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Clinical trial to test stem cell approach for children with brain injury

...ts. They will be evaluated for brain function one month and six months after the procedure to see if it is improved compared with historical data on the brain function of children of similar age who suffered a similar injury. Safety trials involve too few patients to draw broad conclusions about the effe...

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

...up, the Society for Health Care Epidemiology, last month endorsed just such a plan. However, she acknowledges that current federal workers' rights prevent employers from making vaccinations a requirement. Perl says her proposal is open to discussion at Hopkins. "Ultimately, we want to make vaccination ...

Bacteria that cause tooth decay able to survive without important biochemical pathway

...just fine without it. The findings, reported this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have rocked the cellular biology scientific community, which has long considered the pathway to be crucial. The report may also explain why strains of the bacteria can survive in the harsh acidi...

New U. of Colorado at Boulder flu chip may help combat future epidemics, pandemics

...combat coming epidemics and pandemics. Tests last month on the new technology by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta showed the CU-Boulder Flu Chip can determine the genetic make-up of types and subtypes of the flu virus in about 11 hours, said CU-Boulder Professor Kathy Rowlen of th...

Men and women differ in brain use during same tasks

...sks. The results of the research are reported this month in the journal NeuroImage. The study involved volunteers who performed memory tasks, verbal tasks, visual spatial tasks and simple motor tasks while their brain activity was monitored with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) technology. "T...

Ancient DNA helps UF researchers unearth potential hemophilia therapy

... mice, according to findings published online this month in the journal Molecular Therapy. "The degree to which these patients have problems from hemophilia stems from how much of this protein, factor VIII, is missing," said Bradley Fletcher, M.D., Ph.D., a UF assistant professor of pharmacology and one o...

Duke to test bird flu vaccine dosing

... designed to fight avian influenza will begin this month at Duke University Medical Center. The Duke study is part of a multicenter trial that will test a modified form of an investigational bird flu vaccine to determine whether the vaccine still triggers a strong immune response at lower doses. The sev...

Clawed frog helps Fanconi anemia research make leaps

...ated properly, according to a study published this month in the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology. The international team is led by the OHSU laboratory of Maureen Hoatlin, Ph.D. Using extracts from Xenopus eggs and chemically triggering DNA copying, the team showed that the Fanconi proteins function...

Hormonal male contraception reversible after few months for all men

...990?005, in which sperm output was monitored every month until recovery. The primary outcome was the time for the sperm concentration to recover to a threshold of 20 million per mL, an indicator of fertility. Data were available for around 1500 men. The average time for sperm recovery to 20 million/mL wa...

H5N1 avian flu virus vaccine induces immune responses in healthy adults

...aline placebo into the upper arm muscle; about one month later, they received a booster shot of the same va...cted blood samples before each vaccination and one month after the second vaccination. Before the study could be expanded, an independent Data and Safety Mo...

New Rotavirus vaccine joins routine infant immunization schedule

... the vaccine's approval for licensing earlier this month by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Rotavirus affects nearly all children at some point, often with mild symptoms, but in other cases with severe and potentially life-threatening diarrhea and dehydration. It causes tens of thousands of hosp...

Oceans are 70 percent shark free

...which includes information gathered during a major month long expedition along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Iceland and the Azores in 2004. More than 100 scientists from over 16 countries were involved in the MAR-ECO project which is part of the 10-year Census of Marine Life programme which is exploring...

Tiny polyps gorge themselves to survive coral bleaching

...p their internal energy reserves. However, after a month of recovery on the reef (where plankton is naturally available) Porites continued to use up its reserves while Montipora had somehow managed to completely replenish them. To explain that, Grottoli and colleagues closely examined the bleached and he...

Climate change: The rice genome to the rescue

...A "Climate Change and Rice" planning workshop this month at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines was told that climate change is already affecting Asia's ability to produce rice, and that this could eventually slow efforts to reduce poverty in the region, where most of the wo...

Amazon rainforest greens up in the dry season

...ve at least one good image of every spot for every month of the year. To be able to figure out when the Amazon rainforest is growing, Huete's lab used a new measure, called Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), for detecting greenness in MODIS images of very highly vegetated rainforests. Greenness is an indica...

Rhinos clinging to survival in the heart of Borneo, despite poaching

...res were recently installed. WWF and partners last month launched a five-year project called "Rhino Rescue," which will organize rhino protection units and other activities to deter poaching. "The results from the survey of Borneo's rhinos are crucial additions to our scientific understanding of the spec...

Patients now surviving once-fatal immune disease

...ese individuals had a mean age of 4 years (range 1 month to 53 years) when their diseases were diagnosed; and 27 of the patients had family histories of XLA. The study was based on results of a questionnaire filled out by each participant concerning current and past medical problems and quality of life. ...

Protein finding could lead to treatment for inflammatory diseases

...is at Urbana-Champaign. In a study appearing this month in the Journal of Virology, the scientists revealed both the function of the protein (MC160) and how it works on a molecular level to inhibit inflammatory responses. MC160 is so named because it was the 160th gene of the molluscum contagiosum virus ...

Less antibiotic use in food animals leads to less drug resistance in people, study shows

... had received fluoroquinolone treatment within the month prior to becoming ill. The researchers discovered that only 2 percent of the locally acquired Campylobacter isolates were resistant to ciprofloxacin, a type of fluoroquinolone. Countries that allow fluoroquinolone use in animals may have a drug resis...

Deep-rooted plants have much greater impact on climate than experts thought

... Fung of UC Berkeley, reported their findings last month in the Dec. 6 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Fung is director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center, co-director of the new Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and professor of earth and planetary science and o...

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