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LIAI completes world's most comprehensive analysis on influenza virus data

...ce that went public last summer. LIAI researchers developed the database ?which is the world's largest repository of scientific data on how the body's immune system responds to infectious agents -- under a $25 million contract awarded by the NIAID in 2004. The database places particular emphasis on emergi...

Woman's Day and For Womens of Science

...last 30 years have offset decreased emissions from developed nations. There is now solid scientific evidence of methylmercury's toxic health effects, particularly to the human fetus. New evidence indicates that methylmercury exposure may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly in adult me...

Mercury contamination of fish warrants worldwide public warning

...last 30 years have offset decreased emissions from developed nations. There is now solid scientific evidence of methylmercury's toxic health effects, particularly to the human fetus. New evidence indicates that methylmercury exposure may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly in adult me...

Discovery could lead to better control of hemorrhagic fever viruses

...ly, several anti-TfR1 antibodies have already been developed as anticancer therapeutics (cancer cells are also high in TfR1), and some have already been through clinical trials. Choe's lab will test these antibodies, hoping to find one that inhibits virus entry without compromising TfR1's essential function in...

Enhancing activity of marijuana-like chemicals in brain helps treat

... of endocannabinoids in the brain - URB597, being developed by Kadmus Pharmaceuticals in Irvine, Calif. - the results were striking. "The dopamine drug alone did a little bit but it wasn't great, and the drug that targeted the enzyme that degrades endocannabinoids basically did nothing alone," Kreitzer ...

Study examines risk of soft tissue sarcomas in hereditary retinoblastoma survivors

...ted with radiation. However, 18 of the 69 sarcomas developed outside the original radiation treatment field, and leiomyosarcoma was diagnosed more often outside the radiation field than in it. The authors note that some of their calculations are based on few cases of these rare cancers. In addition, classifi...

Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes

...in the last 50 years, computer science and AI have developed independently of neuroscience. Our work is biologically inspired computer science." "We developed a model of the visual system that was meant to be useful for neuroscientists in designing and interp...

NIAID DNA vaccine for H5N1 avian influenza enters human trial

...rus. Unlike conventional flu vaccines, which are developed by growing the influenza virus in hens' eggs and then administered as a weakened or killed form of the virus, DNA-based vaccines contain only portions of the influenza virus' genetic material. Once inside the body, the DNA instructs human cells to ma...

Drug-resistant bacterial infections serious complication after corrective eye surgery

...0 (left eye) visual acuity. Within 2 weeks, he had developed an infection in his left eye that grew worse, despite treatment, until his vision was only 20/400. When the infection was cultured and found to be MRSA, his antibiotics were changed and his vision recovered to 20/200 over the next two weeks. The pati...

Hybrid molecule causes cancer cells to self-destruct

...atty acid compound, Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a two-pronged molecular weapon that kills cancer cells in lab tests. The researchers cautioned that their double-punch molecule, described in the December issue of the journal Chemistry & Biology, has not yet been tested on animals or humans. Nev...

Fighting influenza & co. with 40,000 blood samples

...ndardised format. New immune tests which are being developed by the Spanish company INGENASA are intended to accelerate a solution to this problem. 'We want to find out which viruses are currently spreading, how dangerous they are and what risk factors make an infection particularly likely,' Oliver Schildgen e...

Breakthrough vaccine to treat chemo-resistant ovarian cancer

...offered by Cancer Treatment Centers of America and developed by AVAX Technologies, Inc. (OTCMarket: AVXT.OB). "Cancer Treatment Centers of America's number one priority is to help our patients win the battle against cancer," said Dr. Edgar Staren, Chief Medical Officer of Cancer Treatment Centers of America....

Nanotechnology meets biology and DNA finds its groove

...ecules for study. Now, however, scientists have developed a quick, inexpensive and efficient method to extra...rfaces is really hard," says Schwartz. The system developed by Schwartz, de Pablo and their colleagues could change all of that. By figuring out a way to take i...

Common gene version optimizes thinking -- but with a possible downside

...e version was also more prevalent among people who developed schizophrenia, a severe mental illness marked by delusions, hallucinations and impaired emotion that affects one percent of the population. "We have found that DARPP-32 shapes and controls a circuit coursing between the human striatum and prefron...

Robotic exoskeleton replaces muscle work

...ty of Michigan researchers. The ankle exoskeleton developed at U-M was worn by healthy subjects to measure how the device affected ankle function. The U-M team has no plans to build a commercial exoskeleton, but their results suggest promising applications for rehabilitation and physical therapy, and a simila...

Africa's first large-scale HIV vaccine study launches

... half of volunteers. Merck Research Laboratories developed the test vaccine that is based on an adenovirus -- a common cold virus that has been modified so that it cannot cause a cold in humans or be passed from person to person. The adenovirus is the carrier or vector which transports copies of three HIV ge...

Chlamydia vaccine a step closer to reality

... the effectiveness of Chlamydia prevention methods developed at the university, as well as compare and test possible prevention methods being developed by Sanofi-Pasteur. He said once a vaccine had been developed it could be administered via a patch...

Sheffield scientists light up bacteria

...ct early stage bacterial contamination. Being developed by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the University’s Departments of Chemistry, Engineering Materials and the Dental School, the sensor will have widespread applications beyond the initial project. Dr Steve Rimmer from the University’...

Analysis of rhesus monkey genome uncovers genetic differences with humans, chimps

...died genetic variation in macaque populations, and developed a set of 'single nucleotide polymorphisms' or SNPs (single base DNA differences) that can be used for future analysis of inheritance of biomedically important traits in rhesus. The rhesus genomic DNA samples used for these studies were contributed b...

Genetic pathways to curable and incurable forms of pancreatic cancer identified

...ons. In the mouse model, which Hingorani first developed while at the University of Pennsylvania, the combination of Kras and p53 led to the more deadly form of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Earlier studies by researchers in Boston also found the same association between Kras and p16. From studies of h...

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