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New dopamine brain target discovered

... highly specific drugs that may help alleviate the devastating symptoms of schizophrenia." ...

Blocking immune cell action increases Alzheimer's-associated protein deposits

...otect the brain from damage in early stages of the devastating neurological disorder. A report from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers finds that lack of a protein required for recruitment of the brain's primary immune cell led to increased amyloid-beta deposits and earlier death in a mouse model ...

HIV dementia alarmingly high in Africa

...udies like these will shed additional light on the devastating problem of HIV in resource-limited countries like Uganda and encourage more programs that bring much-needed medication to these poor regions of the world," Sacktor says. Sacktor says there’s little accurate data about HIV dementia patients in oth...

Overfishing large sharks impacts entire marine ecosystem, shrinks shellfish supply

...nstitute for Ocean Science. "These unforeseen and devastating impacts underscore the need to take a more holistic ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management." As great shark populations plummeted, their elasmobranch prey—rays, skates, and smaller sharks—increased considerably, according to research su...

Researchers seek to design first treatment for neuroAIDS

...modern antiviral therapies in 1996, HIV also had a devastating effect on the brain known as HIV-associated dementia (HAD) or neuroAIDs. The current, standard combination of treatments has extended the lives of most U.S. AIDS patients, but has not cured neuroAIDS, despite early reports to the contrary. Antiviral ...

Comprehensive model is first to map protein folding at atomic level

...d the abnormal protein aggregation underlying some devastating diseases, as well as how natural proteins evolved and how proteins recognize correct biochemical partners within living cells. The technique, which can track protein folding for some 10 microseconds -- about as long as some proteins take to assume t...

Natural protein stops deadly human brain cancer in mice

... research into treatments and therapies for such a devastating disease." ...

Ebola-outbreak kills 5000 gorillas

...e study also provides new hope for controlling the devastating impact of Ebola on wild gorilla and chimpanzee pop...investment in neighbouring Odzala National Park by devastating gorilla populations there. "We are in a period where relatively modest investments in both Ebola ...

Coral stress 'like never in history'

...ars recorded in the fossil strata the team found 4 devastating events which resulted in the death of most of the ... "The recovery of the Great Barrier Reef from the devastating impact of the crown of thorns starfish took less than a few decades, at least in part due to compreh...

Single molecular 'mark' seen as pivotal for genome compaction in spores and sperm

...t can fall apart and possibly reassemble itself in devastating translocations." She notes that normal double-stranded DNA, on the other hand, has the ability to repair breaks in one of its single strands by using the chemical bases in the companion strand as a reference. Bases in DNA pair only in predetermined...

Researchers discover key mechanism by which lethal viruses Ebola and Marburg cause disease

...chers can begin to develop new drugs to stop these devastating diseases. Filoviruses, named for their threadlike appearance in electron microscopy (filo= thread in Latin), are associated with outbreaks of fatal hemorrhagic fever in sub-Saharan Africa. Viral hemorrhagic fevers are of specific concern because the...

Experimental cancer drugs counter muscle deterioration seen in muscular dystrophy

...eating muscular dystrophy, aimed at correcting the devastating effects of a single flawed gene," said Puri. "This is a significant advance over the use of steroids--currently the only treatment available--which offers palliative relief, often with severe side effects." "These exciting results, while encouragin...

Malaria vaccine prompts victims' immune system to eliminate parasite from mosquitoes

...ise for combating a terrible disease that exacts a devastating toll on the world's children." The vaccine was developed by researchers in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Laboratory of Developmental and Molecular Immunity, in partnership with researchers in the Malaria Vaccine Dev...

Recurrence of a flu pandemic similar to infamous 1918 flu could kill 62 million

...ple worldwide would die. This could represent a devastating impact on global mortality, more than doubling deaths from all causes in a single year. However, only four percent of these fatalities would occur in the developed world. The developing world would absorb the remaining 96 percent of deaths--an estima...

Why Popeye only has eyes for spinach

... vegetables high in these carotenoids. "AMD is a devastating disease where sufferers slowly lose central vision making reading and most day-to-day activities virtually impossible. The main risk factors for the disease are age and heritance but it is also linked to controllable factors such as poor diet, smokin...

Sandia research to focus on early detection of harmful algal blooms

...clear Security Administration laboratory. HABs: devastating for coastal ecology and fisheries Harmful algal blooms are widely acknowledged to be a severe coastal resource management issue, adversely impacting virtually every coastal region. Current methods for detecting the poisonous toxins characteristic ...

Researchers find that bumblebees' flower choice matters

...ld threaten reproduction of native plants and have devastating effects on ecosystems," Karron says. Who's your daddy? Calculating paternity could be a nightmare. Because pollen from multiple monkey flower plants can be deposited during a single bee visit, seeds produced by one flower can be "sired" by poll...

Mouse study reveals new clues about virulence of 1918 influenza virus

...s much as possible about the virus that caused the devastating 1918-1919 influenza pandemic is an urgent imperative as we pursue efforts to prepare for--and possibly thwart--the next flu pandemic," says NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. "This elegant research gives a detailed picture of the overzealous hos...

Study provides first look at the 'birth' of a retina cell

...is model may give us the earliest look yet at some devastating diseases we are all eager to cure," he says. ...

'Smart' genetic therapy helps the body to heal itself

...y there is no effective therapy available for this devastating disease, which can cause visual loss, seizures, speech problems or deafness due to demyelination invariably leading to death in children and problems of gait and co-ordination in adults." Professor Gert-Jan van Ommen, from the Centre for Human and ...

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