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Smallpox outbreak: How long would it take for vaccines to protect people? Would it work?

...flu vaccine to work, people need to get vaccinated before being exposed to influenza. The currently licensed smallpox vaccine, however, provides benefits post-exposure, and may be useful in further preventing the spread of the disease. "If there were a release of the smallpox virus, we would vaccinate pe...

Resistant HIV quickly hides in infants' cells

...tance testing of viruses from HIV infected infants before treatment should be implemented wherever feasible. ...

A cherry on top: Tart cherries may alter heart/diabetes factors

...rs," he says. "But there is still a long way to go before we can advocate any course of action for humans. Still, the growing body of knowledge is encouraging." Bolling and Seymour performed the study using 48 male Dahl Salt-Sensitive rats, which are bred for their susceptibility to salt-linked high blo...

Climate change was the cause of Neanderthal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula

...did suffer fluctuations related to climate changes before the first Homo Sapiens arrived in the Iberian Peninsula. Cold, arid and highly variable climate was the least favourable weather for Neanderthals and 24,000 years ago they had to face the worst weather conditions in the last 250,000 years. The mos...

Amphibians in losing race with environmental change

... survive for hundreds of millions of years - since before the time of the dinosaurs and through many climati...sful vertebrate animals on Earth. They were around before the dinosaurs, have lived in periods with very different climates, and continued to thrive while man...

Vaccine prevents prion disease in mice

...ttle." Wisniewski said much more work is needed before the vaccine could be considered for humans. "The human version of prion disease usually occurs spontaneously and only rarely because of eating contaminated meat," he said. "But if, for example, a more significant outbreak of chronic wasting disease i...

First clinical trial of gene therapy for childhood blindness

...ze without difficulty; something they could not do before the treatment. As this trial is the first to treat...rm effect of the treatment. It will be many months before we have the full picture. We anticipate the best outcome in younger patients, as we will be treating...

Legal ruling may put endangered species in danger

...t with the nation's leading environmental scholars before defining terms such as endangered species." ...

Anthrax paralyzes immune cells with lethal toxin, UF research shows

...ogresses rapidly and patients often die from shock before they realize they have more than a common cold. Th... a haystack," Southwick said. The team compared before and after snapshots of neutrophils exposed to a purified form of the toxin, as well as images showin...

Gene mutation linked to cognition is found only in humans

...e, an Old World monkey. This pattern suggests that before the emergence of the type II splice form in human, the weakening of the type I splicing site already existed in the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, implying a multi-step process that led to the dramatic change of splicing pattern in humans...

Risk of lymphoma increases with hepatitis C virus infection

... injection drug use or blood transfusions received before 1990, when screening for hepatitis C virus was started. ...

Egyptians, not Greeks were true fathers of medicine

... in medical papyri written in 1,500BC ?1,000 years before Hippocrates was born. "Classical scholars have ...s were practising a credible form of pharmacy long before the Greeks. "Our research is continuing on a genetic, chemical and comparative basis to compare t...

DNA repair proteins monitored at double-strand break

...ged DNA site. The findings also suggested that before ATM can move to the double-strand break, it must first become activated so it can trigger a critical series of signals linked to DNA repair. Inactive ATM exists as a pair of these molecules linked together. Kastan previously reported in the journal N...

World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

...e that we are at risk of losing a great deal of it before it is ever discovered," Wilson called for a contemporary, dynamic portrait of the living Earth. "I wish that we will work together to help create the key tool that we need to inspire preservation of Earth’s biodiversity: the Encyclopedia of Life,"...

Toxoplasmosis infection trick revealed by scientists

... is released onto the surface of the parasite just before it invades host cells in the human body. They foun...at the team have a more detailed picture than ever before of exactly how the parasite recognises and attacks host cells in the body. Professor Steve Matth...

Percutaneous aortic valve replacement safe, successful in high-risk patients

...ere able to engage in a moderate level of activity before becoming short of breath....

'Short-circuit' found in ocean circulation

...We are going to have to understand its circulation before we can make really confident predictions about how the climate is going to change over the next 100 years. “This is a piece of knowledge that will help us do that. This tells us how an important part of it works? The research shows that a comb...

Study offers clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'

...60 percent experienced some type of stress shortly before coming to the emergency room. The intensity of the...blocks a major artery of the heart, then dissolves before being detected during coronary angiography. The most common symptom of broken heart syndrome was ...

High-dose anticlotting drug cuts heart attack, death risk in half

...ment with double-dose anticlotting medication just before percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) cuts the ...hat giving patients at least 600 mg of clopidogrel before stenting, rather than the standard 300-mg dose, halved the risk of major complications associated wi...

DNA-damage test could aid drug development

...promising drug candidates must pass toxicity tests before entering clinical trials. Researchers from Massach...ate in the normal way, dividing four or five times before losing their nucleus and becoming immature red blood cells. Shuga then studied the way these deve...

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