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Living view in animals shows how cells decide to make proteins

... "Given the importance of alternative splicing in health and disease," he added, "this anatomic mapping of splicing decisions may give us considerable insight into the many human diseases associated with improper regulation of splicing."...

Chronic jet-lag conditions hasten death in aged mice

...ferent physiological oscillations may have serious health consequences that are exacerbated in aged animals. ...

MRSA toxin acquitted: Study clears suspected key to severe bacterial illness

...coccus aureus bacterium is a growing global public health menace because of its rapid spread from hospital settings into communities of healthy people," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "This is an evolving pathogen that in recent decades has developed resistance to common medical treatments and n...

Protein structure initiative launches new resources for the scientific community

... can reveal the roles that these molecules play in health and disease and may point the way to designing new medicines. "The first five years of the PSI were devoted to developing methods, technologies, and pipelines to speed the structure production process and reduce its cost," said NIGMS Director Je...

Plant studies reveal how, where seeds store iron

... Such nutrient-rich seeds would benefit both human health and agricultural productivity." The findings were published online in the Nov. 2, 2006, ScienceExpress, the advance publication site for the journal Science. The researchers combined traditional mutant analysis (turning on and off the VIT1 prot...

NASA satellite data helps assess the health of Florida's coral reef

NASA satellite data was used to help monitor the health of Florida's coral reef as part of a field researc...l weeks, shown to be particularly important to the health of reefs. "MODIS imagery is beneficial because it provides more detail than traditional satellites...

Increase in drug development for killer diseases is not enough

...s not believe that the increases in development of health products for neglected diseases (drugs, vaccines a...ality manufacturing to convert the inventions into health products for both domestic and international markets." Matlin does acknowledge the challenges faced...

NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective

...expand the use of genomics in medical research and health care. "There has been significant progress over ...an individual genome cost-effectively could enable health care professionals to tailor diagnosis, treatment and prevention to each person's unique genetic pro...

Household transmission of SARS: Lessons learned

...ective measures. SARS presented a unique public health situation, in which urgent prevention and control measures neededto be taken, while at the same time the identity of the infectious agent was unknown. ...

A silent pandemic: Industrial chemicals are impairing the brain development of children worldwide

...dual toxic chemicals are not apparent in available health statistics. To point out the subclinical risk to l...hemicals for toxicity is a highly efficient public health measure. However, less than half of the thousands of chemicals currently used in commerce have been ...

Ghengis Khan wonder berry could conquer heart disease

...d is used in Tibet, Mongolia, China and Russia for health drinks and various cosmetics. Juice extracted using current methods is of poor quality, but scientists in India have developed a highly efficient technique to extract large quantities of cholesterol-lowering compounds. Two companies have shown intere...

New drug blocks influenza, including bird flu virus

...are losing their effectiveness, and scientists and health professionals worry that the flu virus, and especially the H5N1 bird flu virus, will evolve to the point where existing drugs are no longer effective. Drugs now on the market work by either preventing virus replication within the cell or preventing t...

Heavy smoking cuts women's chance of pregnancy -- even with donated oocytes

...erated about the effects of smoking in a series of health areas, its possible effect on uterine receptiveness has never been evaluated until now," he said. "Our study is just the first step on this path, and certainly not the last, but it means that we should now be telling patients, if they are heavy s...

To slow AIDS in Russia, treat HIV-positive addicts, Stanford study says

...eating both populations equally provided the most health benefit for the money, said Owens. One key to implementing treatment programs will be keeping injection drug users on their HIV medications, said Owens. Antiretroviral therapy regimens have become much simpler, often requiring patients to take j...

Molecules in blood foretell development of preeclampsia

...to attach to cell surface receptors to promote the health of blood vessels. Dr. Levine cautioned, however, that such attempts to develop a drug treatment would need to proceed cautiously. It's possible that restoring normal blood pressure and blood flow to the mother's circulatory system might deprive th...

'GreeneChip' -- New diagnostic tool that rapidly and accurately identifies multiple pathogens

...merging infectious diseases and biodefense, public health practitioner and diagnosticians need a comprehensive set of tools for pathogen surveillance and detection." GreeneChip features include a comprehensive microbial sequence database that integrates previously distinct reserves of information about p...

Environmental toxins may cause body's defenses to worsen lung disease

...chers, assistant research professor of environment health at UC and principal investigator for the study. ... the elasticity of the lung and lead to additional health problems. Using an animal model, Borchers will expose surface cells in the lung to two environment...

BC catalyst discovery promises faster, cheaper drug production

...amental chemical research can benefit the American health care consumer," said John M. Schwab, a chemist at the National Institute of General Medical Science,which supported the work. ...

Firefighters face increased risk for certain cancers

University of Cincinnati (UC) environmental health researchers have determined that firefighters are ... scientific studies to determine the comprehensive health effects and correlating cancer risks of their profession. Risk for 20 different cancers was clas...

What does the public really know about HPV?

...ormation National Trends Survey (HINTS) to monitor health communications about cancer. In 2005, one high-pr...ancer in order to make appropriate, evidence-based health care choices among existing prevention strategies, including the Pap test, HPV DNA test, and HPV vac...

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