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New results validating Pall prion reduction filter disclosed at ISBT Congress

...orward and we are planning clinical studies in the coming months." Dr. Roger Eglin, Head of the National Transfusion Microbiology Laboratory of the NBS, discussed the incidence and risk of vCJD transmission by blood transfusion. He reviewed the role of new technologies to reduce the risk of transfusion tra...

Hurricane aftermath: Infectious disease threats from common, not exotic, diseases

... infectious disease problems in New Orleans in the coming weeks are likely to be skin and soft-tissue infections, most likely from cuts, abrasions and wounds. The primary culprits will be Staphylococcus and Streptococcus bacteria, both of which can generally be treated with available antibiotics. Diseases ...

Birds and bats sow tropical seeds

... their seeds to surrounding landscapes." Over the coming years, tree growth in adjacent forest remnants will be studied. Howe suspects that evidence will support the hypothesis that birds and bats transport a rich mix of tree seeds, including the more enduring deep forest species. "It's a way of providing...

Study uncovers dirty little secret: Soil emissions are much-bigger-than-expected component of air pollution

...n metric tons worldwide each year, with 64 percent coming from fossil fuel combustion, 14 percent from burning and a surprising 22 percent from soil, said Lyatt Jaeglé, a UW assistant professor of atmospheric sciences. The new research shows that the component from soil is about 70 percent greater than scie...

UQ researcher tracking key to healing the brain

...ed on using stem cells to repair the brain, before coming to Australia to do his PhD under Professor Perry Bartlett at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. Dr Rietze followed Professor Bartlett to UQ when the QBI was established in 2003, where an innovative scientific environment has since be...

New bioinformatics technique for systematically analyzing key regions in DNA that help control gene activity

...factors at a time, or combinations of factors, are coming together physically and how these combinations regulate genes." "To accomplish this," Komorowski said, "we used a machine learning technique called rough sets to mathematically model general rules that could associate known binding sites and gene ex...

Primate virus jumps species barrier to humans for first time in Asia

...es barrier. They don't want people to be afraid of coming in contact with macaques or other primates, but they do urge people to be cautious and careful when interacting with monkeys. Feeding the animals, or even carrying food into a temple, can greatly increase the risk of a bite or scratch, which can lead...

Nose odors and mouth odors: The brain distinguishes

...hrough the nose triggers the perception that it is coming from the outside world, while sensing it through the mouth--or "retronasally"--causes the perception that it arises from the mouth. "The illusion that retronasally perceived odors are localized to the mouth is so powerful that people routinely mista...

Researchers identify new catfish family

...muscles anchor to the sides of the bone instead of coming up on top. That and a number of other characters clearly indicate it has nothing to do with ictalurids." The animal and plant life of Mesoamerica is exceptionally diverse with distinct origins from North America, South America and adjacent oceans. ...

Ants win a waxy race

...s with a pitcher plant which forms a slippery home coming when it rains. The plant used its slippery charateristic to catch insects, which slip and fall into the pitcher containing a digestive fluid in which they get trapped and die. The ant adjusts its walking mechanism and moves over this slippery surfac...

Thinking the pain away? Study shows the brain's painkillers may cause 'placebo effect'

...ain they originated from, and how many of them are coming from each brain region. The researchers also made ...ystem after they were told that the "medicine" was coming and the placebo was given. The most pronounced differences were seen in four areas of the brain know...

University of Nevada, Reno research team discovers hormone that causes malaria mosquito to urinate

... mosquitoes, malaria and West Nile Virus Prior to coming to Nevada 16 years ago, David Schooley was a key figure at a small company in Palo Alto, Calif. that developed methoprene, an insecticide that halts the maturation of insect larvae to adults. Methoprene, which has the same effect as an insect horm...

Snapin: A protein with therapy potential for autism

...branches while others are tall with a few branches coming out of one or two main trunks. Different branching patterns correlate with specific disorders and Firestein's quest is to discover how these dissimilar patterns come about and why. A new paper by Firestein and her colleagues at Rutgers, The State Un...

Environmental chemical cocktail may sabotage sperm

...h soya in the diet and exposure to other compounds coming from plastics etc, we need to investigate their possible effects on the fertility of human sperm as quickly as possible." ...

Bees, Brains and Addiction

...ns, is responsible for deciding if the information coming from the senses predicts the sugar reward and signaling to the muscles to take the appropriate action to receive the reward. Computer models of how a bee assimilates and responds to information about a reward can be then applied to studies of how hu...

Study shows humans have ability to track odors, much like bloodhounds

...he other could reliably discern where the odor was coming from, and functional magnetic resonance images of their brains showed that the brain is set up to pay attention to the difference between what the left and right nostrils sense, much the way it can localize sounds by contrasting input from the ears. ...

Random gene expression may drive HIV into hiding

...dying the molecular mechanisms of HIV latency were coming at it from a deterministic point of view based on the belief that the system can only act in a predetermined way," said lead author Leor Weinberger, who conducted the research as an HHMI predoctoral fellow in the laboratory of HHMI investigator Adam ...

Gene silencing technique offers new strategy for treating, curing disease

...o using a bucket to catch all the streams of water coming out of a yard sprinkler before they can hit the ground. While that's certainly possible, a more efficient way to staunch the streams of water would be to turn off the faucet. By targeting the chromosomal DNA directly, that's just what Dr. Corey and ...

Community MRSA is re-emergence of 1950s pandemic, study suggests

...uld pose such a serious public health challenge in coming years. "The community acquired MRSA clone has a toxin and other traits with a proven track record for causing serious diseases in healthier and younger age groups than those currently regarded as at risk. The increased resistance to antibiotics of t...

Roundup®highly lethal to amphibians, finds University of Pittsburgh researcher

...epers, was unaffected. "The most shocking insight coming out of this was that Roundup®, something designed to kill plants, was extremely lethal to amphibians," said Relyea, who conducted the research at Pitt's Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology. "We added Roundup®, and the next day we looked in the tanks and...

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