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BioMed Central launches Biology Direct

...bMed Central, the NLM's open access repository for literature in the life sciences. Lipman and Koonin, speaking on the eve of the journal's launch, explain the motivation for establishing Biology Direct: "We were compelled to launch this experiment because, while scientific publishing cannot be effective with...

Statins have neutral effect on risk of cancer

... and colleagues, conducted a search of the medical literature from 1966 through July 2005 to identify randomized controlled trials of statins. They found 27 articles (n = 86,936 participants) that met their criteria for inclusion, reporting 26 randomized controlled trials of statins with data on either cancer...

Markers of gene, protein, or micro-RNA activity predict outcome in prostate and colorectal cancers

...ang-Rodriguez picked 512 genes from the scientific literature that seemed to play a role in prostate cancer. They tested their expression on paraffin-embedded tumor samples taken from 71 patients, as well as on 41 control samples (non-cancerous prostate tissue taken from the same group of patients). From this,...

AIDS-related cognitive impairment exists in two separate forms

...ang-Rodriguez picked 512 genes from the scientific literature that seemed to play a role in prostate cancer. They tested their expression on paraffin-embedded tumor samples taken from 71 patients, as well as on 41 control samples (non-cancerous prostate tissue taken from the same group of patients). From this,...

Traditional Chinese medicine for diabetes has scientific backing

... diarrhoea. It has also been documented in Chinese literature as having a glucose lowering effect when administered to people with diabetes; yet, until now, its mode of action was unknown. Garvan scientist Dr Jiming Ye says: "Our studies in animal models of diabetes show that berberine acts in part by activat...

Technique speeds up detecting, treating wound bacteria

...s to detect (through real-time PCR) on the current literature on surgical infections, but we expect to find many more organisms with the molecular techniques we will use." Finegold's research endeavors were funded, in part, by a grant from the DoD's Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program. Congress created the...

What's shaped like a pear and has 2 genomes? Check the pond

...a commitment to free and open access to scientific literature as well. Now anyone, anywhere in the world, can read about the genome of this fascinating organism before meeting it in the local pond. ...

Light guides flight of migratory birds

...agnetic compass. When Muheim and Phillips did a literature review, they noticed a difference between the experiments of the few scientists who saw migratory birds recalibrate their compass and of those whose birds failed to recalibrate. "It is important how you do the experiments. It turns out that the par...

Funding and bureaucracy, not access to journals, are chief obstacles to scientific productivity

...is, together with an analysis of the peer-reviewed literature enabled the team to identify a list of 16 key factors. Online polling methods in conjunction with conjoint analysis techniques were used to establish the relative priority that researchers place on each of these 16 factors. The results were highly ...

Lack of key enzyme associated with development of rare tumor

...hey added that there are no reports in the medical literature of malfunctioning adrenal glands or increased adrenal cell growth in users of these drugs. "However, detailed clinical studies addressing this potential complication are currently lacking," they wrote. Dr. Stratakis and his colleagues are currently...

A human taste for rarity spells disaster for endangered species

...appears that pet trade dealers read the scientific literature for clues to the next hot species: immediately after an article recognized the small Indonesian turtle (Chelodina mccordi) and Chinese gecko (Goniurosaurus luii) as rarities, their prices soared. The turtle is now nearly extinct and the gecko can no ...

Most widely used organic pesticide requires help to kill

...other and no one seemed to go back to the original literature until now." Handelsman is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the UW-Madison department of plant pathology. The new work, conducted in the laboratories of Handelsman and Kenneth F. Raffa, a professor in the UW-Madison department of ent...

Recurrence of a flu pandemic similar to infamous 1918 flu could kill 62 million

...s." For many decades, published epidemiological literature assumed that mortality rates from the 1918-20 pandemic were distributed fairly equally. A simple population count from that period would lead to the conclusion that about 20 percent of all fatalities occurred in the developed world. "But when you loo...

Long-term cancer risk follows stem cell transplant recipients

...bservation has not been previously reported in the literature and the explanation for this finding is uncertain," say the authors. "Since the risk of developing a solid neoplasm post-allogeneic transplantation continues to increase with time," suggest the authors, "extended follow-up will be needed to more f...

PLoS ONE is launched by the Public Library of Science

...goal is to make the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource. PLoS has taken a close look ...all groups for storing, disseminating, and sharing literature and data. PLoS ONE will accelerate the pace of scientific research because publication is faster a...

Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on human brain

...man mind working moment-to-moment. It is good for literature as it illustrates primary human thinking. Through the two disciplines, we may discover new insights into the very motions of the mind." ...

Dragonfly's metabolic disease provides clues about human obesity

...rs from the 1940s to the 1990s. "We looked in the literature and found that consumption of high-fructose corn syrup often is associated with gastrointestinal distress, which may be a sign that fructose affects the gut microbial flora," said Marden. Another clue is that some AIDS patients, with compromised i...

PNAS study reveals why organs fail following massive trauma

... of the genes changed by trauma were listed in the literature as having a role in T cell function. What emerged was a map of the likely functions of hundreds of genes and proteins related to T cell post-trauma dysfunction, and their likely partners in signaling pathways. The final step was to demonstrate that t...

Researchers create genetically matched embryonic stem cells for transplantation

...ues in mice, and there is a report in the clinical literature of a human patient whose blood was derived entirely from parthenogenetic cells. However, we'll have to demonstrate the safety and durability of cells derived from parthenogenetic embryonic stem cells before we could imagine any clinical use." ...

Quantum dots reviewed -- Could these nanoparticles hold the cure to cancer?

... AZoNano, is a comprehensive review of the latest literature and studies into Quantum Dots. The review by Sandeep Kumar Vashist, Rupinder Tewari, Ram Prakash Bajpai, Lalit Mohan Bharadwaj and Roberto Raiteri, researchers from a range of Italian and Indian universities and research organisations, has been re...

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