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High-dose flu vaccines appear to safely boost immunity in elderly

...d 28 days after the vaccine and were contacted six months later to inquire about serious adverse events or side effects. Blood was drawn before the immunization and one month after. On average, individuals who received higher dosages of vaccine had higher concentrations of antibodies against the flu virus...

UF scientists restore sight to chickens with blinding disease

...ecause a diagnosis of LCA1 is often not made until months after a child is born. "There are only a few clues that an infant may have this disease," Semple-Rowland said. "Often parents will notice that their child doesn't seem to be smiling at or looking at faces. Children may also poke or rub their eyes, b...

Neurons grown from embryonic stem cells restore function in paralyzed rats

...g). GDNF causes axons to grow toward it. Three months after the transplants, the investigators examined ...ercent improvement in hind limb grip strength by 4 months after transplantation. In contrast, none of the rats given other combinations of treatments recovere...

Researchers identify human DNA on the fast track

...ing his appointment as an HHMI investigator. After months of work, Salama and her lab mates determined that ...rom the HAR1 region and said, 'Try this.'" A few months later Vanderhaegen e-mailed Salama with exciting news. He had discovered that RNA including the HAR1...

Researchers link two more genes to sudden infant death syndrome

...ses of SIDS -- in infants with an average age of 3 months old -- that had been referred to Mayo Clinic's Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory for molecular autopsy. In each study, two of the 135 cases possessed mutations in either CAV3 or RyR2. SIDS -- the sudden, unexplained death of an infant under 1 year ...

New strategy rapidly identifies cancer targets

...r," said Druker. "This technique takes a couple of months and further automation would make it even quicker." So quick, in fact, that Druker envisions the technique as a method to help choose which drug a patient's cancer will respond to ?a critical step in achieving personalized medicine. Four cancer dr...

Failure of 'scout cells' may lead to cancer in transplant patients

...nt patients. The disease usually arises within six months to a year after transplantation, and it can have a 70- to 80-percent mortality rate. The study by VanBuskirk and her colleagues examines two types of immune cells: cells that act as scouts scientists call them antigen-presenting cells and memory T...

Combined treatment extends life expectancy for lung cancer patients

...ian survival rate at three years increased from 20 months after radiation alone to 42 months when thermal ablation was followed by radiation for treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer. The res...

Today's babies are fatter babies

...l, a 30 percent jump. Infants from birth to six months of age, an age group seldom studied before, had pa...show that accelerated weight gain in the first few months after birth is associated with obesity later in life," says Gillman. According to the Centers for ...

Brain-computer link lets paralyzed patients convert thoughts into actions

...nd he was able to learn to control the cursor from months seven through 10 of the trial, until a technical issue caused signal loss at most electrodes after 11 months. "The results," said senior author of the paper, John Donoghue, professor and director of the brain science program at Brown University and...

WWF captures first-ever photo of wild rhino on Borneo

...ry, very few. To capture a photo of one just a few months after placing camera traps in the area is extraordinary." The rhinos in Sabah spend their lives in dense jungle where they are rarely seen, which accounts for the lack of any previous photographs of them in the wild. Conservationists hope that th...

Diabetes hits 275 Australians each day as pandemic spreads

... International Diabetes Institute over the last 15 months and is the first to have measured how many new cases of these diseases occur in Australia annually. The results are drawn from a follow-up investigation of more than 6,000 adults whose health was first assessed five years ago during the Institute's ...

Federal testing for mad cow disease a failure, law review editor says

... for BSE, and most European nations test cattle 24 months and older before they are slaughtered. Compounding USDA's lax practices has been its refusal to allow beef processors to independently test cattle for mad cow disease. In 2004, Creekstone Farms, a Kansas processor of black Angus beef with a large J...

Hopkins scientists show hallucinogen in mushrooms creates universal 'mystical' experience

... their first child or the death of a parent. Two months later, 79 percent of subjects reported moderately or greatly increased well-being or life satisfaction compared with those given a placebo at the same test session. A majority said their mood, attitudes and behaviors had changed for the better. Stru...

Gorilla susceptibility to Ebola virus: the cost of sociality

...of the Congo, researchers have found that in a few months the virus exhibited dramatic--but disproportionate--impacts on group-dwelling and solitary gorillas. The findings offer a unique glimpse into the factors affecting the threat the deadly virus poses to great apes. The work is reported in the July 12...

Prion find points way to test for human 'mad cow' disease

...se--just weeks after the animals were infected and months before they showed clinical symptoms. The scienti...been infected. That discovery occurred about three months before the hamsters began showing clinical symptoms of the disease, the Science paper reports. To d...

Corals switch skeleton material as seawater changes

...on of corals was fixed," he said. Ries spent two months growing three species of modern scleractinian cora...he prescribed "ancient seawater" chemistries. Two months later, Ries removed the coral skeletons and used X-ray diffraction to analyze their mineral composit...

Smokers invite to test vaccine against nicotine addiction

...event relapse. When a vaccinated smoker lights up months after quitting, the person should not experience the nicotine-triggered reward that tempts most people back into the habit. Northern California smokers over 18 are invited to join a national study to determine whether NicVax can help people abstain...

Dopamine drug leads to new neurons and recovery of function in rat model of Parkinson's

...ws. A subset of the rats was tested again 2 and 4 months following the treatment. Rats treated with 7-OH-...food pellets. These effects lasted for at least 4 months after the treatment ended. "There was a profound behavioral effect of the treatment, even after it ...

Pollutant haze heats the Arctic

...igh pollution. The Arctic gets the 'inversion' for months at a stretch during the long, dark winter. The difference is that here [in Salt Lake] the pollution source is local, whereas in the Arctic, the pollution source is from industry far away ?mostly from northern Europe and Eurasia." Garrett and Zhao us...

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