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Polymer gel can block toxic leakage problem in gene therapy

...e 918 gene therapy clinical trials conducted in 24 countries between 1989 and 2004 were aimed at treating cancer. His interdisciplinary group from the Pratt School and the Duke Medical Center's radiation oncology department studied a preferred kind of anti-cancer gene therapy that uses relatively harmless ade...

Earliest European Farmers Left Little Genetic Mark On Modern Europe

...dult HIV infection rates have decreased in certain countries and that changes in behaviour to prevent infection...ed to slow the epidemic. Kenya, Zimbabwe and some countries in the Caribbean region all show declines in HIV prevalence over the past few years with overall adu...

2005 AIDS figures released by WHO and UNAIDS

...dult HIV infection rates have decreased in certain countries and that changes in behaviour to prevent infection...ed to slow the epidemic. Kenya, Zimbabwe and some countries in the Caribbean region all show declines in HIV prevalence over the past few years with overall adu...

Scientists must offer solutions for conserving tropical forests in a rapidly changing world

...ation intensifies, and the populations of tropical countries will increase by two billion over the next 25 years. But what is happening in protected areas? Globally, 18% of all tropical and subtropical moist forest and 9% of all tropical dry forests are nominally protected by governments. Increasingly, even ...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

...fects. "The governments of the three most-affected countries have realized that they need to find a clear way f...as." The Forum's report aims to help the affected countries understand the true scale of the accident consequences and also suggest ways the governments of Bela...

Tropical dry forests receive international recognition

...al is to try to help translate research into tools countries can use as policies to save the dry forests. The solution lies in private conservation, says Sanchez-Azofeifa. This tactic means convincing governments to realize the value of conserving tropical dry forest land and in turn, paying the land owners en...

Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history

...cologists, historians and other scientists from 25 countries will attend the conference to discuss discoveries ...of Marine Life More than 1,700 scientists from 73 countries are at work on the Census, designed to assess the diversity, distribution and abundance of ocean lif...

Agricultural workers at increased risk for infection with animal flu viruses

...as well as the U.S. economy." While swine in other countries have been infected by the H5N1 virus, to date, the virus has not become readily transmissible between swine. Swine influenza infections generally produce mild or no symptoms in both pigs and humans. However, exposure to swine flu virus at a 1988 Wis...

Purdue researchers find key to rice blast fungus

...ional Rice Research Institute. In addition to the countries that rely on rice for food, the pathogen also is found in the United States, especially in Arkansas, Louisiana and California, where rice blast recently evolved in order to foil a rice blast resistance gene, according to the USDA. Resistance in rice ...

Fighting malaria by manipulating mosquitoes' sense of smell

... research projects to improve health in developing countries that will receive a total of $436 million in support. As part of this effort, mosquito researchers from Vanderbilt University, Yale University, the Wageningen University in the Netherlands, the Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre in Tanzan...

Old drug shows new promise for Huntington's Disease

...tly, Clioquinol is banned for internal use in many countries because of its side effects. In Japan in the late 1950s and 60s, the drug was found to cause a neurologic condition called subacute myelo-optico-neuropathy (SMON), with symptoms including visual loss, muscle weakness, and numbness, in several thousan...

New results validating Pall prion reduction filter disclosed at ISBT Congress

...but that the disease has manifested itself in many countries around the globe. A total of 177 people have died or been diagnosed with vCJD in Britain, Ireland, France, Canada, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, Japan and the U.S. This past month France identified its 13th person with vCJD and Portugal announced...

WCS says avian flu prevention should focus on farms, markets

... explained Dr. Karesh. This information will allow countries in the region to protect human and domestic animal health by limiting contact with wild birds and increasing surveillance for the virus on poultry farms. ...

Progress on HIV/AIDS significant but insufficient

...antiretroviral therapies in low- and middle-income countries were receiving them. He called for increased reso...d also grown disturbingly worldwide, affecting new countries and new populations within countries, particularly women and girls, and 95 per cent of those infecte...

UCR biochemist goes to Washington with high-protein corn

...uction. Much of the remainder is exported to other countries for feeding animals or made into corn sweeteners or fuel alcohol. Corn, the most widely produced feed grain in the United States, accounts for more than 90 percent of total value and production of feed grains in the country, with around 80 million ac...

A Father’s Day Gift: Free DNA Paternity Testing

...genetic resources and benefit-sharing. While most countries have regulations on marine scientific research in their waters and seabed, only a few have legislation regulating access to and exploitation of their marine and other genetic resources. Many of the world's unique seabed ecosystems lie in internation...

Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU

...genetic resources and benefit-sharing. While most countries have regulations on marine scientific research in their waters and seabed, only a few have legislation regulating access to and exploitation of their marine and other genetic resources. Many of the world's unique seabed ecosystems lie in internation...

UIC developing drug for SARS

...ng year, more than 8,000 cases were reported in 26 countries on five continents, resulting in 774 deaths and enormous economic damage. ...

Virulizin granted orphan drug status in Europe

...ost solutions. The United States and several other countries have significantly reduced bycatch in their waters. Slight modifications in fishing gear can mean the difference between life of death for dolphins," said Baragona. "But for many of these threatened dolphins and porpoises, we need to act now before i...

A vaccine to kill tapeworm

...s could help save the 50,000 people a year in poor countries killed by a gruesome parasite. Initial trials suggest it is nearly 100 per cent effective. The vaccine, developed by a team at the University of Melbourne, Australia, targets a tapeworm called Taenia solium. The adult form, caught from eating underc...

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