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Newly discovered protein an important tool for sleeping sickness research

... Africa are threatened daily by a deadly parasitic disease known as African sleeping sickness. The disease is caused by organisms called trypanosomes, which are spread by the tsetse fly. African sleeping sic...

Disabling gene defuses rheumatoid arthritis in mice

...seful approach for arthritis therapy even when the disease is already well underway." Peng and colleagues will publish their results in the June issue of Nature Medicine. Rheumatoid arthritis, the most prevalent autoimmune form of arthritis, afflicts approximately 2.1 million Americans or about 1 percent o...

U. Iowa researchers improve Huntington's disease symptoms in mice

...step toward a potential treatment for Huntington's disease (HD). Using an approach called RNA interference (R....HD is a devastating, inherited, neurodegenerative disease that is progressive and always fatal. The disease-causing gene produces a protein that is toxic to c...

Breakthrough System for Understanding Ocean Plant Life Announced

... Africa are threatened daily by a deadly parasitic disease known as African sleeping sickness. The disease is caused by organisms called trypanosomes, which are spread by the tsetse fly. African sleeping sic...

Active Vaccine Prevents Mice From Developing Prion Disease

...ly delay and possibly prevent the onset of a brain disease in mice that is similar to mad cow disease. The ne...lude scrapie, mad cow disease, and chronic wasting disease -- is on the horizon, many research groups in both the United States and Europe are working on prion...

Researchers pioneer new gene therapy technique using natural repair process

...n the IL-2R gene are associated with a rare immune disease called severe combined immunodeficiency disease, o...as well as many other diseases, both copies of the disease gene are mutated so there is no correct version naturally available. To overcome this, researchers a...

Asymptomatic HIV babies could use earlier treatment

...uthor Yvonne Maldonado, MD, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and a...e is a significant difference in the likelihood of disease progression [with earlier treatment], even though there is only about a month separating the initiat...

Function of new cancer genes discovered

...can cause serious malformations. People with this disease have a mutated form of the protein CYLD. Nijman an...nherited cancer, Fanconi anaemia. People with this disease develop many highly malignant tumours at a young age, because the cell repair system is incapble of ...

Leprosy genome tells story of human migrations, French researchers report in Science

...ely mutated for centuries. They also show that the disease may have begun in East Africa, as opposed to India... public health workers monitor the movement of the disease over time and determine the geographic source of new infections, said study author Stewart Cole of t...

Determining The Fate Of Cells In The Human Body

...nts with Saethre-Chotzen Syndrome. "By studying a disease in which things go wrong at the cellular level, we gain insight into how to correct these errors," said Dr. Firulli, who also is a molecular biologist at the medical school's Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research. "From a pediatrics perspecti...

Aircraft Cabin Ventilation Influences The Transmission Of Diseases In-flight

...nsmission of tuberculosis suggest that the risk of disease transmission to other symptom-free passengers with...from countries with malaria and other vector-borne disease only five countries currently do so (Australia, Caribbean, India, Kiribati, and Uruguay). The autho...

Tamoxifen-like drug suggests new ways to selectively block estrogen

...n or raloxifene at preventing breast cancer, heart disease and bone loss without increasing the risk of endometrial cancer." Tamoxifen and raloxifene are the best-known members of a class of drugs known as specific estrogen receptor modulators or SERMs. These drugs mimic some effects of estrogen and block o...

Survey reveals women and doctors aren't talking about HPV

... of diagnostic testing, now make cervical cancer a disease that can be better prevented, we're encouraging women to discuss with their healthcare provider their HPV risk, get regular screenings with the Pap test and, if they are age 30 or older, ask about HPV testing as well." Other major findings from the ...

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

...ther factors which complicate the treatment of the disease it causes." ...

Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies

Johns Hopkins infectious disease specialists who have spent more than two decades l...ournal of Public Health online June 28, infectious disease specialist Jonathan Zenilman, M.D., a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, ...

New understanding of cell movement may yield ways to brake cancer's spread

...ms, and cancer cells metastasize, spreading deadly disease through the body. Scientists studying these migrations didn't know how cells determined where to go. Until now. A Burnham Institute study has identified a fragment of a protein that senses chemicals that induce a cell to move into the right directio...

Gene silencing technique offers new strategy for treating, curing disease

... UT Southwestern Medical Center. "Virtually every disease starts at the level of malfunctioning gene express...on, as well as think about ways to correct genetic disease by changing mutant gene sequences back to normal," Dr. Corey said. "Those types of things now look a...

Discovery of New Dopamine Action May Yield Alternative Psychiatric Drugs

...fore, similar mechanisms might also underlie other disease pathways. Collaborators on the study include Tatyana Sotnikova, Sebastien Marion, Robert Lefkowitz and Raul Gainetdinov, all of Duke. The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Human Frontier Research Program and the Canadian I...

Cancer drug slows poxvirus in mice

...lanned, Dr. Kalman says. "The approach of fighting disease by targeting drugs to cellular molecules rather than to disease agents themselves may be applicable to a wide variety of pathogenic microorganisms," he says. Routi...

FDA Approves New Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis B

...itis B in adults. Chronic hepatitis B is a serious disease caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) that attacks the liver. The virus can cause lifelong infection, cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver, liver cancer, liver failure, and death. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximatel...

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