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A Father’s Day Gift: Free DNA Paternity Testing

...Other research in progress includes treatments for breast and ovarian cancer. Impediments to this research include not just the high expedition costs but the absence of clear rules governing resource access benefits sharing. Some companies say uncertainty over access procedures is a major deterrent to thei...

Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU

...Other research in progress includes treatments for breast and ovarian cancer. Impediments to this research include not just the high expedition costs but the absence of clear rules governing resource access benefits sharing. Some companies say uncertainty over access procedures is a major deterrent to thei...

Menopause Symptoms May Come Back After Stopping Menopausal Hormone Therapy

...that any herbal medicines can increase or decrease breast cancer risk, some herbs can have estrogen-like act...upplements and says that women with a high risk of breast cancer should be particularly cautious. According to Warren, 23 percent of middle-aged women in the...

Women cautioned against using herbal supplements

...that any herbal medicines can increase or decrease breast cancer risk, some herbs can have estrogen-like act...upplements and says that women with a high risk of breast cancer should be particularly cautious. According to Warren, 23 percent of middle-aged women in the...

VCU Massey Cancer Center study shows enzyme linked to spread of breast cancer cells

...naling component that influences movement of human breast cancer cells toward epidermal growth factor. In t...rmal growth factor, which plays a critical role in breast cancer progression, stimulates sphingosine kinases - SphK1 and SphK2 - a family of enzymes that form...

Beauty queens urge girls not to sacrifice their bones

...es one in three women over 50 worldwide (more than breast cancer) and one in five men (more than prostate cancer). At a related media seminar, IOF released a new publication "Move it or Lose it" which looks at the impact of weight-bearing exercise on building strong bones. Professor Helmut Minne, an IOF B...

NIH renews network focused on how genes influence drug responses

... hormone treatments frequently prescribed to treat breast cancer. (David A. Flockhart, M.D., Ph.D., Indiana University School of Medicine) The Pharmacogenetics of Membrane Transporters --$15 million provided by NIGMS, NCI, and NIMH to study how drug response is affected by variability in the gene...

Looks matter to female barn swallows

... by their looks -- the reddish color of the males' breast and belly feathers. If the male's red breast is not as dark as other males in the population, the female is more likely to leave him and then sec...

Study shows how retinoic acid enters a cell's nucleus

...wn that RA can help treat leukemia, head, neck and breast cancer. RA and its synthetic derivatives may also be useful in treatment of diabetes, arteriosclerosis and emphysema. Unfortunately, conventional treatments using RA require high, toxic doses, and tumors can develop resistance to the treatment. Noa ...

Unexpected lock and key mechanism found for the assembly of tumor blood vessels

...he researchers currently are conducting tests with breast cancer patients to see if measuring the activity o...inical significance." In their current studies of breast cancer patients for the presence of the integrin and VCAM, "We want to know if the integrins predict...

Scientists turn tobacco against cancer

...ntibodies against other types of cancer, including breast tumor and lung tumor cells, in laboratory animals. ...

Researchers grow stem cells from human skin

...n cells would be injected into the body to replace breast tissue removed by surgery, to fill in the gaps in bone fractures or replace muscle damaged by injury. "The ability to engineer tissues from a patient's own cells may overcome two major problems in transplantation medicine: immune rejection and tissu...

'Bionic' arm gives amputee sense of touch

....93 to 2.98 and remains the second highest ranking breast cancer journal. Arthritis Research & Therapy maintains its rank of second in the rheumatology field with an impact factor of 4.55. A number of other journal published by BioMed Central also saw their impact factors and rankings improve. BMC Infe...

Open Access journals get impressive impact factors

....93 to 2.98 and remains the second highest ranking breast cancer journal. Arthritis Research & Therapy maintains its rank of second in the rheumatology field with an impact factor of 4.55. A number of other journal published by BioMed Central also saw their impact factors and rankings improve. BMC Infe...

Antiretroviral Therapy May Prevent HIV Transmission From Breastfeeding Mothers To Infants

...tion. The second study showed levels of HIV RNA in breast milk are lower in mothers taking antiretroviral th... mother or her baby, transmission of HIV-1 through breast milk occurs in approximately 9 to 16 percent of breastfed infants. In the developing world, many HIV...

Survey reveals women and doctors aren't talking about HPV

...ble cancer. In contrast, 59 percent believe either breast (30 percent) or lung (29 percent) cancer is most p...the United States each year, and is second only to breast cancer in the number of women it affects worldwide. Cervical cancer is caused by high-risk forms of ...

Tamoxifen-like drug suggests new ways to selectively block estrogen

...important role in preventing, as well as treating, breast cancer and suggests ways to design new drugs with ...fective than tamoxifen or raloxifene at preventing breast cancer, heart disease and bone loss without increasing the risk of endometrial cancer." Tamoxifen a...

Chemists synthesize molecule that helps body battle cancers, malaria

...pies against aggressive diseases such as melanoma, breast cancer, small-cell lung cancer, prostate cancer, HIV-1 and malaria. An extract from the bark of the South American tree Quillaja saponaria Molina, QS-21A is available only in small quantities. "Now that we have synthesized this remarkable molecule a...

Affymetrix and bioMerieux Extend Their Agreement on GeneChip(R) Technology to Breast Cancer Diagnostics

...o develop and market in vitro diagnostic tests for breast cancer, as well as an option to expand the agreement into other cancer areas. The agreement, made under the Powered by Affymetrix(TM) program, gives bioMerieux non-exclusive rights to Affymetrix' patented arrays, instrumentation systems and future i...

While on trail of dioxin, scientists pinpoint cancer target of green tea

...tects people against some forms of cancer, such as breast and liver cancer, exactly how it does so has been difficult to pinpoint. The latest results make more feasible the idea of harnessing green tea's protective power. Just as people with aches and pains no longer have to chew on willow bark to receive ...

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