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Link found between immune system and high plasma lipid levels

...anipulate the immune response and have a favorable impact on lipid metabolism." Using an assortment of engineered and non-engineered mice, the researchers looked specifically at the role of T cells (white blood cells that play a key role in immunity). They determined that altering the expression level of...

New technologies coming too fast for Indian farmers

...ological fieldwork on these crops and the way they impact ?and are impacted by ?local culture. The study, published in the February 2007 issue of Current Anthropology, focuses on cotton production in the Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh, India, one of the nation's key cotton-growing areas. There, Stone...

In-shell vaccine for chick disease

... virus we hope that our research could have a real impact on improving yields for UK farmers." "We are currently trying to modify the vaccine further, in collaboration with Intervet, to make it suitable for commercial use," said Dr Britton. Professor Julia Goodfellow, Chief Executive of BBSRC, said: "...

Saving endangered whales at no cost

... sightings, the authors estimate that, in terms of impact on right whales, each lobster caught in Canada has less than 1% of the impact of each lobster caught in Maine. The authors propose that if Maine restricted its lobster fishin...

Insomnia drug can improve brain function

...r knowledge, this is the first study assessing the impact of zolpidem of post-anoxic brain injury using the modern methodological standards of clinical pharmacology." The authors demonstrated increased brain activity in the frontal cortex, which is associated with higher cognitive performances, with zolpide...

How badger culling creates conditions for spread of bovine TB

...e will require serious consideration of the likely impact of any interventions on badger social organization," the authors say. ...

Scientists find new genes for Crohn's disease

...anding of disease but also should have a long-term impact on clinical practice, according to Dr. Steven Brant, co-author and gastroenterologist at Johns Hopkins University. "The multiple genetic risk factors we've identified provide important targets for current functional studies aimed at understanding ...

Scientists find method to pick noncompetitive animals, improve production

...od also aids in predicting how social interactions impact the natural evolution of species. Muir and his ...rm two-thirds more inherited trait variations that impact social interactions than could be identified with classical selection analysis. "Now we have a to...

Darwin's famous finches and Venter's marine microbes

...HMS Beagle. Similarly, it is hard to predict the impact the vast amount of marine microbial DNA ?collected during the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., and his team ?will have on our understanding of the natural world. "If anything, this is just the beginning," sa...

Ebola outbreaks killing thousands of gorillas and chimpanzees

...y developed vaccines could control the devastating impact of Ebola on wild apes. Direct encounters between...udy has important implications for controlling the impact of Ebola, which has killed roughly one quarter of the world gorilla population. "It means that vacci...

Migration played key role in HIV spread in South Africa

...ld advise their patients of the potential negative impact of marijuana smoking on overall lung health," said Tetrault. ...

Long-term marijuana smoking leads to respiratory complaints

...ld advise their patients of the potential negative impact of marijuana smoking on overall lung health," said Tetrault. ...

Smoking ban dramatically reduces air pollution in Irish pubs

...neration. Although Dr. Godfrey admits that the impact of the Irish ban has been "enormous," she also highlights several "important caveat[s]" to the study's findings. While the health of ex- and non-smoking barmen improved significantly, the respiratory health of smokers continued to decline, with ...

Using brain scans, researchers find evidence for a two-stage model of human perceptual learning

...ng where small differences in shape can have a big impact on category labels ?as in the tennis ball and appl...such as between an apple and a banana ?can have no impact on the label, such as when categorizing both as 'fruit'." Now that the volunteers had learned ho...

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

...entum into cancer vaccine research. Substantial impact on precancerous lesions and HPV infections through 5.5 years in women vaccinated with the HPV-16/18 L1 VLP AS04 candidate vaccine: Abstract 4900 Ongoing evaluation of a phase II trial of a human papillomavirus vaccine, developed to prevent cervic...

Failure to meet United Nations sanitation target could affect millions of the world's poorest

...anitation facilities in schools has a differential impact on girls' attendance at school," she said, noting that school attendance among girls goes up when there are separate sanitation facilities, especially after they reach puberty. Better water and sanitation also can reduce the time that women and ch...

Are journal rankings distorting science?

...s concerns over whether journal rankings (known as impact factors) are distorting publishing and science. The impact factor is a measure of the citations to papers in scientific journals. It was developed as a simple ...

Sleep disturbances affect classroom performance

...sufficient amount of rest can also have a negative impact on how well middle or high school students perform in the classroom. A study published in the February 15th issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (JCSM) finds that adolescents who experience sleep disturbances are more likely to receive ba...

Elderly spinal cord injuries increase five-fold in 30 years, Jefferson neurosurgeons find

...lder than age 65 by the year 2040, and will likely impact spine surgeons and spinal cord rehabilitation centers as these patients become a larger proportion of the spinal cord injury (SCI) population. The findings were just presented by Jefferson neurological surgeons at a meeting in Phoenix, Ariz. of the J...

Application of Genomatix in silico methods reveals novel cancer associated genes

...arding to our scientists and developers to see the impact of our own ideas and research to cutting edge science of today." ...

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