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Agreement will speed research on microbicides for women

...or TACI defects would enable the diagnosis of more children and their relatives with these immune deficiencies...sor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. “Many children who are sick with these disorders are now missed, because they can have normal IgA and IgG levels, y...

Biologists Crack Genetic Code for Specialized Spider Silk

...or TACI defects would enable the diagnosis of more children and their relatives with these immune deficiencies...sor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. “Many children who are sick with these disorders are now missed, because they can have normal IgA and IgG levels, y...

Baby's genes affect mom's cholesterol levels

...cations for many women who are advised not to have children due to genetic defects in lipoprotein metabolism. ...ir defects, the women may actually be able to bear children without complications. ...

New study shows measles immunization may prevent fatal brain infection

... population with the highest risk for SSPE, namely children under the age of five, or because wild-type viruses of the genotype identified are more likely to cause SSPE. The measles vaccine is known to be highly effective. Two doses provide immunity to 99 percent of those vaccinated. Since the risk of SSPE ...

California computer scientists double volume of data in NIH biotech repository

...hild -- taking into account that haplotypes of the children are copies of the haplotypes of the parents. As a side effect of their research, the computer scientists are now depositing 15 gigabytes of data into dbSNP, and their article in Genome Research aims to encourage the research community to use the d...

U-M scientists say fused genes trigger the development of prostate cancer

...hild -- taking into account that haplotypes of the children are copies of the haplotypes of the parents. As a side effect of their research, the computer scientists are now depositing 15 gigabytes of data into dbSNP, and their article in Genome Research aims to encourage the research community to use the d...

Complex gene interactions account for autism risk

...f Cure Autism Now. In recent years, the number of children diagnosed with autism in the United States has skyrocketed, the researchers noted. One of the most heritable of complex genetic disorders in neuropsychiatry, autism is characterized by impairments in social interaction and communication and restricte...

Prenatal exposure to famine increases risk of schizophrenia

...at there was twice the risk of schizophrenia among children conceived during a food shortage in Holland in 1944-1945. However, the number of cases in this study was small, and the findings were only modestly statistically significant. David St. Clair, M.D., Ph.D., of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ...

New cell transplantation technique restores insulin production in diabetics

... debilitating disease that is usually diagnosed in children and young adults. It can result in significant morbidity, causing vision loss, loss of sensation that results in severe infections, fractures and amputations, destruction of major organ function (e.g., the kidneys) and cardiovascular disease that can...

Hand sanitizer gel works

...s reduced spread of GI infections in families with children in day careUsing an alcohol-based hand sanitizer g...ment for other factors such as the number of young children in the household. In addition, families reporting higher amounts sanitizer usage (more than 2 oz in...

Gene therapy works in mice to prevent blindness that strikes boys

...professor of ophthalmic molecular genetics. "These children lose their sight gradually, often with devastating results. What happens is the retina actually begins to split in the middle, causing loss of central vision - that's the vision that you need to be able to read or walk around." Scientists say the ge...

Customized gene chip provides rapid detection of genetic changes in children's cancer

...essive cancers appropriately, while not subjecting children with low-risk cancer to overtreatment. Cancer researchers have pinpointed specific genetic abnormalities that influence the aggressiveness of neuroblastoma. An important abnormality is loss of heterozygosity (LOH), the deletion of one copy of a pair...

Prenatal exposure to marine toxin causes lasting damage

...mply that the toxin might negatively affect unborn children at levels that do not cause symptoms in expectant mothers, said Levin. While the researchers note that eating seafood offers significant health benefits, they said their findings suggest that the current threshold of toxin at which affected fisheries...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

... * About 4,000 cases of thyroid cancer, mainly in children and adolescents at the time of the accident, have ...rom the accident's contamination and at least nine children died of thyroid cancer; however the survival rate among such cancer victims, judging from experience...

Zinc supplements safe for HIV-infected children

Zinc-deficient children living in communities where they do not receive ad... if zinc would speed up HIV disease progression in children by increasing their viral load. Zinc supplementation is known to decrease the frequency of diarrhea ...

Cornell finds natural selection in humans

...ease or only slightly reduce the average number of children left by those that carried the mutation -- can by chance become quite common in the population. The authors also found a correlation between genes predicted to be under negative selection and genes implicated in certain hereditary diseases. For e...

Getting close to nature is good for you

...oons) have been used successfully in therapies for children with emotional and behavioural problems. People who take part in conservation projects report subjective health benefits, ascribed to being outdoors and to feeling part of a greater system connecting beyond the individual. Such projects can help ove...

New vaccine platform may fight infections with causes from influenza to bioterrorism

...such as patients with transplanted organs, HIV and children with leukemia. Without normal reservoirs of these particular T-cells that are key to immune responses, these patients are unable to stave off an infection that in most people causes, at most, a bad cold. The findings are being published in the Dece...

'Nanospheres' that block pain of sensitive teeth

... that cause severe pain for millions of adults and children worldwide. Preliminary research presented today at the Institute of Physics conference EMAG-NANO 2005 shows that creating tiny spheres of a ceramic material called hydroxyapatite could be a long term solution or cure for sensitive teeth. Sensitive...

Reducing antibiotic use lowers rates of drug-resistant bacteria

...lso targeted physicians, pharmacists, parents, and children in the groups receiving both interventions with an...and appropriate antibiotic use. A control group of children and their doctors received no specific information about antibiotic use. The study was conducted fr...

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