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UNC launches study of liver injury caused by drugs

...drug-induced liver injury and will help to develop better ways to prevent, detect and treat this growing problem," Watkins said. DILIN also may provide important insight into medical problems beyond liver injury induced by drugs, he added. "Drug-induced liver injury is an ideal model to study how genes an...

PET/CT can identify new cancer lesions at early stage, allowing for prompt treatment

...tified lesions are often of early stage and have a better likelihood of being cured if treated promptly and aggressively," indicated Wahl, the senior author who co-wrote the JNM article, "Detection of Unexpected Additional Primary Malignancies With PET/CT," with SNM members Takayoshi Ishimori, M.D., Ph.D. (...

Different microarray systems more alike than previously thought

...using a two-color long oligonucleotide array, with better statistical results in accuracy and precision than the remaining nine labs. However, the other lab using the two-color long oligonucleotide array had the worst overall performance. But with the exception of that one lab, the results among platforms w...

Brain Scans Reveal How Gene May Boost Schizophrenia Risk

...re dopamine in their prefrontal cortex and perform better on tasks involving that part of the brain. Schizophrenia patients typically perform poorly on such tasks. Earlier studies had shown that inheriting two copies of the more common val version leads to a slightly higher risk for schizophrenia and a sign...

Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication

...s. "Elephants may be able to sense the environment better than we realize," she says, pointing to earlier studies showing that elephants will sometimes move toward distant thunderstorms. "When it rains in Angola, elephants 100 miles away in Etosha National Park start to move north in search of water. It cou...

Anammox bacteria produce nitrogen gas in oceans' snackbar

...ganic matter to convert nitrate into nitrite (much better than denitrifying bacteria). This new finding even increases the importance of anammox bacteria in the ocean. New species The anammox bacteria discovered in the Atlantic Ocean are closely related to the bacterial species Scalindua sorokinii, which w...

Insight into DNA's 'weakest links' may yield clues to cancer biology

...ed in yeast. "The findings may ultimately help us better understand what goes wrong in cancer cells, an important step in developing a better plan of attack against the disease," Petes added. ...

Integration of Agilent's MS technology, Proteome Systems' software to help scientists in proteomics research

...ystems' GlycomIQ software, life scientists will be better able to produce, analyze and integrate complex data on the forefront of proteomics research." ...

Researchers find promising cancer-fighting power of synthetic cell-signaling molecule

...urally modified sphingolipid analogs might be even better at making cancer cells behave more normally. Merrill and his collaborators have been studying sphingolipids for more than a decade, having first shown that sphingolipids in food, such as low-fat dairy products and soybeans, suppress tumors in mouse ...

Double triumph in stem cell quest

...orting to therapeutic cloning. "It would be a much better approach," he says. Verlinsky says he has already created 10 embryonic stem cell (ESC) lines using his new "stembrid" technique. Unlike therapeutic cloning, it uses existing ESCs instead of human eggs, and so would be much cheaper and easier. What's...

Agilent Technologies releases probe sequence, annotation information for all its commercial gene expression microarrays

...quence information, the research community will be better equipped to interpret data generated with Agilent arrays and to determine confidence in these data in future years, when genomic sequences may have been updated. In that sense, release of these sequences makes the results of experiments using Agilent...

Virus-host interactions at sea effect global photosynthesis

...quence information, the research community will be better equipped to interpret data generated with Agilent arrays and to determine confidence in these data in future years, when genomic sequences may have been updated. In that sense, release of these sequences makes the results of experiments using Agilent...

Measuring hormone cuts antibiotic use in half in pneumonia patients

...e, as well as the cost of antibiotics, it's always better to give fewer antibiotics," Prof. Tamm said. Many...h antibiotics, but some cases are viral, which get better without antibiotics. But doctors don't like to delay treatment in order to wait for lab results to t...

B-15A collides with Antarctic ice tongue

...quence information, the research community will be better equipped to interpret data generated with Agilent arrays and to determine confidence in these data in future years, when genomic sequences may have been updated. In that sense, release of these sequences makes the results of experiments using Agilent...

Undesirable expatriates: Preventing the spread of invasive animals

... our study on larger vertebrates because there are better historical records about their introductions, which were often done purposefully for human use." While motivations vary-- some animals make great pets, others have valuable pelts-- humans have been moving animals between Europe and North America for...

Genetic therapy reverses nervous system damage in animal model of inherited human disease

... markedly improved compared to diseased cats, with better balance and muscle control and fewer tremors." Although the disease itself is rare, AMD is one of about 50 lysosomal storage diseases, a class of diseases that accounts for a significant portion of the instances of mental retardation in children. Ot...

Multiple-drug resistant gene expression pattern predicts treatment outcome for pediatric leukemia

A new study is providing scientists with a better understanding of why some pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients fail to respond to treatment even when existing clinical predictive criteria point towards a positive treatment outcome. The research, published in the April issue of Can...

Doctors closer to using gene analysis to help trauma patients

...fest this multisystem organ failure. It’s a way to better characterize the nature of the immuno-inflammatory response to trauma.?/p> Dr. Ronald G. Tompkins, a surgeon and biomedical engineer at Massachusetts General Hospital, is leading the effort to develop standard operating procedures for the care of...

Red delicious, Northern Spy apples have most antioxidants, chemists find

Some apples might do a better job of keeping the doctor away than others, accord...alth benefits,?Tsao said. “But eating any apple is better than eating no apple at all.?/p> Elsewhere, three recent studies by researchers at Cornell Unive...

Protein prevents detrimental immune effects of bacterial sepsis

... must not only control the bacterial infection but better control the detrimental effects of the immune syst...for a given anti-inflammatory mediator) to develop better and safer drugs." The data for annexin 1 provide a new direction for such therapeutics that delicate...

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