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Nanoparticles offer new hope for detection and treatment

... The nanoparticles also may permit more effective follow up, because a doctor could use them to discern whether a tumor was still growing after radiation or chemotherapy treatments. Although this study focused on melanoma tumors, the researchers believe the technology should work for most solid tumors, be...

HIV-1 spread through six transmission lines in the UK

... for drug resistance. Scientists used this data to follow the changing number of infected individuals through time and estimate the demographic parameters shaping the epidemic. During the exponential growth phase, the transmission chains had an average growth rate of a doubling of the number of people infe...

New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem

...isual analysis the website can offer at this time, follow this quick guide: 1- Go to: http://gmbis.iris.usm.maine.edu/home.asp 2- Click on: "Take a look at our products" 3- Click on: The map next to "Annual Atlantic Cod Abundance & Distributions: 1963?003." (For more info, contact N...

BioMed Central welcomes the new National Institutes of Health public access policy

Yet another follow up of the NIH public access policy announced earl... that many other funding bodies worldwide will now follow the example set by NIH. All NIH grantees now have a new factor to take into account when choosing w...

PET/MRI scans may help unravel mechanisms of prenatal drug damage

... Pregnant Nonhuman Primates." "While studies that follow human drug abusers and their children over decades provide valuable information, animal studies can more quickly provide clues to the underlying mechanisms of damage and suggest ways to test new treatment or prevention strategies," said Benveniste. ...

UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders

... oversee all research in the GMP suite, which must follow stringent federal guidelines for reintroduction of manipulated cells into the human body. In addition, UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center features an established clinical trials infrastructure that could be used to test new therapeutics that may develop a...

Use of PET can reduce, may eliminate more strenuous drug development trials with animals

...ded over a period of time, allowing researchers to follow the development of disease in one subject and to monitor the effects of interventions on disease progression and outcome. Crucial information can be obtained noninvasively, repeatedly and quantitatively in the same animal, he said. With small animal ...

Artifical cornea lets woman blind 20 years see

...th the keratoprosthesis. Patients require a lot of follow up to make certain the artificial cornea remains s...of the intensiveness of the lifetime commitment to follow up, the procedure is rarely performed in children. Many researchers credit Claes Dohlman, M.D., cha...

Bone Density Recovers After Teens Stop Injected Contraceptive

... sites.?/p> The current study was conducted to follow up an earlier study of older women (18-39 years old.) That study found that the older women lost bone density while using DMPA and increased bone mass after discontinuing the contraceptive. However, the younger women in the current study both lost bo...

FDA Approves New Drug to Treat Type I and Type II Diabetes

...d, but still need better blood sugar control; will follow their doctor's instructions exactly; will follow-up with their doctor often; will test their blood sugar levels before and after every meal, and at bedtime; and understand how to adjust Symlin and insulin doses. Symlin should not be used if patients...

Research Gives Hope For Liver Damage

...apies."Further research into macrophages is set to follow and scientists willexplore the role of these immune-system cells in damage and repair toother organs, including the kidney....

Elephants imitate sounds as a form of social communication

...is exciting to see that African savannah elephants follow a pattern we've seen in other terrestrial and aquatic species capable of vocal learning, "Tyack said. "Vocal learning should also occur in other species where long-lived social bonds are based on individual relationships and where members of a group ...

Elephants imitate truck noises, other animals

...is exciting to see that African savannah elephants follow a pattern we've seen in other terrestrial and aquatic species capable of vocal learning, "Tyack said. "Vocal learning should also occur in other species where long-lived social bonds are based on individual relationships and where members of a group ...

Scientists collaborate to assess health of global environment

...addressing specific aspects of the assessment will follow this month's release of the global synthesis report. A report on global biodiversity will be available in May; a report on desertification is due out in June; and reports related to wetlands, the role of the private sector and impacts on human health...

Recent breakthroughs in common adult leukemia highlighted in New England Journal of Medicine

... with the disease, not because of it. CLL may also follow a more aggressive course. In these cases, patients...arkers that can predict whether a CLL patient will follow the benign or aggressive course. Some markers are not yet available for clinical use, however accord...

Growth in the sea comes down to a struggle for iron

...ults suggest that the struggle for iron may indeed follow something like what happens in the soil. Wells and his colleagues are evaluating the data they collected and conducting additional laboratory experiments. UMaine scientists are planning to return to the Pacific in 2007, but they have a different des...

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