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A new way of looking at molecular motors

...ances in a wide variety of fields, from veterinary medicine to tropical diseases. ...

Morning grogginess more debilitating than sleep deprivation, according to CU-Boulder study

...e simple math mistakes when calculating dosages of medicine during bouts of sleep inertia, he said. The results also have implications for emergency medical technicians and firefighters who may be hastily awakened and called upon to drive a vehicle to an emergency scene, putting themselves and others at risk...

Potential heart benefit found in stem cells

...research today. While the promise of personalized medicine and effective treatments for debilitating diseases drive progress in this area, moral and ethical dilemmas about embryonic cells continues to cloud the field. In research presented today at the American College of Cardiology's 55th Annual Scientific...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...g a future that will revolutionize the practice of medicine by allowing us to predict disease, develop more precise therapies and, ultimately, pre-empt the development of disease in the first place."Public-Private Partnership At the same time, a public-private partnership between NIH, FNIH, which is a non-pr...

UCLA scientists uncover mechanism of response to targeted therapy

...e, takes researchers a step closer to personalized medicine - treating cancer patients not with a one-size-fit...te and the UCLA departments of pathology, urology, medicine and molecular and medical pharmacology. ...

Anti-HIV drug has potential to prevent transmission in women

... physician at The Miriam Hospital and professor of medicine and community health at Brown Medical School, both in Providence, RI. "Analyzing the compounds that already have been shown to be successful HIV treatment drugs, and evaluating them for their potential to prevent transmission of infection is an innov...

Scientists develop a way to make the deadliest toxin known even more toxic

...nt's immune response. As the importance of BoNT in medicine continues to expand, we need to find some way to counter these unintended immune responses. Compounds like the ones we discovered, which produced the greatest protease activation ever recorded, may point the way to a potential solution." Other autho...

Wisconsin scientists find a way to make human collagen in the lab

...to producing a material that can have broad use in medicine and replace the animal products that are now used but that can also harbor pathogens or spark undesirable immune responses. What's more, the new work may also lay the foundation for applications in nanotechnology -- such as microscopic sensors that c...

Study: Competition for sex is a 'jungle out there'

...they are home to many of the known plants used for medicine and may be a source for future cures ,and they absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide and generate volumes of clean oxygen. Our research suggests that plants in these areas area also very fragile. They already suffer from low pollen receipt, and fut...

Nanotechnology may find disease before it starts

...dy co-author and dean of the college of veterinary medicine at Ohio State University. "Given their tiny size, nobody thought it would be possible for ultrasound to detect nanoparticles," he said. It turns out that not only can ultrasound waves sense nanoparticles, but the particles can brighten the resultin...

New research demonstrates bone-marrow derived stem cells can reverse genetic kidney disease

...matrix biology at BIDMC and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Present throughout the body, the extracellular matrix (ECM) is made of collagens, proteogylcans, noncollagenous glycoproteins and in some tissues, elastin fibers. The ECM serves a unique role by constructing a "scaffold" ...

Antioxidant selenium offers no heart-disease protection

...h.D., assistant professor of social and preventive medicine in the School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, is first author. "Our results extend previous research based on smaller intervention trials focusing on cardiovascular risk factors," said Stranges. "Our findings are con...

Ocean virus identified in human blood samples

...mans," said Alvin Smith, a professor of veterinary medicine at OSU and one of the world's leading experts on caliciviruses. "Vesivirus is widely distributed in many animal species, but this is a previously unrecognized relationship between Vesivirus and humans." "This research also shows an increasing preval...

Skin disease common among Hispanic farmworkers in North Carolina, research shows

...y," said Thomas Arcury, Ph.D., professor of family medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and lead researcher. "These workers represent a medically underserved population that is at risk for both environmental and occupational health problems, as well as health problems associated with poverty....

Low-cost drug gaining favor for use in HIV-infected children in poor countries

...trim -- one of several brand names for the generic medicine cotrimoxazole -- for children to ward off common infections that can be deadly to a person whose immune system is weakened by HIV. Dr. Kate Grimwade, with the Heart of England National Health Service foundation trust in Birmingham, led the review o...

Microbes convert 'Styrofoam? into biodegradable plastic

..., according to O’Connor. PHA has numerous uses in medicine and can be used to make plastic kitchenware, packaging film and other disposable items. The biodegradable plastic is resistant to hot liquids, greases and oils, and can have a long shelf life. But unlike polystyrene, it readily breaks down in soil, w...

Wisconsin scientists discover a master key to microbes' pathogenic lifestyles

...in, a UW-Madison professor of pediatrics, internal medicine and medical microbiology and immunology, and the senior author of the new study. "These microbes have to undergo an extreme makeover to survive in a host," says Klein, an authority on fungal diseases. "The million dollar question is was what control...

Patterns in genome organization may partially explain how microbial cells work

...obs School of Engineering and adjunct professor of medicine and co-author of the analysis. "These findings show that evolution of prokaryotes [organisms that lack nuclei] is constrained not just by variations in the content of genes, but also by the intricate ways in which those genes are arranged on chromoso...

Carnegie Mellon develops non-invasive technique to detect transplant rejection at cellular level

...ute; Dr. Jeffrey Teuteberg, assistant professor of medicine at the Cardiovascular Institute, Heart Failure/Transplantation; and Dr. Fernando Boada, associate professor in the Department of Radiology. ...

HIV/AIDS rates in Tijuana, Mexico increasing at alarming rate

...r tests positive for HIV infection, antiretroviral medicine can be administered to reduce the risk of HIV infection from being passed on to her infant." Health officials in Mexico and the U.S. agree that expansion of free and voluntary HIV screening and counseling are needed. "Other studies by this team rev...

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