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New study suggests promising drug combinations for sleeping sickness

...timox-eflornithine combination has potential as a future therapy for second-stage African trypanosomiasis, and should be evaluated further in clinical trials. ...

'Best of both worlds' -- Targeting a single gene could inhibit bone decay and stimulate bone growth

...ments by international standards while encouraging future activities of even higher levels and who also present exemplary models for the academic community. Choi, who is originally from Seoul, South Korea, has been at the University of Pennsylvania since 2001. ...

Taking 'chips' to the next level of gene hunting

... genome's worth of information - scientists in the future may be able to rapidly and efficiently identify, by comparing a DNA sample from a patient with the DNA on the chip, exactly where mutations lie. "With standard chips, we're missing a big piece of the picture of mutations in humans because they lo...

Inheritance outside DNA

... markers like lost IGF2 in humans could be used in future cancer-prevention strategies. Says Feinberg, “It could be possible to screen for colon cancer risk by looking at the epigenetic changes in colon cells of healthy people.? ...

Evolution and the workaround

...esearchers look to these evolved yeast strains for future explanations of how the duplication of genetic information contributes to the robustness and adaptability of all living things. ...

Rising ocean temperatures, pollution have oysters in hot water

...placed on the oyster's physiological system. In future experiments, the researchers will try to determine whether the combination of temperature and pollution is preventing oysters from obtaining enough oxygen or whether it is interfering with the animal's ability to use the oxygen it obtains, Lannig sai...

Stem cells found in adult hair follicles may provide alternative to embryonic stem cells

...itors. Their work provides a valuable resource for future mouse neural crest stem cell research. A report on the research from Dr. Maya Sieber-Blum's laboratory, co-authored by Yao Fei Hu, Ph.D., and Zhi-Jian Zhang, Ph.D., researchers in cell biology, neurobiology and anatomy at the Medical College, was pu...

Plant-derived molecules, genetic manipulation point to future chemoprevention methods

...tion of breast cancer and should be considered for future clinical trials." Genetic reduction of circulating insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 inhibits azoxymethane-induced colon tumorigenesis in mice Mice with a genetic alteration that reduced amounts of a key growth hormone had fewer carcinogen-ind...

SARS: No evidence that any of the treatments worked

...ctive methods of research should be applied in any future outbreaks. Their recommendations mean that researc... should be better prepared to learn from potential future outbreaks. Citation: Stockman LJ, Bellamy R, Garner P (2006) SARS: Systematic review of treatment e...

Climate change creates dramatic decline in red-winged black bird population

...? Weatherhead says that what will happen in the future isn't clear, but if the climate trends continue, there are likely to be further changes in population size. In 2005, Weatherhead returned to the marshy region of Canada where the other decades of data had been collected. The North Atlantic Oscilla...

Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

...n particular regenerative medicine -- could in the future provide new ways to deal with old health problems plaguing millions of people." ...

Geneticists discover genes that make fruit fly hybrids sterile

...ompatible pairing of these genes, said Barbash. In future work the researchers hope to determine whether the hybrids die because of additional genes like Hmr and Lhr, or because of more subtle differences between the chromosomes of these two species. ...

LSU professor discovers new species

...w what species exist in order to preserve them for future generations," said Austin. He used the cutting-edge molecular genetics lab at the LSUMNS to decipher the genetic code of the lizards. "We sequenced the DNA of this new species and several other closely related species in order to help our diagnosi...

Report calls for improved monoclonal antibodies against solid tumors

...rch for oncology offers a conceptual framework for future research in the design of antibody therapies against solid tumors. Writing in the January 15, 2007 issue of CANCER ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom ), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the researchers note tha...

Climate experts search for answers in the oceans

...ant to monitor and model them into calculations of future climate change," Prof. Emeritus Andre Morel at the French Observatoire Océanolgique de Villefranche explained. "The risk is that we may find the warming of the sea and the modification of the water circulation patterns may cut off or modify some of t...

Down syndrome: It's not just the age factor

...r, as women approach the menopause and the risk of future infertility increases, this selection, or filtering stringency, is expected to relax. Neuhäuser and Krackow's paper provides evidence that older mothers, who give birth to children with Down Syndrome, have a relaxed stringency of quality control o...

Nanotech tools yield DNA transcription breakthrough

...e novel methods and findings of this work will aid future studies of other molecular machines involved in cell replication, transcription and protein synthesis." The other study reported in Science was conducted by Ebright's laboratory in collaboration with Terence Strick's laboratory at the Institut Ja...

The first tree genome is published: Poplar holds promise as renewable bioenergy resource

...h as ethanol from cellulose in the not-too-distant future (Breaking the Biological Barriers to Cellulosic Et...with biofuels by 2030. DOE scientists envision a future where vast poplar farms in regions such as the Pacific Northwest, the upper Midwest, and portions of...

Research suggests beta agonists may alter the immune system

...nd survive. Penn said this finding could influence future drug development, because new beta agonists that are more effective in activating PKA may prove useful. ...

UCLA researchers unravel a mystery about DNA

...." Scrunched DNA is likely to play a major role in future studies of transcription regulation, and possibly ...e novel methods and findings of this work will aid future studies of other molecular machines involved in cell replication, transcription and protein synthesi...

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