda Ga...

High-throughput oncogene mutation detection in human cancers by mass spectrometry-based genotyping

...Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, may also offer aid in the testing and development of tailored treatments, according to researcher Levi A. Garraway, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Dana-Farber Department of Medical Oncology. "It may help clinical testing of new targeted therapies, because p...

MIT's molecular sieve advances protein research

...rate sorting of proteins, work that may ultimately aid in the detection and treatment of disease. Separating proteins from complex biological fluids such as blood is becoming increasingly important for understanding diseases and developing new treatments. The molecular sieve developed by MIT engineers i...

Edge density key to controlling gypsy moth spread

...in place, than this same plan of containment might aid in controlling a variety of pests. ...

Nanotech tools yield DNA transcription breakthrough

..., the novel methods and findings of this work will aid future studies of other molecular machines involved in cell replication, transcription and protein synthesis." The other study reported in Science was conducted by Ebright's laboratory in collaboration with Terence Strick's laboratory at the Inst...

UCLA researchers unravel a mystery about DNA

..., the novel methods and findings of this work will aid future studies of other molecular machines involved in cell replication, transcription and protein synthesis." ...

Twenty Years of Malaria Research: Outcomes and Perspectives

... Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, targeting foreign aid workers in an attempt to force the refugees to return to Burma. During the attack, Professor Nosten and his colleague Rose McGready had been forced to hide in the jungle. Now, Professor Nosten is assisted in his work by Thai nationals from the regi...

Researchers barcode DNA of Venice museum's vast fungi collection

...gricultural ecosystems, this database will greatly aid the diagnosis of plant diseases." Fungi are a kingdom of organisms that include yeasts, mushrooms and mold. They are essential to most terrestrial ecosystems, channeling nutrients in the soil and making them available for the growth of plants, inc...

Jefferson scientists find aging gene also protects against prostate cancer development

... M.D., Ph.D., hope the newly found connection will aid in better understanding the development of prostate cancer and lead to new drugs against the disease. SIRT1 is a member of a family of enzymes called sirtuins that have far-reaching influence in all organisms, including roles in metabolism, gene ex...

Why Popeye only has eyes for spinach

...xperts at The University of Manchester. With the aid of a new eye instrument, they have launched a study to see if the vegetable that endows Popeye with his super-human strength could also explain why the 77-year-old sailor has no need for spectacles! Spinach and some other vegetables like sweetcorn,...

Scientists find a key to immune system's ability to remember

...une system memory, but also because it may one day aid in the development of vaccines against infections like AIDS, and help victims of autoimmune diseases and transplant patients whose immune systems reject donor organs. The protein, which scientists call Lck, is essential for immune system T cells ...

African wetland managers armed with new technology

...detailed wide-area views of individual wetlands to aid national and local conservation efforts. Because the success of wetland conservation ultimately comes down to individual wetland managers, the GlobWetland products and services are user-oriented and based on specific requests of users across 50 site...

The secret lives of sea slugs

... will inspire further studies of this behavior and aid scientists studying the nerve cells involved in navigation, an important problem every animal faces. "Once you know what a behavior is, you have a starting point to see how the brain is actually controlling it," Wyeth says. ...

OHSU study says stem cell 'fusion' occurs in tumors

...," Wong said. "We think that the bone marrow cells aid in repair of the epithelium, but the cell fusion hybrids that remain are generally unstable. Fusion may be an underlying molecular explanation of why these cells might be more susceptible to cancer development." In the PNAS study, Wong and her colle...

Harmful Algal Blooms monitored from space in Chile

...in order to minimise the damage to aquaculture. To aid in this effort, a team led by Hatfield Consultants Ltd. (Hatfield), under the ESA-funded Chilean Aquaculture Project (CAP), has implemented an early warning service based on Earth Observation (EO) data, which delivers forecasts of potential HABs to a...

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