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Newly discovered virus linked to childhood lung disorders and Kawasaki disease

...and may be associated with animportant multi-organ disease whose cause has remained a mystery fordecades, acc...ki disease, the most commoncause of acquired heart disease in children in developed countries. In the first of two studies, Jeffrey S. Kahn and co-workers at ...

Inexpensive, mass-produced genes core of synthetic biology advances at UH

...fer, less toxicproteins that are currently used in disease treatment. It also couldallow for production of large molecules that do not occur naturally,but that are needed for new generations of vaccines and therapeuticagents, including vaccines for HIV and other viral diseases. Thistechnology also will facil...

Study Links Ebola Outbreaks To Animal Carcasses

...results, and found direct links between the deadly disease in animal populations and humans. "This research ...or carcasses for meat. Hunters can then spread the disease to families and hospital workers, creating the conditions for an epidemic in the process. Between A...

New Technique for Tracking Gene Regulators

...lude the gene responsible for causing Huntington’s disease inmice, which is important for making advances in understandingHuntington’s disease in humans, and genes that may play an importantrole in certain cancers.“This technique can be applie...

Finding Cures For Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source An Answer?

...to finda drug candidate that affect a "profitable" disease in addition to the"non-profitable" one. PLoS Medecine has an article about a possiblesolution titled "Finding Cures for Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source an Answer?" The whole article is a very good read; a summary from ScienceDaily is available ...

Iron Deficiency Sparks Dramatic Changes In Gene Expression

...thology of hereditary blood disorders, Parkinson's disease andcertain cancers and develops during a number of...ace, physicians could translate theseverity of the disease into the appropriate treatment....

U of M researcher examines newly emerging deadly disease

...lness, named staphylococcal purpura fulminans. The disease begins as a respiratory tract infection, which the...05 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. This new disease has also been determined in seven additional cases nationwide. Of the 12 known cases, only two patie...

Live Recombinant Adenovirus Vaccine Technique Explored

...re economical vaccines that provide longer-lasting disease protection, which would be particularly beneficial for people living in the developing countries where resources are limited. Their research was made available online March 14, 2005, in advance of publication in the Proceedings of the National Academ...

Marburg virus disease in Angola - update

... mobilization activities, raising awareness of the disease in the community and also providing additional logistic support and equipment. Two travelers returning to Portugal from Angola were investigated for possible Marburg virus infection and laboratory results were negative in tests performed by the Bern...

Mitochondrial DNA mutations play significant role in prostate cancer

...n and, as acontrol, the same mtDNA but without the disease mutation. They theninjected these modified prostate cancer cells into mice to assess theirtumor-forming ability. The prostate cancer cells with the mutant mtDNAsgenerated tumors that were on average seven times larger than theprostate cancer cells wi...

Researchers reveal the infectious impact of salmon farms on wild salmon

...aborious fieldwork; and state of the art models of disease transfer. "Our research shows that the impact of ...site amplification on fish farms seems to increase disease levels in the local fish community. However previous studies have not shown nor quantified the direc...

Female sex hormones play a vital role in defense against sexually transmitted diseases

...y discussing the design of a study with infectious disease clinicians in Hamilton, which may begin in as early as the next few months. Additionally they will be looking at issues of co-infection with both HIV-1 and HSV-2 which is a big problem clinically. The two studies were posted online on the Journal of...

Spider Venom Could Yield Eco-Friendly Insecticides

...smit new and emerging human diseases, such as Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever (ticks) and dengue and yellow fever (mosquitoes). "One could envision specifically targeting mosquito larvae that carry human diseases such as West Nile or malaria, while leaving other insects and vertebrates unharme...

Gene variations explain drug dose required to control seizures

...e useful for other conditions, such as Parkinson's disease and cancer, in which patients' drug dosage require...-term drug side effects that eventually render the disease untreatable, he said. Patients' genetic makeup might also influence the dose of chemotherapy needed ...

Muscle-targeted gene therapy reverses rare muscular dystrophy in mice

... with the inherited muscular disorder called Pompe disease usually die before they reach the age of two. The ...g other muscular dystrophies. Patients with Pompe disease have a defect in a key enzyme that converts glycogen, a stored form of sugar, into glucose, the body...

Scientists decipher genome of fungus that can cause life-threatening infections

...e point duringthe course of their HIV disease. The disease caused by the fungus,cryptococcosis, sometimes inv...ut thebasic biology of Cryptococcus as well as the disease process," saysLodge, who is SLU's Associate Dean for Research and who helpedcoordinate the C. neofor...

Weill Cornell Research Reveals Secrets Of Trafficking Within Cells

...ne. It may also give us insights into the kinds of disease states that can happen when clathrin-regulated endocytosis goes wrong. The findings, already published online, will appear in the April print edition of Molecular Biology of the Cell, whose editors have chosen to highlight the Weill Cornell research...

New Study from Affymetrix Laboratories Points to Changing View of How Genome Works

...cture and function of every cell in the body. Most disease research has focused on studying these protein-cod...ets, new biomarkers, and a better understanding of disease mechanism. This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal Funds from the National Ca...

First-ever Compounds To Target Only Metastatic Cells Are Highly Effective Against Breast, Prostate, And Colon Cancers

...d. "It's all very exciting," he said. "Metastatic disease is such a tough problem, and these compounds could provide patients with a brand new kind of hope." The research was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health. Co-researchers included Ms. Dandan Shan (first author), Mr. Lin Chen, and ...

Gene Vaccine Protects Mice Against Development Of Her2/neu Breast Cancer

...e cancer cell to grow, this producing anaggressive disease that is difficult to stop.The drug Herceptin treats this kind of breast cancer by “plugging?these receptors with a monoclonal antibody, but this treatment“produces only a passive and transitory immune reaction,?Lachman said.“This vaccine, however, li...

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