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Avian influenza survivors' antibodies effective at neutralising H5N1 strain

Adults who have recovered from the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of avian influe...searchers have shown how specific antibodies taken from avian flu survivors in Vietnam can be reproduced in the laboratory and prove effective at neutralisi...

Focused ultrasound relieves fibroid symptoms in women

... of women in the United States age 25 to 50 suffer from symptomatic uterine fibroids. Fibroid symptoms can include excessive menstrual bleeding, enlarged uterine size, frequent urination, pelvic pressure or pain and infertility. According to the National Women’s Health Information Center, fibroids are...

HIV and malaria combine to adversely affect pregnant women and their infants

...V affects PAM, Kain and his team collected samples from women in the first pregnancy as well as from women in their subsequent ones living in the Kenyan region where malaria is common. The researchers ...

Eavesdropping comes naturally to young song sparrows

...with another young bird. Even though they learned from both tutors, the young birds acquired more than twice as many songs from the tutor on which they eavesdropped, said Michael Beecher, lead author of the study and a UW psycho...

New research shows sharks use their noses and bodies to locate smells

...r finding food. However, according to new research from Boston University marine biologists, sharks can no...the source of an odor when deprived of information from its lateral line, particularly in the dark. According to Atema, since most odor plumes disperse ...

First confirmed common genetic risk factors for breast cancer

...Normal versions of these genes help prevent cancer from occurring in the first place, by helping cells to ...DNA breaks and other abnormalities that can result from chance or exposure to an environmental toxin, such as excessive UV sunlight. However, BRCA-1, BRCA-2...

Cytomegalovirus exacerbates atherosclerosis through an autoimmune mechanism

A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Verona and the Institute G. Gasl...ted by Prof. Roberto Corrocher and Claudio Lunardi from the University of Verona and by Prof. Antonio Puccetti from the Institute G. Gaslini in Genova, Ital...

New designer lipid-like peptide with lipid nanostructures for drug delivery systems

Scientists from Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research (...using common amino acids, the same basic molecules from meat, beans and fruits. These lipid-like peptides have excellent potential to solubilize membrane p...

Extra-aggressive form of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis identified

...s (IPF) is a chronic and progressive lung disorder from which most patients die within 5 years after diagn...g that rapid progressors are biologically distinct from slow progressors. "While preliminary, these results may allow investigators to identify biomarke...

Common treatment for methamphetamine overdose may damage brain cells

...ovement, a new study shows. The findings, derived from experiments with rats, indicate that only the comb...sity School of Medicine suspect the damage results from the exaggerated stimulation of cells by the amino acid glutamate, which proves toxic to cells produc...

Gene expression patterns predict rapid decline in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients

...stress, cell migration and proliferation and genes from fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells. According to Naftali Kaminski, M.D., director of the Simmons Center and director of the Lung Translational Genomics Center, division of pulmonary, allergy and critical care medicine, University of Pittsburgh S...

Want to save polar bears? Follow the ice

...The new project will be funded by a $100,000 grant from the Wendy P. McCaw Foundation and will enable land... for Cool Bears" initiative represents a departure from previous polar bear studies, which typically focused on either observing individual bears or followi...

For many insects, winter survival is in the genes

... state. The researchers extracted and compared RNA from both dormant and non-dormant fly pupae – the developmental stage between larva and adulthood. They used a laboratory technique that let them separate out genes that were turned on only in the flies in this dormant state. The researchers found 11 p...

How brain pacemakers erase diseased messages

... neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic, with support from the National Institutes of Health. The FDA appr...ents, who typically experience the greatest relief from symptoms when their devices are tuned by physicians to deliver rapid pulses, Grill said. Patients' s...

Detecting cold, feeling pain: Study reveals why menthol feels fresh

...for studying acute and chronic pain, as can result from inflammatory or nerve injury, the researchers say,...ulius. Ultimately, pain signals are transmitted from the peripheral nervous system into the body's central nervous system – moving through nerves in the ...

'Virtual Patient' to simulate real-time organ motions for radiation therapy

With a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are developing a physics-based virtual model that can simulate a pa...

NASA-funded robotic sub finds bottom of world's deepest sinkhole

... to navigate by recognizing a more global response from all of its sensors. Wettergreen said demonstrating that SLAM could work in such a featureless environment suggests that it will have applications in environments with similarly sparse features, like rivers or mines. Though initially operated on...

Philandering female felines forgo fidelity

... one male, revealing a mating system that deviates from those used by other carnivores, most of which cons.... By comparing individual genetic micro-satellites from 171 samples, researchers not only were able to determine if more than one father contributed to a li...

Lessons from the orangutans: Upright walking may have begun in the trees

...ancestors to chimps, gorillas and humans descended from the trees and began walking on the ground on all f... distinguishing early human, or "hominin," fossils from those of other apes. But, this distinction is complicated by recent fossil evidence that some early ...

Moths mimic sounds to survive

...ic clicks of their own. They broadcast the clicks from a paired set of structures called “tymbals.” Many... of a second. He also recorded the sounds emitted from each moth, as well as the sounds made by the bats. All the bats quickly learned to avoid the nox...

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