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University of Utah to help build bionic arm

...uffer horrible injuries. And today one of the most devastating battlefield injuries is loss of a limb." The Pentagon announced the project in February when it said it was awarding the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory $30.4 million over two years, with optional additional funding that could br...

Scientists a step closer to protecting world's most important crop

...dentify the fungal proteins which bring about this devastating disease and cause rice plants to die." He continues: "It's estimated that half of the World's population relies on rice to survive and in one year alone this disease kills enough rice to feed 60 million people, so we hope this discovery will help de...

Typhoid fever led to the fall of Athens

... typhoid fever as the disease responsible for this devastating epidemic. The study appears on the online version of The International Journal of Infectious Diseases (IJID) published by Elsevier on behalf of the International Society for Infectious Diseases. The plague that began in Ethiopia and passed through E...

Researchers reverse juvenile diabetes in animal model

...id Dr. Trucco. "A type 1 diabetes diagnosis can be devastating for children and their families. We hope this trial will have results that are life-altering for patients who suffer from this disease." In addition, Dr. Trucco and his team want to combine the dendritic cells with small portions (i.e. peptides) of...

Newly identified mechanism helps explain why people of African descent are more vulnerable to TB

...en School of Medicine at UCLA. "Tuberculosis is a devastating disease that strikes vulnerable populations particularly hard," said immunologist Barry R. Bloom, Dean of the Faculty at HSPH and a co-author of the paper. "This study provides a new mechanism for innate immunity in humans and demonstrates how variat...

Clawed frog helps Fanconi anemia research make leaps

...tment of certain cancers and for Fanconi anemia, a devastating disease that primarily affects children. The lab already joined forces with other labs to isolate several of the dozen genes known to exist in the Fanconi pathway. "Really, there are not a whole lot of labs using the Xenopus extract approach yet," ...

Birth defects: 8 million annually worldwide

...rn screening programs to identify babies born with devastating but treatable metabolic disorders such as phenylketonuria (PKU); Educate women and men of childbearing age about how they can work with health professionals to maximize the chances of having a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. Improvement Is...

Making medicine 'smarter'

...e part of medical professionals sometimes leads to devastating misdiagnoses that can result in additional suffering, or even death, for their patients. But there is hope for better, more accurate medical diagnoses through the development of new technologies, and one Florida State University researcher is puttin...

Researchers discover new form of cancer gene regulation

...family of genes result in severe birth defects and devastating cancers in humans. "While some cancers are explained by known defects in the regulation of the GLI1 gene, for many cancers the reasons for excessive GLI1 protein are not known. The protein levels and activity of GLI1 are likely regulated at levels ...

The brain is broadly wired for reproduction

...ther the VNO or the olfactory epithelium causing a devastating loss of pheromone detection." The studies showed that the odor of clean bedding also activated some neurons upstream of GnRH neurons. "This suggests that the animal's environment could also influence GnRH neurons, perhaps signaling whether the anima...

Stroke treatment a step closer after trial

...d at Hope Hospital in Salford, added: "Stroke is a devastating condition that affects many thousand of people so ...esperate need for treatment of stroke, which has a devastating impact for those affected and their families. "While this treatment is still some way off being ava...

Marine conservation organizations team up to conduct Indonesia coral reefs assessment

... Indonesia, to determine the impact of last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami on the region's coral reefs. The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Reef Check and The World Conservation Union (IUCN) will carry out a two-week survey from October 17-31 of over 600 kilometers of Aceh's southwest co...

Researchers identify molecular anchor that allows bacterial invasion of central nervous system

... brain and spinal cord to produce this potentially devastating infection. Bacterial meningitis must be treated quickly and aggressively with antibiotics, since up to 25 percent of affected children may die or suffer permanent cognitive deficits, cerebral palsy, blindness, deafness or seizures. Therefore, an ear...

New genetic test can detect clam disease

...nt impact on a local economy by killing clams and devastating shellfish harvests and commercial aquaculture operations. QPX - for quahog parasite unknown - is a single-celled organism related to slime mold. It was first detected in 1995 in Provincetown, MA and spread to nearby clam beds, killing nine of ten cl...

Past illegal blood donation in China linked to hepatitis C virus infection

...of the bottom line, and lack of oversight can have devastating outcomes, not only for patients but also for donors." ...

Grabbing addiction by the tail

...ture is critical for the expression of some of the devastating behaviors of addiction....

Gene therapy works in mice to prevent blindness that strikes boys

...se children lose their sight gradually, often with devastating results. What happens is the retina actually begin...thout it, the layers separate and tiny cysts form, devastating the vision and often leading to blindness in about 1 of every 5,000 boys. UF researchers injected a...

Researcher says flu responders can learn from 1918 epidemic

...sed, such as those fighting cancer, AIDS, or other devastating illnesses, to say nothing of people suffering from drug addictions and malnourishment. All of those high-risk factors are found in combination in the nation's inner cities, he said. "With the 1918 flu, though, the exact opposite happened," he said...

Prions rapidly 'remodel' good protein into bad, Brown study shows

... of a misfolded protein ?a rare event ?can lead to devastating neurological diseases," said Serio. "Just a small amount of prion-state protein can rapidly convert healthy protein into a pathogenic form." ...

Emerald Spectre haunts Ontario's ash forests

...battles, we could well lose the war to prevent the devastating spread of the emerald ash borer in eastern Canada and the United States. It's a failure that would cost billions of dollars in lost timber and ornamental trees, and dramatically change the forest and neighbourhood landscape in eastern North America -...

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