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Warning from Asian bees

...r mite but the intruders themselves could pose the beginning of a serious threat to Australian honey bee populations. Asian bees are known to have found their way into Australian ports at least half a dozen times in the last decade. This time it’s a Javanese strain of the bee and because the latest incursi...

Clot-dissolving agent may be beneficial in treatment of severe frostbite

...gen activator (tPA) for the treatment of frostbite beginning in 2001. Patients who were admitted with severe frostbite underwent imaging studies to assess blood flow to the affected limb. From 2001 to 2006, six patients with abnormal blood flow on angiography received tPA within 24 hours of severe frostbite in...

Gene therapy study shows safety and statistically significant improvement in Parkinson's disease

...observed primarily on the treated side of the body beginning three months after the gene therapy procedure and ...hieve or do not realize benefit from drug therapy) beginning at three months following surgery and continuing through the end of the study. These improvements oc...

Experts predict Tamiflu could halve the pandemic influenza death toll versus no intervention

...ary means of preventing influenza. However, at the beginning of a pandemic, supplies of vaccines which are fully matched to the pandemic strain will be limited or non-existent. This is because vaccine production can only start once the specific pandemic virus has been determined. The first doses of a matched v...

Putting feelings into words produces therapeutic effects in the brain

...ou feel angry,” he said. “This moves us forward in beginning to understand the benefits of mindfulness meditation. For the first time, we’re now applying scientific principles to try to understand how mindfulness works. “This is such an exciting study because it brings together the Buddha’s teachings — more...

'Smart' mice teach scientists about learning process, brain disorders

...rom the brain are continuing. The group is also beginning a search for drugs that might create the same effects without genetic manipulation and monitoring the animals’ health and behavior over time. The findings may have applications in treating post-traumatic stress disorder, where getting a patient t...

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

...ol and impaired glucose tolerance. For 90 days beginning in their sixth week of life, the rats were fed either a carbohydrate-enriched diet or a diet that, by weight, included 1 percent cherries or 10 percent cherries. The higher cherry dose was used to look for any toxic effects; none were seen. The c...

How the brain's backup system compensates for stroke

...troke victims can quickly reorganize to enable the beginning of recovery of movement. Jacinta O'Shea and colleagues at the University of Oxford reported their findings in the May 3, 2007 issue of the journal Neuron, published by Cell Press. In their experiments, the researchers focused on a region of the b...

Genetic roots of bipolar disorder revealed by first genome-wide study of illness

...ually in a more severe form than adults. "We're beginning to get a foothold on the genetics of this complex brain disorder," said NIMH Director Thomas R. Insel, MD. Most people occasionally have mood swings, but the shifts that occur in bipolar disorder, and the changes in behavior and energy level that ...

Study warns deep-sea mining may pose serious threat to fragile marine ecosystems

...Since oceans have existed, more or less, since the beginning of Earth's history, these deep sea hydrothermal vents could be the most ancient sites of life on Earth. Yet the vents are not only of scientific interest, since the organisms may have pharmaceutical and biotechnological applications. Mining compan...

No magic tomato? Study breaks link between lycopene and prostate cancer prevention

...cer, death or the end of the trial in 2001. At the beginning of the trial, the men gave a blood sample and completed a questionnaire related to their health, diet and lifestyle. The researchers focused on non-Hispanic Caucasian men, as the small number of cases among other ethnic groups was statistically ...

Newly identified mechanism for silencing genes points to possible anti-cancer strategies

...roteins that make up the body. Scientists are only beginning to appreciate, however, the extraordinary degree of control exercised over every step of the production process. Only about 10 percent of human genes, for example, are actively producing proteins in a given cell at a given time. The remaining 90 pe...

Uniform language for describing genes of pathogenic and beneficial microbes

...lly attach to the host. Accordingly, from the very beginning of the PAMGO project, we carefully tailored the new terms so that they would be useful for describing benign as well as pathogenic microbes in plant or animal hosts.? Brett Tyler, Professor at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, and the PAMGO pr...

Rapid response was crucial to containing the 1918 flu pandemic

...eutical interventions may buy valuable time at the beginning of a pandemic while a targeted vaccine is being produced.? The historical analyses are part of an ongoing effort called the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS), which is supported by NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Science...

Investigating the measles virus as a tool to kill multiple myeloma

...otential of measles to kill cancer. “This is the beginning of a long but exciting process,?says Angela Dispenzieri, M.D., hematologist and lead researcher on the multiple myeloma clinical trial in the measles virus investigation. “We are very hopeful that this will be a step toward helping our patients.? M...

Transfusion expert urges wider use of filtered blood

...ended its leukoreduction practice to all patients, beginning in 2000. ...

Mutation improves memory, may lead to memory-enhancing pill

...-term memory, lasting for minutes to hours, or the beginning stages of longer-term memory storage, lasting for one to three hours. The second component, which follows strong or repetitive training, activates mechanisms that stabilize the memory and nerve connections, resulting in long-term memory, lasting days...

When your brain talks, your muscles don't always listen

...e Journal of Applied Physiology, and Knight is now beginning a new project focusing on motor-control mechanisms in the elderly. Both studies are sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. The ultimate goal of the research, Knight said, is to improve movement quality in older adults, as well as patients...

Massive coral death attributed to earthquake

...bad. At many sites, the worst affected species are beginning to re-colonize the shallow reef areas. The reefs appear to be returning to what they looked like before the earthquake, although the process may take many years. "The challenge now is to work with local communities and government agencies to prote...

Genetic pathways to curable and incurable forms of pancreatic cancer identified

...is eliminated, lead to cancer by a different path, beginning with the creation of a distinct class of precancerous lesions in the ductal epithelium called mucinous cystic neoplasms (MCN). This initiates a process that results in the rarer but far less deadly cystic pancreatic cancer. MCN lesions often are l...

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