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Scientists find fossil proof of Egypt's ancient climate
...to have occurred in the Sahara throughout the last million years, but their duration, intensity, and frequency remain somewhat unconstrained. Jennifer R. Smith, Ph.D., Washington University assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, and her doctoral student Johanna M. Kienie...Implanted Devices Detect High-Risk Heart Failure Patients
...heart attacks and valve problems. An estimated 4.7 million Americans suffer from the condition, with 400,000 new cases reported each year. Roughly one-half of patients die within five years of diagnosis. Although there is no cure, drugs can improve the strength of the heartbeat (digoxin), relax blood vessel......SIS) is funded by Corautus Genetics. More than 11 million people in the United States suffer from coronary artery disease. Many patients receive medications to increase blood flow but nearly 500,000 angioplasties and coronary bypass procedures are performed each year in those patients who do not benefit fro...PCRM develops world's first cruelty-free insulin assay
...f people and animals." There are an estimated 194 million people worldwide with diabetes. More than 15 million Americans suffer from the disease and resulting complications. ...Ophthalmologists Use Artificial Silicon Retina Microchip To Treat Vision Loss
... cause blindness and vision impairment in about 10 million Americans. More than one million of these people are legally blind. "As is commonly seen in with retinitis pigmentosa, these patient...Chemists identify key gene in development of type 1 diabetes
...uvenile diabetes, a disease that affects about one million people in the U.S. and is on the rise worldwide. They described their findings, which they say could lead to new drug interventions and possibly gene therapy, today at the 229th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest s...International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort
...l HapMap Consortium, boosted by an additional $3.3 million in public-private support, today announced plans t... haplotype map, or HapMap, which will consist of 1 million markers of genetic variation, called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The consortium's new g...Towards precise classification of cancers based on robust gene functional expression profiles
...uvenile diabetes, a disease that affects about one million people in the U.S. and is on the rise worldwide. They described their findings, which they say could lead to new drug interventions and possibly gene therapy, today at the 229th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest s...Antibiotic might fight HIV-induced neurological problems
...drugs is very limited," says Zink. "Most of the 40 million people with HIV infection live in these countries." ...Ophthalmologists implant five patients with artificial silicon retina microchip
... cause blindness and vision impairment in about 10 million Americans. More than one million of these people are legally blind. "As is commonly seen in with retinitis pigmentosa, these patient...Protein offers way to stop microscopic parasites in their tracks
...hich is spread by mosquito bites, kills at least 1 million people per year through damage to red blood cells and clogging of the capillaries that feed the brain and other organs. Cryptosporidium, which causes diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms, is one of the most common causes of water-borne disease in th...Asthma gene clusters identified
...t common chronic disease of childhood affecting 20 million Americans, according the Centers for Disease Control. Experts know that environmental factors can lead to asthmatic conditions in children, but they also know that genetics contributes to susceptibility. There are no cures for asthma, but it can be c...Cricket's finicky mating behavior boosts biodiversity
...ala spawns new species at the rate of 4.17 every 1 million years, or more than 10 times faster than the average speciation rate for invertebrates. This rapid evolution is contributing to an "explosion" of new cricket species, especially on Hawaii, the largest and youngest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, ...Surprising findings reported about iron overload
... University of Alabama at Birmingham received $3.1 million of study funds to screen 20,000 people for the group of disorders called hemochromatosis and iron overload. Ronald T. Acton, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and director of the UAB Immunogenetics Program, is principal investigator for the Birmingha...Drug-resistant bacteria on poultry products differ by brand
...e in Campylobacter, a pathogen responsible for 2.4 million cases of food-borne illness per year in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study is published online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. "Our use of medically important classes of antibiotics in ...UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders
...nefit of people worldwide." UCLA will provide $20 million over five years to launch the campuswide institute, which will enable teams of researchers to compete for state grants created by the passage of Proposition 71. The money will pay for recruitment for a dozen new faculty positions, salaries and expans...Norovirus, AIDS vaccine and Hepatitis Virus
...rial gastro-related illnesses resulting in over 23 million cases annually. In the study stool samples were collected from 34 patients with traveler's diarrhea and tested for the presence of norovirus. The virus was detected in 65 percent of the samples tested, with time spent at travel destinations playing ...NASA links nanobacteria to kidney stones and other diseases
...uts and would also be of benefit to the nearly one million Americans who are treated for kidney stones each year. ...Great White shark evolution debate involves WSU Lake Campus geology professor
...ved from the megladon line, which existed from two million to twenty million years ago. They were huge sharks, approximately the length of a Greyhound bus and possessing teeth t......sis of this data included dealing with more than 2 million files. ...Other Tagsglobal 2global 3global 4global 5global 6global 7global 8global 9global 10dementia 2dementia 3dementia 4dementia 5dementia 6dementia 7dementia 8dementia 9dementia 10tall 2tall 3antidepressant 2antidepressant 3antidepressant 4antidepressant 5antidepressant 6Other Contentsfifthfifthfifthfifthfifthfinefinefinefinefinefinefinefinefirefirefirefirefirefirekitkitkitkitkitkitkitaidaidaidaidaidaidaidaidaidfirstfirstfirstfirstfirstfirstfirstfirstfirstfirstfistula
(Date:12/3/2009)...n the 1980s, Harald zur Hausen and his co-workers ...irus (HPV) cause cervical cancer. Scientists soon ...erate. It is known today that the main culprits ar...ff different cellular control functions, thus prom...d his co-workers at DKFZ have now discovered anoth...
(Date:12/3/2009)... A coating on windows or solar panels that repels ...s for the next electric car? New Tel Aviv Universi...ogy , details a breakthrough in assembling peptide...turistic visions come true in just a few years. ,...y one-billionth of a meter) and even smaller, grad...
(Date:12/3/2009)... ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Most scientists believe that s... that signal each other to emit toxins. The signal...bacteria must be present to start the process. , ...d that the very first stage of staph infection, wh...orm, occurs in a single cell and that this individ...
Breaking Biology News(10 mins):Papillomavirus silences innate immune response 2A window that washes itself? 2Stopping MRSA before it becomes dangerous is possible, Sandia/UNM researchers find 2Stopping MRSA before it becomes dangerous is possible, Sandia/UNM researchers find 3Beautiful plumage 3A Feather color and sex start the species revolution 9485 1New insights into health and environmental effects of carbon nanoparticles 9483 1Pinhead size worms + robot 3D new antibiotics 9481 1(Date:12/4/2009)... , SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 4 He...naged, non-traded, real estate investment trust, a...ement to acquire a three building medical office p...Texas, and Fort Wayne, Indiana for approximately $...ject to the satisfaction of a number of conditions...
(Date:12/4/2009)... , WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/...orm would control health care costs, Leapfrog,s pu...rough example -- delivering the best quality care ...f efficiency. Thirty-four urban, eight children,s ...pfrog Top Hospitals, based on results from The Lea...
(Date:12/4/2009)...rking with mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins publi...own that a protein made by a gene called "Twist" m...distinguish stem cells that drive aggressive, meta...s. , Building on recent work suggesting that it ...ast tumors that drives breast cancer, scientists h...
(Date:12/4/2009)... Dental tourism is a phenomenon...an alternative to the high price of dental work in...rch for lower priced dental care, people have foun...s a dental tourist destination. , ...n business for more than 6 years, Mexican Dental V...
(Date:12/4/2009)..., BOSTON, Dec. 4 Substantial pr... healthcare community,s ability to diagnose and tr...ress in epilepsy management has not reached most o...g many of the nearly three million people in the U...g to Steven C. Schachter, M.D., president of the A...
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