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Hepatitis C responds best to combo of ribavirin and interferon, study concludes

...d," the authors conclude. "Ribavirin might have an independent beneficial effect on chronic hepatitis C, in addition to interferon, or might have a beneficial effect on patients who do not respond to interferon. Alternatively, ribavirin may (heighten) some of the effects of interferon or vice versa." ...

Vietnam war technology could aid elephant conservation

...mic equipment is designed for rugged field use and independent arrays can be buried and left in the ground to collect the data for as long as a month." ...

Gene expands malaria's invasion options

...ired for switching from sialic acid-dependent to - independent invasion. "Activation of PfRh4 represents a previously unknown mechanism to switch invasion pathways and provides P. falciparum with exquisite adaptability in the face of receptor changes and immune system responses," the team concluded. The re...

Bumblebees copy one another when contending with unfamiliar flowers

...dy collecting nectar, rather than making their own independent choices. Most interestingly, the bees only copied each other when they knew nothing about the flower species that they were visiting. When revisiting a flower species that they had tried before, they relied upon their own individual initiative. It's...

Anthrax inhibitors identified by Burnham team

...### The Burnham Institute, founded in 1976, is an independent not-for-profit biomedical research institution dedicated to advancing the frontiers of scientific knowledge and providing the foundation for tomorrow's medical therapies. The Institute is home to three major centers: the original Cancer Center, the D...

Breakthrough: Scientists create world's tiniest organic particles

...together rather than allowing them to be harvested independent of one another."This is in contrast to traditional imprint lithography with silicon, glass or quartz molds where it is difficult to eliminate this residual material between objects," DeSimone said. Particles injected into the body can be designed to...

Mechanism for the captation of nutrients in plants- unknown to date

...ents carried out showed the existence of processes independent of nutrient captation: a saccharose penetration process independent of "endocitosis" and another dependent on "endocitosis" and which required approximately 90 minutes ...

Scientists discover global pattern of big fish diversity in open oceans

...d to a wide range of species, the authors examined independent scientific observer data collected by U.S. and Australian government agencies between 1990-99, which recorded more than 140 species in these same areas. The results suggest that tuna and billfish are indicators of wider patterns of diversity. The em...

Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures

...ed in the Census of Marine Life (www.CoML.org), an independent and unprecedented 10-year global scientific collaboration to inventory biodiversity throughout the seas. The Healy returned to port July 26 with thousands of specimens from the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas and the Canada Basin, a vast bowl walled by st...

Evidence of 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiosis discovered in marine fossils

... organism invade land and forge a new relationship independent of the marine relationship? If the latter, then the 600-million-year-old relationship may not be the direct ancestor of the 400-million-year-old relationship," Xiao said. Fungi and algae in modern lichens can easily marry and divorce, he said. "Give...

15 generations of untrained jocks, couch potatoes show big physiological adaptations

...ery system are coordinated to maximize efficiency, independent of exercise or other environmental influences." And by the G15 stage, the central delivery components (lung and cardiovascular system) have improved to better meet the demands of the muscles. "Additionally, our results provide support for the controv...

Single-donor Islet Transplantation Procedure Shows Promise For Patients With Type 1 Diabetes

...antation from a single donor pancreas were insulin independent one year later, according to a study in the February 16 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical applications of biotechnology. Type 1 diabetes remains a therapeutic challenge, according to background information in the article. The success rate of i...

Characterizing Skin Cancer by Microarrays

.... The articles in PNAS report original research by independent authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the National Academy of Sciences or the National Research Council. ...

Mouse with designer liver has enhanced glucose tolerance, insulin response

...ch. The Burnham Institute, founded in 1976, is an independent not-for-profit biomedical research institution dedicated to advancing the frontiers of scientific knowledge and providing the foundation for tomorrow’s medical therapies. The Institute is home to three major centers: the original Cancer Center, the D...

Tendency to hair loss inherited from the mother

...ndications that other genes are involved which are independent of the parents' sex," Prof. Nöthen stresses. The hereditary defect can therefore sometimes also be passed on directly from father to son. Bald men wanted In order to identify more genes involved the research team is searching for more volunteers. "M...

Cellular Defects in Premature Aging Disease are Reversible

...ll types, and that the cells can return to normal, independent of cell division, bolsters this possibility. "Some tissues in our body do not divide," Misteli pointed out. "So demonstrating that we can rescue the normal phenotype without cell division means this procedure could be effective in all tissues." Miste...

Roche clinical trial registry and results database launched

...nical trial registry and results database using an independent host, CenterWatch. On www.roche-trials.com informa... us. In January, we announced our plans to have an independent host for the database and since then, we selected CenterWatch, a company with a wealth of experience...

New understanding of DNA repair may pave way to cancer treatments

... has been implicated in gene regulation possess an independent function--in DNA repair--while both functions are uncoupled from one another," said Ronai. Dr. Ronai's laboratory has been studying ATF2 with the goal of understanding its role in regulation of cell cycle and programmed cell death. These studies evol...

Study reveals new technique for fingerprinting environmental samples

...nformation encoded in the DNA fragments sequenced, independent of the organisms from which they derived, we were able to get around the problem of species diversity." Very little is known about the microbes since the vast majority of them, some 99 percent, are resistant to being grown under standard laboratory ...

New Estimates For The Causes Of Child Deaths Worldwide

...ublic Health, Baltimore, USA) and colleagues in an independent group on child health epidemiology, along with those from the World Health Organisation (WHO), analysed available data from publications and ongoing studies in 2000 to 2003 to obtain new estimates for mortality by cause in children younger than age 5...

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