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New study shows patients more willing to consider self-injectable HIV therapy than many physicians anticipate

... co-author of the OpenMind study stated, "With the increasing choice of injectable biotech drugs including monoclonal antibodies, these findings potentially have far reaching implications across a whole range of therapeutic areas. We look forward to presenting the final results and exploring possible interventi...

Storing carbon to combat global warming may cause other environmental problems, study suggests

... stream flow reductions of 38 percent, with losses increasing as the trees aged. Moreover, "13 percent of streams dried up completely for at least one year," the study said. Overall, about 20 percent more of the water provided by precipitation was removed by current tree farming, the study estimated. And addit...

Role of microRNA identified in thyroid cancer

... Society, the incidence of thyroid cancer has been increasing slightly over the past several years. It estimates that about 25,000 new cases will be diagnosed in the United States this year. "This is just the beginning of our work identifying the role of miRNAs in thyroid cancer," says He. "But we are encour...

University of Arizona plant scientists to unravel maize genome

...ditions for agriculture. Other improvements aim at increasing yield and nutritional value and optimizing the properties crucial for grain products such as flour, noodles and pasta. "Once the corn genome sequence is in our hands, these advances can happen much faster," Wing said. Corn is one of the most import...

Missing fossil link 'Dallasaurus' found

...-dwelling lizards took to the oceans and developed increasing levels of seagoing capabilities, and over 30 million years, eventually evolving into the top predator of their domain before becoming extinct some 65 million years ago," says Polcyn. The advanced fin-bearing mosasaurs have been grouped into three ma...

Scientists use stem cells to grow cartilage

...ns for a number of medical problems. With the UK's increasing ageing population there will be an inevitable increase in problems created by people living longer. Although doctors have been able to carry out joint replacements for a number of years, it has not possible to replace the worn out cartilage. By repla...

New book highlights world's borderless conservation areas

...ndary Conservation Area--exploring the history and increasing popularity of protecting some of the most biologically rich territory on Earth. "This new book shows how transboundary conservation areas have a very special role in international conservation," said Russell A. Mittermeier, Ph.D., president of Conse...

Changes to embryos can elicit change in adult fish

... the cichlid fish. In addition, they've shown that increasing expression of a particular gene in an embryo can lead to physical changes in the adult fish. The results appear in the November 11, 2005 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We're using the jaw to think about the genetic...

Greasing interferon's gears may pave way to greater therapeutic benefits, fewer side effects

...flammatory diseases. But we may find advantages to increasing Stat1 action in the short term using drug treatments." Such therapies could allow physicians to turn up the effect of interferon temporarily to treat infections or other disorders and then to turn it back down to normal levels when the patient is c...

ORNL leading effort to help harness power of Shewanella

...ne of six recently announced DOE projects aimed at increasing knowledge of microbes and microbial communities with potential applications in bioremediation, ethanol and hydrogen production, cleanup of former nuclear weapons production sites and minimizing global warming by controlling the cycling of atmospheric...

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

...on. It was a nutritional intervention, drastically increasing the patient's intake of omega-3 fatty acids, which are often found in fish oil or golden algae oil. Pardini's previous research showed that omega-3 fatty acids significantly depressed the growth of human mammary, ovarian, colon, prostate and pancrea...

Bats use touch receptors on wings to fly, catch prey, study finds

... turn," he said. "Without the hairs, the bats were increasing the curve of their wings too much or not enough." The bats' flight behavior also changed based on the area of the wing where the hairs were removed. For example, when Zook removed hairs along the trailing edge of the wings and on the membrane betwee...

Johns Hopkins flu expert calls for mandatory vaccination of health care workers

...found that education campaigns can be effective at increasing vaccination rates among health care workers by as much as 60 percent. And to the surprise of those conducting these surveys, the reason most likely to motivate health care workers to get the shot is that it benefits patients, not themselves. Howeve...

Research: Snails were overlooked contributors to marsh destruction

...logy in general, the take-home lesson here is that increasing climatic extremes, such as drought stress, can trigger formation of grazer fronts and subsequent waves of habitat die-off in an otherwise stable ecosystem," Silliman said. "For marsh ecology, the message is even clearer: The long-standing paradigm t...

Anyway you slice it, tomatoes cut through drought with new gene

...improve food production worldwide by addressing an increasing global concern: water scarcity." Gaxiola's findings regarding the use of AVP1 in Arabidopsis to create hardier, more drought resistant plants were published in the journal Science in October, but the study described in the proceedings marks the ...

UCR environmental scientists propose chemical solution to cleaning California's Salton Sea

...d ammonia concentrations, high temperatures and an increasing level of salinity. Due to noxious odors emanating...ant aid by chemically bridging reactive groups and increasing floc size. ...

Mouse study: New muscle-building agent beats all previous ones

...irm MetaMorphix, an agent that's more effective at increasing muscle mass in mice than a related potential treatment for muscular dystrophy now in clinical trials. The new agent is a version of a cellular docking point for the muscle-limiting protein myostatin. In mice, just two weekly injections of the new ag...

Biologists discover new pathway into plant cells

...uld be done either to help or harm plant cells ?by increasing or controlling their growth, or introducing new characteristics. ...

New study of the world's smallest elephant

... confirmed as a separate sub-species, dramatically increasing its importance for biodiversity. Bornean elephants are the world's most endangered member of the elephant family with an estimated 1,100 - 1,500 surviving in the wild. The Cardiff School of Biosciences study led by Professor Michael Bruford and f...

Scientists develop protein-sequence analysis tool

...ctical for those who wish to take advantage of the increasing number of sequences in protein databases, Shanklin said. "Yet this growing data resource contains a wealth of information for structure-function studies and for protein engineering," Shanklin said. "We developed CPDL as a general tool for extracting...

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