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

...r non-existent. This is because vaccine production can only start once the specific pandemic virus has been determined. The first doses of a matched vaccine are unlikely to become available within the early months of the pandemic, making prophylaxis and treatment with antivirals a crucial part in the eff...

Antarctic icebergs -- Hotspots of ocean life

...ogical productivity is that free-floating icebergs can serve as a route for carbon dioxide drawdown and s...of getting close to these mountains of ice – which can shed huge pieces or overturn without warning – the scientists began their shipboard sampling mere hu...

Putting feelings into words produces therapeutic effects in the brain

...ds helps us heal better. If a friend is sad and we can get them to talk about it, that probably will make...lth. “The right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex can turn down the emotional response you get when you feel angry,” he said. “This moves us forward in be...

Modified mushrooms may yield human drugs

... that have long growth cycles, "with mushrooms, we can use commercial technology to convert the vegetative tissue from mushroom strains stored in the freezer into vegetative seed. A crop from which drugs may be extracted could be ready in weeks," Dr. Romaine said. A mushroom-based biofactory also would n...

New vaccine prevents CMV infection and disease in mice

...ed by the majority of adults in the United States, can remain dormant for years, if not the lifetime, of ...ilities. Because the host’s natural immune system can protect from the disease but can’t rid the body of the virus, people remain infected and can become ...

St. Jude study shows genes play an unexpected role in their own activation

...dies suggested that this KIX-independent mechanism can act on the same gene as the KIX-dependent mechanis.... The team also found evidence that other proteins can act as back-up co-factors for CBP/p300. “This more complex view of how CREB works may help us und...

Understanding why C. difficile causes disease -- it's hungry

...just might help them find a new treatment for what can sometimes be a very difficult disease to treat. "...rmally large numbers in the intestinal tract. This can happen when the benign bacteria that normally inhabit the intestinal tract are reduced such as when ...

How plague-causing bacteria disarm host defense

...are under attack!") into the host cell, so that it can mount a defense. "The alarm signal sent by Gaq is intercepted by YpkA, which sets up a roadblock along several cellular pathways that Gq uses to deliver the alarm," said lead author Lorena Navarro, Ph.D., post-doctoral researcher in the lab of t...

Adult stem cells from human cord umbilical cord blood successfully engineered to make insulin

...that human umbilical cord blood-derived stem cells can be engineered" to synthesize insulin. "This discovery tells us that we have the potential to produce insulin from adult stem cells to help people with diabetes," said Dr. Randall J. Urban, senior author of the paper, professor and chair of interna...

Experimental gene therapy 'abolishes' arthritis pain and lessens joint damage

...y-stage research has found that a new gene therapy can nearly eliminate arthritis pain, and significantly...s derivatives are still in common use as well, but can depress breathing and lead to addiction. Taken together, current treatments deliver inconsistent res...

Genome of Clostridium botulinum reveals the background to world's deadliest toxin

...th of which are serious human infections. The host can be quickly overpowered and, in some cases, killed ...num shows us one extreme of the ways that bacteria can make the most of animal hosts," explained Dr Julian Parkhill of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute....

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

...ng to do," Dr. Bibb said. "It’s been shown that it can be done, but we put the system together and actually applied it." Normally, Cdk5 works with another enzyme to break up a molecule called NR2B, which is found in nerve-cell membranes and stimulates the cell to fire when a nerve-cell-signaling molec...

Skimmed milk -- Straight from the cow

...f milk sold is full fat. ‘In future if whole milk can be made to contain unsaturated fats – which are go...is may also overcome the problem of waste. ‘If you can genetically produce milk without fat then that may turn out to be a very good solution to what might...

Ants show us how to make super-highways

...to the nest, making a flatter surface so that prey can be delivered to the developing young at maximum sp...agers run back to run back to the nest. This trail can be extremely uneven and full of ‘pot holes’ as it passes over leaves and branches on the forest floo...

'Virtual autopsy' helps identify drowning as cause of death

...rmed with multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) can aid forensics teams in determining if a person has...ative of drowning. "Our findings show that MDCT can be used either to facilitate or reduce the need for conventional autopsy when drowning is the suspec...

Treating HIV in war zones -- Public health emergencies need rapid advice from WHO

HIV treatment can be delivered even in settings of armed conflict, a...g patients with extra emergency drug supplies that can be taken in case of program interruption. Stockpiling emergency supplies of ART and securing them ...

Researchers use MRI to predict recovery after spinal cord injury

...ing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), radiologists can better predict the likelihood of full or partial r...lity and extent of neurological recovery after SCI can be predicted within 48 hours after injury by rigorous assessment of MR images," said co-author Micha...

Avian influenza survivors' antibodies effective at neutralising H5N1 strain

...tibodies taken from avian flu survivors in Vietnam can be reproduced in the laboratory and prove effectiv...ho survived. "We have shown that this technique can work to prevent and neutralise infection by the H5N1 'bird flu' virus in mice," says Dr Cameron Simm...

Focused ultrasound relieves fibroid symptoms in women

...rom symptomatic uterine fibroids. Fibroid symptoms can include excessive menstrual bleeding, enlarged ute... "Through this study, we’ve learned that MRgFUS can be optimized with newer protocols to have even better results than previously thought possible," Dr....

HIV and malaria combine to adversely affect pregnant women and their infants

...argets the immune response in pregnant women. "PAM can be a deadly condition that leaves mothers and their children particularly vulnerable," says Professor Kevin Kain, an infectious disease specialist and lead author of the study. "We set out to understand how women acquire protection against malaria du...

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