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Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola update
...vaccine and effective treatment, invariably incite great anxiety in affected populations. This anxiety, in turn, can interfere with control operations, especially when communities begin hiding cases and bodies because of suspicions about the safety of hospitals. In the current outbreak, such suspicions ar...Duke engineers develop new 3-D cardiac imaging probe
...nd, which, combined with the 504 sensors, provides great sensitivity and a sharp image, Smith said. And because the image is large enough to encompass the whole volume of the heart, fewer "pictures" need to be taken. This may shorten patient time in clinics, he said. ...Double triumph in stem cell quest
WITH great fanfare a South Korean team announced last week th...lot more work to prove his claim. While ESCs show great promise for treating many diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and Parkinson's, non-matching ES...At long last, scientists figure out how plants grow
It has been one of the great mysteries in plant science. Scientists have known since 1885 that the plant growth hormone auxin exists. They've known of its dramatic effects on plant growth and development since the 1930s. But only now do scientists know how it works. In this we......T. "The availability of these sequences will be of great benefit to the microarray bioinformatics community and to databases such as the NCT's CEBS as we seek to make high-quality toxicogenomics data sets publicly available." The microarray design and probe sequence information is now available on Agilent...Virus-host interactions at sea effect global photosynthesis
...T. "The availability of these sequences will be of great benefit to the microarray bioinformatics community and to databases such as the NCT's CEBS as we seek to make high-quality toxicogenomics data sets publicly available." The microarray design and probe sequence information is now available on Agilent...B-15A collides with Antarctic ice tongue
...T. "The availability of these sequences will be of great benefit to the microarray bioinformatics community and to databases such as the NCT's CEBS as we seek to make high-quality toxicogenomics data sets publicly available." The microarray design and probe sequence information is now available on Agilent...Undesirable expatriates: Preventing the spread of invasive animals
... use." While motivations vary-- some animals make great pets, others have valuable pelts-- humans have been moving animals between Europe and North America for hundreds of years. Enterprising furriers imported American mink into Europe, where the animals escaped from captivity and spread prolifically. Eur...Plant Sacrifices Cells to Fight Invaders
...h groups. NSF's Jane Silverthorne said, "This is a great example of how NSF-supported tools are enabling important basic research in plants with a broader relevance to other organisms." ...A little stress gives beneficial oomph! to immune system
...ins. "While all major leukocytes are mobilized in great numbers at the first hints of acute stress, the immune proteins that are generated at the battle site will determine which types of immune cells are further recruited in greater numbers," Dhabhar said. "Different types of immune challenges may produc...To sea or not to sea: When it comes to salmon sex, size sometimes doesn't matter
...only take our collective foot off their neck." "A great deal of habitat from southern British Columbia to California is no longer accessible to salmon or has been altered to their detriment," he writes in the conclusion of his book published by University Press. "However, if we write salmon off as incapab...Confocal imaging promises early detection of skin cancer
...ays Dr Sheblee. He notes that confocal imaging has great potential for detecting skin cancers and expects significant take-up of the technology in the next five years. ...Supercomputers to focus brains on AIDS dilemma
...ations, the researchers discovered that there is a great deal of unexpected flexibility in this binding reg... integrase enzyme," said McCammon. Because of the great promise these compounds are showing for treating HIV/AIDS, the Merck scientists are proceeding with ...Gladstone investigators discover how resting T cells avoid HIV infection
...is very exciting," says Greene. "We have learned a great deal from our studies of how the resting CD4 T cell resists HIV. Now, the challenge is for scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology and elsewhere to translate these basic discoveries into novel treatments that could benefit HI...Science study holds implications for gene therapy and stem cell biology
...hance the fitness of stem cells. Such genes are of great interest for regenerative medicine because they can improve the prospects of stem cell-based therapies. Stem cells are very rare in the body and typically need to be multiplied for medical use. The genes that the researchers found to be marked and ac...New strategies to reduce hospital-aquired infections
...aterborne pathogens. However, he noted, there is a great deal more to be done. He stated that the infectious disease community can take the lead in solving the problem and that they can also look to the experience and success in Europe to ensure that patients are protected from dangerous waterborne pathog...Distributed Basic Local Alignment Search Toolkit (W.ND-BLAST)
...aterborne pathogens. However, he noted, there is a great deal more to be done. He stated that the infectious disease community can take the lead in solving the problem and that they can also look to the experience and success in Europe to ensure that patients are protected from dangerous waterborne pathog......on may have played a role in the evolution of such great apes as chimps and gorillas. The research appears ... likely to be living in the same area of Africa as great apes. African apes may have been susceptibile to the virus, or ancestral humans and Asian apes may h...Molecular thermometers on skin cells detect heat and camphor
...signaling pain--an indication for which there is a great need for new therapeutics. Indeed, several compounds that are currently under investigation for alleviating chronic pain target the action of a protein called TRPV1 (VR1), which is similar to TRPV3. Molecular Thermometers TRPV3 and TRPV1 are both ...Molecular messengers perform a crucial role in the ability of injured nerve cells to heal themselves
...gers must transmit their phosphorus message over a great distance along the axon, and in the course of this arduous journey can easily lose their phosphorus en route. Dr. Michael Fainzilber and graduate students Eran Perlson and Shlomit Hanz of the Weizmann Institute's Biological Chemistry Department foun...Other Tagshandful 2handful 3handful 4handful 5its 2its 3its 4its 5its 6its 7its 8its 9its 10explored 2explored 3Other Contentsgeneticsgeneticsgeneticsgeneticsgeneticsgeneticsgeneticsgeneticssplicingsplicingsplicingsplicingsplicingstarchstarchstarchstarchstarchstructuralstructuralstructuralstructuralstructuralstructuralstructuralstructuralstructuralstemstemstemstemstemstemstemstemstemstomastomastomastromastromastromasymbiosissymbiosis
(Date:12/4/2009)By measuring the total gene activity in organs relevant for coronary artery disease (CAD), scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have identified a module of genes that is
(Date:12/4/2009)The electroencephalogram (EEG) is widely used by physicians and scientists to study brain function and to diagnose neurological disorders. However, it has remained largely unknown whether the electrod
(Date:12/4/2009)Using a new mathematical model of heart cells, University of Iowa investigators have shown how activation of a critical enzyme, calmodulin kinase II (CaM kinase), disrupts the electrical activity of h
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(Date:12/4/2009)Late recurrence is a risk for some pediatric cancers, particularly Ewing sarcomas and tumors of the central nervous system, according to a new study published online December 4 in the Journal of the
(Date:12/4/2009)Case Western Reserve University researchers, from the School of Medicine,s Department of Nutrition, discovered two new metabolic pathways by which products of lipid peroxidation and some drugs of abus
(Date:12/4/2009)Dental tourism is a phenomenon that was started by people that were looking for an alternative to the high price of dental work in the US, Canada, and other countries. In their search for lower priced
(Date:12/4/2009)Move a response to pressure from federal regulators to crack down on abuse of opioid medications , , FRIDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- The makers of 24 different prescription painkillers on F
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