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Past illegal blood donation in China linked to hepatitis C virus infection

...ong a random sample of 538 adult residents from 12 former commercial plasma-donating villages in Shanxi Prov...ies. HCV rates were 8% in all participants, 28% in former plasma/blood donors, and about 3% in non-donors. Selling blood or plasma was the strongest independe...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

...* Poverty, "lifestyle" diseases now rampant in the former Soviet Union and mental health problems pose a far...itation and social benefit programs started by the former Soviet Union, and continued by Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, need reformulation due to changes in rad...

UT Southwestern researchers develop screening test for cells that activate immune system

...Ogawa, postdoctoral researcher, and Dr. Jimin Gao, former instructor. ...

Scientists develop nanotech-laser treatment that kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue

...S study. Other co-authors are Michael O'Connell, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry, and graduate student Jeffrey A. Wisdom in the Department of Applied Physics. The study was partly supported by the National Science Foundation Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemb...

Researchers find Amchitka seafood safe for now

...rt. Arthur Upton, M.D., a noted radiobiologist and former Director of the National Cancer Institute, now cli... it could improve the final version. Arthur Upton, former director of the National Cancer Institute and chair of the CRESP Review Committee on behalf of its s...

Divergent mating systems and parental conflict as a barrier to hybridization in flowering plants

...und interact to produce a new individual. From the former perspective, parental interests are unified (both wish to produce vigorous offspring), while the latter suggests possible conflict. This conflict can occur before or after fertilization. Before fertilization, the mother has an interest in picking th...

US/African project deciphers deadly parasite genome

...he parasite, which is named for him. Vish Nene, a former ILRI scientist who came to TIGR in 2001 to join the T. parva project, says the genome sequence provides useful information that will help scientists better understand how the parasite malignantly transforms cattle white blood cells into cancer-like c...

U-M scientists discover identifying markers for primitive blood-forming stem cells

...o look for them. Toshide Iwashita, M.D., Ph.D., a former research fellow in Morrison's laboratory and co-first author on the study, was responsible for the tissue section analysis. Cox Terhorst, Ph.D, from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School also collaborated in the research...

UW-Madison scientists zero in on drugs' sweet spots

...horson's collaborators include Joseph Langenhan, a former UW-Madison graduate student and post-doctoral fellow and now a chemistry professor at Seattle University; Noel R. Peters, and Professor F. Michael Hoffmann of the UW-Madison Comprehensive Cancer Center's Small Molecule Screening Facility; and Ilia A....

Prozac for future Plants on Mars

...ts of the same plant, once separated may treat the former conjoined twin as an alien "enemy," according to a Penn State researcher. "We were looking at how plants determine who is a competitor when competing with other roots for limited resources," says Dr. Omer Falik, postdoctoral researcher in plant ecol...

Plants discriminate between self and non self

...ts of the same plant, once separated may treat the former conjoined twin as an alien "enemy," according to a Penn State researcher. "We were looking at how plants determine who is a competitor when competing with other roots for limited resources," says Dr. Omer Falik, postdoctoral researcher in plant ecol...

Hurricane aftermath: Infectious disease threats from common, not exotic, diseases

...ol of Public Health at Emory University. She is a former Assistant Surgeon General of the United States and former deputy director of the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID). Common infectious di...

Birds and bats sow tropical seeds

... Autonomous University of Morelos in Mexico, and a former doctoral student of Howe's at UIC; Martin Ricker, ... biological station in Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz and a former UIC student; and Rodolfo Dirzo, the Bing Professor in environment science at Stanford University. T...

Field tested: Grasslands won't help buffer climate change as carbon dioxide levels rise

...e Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Shiho Tanaka, a former UCLA undergraduate who is starting graduate work at UCLA this fall in biochemistry; and UCLA chemistry and biochemistry graduate student Morgan Beeby. The structure of the carboxysome shows a repeating pattern of six protein molecules packed closely...

Nighttime Dying Linked To Sleep Apnea From Brain Cell Loss

...e Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Shiho Tanaka, a former UCLA undergraduate who is starting graduate work at UCLA this fall in biochemistry; and UCLA chemistry and biochemistry graduate student Morgan Beeby. The structure of the carboxysome shows a repeating pattern of six protein molecules packed closely...

New discovery blurs distinction between human cells and those of bacteria

...e Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Shiho Tanaka, a former UCLA undergraduate who is starting graduate work at UCLA this fall in biochemistry; and UCLA chemistry and biochemistry graduate student Morgan Beeby. The structure of the carboxysome shows a repeating pattern of six protein molecules packed closely...

Lactose intolerance linked to ancestral environment

...nzyme and drink milk throughout life. Sherman and former Cornell undergraduate student Gabrielle Bloom '03, now a graduate student at the University of Chicago, compiled data on lactose intolerance (the inability to digest dairy products) from 270 indigenous African and Eurasian populations in 39 countries...

'Cookbook recipes' would cure disease with nontoxic DNA delivery systems

...nd confocal microscopy, Wong and his colleagues -- former Illinois graduate student Hongjun Liang (now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara) and theoretician Daniel Harries at the National Institutes of Health -- investigated how different ion-mediated interactions were...

Trio of plant genes prevent 'too many mouths'

...ides Torii and McAbee are lead author Elena Shpak, former research associate at the UW and starting this fall as an assistant professor at California State University, Fullerton, and Lynn Pillitteri, a UW research associate in biology. ...

UCSD discovery may provide novel method to generate medically useful proteins

...c cells to treat disease," said Stephen McMahon, a former postdoctoral fellow in Ghosh's lab who conducted much of the research. "This idea has already been picked up by the biotech industry." The function of the massively variable phage protein is to tether the phage to the bacteria they infect. The pha...

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