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Smallpox outbreak: How long would it take for vaccines to protect people? Would it work?

...hroughout the world, the U.S. government is making efforts to improve its ability to protect its citizens in the event of a bioterrorist attack involving the smallpox virus (Variola major virus). This study at Saint Louis University will look at the ability of an investigational vaccine made by Bavarian N...

HIVMA opposes The Gambia's unproven AIDS remedy

...h his people’s lives." "We support the tireless efforts of African scientists, clinicians, and community h...urge the government of the Gambia to support their efforts as well." Dr. Kuritzkes concluded, "People around the world living with HIV/AIDS deserve safe, ef...

WHO data confirms low level of resistance to Tamiflu

...and are currently under investigation. Roche’s efforts to support government pandemic stockpiling Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) reconfirmed the need for world governments to be vigilant in their plans to protect against a potential pandemic outbreak. WHO also reconfirmed that stockpili...

Researchers attach genes to minichromosomes in maize

...nts. Birchler said there have been unsuccessful efforts to create artificial chromosomes in plants but this is the first time engineered minichromosomes have been made. Minichromosomes are able to function in many of the same ways as chromosomes but allow for genes to be stacked on them. Although other fo...

Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles

...nd to the sounds of nature. At the Grand Canyon, efforts are being made to implement the National Parks Overflights Act of 1987, which calls for the timely, substantial restoration of natural quiet to the park from aircraft noise. Dickson Hingson of the Sierra Club's National Parks and Monument Committee ...

The quest for an effective HIV vaccine presents new possibilities, challenges

... has been made; however, we must continue research efforts to improve our understanding of HIV and how it eva...low the virus to escape detection. While early efforts to develop an HIV vaccine focused on the viral envelope, an improved understanding of how HIV causes...

Better health twice as likely for nonsmokers who live and work with smoking restrictions

...gislated, governmental agencies can increase their efforts in developing and testing effective interventions to promote household smoking policies. "By highlighting potential health benefits of promoting workplace legislation and voluntary household smoking restrictions, this research provides additional ra...

Scientists seek useful traits in wild cottons

...hese collections and exchanging germplasm in their efforts to improve the cotton genome. "These collections contain a wealth of genetic material," Gannaway said, "especially when you compare them to today's varieties. We are screening obsolete and wild cottons for useful traits such as insect and di...

Genome of yellow fever/dengue fever mosquito sequenced

...tics Institute at Virginia Tech. Tu coordinated efforts with TIGR and five research laboratories in the Un.... aegypti genome sequence is expected to stimulate efforts to elucidate interactions at the molecular level between mosquitoes and the pathogens they transmit ...

Discovery of 'master switch' for the communication process between chloroplast and nuclei of plants

... The discoveries are critical to future research efforts in designing new generations of plants, Mittler said. "A lot of things that occur in the chloroplast are important for production, for growth, for response to the environment," he said. "So this is a very basic mechanism of communication between th...

Scientists see DNA get 'sunburned' for the first time

...es are arranged in space," Kohler said. "In our efforts to understand photo-damage, this new result shifts our attention to the DNA structure, and the kinds of arrangements that exist at the moment DNA absorbs light." ...

Tibetan antelope slowly recovering, WCS says

...iving in the Chang Tang region have made concerted efforts to safeguard their wildlife and have established local wildlife preserves to protect populations of wild yak and other wildlife. "These wholly local Tibetan initiatives are the best means of establishing long-lasting conservation efforts, and they...

Mechanism of nicotine's learning effects explored

...e learning and memory—a property that has launched efforts to develop nicotine-like drugs to treat cognitive deficits in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, schizophrenia, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. A key problem in designing such drugs has been that little was known about the detailed ...

Row over study puts Korea's scientific community under scrutiny again

...Gornall. It is also threatening to disrupt Korea's efforts to recover scientific credibility in the wake of the recent scandal over Woo-Sok Hwang's stem cell research. Dr Kim claims a paper about premature ovarian failure that he originally published in the Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in ...

Major gene study uncovers secrets of leukemia

...e them. That could help us continue our successful efforts to increase the survival rate of ALL." One potential strategy for eliminating leukemic cells would take advantage of the discovery that mutations in the B-cell differentiation pathway are predicted to prevent progenitors from changing into normal...

Discovery could lead to better control of hemorrhagic fever viruses

...e of TfR1's structure will speed up the Choe lab's efforts to pinpoint the parts of the molecule that are exploited by New World hemorrhagic fever viruses, which is necessary for the development of targeted antiviral drugs that block those parts, but not the parts involved in iron uptake. The findings of...

Bypassing eggs, flu vaccine grown in insect cells shows promise

... of pandemic bird flu. For decades the nation’s efforts to prevent flu have centered on growing flu virus in hundreds of millions of fertilized eggs, with each egg containing less than a teaspoonful of material that will ultimately become part of a vaccine. It’s typically a six-month process to produce en...

Scientists uncover link between ocean's chemical processes and microscopic floating plants

...gram. Combining future experimental and modeling efforts will lead to a better understanding of the feedback systems between the atmosphere and ocean, believes Wingenter. "To predict future climate more accurately, it's critical that we understand the outcome of increasing ocean acidification and increasin...

Children who sleep more weigh less

...t and relatively low-cost strategy to add to other efforts to help reduce childhood weight problems.?...

Nanotechnology meets biology and DNA finds its groove

...ve and simple enough to lend itself to large-scale efforts to analyze DNA. "It's a simple technology that works, and that's demonstrated to work for genome analysis," says de Pablo. "It's a very robust method that can be used in a variety of settings." In addition to Schwartz and de Pablo, authors of t...

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