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The nude mouse tale: Omega-3 fats save the life of a terminal cancer patient

...n 2000 he was told by his doctor he had only a few months to live," said Pardini, a professor of biochemistry and associate director of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Nevada, Reno. "But five years later, he is still alive, and has even gained a little weight." The cancerou...

Plants, too, have ways to manage freeloaders

...s of bacteria, then harvested the plants after six months to determine their growth. Plants inoculated with some strains grew larger, while other strains produced smaller plants. For the main experiment, Simms concentrated on the yellow bush lupine (Lupinus arboreus), and chose to inoculate each plant with...

Sooner is better with cochlear implants, Stanford scientist shows

...hose who had received implants before they were 30 months old, which indicates that the earlier the implant is done, the better the chances for fully integrated speech perception in the brain. Kids who received implants later showed little evidence of the McGurk effect. Instead, they relied solely on what t...

Study finds that nutritionally enhanced rice reduces iron deficiency

... half of the developing world's children between 6 months and 2 years of age are iron-deficient during the critical period of their growth when brain development occurs. Many of the worst affected are found among Asia's poorest, but iron deficiency is also widespread in Africa, affecting more than 80 perce...

Combination therapy improves AIDS-related lymphoma outcome

... percent achieved complete remission, and after 47 months of follow-up and study's end, more than 50 percent of patients survived. Moreover, only 40 percent reported moderate drug toxicity. For high-risk ARL patients, only 29 percent achieved complete remission and median survival was only 7.2 months. Sixty...

Infants can organise visual information at just four months

...tention in infancy has revealed that, at just four months old, babies are able to organise visual information in at least three different ways, according to brightness, shape, and how close the visual elements are together (proximity). These new findings mean that very young infants are much more capable of...

Canine cancer vaccine program shows early promise

...after their local veterinarian gave Mack only four months to live when he was first diagnosed with melanoma. Mack has since died, but he died of congestive heart failure, not cancer, and had gained two more years of quality life. ...

Mouse study reveals human X-SCID gene therapy poses substantial cancer risk

...that developed lymphoma did so at an average of 10 months of age. In the human gene therapy trials, leukemia did not appear until 2-3 years after treatment, Woods says. "This indicates that preclinical experimental treatments involving transgenes should include long-term follow-up before entering a clin...

Genetic and environmental influences on alcohol consumption among rhesus monkeys

...ther- versus peer-reared) during the first several months of life among infant rhesus monkeys had later effects on alcohol consumption. "Two percent of the total variation in alcohol consumption depended on whether the monkeys had been reared by their mothers or not," he said, "with mother-reared animals d...

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

...ve use of cotrimoxazole for people with HIV. Nine months later, Grimwade said despite concerns over drawing conclusions from one study there is now much more consensus. She said, "the new WHO guidelines will likely recommend its use in both infected adults and children." "In the latest discussions, there'...

'Bad' enzymes may wear white hats after stroke

...ble the patient's optimal recovery. During nine months in Lo's lab, Wang also conducted research involving MMPs, statins, and Alzheimer's disease. Statins are a class of drugs that reduce serum cholesterol levels. "I did some work suggesting that statins might counteract the hemorrhagic effect of tPA an...

BiovaxID?yields 89 percent survival in patients with aggressive non-Hodgkins

...ccinations with BiovaxID commencing at least three months after completing their last chemotherapy and Rituxan treatments. Upon the 46-month (3.8-year) follow-up, the overall survival rate was 89%. This study showed that, despite an almost complete depletion of normal B-cell lymphocytes due to EPOCH-R thera...

Boosting newborns' immune responses

...nate newborns ?rather than wait until they reach 2 months of age ?would provide important global health benefits. "Birth is a point of contact with healthcare systems," he says. "Families may not see a health care provider after that. From a global health perspective, if you can give a vaccine at birth, a m...

Mice studies illustrate potential of chimp/human antibodies to protect against smallpox

...ditions such as eczema, in infants younger than 12 months and in pregnant women. Health care providers currently treat smallpox vaccine complications with anti-vaccinia immune globulin (VIG)--pooled antibodies taken from the blood of individuals immunized with the smallpox vaccine. However, VIG is in short ...

High-tech tags on marine animals yield valuable data for biologists and oceanographers

...f a seal or sea lion, and will stay on for several months before falling off when the animal molts. Data recorded during a dive are transmitted to satellites when the animal comes to the surface to breathe. Costa's group has been providing water temperature and salinity data gathered by California sea lio...

Unique equine cataract surgery offered on routine basis

...s suffering from cataracts. The team spent several months testing out various surgical techniques used both on humans and animals to establish the best combination of methods to remove horse cataracts. Georgie is a 15-month-old filly, with cataracts in both eyes. The team is currently preparing to operate...

Warbling whales speak a language all their own

... faster in water than air--to communicate. For six months each year, all male humpback whales in a population sing the same song during mating season. Thought to attract females, the song evolves over time. Suzuki and co-authors John Buck and Peter Tyack applied the tools of information theory--a mathemat...

Defective immune system response to smallpox vaccine detailed in new study

...ups, such as military personnel. In the first five months of 2003, the U.S. Department of Defense vaccinated more than 450,000 personnel against smallpox. During this period, the majority of those who deferred vaccination cited atopic dermatitis or other skin conditions as the main reason. ...

Born with a love of speech

...and cochlear development is such that at about six months gestation the fetus begin to hear a range of frequencies. Thus, there's the possibility that newborns preferentially listen to speech because they're used to it from their in-utero tuning-in. But, which speech sounds actually get through the uterine...

First SCID gene chip to be introduced at Academy meeting on immunodeficiencies

...his collaboration with NIH and Affymetrix only six months ago and never dreamed that this technology could h...zingly, the more difficult gene chip was developed months ahead of time and will be presented as part of Dr. Jennifer Puck's report on the use of microarray t...

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