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Cold sore virus might play role in Alzheimer's disease

...ne who are infected with herpes are more likely to get Alzheimer's disease than people infected with herp... ApoE-4, which in people makes them more likely to get Alzheimer's; some had ApoE-2, which makes people less likely to get the disease; and some had no Apo...

Protein fragments sequenced in 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex

...ive mass spectrometry methods. "This allows you to get the chance to say, ‘Wait, they really are related because their sequences are related.?We didn’t get enough sequences to definitively say that, but what sequences we got support that idea." In anoth...

Chemo combination improves survival in asbestos-related cancer

...ean survival increase means that some patients may get even more than that, though some people will get less. Many, if not most, patients when faced with a disease with a very bad prognosis are often will...

Antifungal drug kills TB bug

...roys the human immune system and has allowed TB to get a grip once again." London is the TB capital of Europe, although most large cities here and in North America have seen rapid increases in the number of TB infections. However, the problem is most acute in Africa and Asia where HIV/AIDS is also mos...

Early-stage sperm cells created from human bone marrow

...even further. "Our next goal is to see if we can get the spermatagonial stem cells to progress to mature sperm in the laboratory and this should take around three to five years of experiments. I’ll be collaborating with other NESCI scientists to take this work forward. Prof Nayernia says a lengthy p...

Vasectomy may put men at risk for type of dementia

...different from Alzheimer's. Whether a patient will get the behavioral or language problems depends on where the disease causes the most destruction in the brain. In FTD, most of the damage is in the frontal lobes; in PPA, it's in the language centers of the left hemisphere of the brain. Weintraub t...

Iowa State University botanists identify new species of North American bamboo

... ecology and other characteristics. "We want to get the big picture of how all the temperate bamboos are related to each other. That means taking inventory of what exists, then comparing notes," Clark said. They already know that the closest relatives of native North American bamboos are not in Ce...

'Night owls' report more insomnia-related symptoms

...se and diabetes. Experts recommend that adults get between seven and eight hours of sleep each night to maintain good health and optimum performance. Those who think they might have insomnia, or another sleep disorder, are urged to discuss their problem with their primary care physician, who will ...

Infection detectives use disease 'fingerprints' to track common infections in children

...the immune response, and using that information to get a composite sketch of the infectious agent. "We...y they could send in the results from the chip and get the analysis back via the Internet, for example. "Pediatricians understand that this could change...

New findings blow a decade of assumptions out of the water

...s swung open, letting in cold air. The house could get quite chilly before the draft reaches the thermostat and the furnace turns on. But if the thermostat is in the same room as the window, the furnace will turn on and even out the temperature much faster. In his research Deutsch used a novel analysi...

Scientists find potential 'off-switch' for HIV virus

...ictims," Weinberger said. "Even when the cocktails get most of the infectious virus in a victim's body, s...te drugs that target these enzymes, perhaps we can get SirT1 and related enzymes to assert themselves immediately, forcing HIV into hibernation with high f...

Cancer vaccines -- Taking a jab at cancer by stimulating the immune system

... at the University of Louisville. "However, as you get genetically farther from types 16 and 18, you would expect to see less cross-protection." According to Dr. Gall, effective preventative treatment with the vaccine will depend on the long-term and broad protection the vaccine can offer against canc...

New biofuels process promises to meet all US transportation needs

... am getting hydrogen at a higher efficiency than I get biomass, meaning I need less land." Using coal exclusively to produce liquid fuels for the nation's transportation sector could deplete all coal deposits in the United States in about 90 years, whereas H2CAR would enable the known coal reserves to...

Gene that makes people 'early to bed and early to rise' demystified

...xplain just how their bodies' natural alarm clocks get set to such an early wake-up time. In studies of mice carrying the human FASPS gene, the researchers found that the mutant version of the Period 2 (Per2) clock gene--which is crucial for resetting the body's central clock in response to light--canno...

Researchers urge monitoring of bone health during chemotherapy

...ts should consume enough calcium and vitamin D and get sufficient exercise to maintain strong bones." Weilbaecher and her colleagues found that when they gave mice an eight-day course of the growth factor, called granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), the mice lost bone mass and experienced in...

Researchers create artificial enzyme that mimics the body's internal engine

...elop better catalysts to do that reduction, we can get better fuel cells," Devaraj explained. ...

Lost dogs found more often than lost cats, study suggests

...to find a pet. If someone loses a pet, they should get something visible out there to let people know about the missing animal." Lord says that many pet owners may not know how to go about finding their lost cat or dog. "For many of the owners in this study, it was the first time their pet had disapp...

Global 'sunscreen' has likely thinned, report NASA scientists

...occur at the same time. "When more sunlight can get through the atmosphere and warm Earth's surface, you're going to have an effect on climate and temperature," said lead author Michael Mishchenko of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), New York. "Knowing what aerosols are doing globally...

HIV protein enlisted to help kill cancer cells

...dicine in St. Louis have found an efficient way to get a messenger into cancer cells that forces them to ...nk, and they survived longer than mice that didn't get the treatment. After 40 days, 80 percent of mice receiving TAT-Bim were alive compared to 20 percent...

Growth hormone is not the anti-aging bullet for healthy adults

... "If you went to a gym pretty regularly, you might get that change without breaking into too much of a sweat, and you wouldn't spend $1,000 to $2,000 a month on something that appears to have modest or minimal benefit and the probability of bad side effects," said Liu. ...

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