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Zebrafish may hold key to improved cancer research

... for cancer research. Those studies, among others, helped to determine that aflatoxin contaminants which can be found in some foods are a powerful carcinogen ?and are still a major cause of liver cancer in some developing nations. Zebrafish, however, are a fascinating species because the fish embryos are l...

Researchers Find Drug May Give Some Cardiac Protection 24 Hours After Heart Attack

...d significant protection to heart tissue, and even helped improve cardiac function. Dr. Koch believes the results “may be quickly translated into clinical trials.?He and his team present their findings on November 16, 2005 at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2005 in Dallas. ...

New vaccine platform may fight infections with causes from influenza to bioterrorism

...s the need for T cells. A series of experiments helped identify the two key components of the experimental DNA vaccine, so called because it has only the molecular signatures of these constructs: the molecule used by activated CD4+ T cells to signal production of antibodies, and importantly, the specific...

Wright bros. upstaged! Dinos invented biplanes

...feather was narrower than the trailing edge, which helped streamline the body in flight. The hooked, interlocking barbs gave strength and flexibility to the feather and prevented air from passing through it in flight. Some present-day birds, especially raptors as well as the earliest Jurassic bird Archaeo...

War on terror meets war on cancer

...has been dubbed "the ecology of terrorism." He has helped the Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of...fferences in the nitrogen-15-to-nitrogen-14 ratios helped Ehleringer distinguish soils where coca plants were grown, while ratios of carbon-13 to carbon-12 re...

Bacteria which sense the Earth's magnetic field

...k Institute of Biochemistry, and which has already helped shed light on many cellular structures and functions. Cyroelectron tomography makes it possible to analyse structures in detail inside an intact, shock-frozen cell (minus 196 degrees celsius), and to display them in three dimensions, at a resolution...

2005 AIDS figures released by WHO and UNAIDS

...ned, intensive programmes in diverse settings have helped bring about decreases in HIV incidence—among young people in Uganda and Tanzania, among sex workers and their clients in Thailand and India, and among injecting drug users in Spain and Brazil. The report notes that, without HIV prevention measures, ...

Earliest European Farmers Left Little Genetic Mark On Modern Europe

...ned, intensive programmes in diverse settings have helped bring about decreases in HIV incidence—among young people in Uganda and Tanzania, among sex workers and their clients in Thailand and India, and among injecting drug users in Spain and Brazil. The report notes that, without HIV prevention measures, ...

New neurons take baby steps in the adult brain

...orm connections in other parts of the brain may be helped through the same steps that naturally lead to integration in the dentate gyrus," says Song. Among the most likely targets for regeneration or replacement efforts are the dopamine-producing neurons that die in Parkinson's disease, muscle-controlling ...

Newly discovered birdlike dinosaur is oldest raptor ever found in South America

...scovered on an earlier expedition led by Apestegua helped fill in missing bones. Since discovering the first two Buitreraptor fossils, the scientists have discovered at least two more in the same area during fieldwork conducted in January 2005. "Although Buitreraptor is a recent discovery, we already have ...

Genetic testing still smart choice, despite uncertainties

...logies like preimplantation genetic diagnosis have helped too, making IVF more accurate, he said. "There has been a lot of progress," Grifo said. "It's helped many patients." ...

Report focuses on challenges to unlocking future promise of vaccines

Vaccines have helped eradicate and tame some of history's worst infectious diseases, but there are many more diseases out there that vaccines can help overcome. The challenges society needs to confront to unlock the future promise of vaccines against the plagues of the ...

Free-energy theory borne out in large-scale protein folding

... assistant professor of physics and astronomy, who helped the team analyze and interpret the simulation data. ...

Finding rewrites the evolutionary history of the origin of potatoes

...ond the agricultural benefits, Spooner's study has helped to rewrite a small but important chapter of evolutionary history. "Books are written about questions of how crops originate," he says. "Sometimes statements are repeated so often that they are accepted as fact. This is a way to get people to recon...

From one cell, many possible cures

... adult donors. "The National Institutes of Health helped establish the Tulane Center for Gene Therapy at Tulane University as a national distributor of these cells to researchers," he said. "The center is the source of the stem cells we use. "All of their donors are adults between the ages of 19 and 49. E...

Some good news for the world's poor

... decades in both countries. Rice research has also helped reduce large numbers of rural poor and IRRI played...ies. This unprecedented yield improvement not only helped millions avoid starvation but also saved thousands of hectares of fragile natural habitats from fall...

The nude mouse tale: Omega-3 fats save the life of a terminal cancer patient

...ro by his cancer-stricken neighbor, "D.H." Pardini helped the 78-year-old after D.H. was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. "In 2000 he was told by his doctor he had only a few months to live," said Pardini, a professor of biochemistry and associate director of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station ...

NIH launches comprehensive effort to explore cancer genomics

...of the human genome. The Human Genome Project also helped to advance sequencing technologies and paved the w...ention. Recent discoveries in cancer genomics have helped to identify several treatments that work by targeting cancer cells with a specific genetic change, s...

Understanding the oceans microbes is key to the Earth's future

...inue on earth." Early marine microorganisms also helped create the conditions under which subsequent life ... of oxygen by photosynthetic marine microorganisms helped shape the chemical environment in which plants, animals, and all other life forms have evolved. "...

Infection 'alarm' yields clues to immune system behavior

...where inflammation occurs. These ailments might be helped by a drug that curbs inflammation by reducing the ...acterized by a weak inflammatory response might be helped by a drug that makes IKK even more sensitive to infection messages. The researchers believe their c...

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