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Surprising findings reported about iron overload

... percent of white men. Acton and Barton said they hope that results of the study will prompt more primary care physicians to consider hemochromatosis and iron overload as a diagnosis. Nationwide studies indicate it takes an average of nine years and three physicians to obtain a correct diagnosis, partly ...

Molecular models advance the fight against malaria

...nce more unlikely. "Within the next 3-5 years, we hope to develop a new drug that will finally empower us to treat this terrible disease," said Trumpower. Dartmouth Medical School co-authors of the paper are Dr. Jacques Kessl, research associate in biochemistry, Kevin Ha, Anne Merritt and Benjamin Lange...

Alaskan puzzles, monitoring provide insight about North Pacific salmon runs

...cuses on salmon conservation in pristine areas, in hope of saving healthy systems rather than rehabilitating highly transformed systems, Hilborn says. Other than fishing, the waterways studied by the Alaska Salmon Program are not subject to human activities such as dam building, logging or development. T...

Fibril Shape Is The Basis Of Prion Strains And Cross-species Prion Infection

...ed version of the mammalian prion protein, so they hope to test the fibril factor in a full-length protein soon. Jones and Surewicz also note that the new findings offer "the unsettling possibility" that repeated cross-species transmission events might eventually create prion fibril strains that can brid...

Brain-mapping technique aids understanding of sleep, wakefulness

...provided Dr. Yanagisawa and his research group new hope for navigating the neural network. The technique involves genetically engineering mice to produce a "tracer" protein only in a certain population of neurons. The tracer, a nontoxic fragment of the tetanus toxin, transfers itself from one neuron in r...

Technique may allow cancer patients to freeze eggs, preserving fertility before starting treatment

...begins cancer treatments, a woman can preserve the hope of one day having a baby. Freezing eggs is one thing; thawing them safely so they can lead to pregnancy is the challenge. In the past, efforts to freeze a woman's eggs, or oocytes, have not worked well because the cells are large. When the egg is th...

UNC launches study of liver injury caused by drugs

... to produce disease in some but not all people. We hope the factors identified by DILIN research will provide clues to susceptibility to the many diseases that represent an interaction with the environment." ...

Different microarray systems more alike than previously thought

...05 issue of Nature Methods, the study provides new hope that the mounds of information generated by these systems might actually be comparable, even though many different systems are used by many different laboratories. "Biologists occasionally ask me what is the best platform on which to run microarray ...

NIH Researchers Discover How Insulin Allows Entry of Glucose Into Cells

...of insulin metabolism. Eventually, the researchers hope to obtain cell samples from volunteers who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance. ...

First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched

...to endure." She also notes that although we should hope for the best, we must prepare for the worst and take every measure available today to safeguard the blood supply. Pall Corporation developed the Leukotrap Affinity Prion filter to help blood authorities around the world stop the transmission of prio...

FDA Works To Speed The Advent Of New, More Effective Personalized Medicines

...for cardiac, psychiatric diseases and cancer. "We hope ultimately to bring pharmacogenomics, a way in which to foster the personalizing of medicine, to every healthcare professional's prescription pad for the benefit of their patients and U.S. consumers," said Dr. Woodcock. The guidance "Pharmacogenomic...

Researchers discover underwater volcano

...s surrounding this volcano--it's a mystery that we hope to learn more about on future cruises," said Staudigel. Within decades, continued growth of Nafanua could bring the summit of this volcano from its current depth of 600 meters to a depth of approximately 200 meters-close enough to the sea surface th...

Researchers find promising cancer-fighting power of synthetic cell-signaling molecule

...s are effective in three animal models leads us to hope these may be a new approach to treat cancer." However, human trials must still be done to determine safety and efficacy in people, the researchers cautioned. The findings will be presented by Georgia Tech postdoctoral researcher Qiong Peng on April ...

New project aims to make large-scale lobster farms feasible

...e received new funding for a research program they hope will make large-scale culturing of spiny lobster economically feasible. The project is based on the serendipitous discovery that lobster larvae are settling on open water fish cages in Puerto Rico by the thousands. The research, along with the some o...

UCSD research reveals mechanism involved with type of fatal epilepsy

...esigning experiments to test these models with the hope of gaining the necessary insights to develop potential therapies for Lafora disease. Co-authors are Matthew S. Gentry, Ph.D., and Carolyn A. Worby, Ph.D., both of the UCSD Department of Pharmacy. This research was funded by the National Institutes o...

Measuring Enzymes At End Of Cancer Pathway Predicts Outcome Of Tarceva, Taxol

...tivity within a human tumor sample," he says. "Our hope is to be able to use this system as a molecular marker to assess whether an anti-cancer therapy is working." ABSTRACT # 1670 Sensitivity to Tarceva Depends on CDK2 In the first study, M. D. Anderson researchers found that loss of the CDK2 enzyme s...

Confocal imaging promises early detection of skin cancer

...and a hospital specialist. With our new system, we hope to replace these visits with just one visit and by...e a smaller version of their prototype system. “We hope to develop a partnership for this with our Regensburg partner,?says Dr Sheblee. He notes that confoc...

Study reveals candidate targets for anti-retroviral therapeutics

...te retrovirus host genes. Sandmeyer and colleagues hope that this study, along with related studies of retrovirus-like elements in yeast, will ultimately lead to the development of a new generation of anti-retroviral therapeutics. ...

Signs of aging: Scientists evaluate genes associated with longevity

...sociated with increased lifespan. The researchers hope that their observations in C. elegans will contribute to our understanding of human aging. "Many processes involved in nematode aging may have fundamental and analogous roles in humans," Dr. Brooks-Wilson explains. "The human orthologs of some gene f...

MUHC researchers make cancer target breakthrough

...nimal models is a major step forward, and gives us hope that this might also work in humans," explains Dr. Rozen. The research, funded by Strida Pharma--a McGill University spin-off company--also indicated that the antisense was particularly effective in reducing cancer tumors when administered in low do...

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