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Microbial forensics: The next great forensic challenge

Deliberately spreading disease among the enemy has been occasionally practiced ov...lex; physicians may not diagnose early symptoms of disease if not warned to look for them, increasing risk and allowing adversaries to escape; effective treatm...

Strongest proof yet found for prion hypothesis

...t that infectious misformed proteins cause mad cow disease and other mysterious brain disorders Researchers ...mprove current surveillance techniques for mad cow disease and its human form, new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome. ...

Medical molecules designed to respond to visible light that can penetrate tissue

...th to signal manmade molecules to release drugs at disease sites in the body. Such possibilities will be discussed in a poster and a talk by Virginia Tech researchers presenting at the 229th American Chemical Society national meeting in San Diego on March 13-17. Researchers in Karen Brewer's group at Virgi...

Researchers uncover sequence of major rice pathogen

...nism for elucidating the molecular basis of fungal disease of plants. Here, we report the draft sequence of the M. grisea genome. Analysis of the gene set provides an insight into the adaptations required by a fungus to cause disease. The genome encodes a large and diverse set of secreted proteins, including...

Harmful chemicals may reprogram gene response to estrogen

...whether people with a genetic predisposition for a disease actually develop the disease. The new research sh...and things in the environment interact to increase disease risk. Until now, scientists thought that exposure to harmful agents in the environment caused damage...

Disease diagnosis, biodefense among UH chemical research projects

...hat showcase applications ranging from early-stage disease diagnosis to fuel cells and batteries, the Univers... sensor molecules that are relevant to early-stage disease diagnosis, when treatment is still an option. Cai also is an author on four other papers that will b...

Silence the gene, save the cell: RNA interference as promising therapy for ALS

...he first proof of principle in the human form of a disease of the nervous system in which you can silence the...r of the study. ALS is a progressive neurological disease that attacks the motor neurons controlling muscles. Although its victims retain all their mental fac...

Brain-mapping technique aids understanding of sleep, wakefulness

...or deficiency in, orexin causes narcolepsy, a rare disease in which people uncontrollably fall asleep, have excessive daytime sleepiness and experience sudden muscle weakness called cataplexy. Because orexin-producing neurons play such a key role in regulating sleep, determining how they are connected to ot...

Revolutionary nanotechnology illuminates brain cells at work

...real time, will help researchers better understand disease processes and construct new drugs." "FRET is like two musical tuning forks, which have the same tone," Okumoto continued. "If you excite one, it gives a characteristic tone. If you bring the second fork close to the first one, it will also start to ...

Infants With Rare Genetic Disease Saved by Cord Blood Stem Cells

...ildren with a fatal genetic disorder called Krabbe disease can be saved and their brain development preserved...s from umbilical cord blood before symptoms of the disease develop, according to a study published in the May 19, 2005, issue of the New England Journal of Med...

Discovery may lead to better Candidiasis drug

...Baltimore. Candidiasis also is known as thrush, a disease characterized by whitish spots and ulcers on the m...n addition, many other pathogenic fungi that cause disease in elderly individuals or AIDS patients also should be able to be killed by histatins or drugs desig...

New Estimates For The Causes Of Child Deaths Worldwide

...than age 5 years. They found the four communicable disease categories account more than half (54%) of all child deaths. Infection of the blood or pneumonia in newborn babies and pneumonia in older children constitute 29% of all deaths. Undernutrition is an underlying cause of 53% of all deaths in children ag...

Mystery Blood Vessel Disorder Implicated In 'Mini' Strokes

...hysicians who encounter patients with small vessel disease should look for evidence of dolichoectasia. "If do...lest blood vessels of the brain. Patients with the disease are usually found to have high blood pressure, but the causes of the disease are unknown. Using MRI...

Emergence of cancer as major cause of childhood death in developing countries is not being adequately addressed

...—as well as Burkitt lymphoma, Wilms tumor, Hodgkin disease and other curable malignancies. “We’ve found that recruiting local oncologists to serve as program directors gives the best results,?Ribeiro said. “The recruited oncologists serve as program directors, advocates of pediatric oncology units and coord...

Potential Drug Target For Treating Cocaine Abuse Found

...lar to a drug used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease blocks the stimulating effects of cocaine and could potentially be used to develop drug therapy for cocaine abuse, new research shows. In an article published in the February 23, 2005, issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, Jonathan Katz and his coll...

CoPub Mapper: mining MEDLINE based on search term co-publication

...vant clusters of genes with biological process and disease keywords. In addition, all genes versus keywords were hierarchical clustered to reveal a complete grouping of published genes based on co-occurrence. The CoPub Mapper program allows for quick and versatile querying of co-published genes and keywords...

Canada approves marijuana-based pain spray

...ontrol and management are extremely important in a disease like MS,?said Dr. Allan Gordon, Neurologist and Di...g 2005. Multiple sclerosis (MS) in Canada MS is a disease of the central nervous system and is the most common neurological disease affecting young adults in ...

Biologists discover why 10% of Europeans are safe from HIV

...storic times. Some scientists have suggested this disease could have been smallpox or even bubonic plague but bubonic plague is a bacterial disease rather than a virus and is not blocked by the CCR5-delta32 mutation. Professor Duncan commented: "T...

UNC launches study of liver injury caused by drugs

...tudy how genes and environment interact to produce disease in some but not all people. We hope the factors identified by DILIN research will provide clues to susceptibility to the many diseases that represent an interaction with the environment." ...

Study reveals new technique for fingerprinting environmental samples

...man tissues to determine their unique features and disease status. These information-rich data allowed resear...rs to forge ahead with studying genes important in disease processes, long before the completion of the entire human genome. "EGT fingerprints may be able to ...

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