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Newly discovered genetic disease sheds light on body's water balance

...03 after two unrelated baby boys, each about three months old, were referred to UCSF Children's Hospital wit...rst child suffered from severe irritability. A few months later, the second infant was admitted with generalized seizures. Doctors in the pediatric endocrino...

Assessing the Amazon River's sensitivity to deforestation

... km2 basin, and by itself, took 5 people over nine months to create. Researchers all over the globe are now using this data. The second phase, led by Michael Coe, an associate scientist with The Woods Hole Research Center, was to build the first comprehensive computer model of the Amazon River and floodpla...

FSU scientist warns North Atlantic right whale facing extinction

...nprecedented eight whale deaths during the past 16 months -- almost three times the average annual rate in 25 years of study of the species -- including six adult females, three of which carried near-term fetuses. At least four of the whales were killed by human activities; ships hit three; and one whale wa...

Scientists to mimic nature for newest cancer drugs

...nprecedented eight whale deaths during the past 16 months -- almost three times the average annual rate in 25 years of study of the species -- including six adult females, three of which carried near-term fetuses. At least four of the whales were killed by human activities; ships hit three; and one whale wa...

Siberian tigers hang tough

...ts of Asia. The announcement also comes just a few months after WCS conservationists learned the Olga, a 14-...footprints in the snow. With some workers spending months in the field and covering over 21,000 km (13,000 miles) of transects by foot, ski, snowmobile, and c...

More animals join the learning circle

...of observations for separateexperiments. But a few months after the enterprising male started doing it, Noonan spied the whale's younger half-brother doing the same thing. Soon the brothers' mothers were enjoying feathered snacks, as were a 6-month-old calf and an older male. Noonan presented the research t...

New type of rejection blocker protects kidneys after transplant

...group and one in the cyclosporine group. After 12 months of post-transplant treatment, the researchers used...unctioning. The GFR was significantly higher at 12 months for patients receiving both the intensive and less intensive belatacept regimens compared to cyclosp...

Hepatitis C responds best to combo of ribavirin and interferon, study concludes

...ents who had chronic hepatitis C for more than six months and were previously untreated, who had relapsed after treatment or who had not responded to other treatment. The review appears in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization ...

Investigating 'brain shrinkage' in alcoholics

...spread again after periods of abstinence ?weeks to months ?and have been accompanied by improved brain funct...ility may continue to show impairment for weeks to months with sobriety, with prolonged sobriety these brain functions can show improvement." - Some alcoholi...

Engineered molecule amplifies body's immune response

...gy of improving Stat1 efficiency during the winter months in patients who are at risk for developing serious viral infections, for example children with asthma, or heart disease, or immune compromise," suggests Dr. Holtzman. "It may also be of benefit in situations where interferon therapy has been used, su...

Lance Armstrong through a physiological lens: hard training boosts muscle power 8%

...s, surgery, chemotherapy and recovery. About eight months after chemotherapy ceased (August 1997), Armstrong was tested in Coyle's laboratory in the same manner as in his other four visits. The results showed that he "displayed no ill-effects from his previous surgeries and chemotherapy" and were in line wi...

Gene therapy to lower blood pressure just enough

...maintain blood pressure at healthy levels for four months promises to take gene therapy for the disorder a step closer to reality, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in a report released online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "High blood pressure is one of the leading ca...

HIV Therapy Greatly Extends Life of Key T Cells, Scientists Find

...viding cells. By taking blood samples in weeks and months following the deuterium infusion and measuring the amount of deuterium remaining in the CD4+ T cell DNA at each time point, the researchers could count how many new cells were made and how long they lived. The scientists found a marked increase in t...

Engineered skin offers clues to melanoma development

...oratory mice. The mice were observed for up to six months and sacrificed at different time points to examine the skin grafts for signs of melanoma and to determine whether the cancer had metastasized. The researchers began by introducing several mutant genes commonly found in human melanomas. These include...

Neurologix announces positive results of gene therapy clinical trial in Parkinson's disease

...remaining five subjects have been followed for six months and the remaining two for more than four months. The trial results were presented by Andrew Feigin, M.D., Associate Director, Movement Disorders Center of the North Shore - Long Island Jewish Health System at the 19th Annual Symposia on the Etiology...

Ibruprofen and other commonly used painkillers for treating inflammation may increase the risk of heart attack

...oratory mice. The mice were observed for up to six months and sacrificed at different time points to examine the skin grafts for signs of melanoma and to determine whether the cancer had metastasized. The researchers began by introducing several mutant genes commonly found in human melanomas. These include...

Researchers use RNAi libraries to identify regulators of apoptosis and chemoresistance

...oratory mice. The mice were observed for up to six months and sacrificed at different time points to examine the skin grafts for signs of melanoma and to determine whether the cancer had metastasized. The researchers began by introducing several mutant genes commonly found in human melanomas. These include...

Defect in gene causes 'neuralgic amyotrophy'

...a couple of weeks, but sometimes recovery can take months or even several years. Many HNA patients also have particular facial features, such as eyes that are somewhat closer together, a fold in the upper eyelid that covers the inside corner of the eye, and sometimes a cleft palate. HNA is a relatively ra...

New imaging technology shown to detect pancreatic inflammation in type 1 diabetes

...diagnosed with type 1 diabetes within the last six months or who are at increased risk for developing type 1 diabetes, based on family history and antibody testing. At present, the trial is enrolling only at-risk individuals who have already been risk stratified. Qualified individuals interested in more inf...

A vaccine to kill tapeworm

...vaccinations about one month apart provide several months of immunity. The team's aim is to provide lifelong immunity with one or two shots, though they say the vaccine will still be beneficial even it has to be given yearly. There is no reason why the vaccine would not work in people too. But safety issue...

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