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Drug resistance may travel same path as quorum sensing

...they think is a communication signal, which is bad news for doctors and their patients. This process, known as multidrug resistance, results in the failure to cure the bacterial disease. Even worse, the resistance is not just to one drug, but many because the pump is now increased and many different drug...

Paleontologists learn how not to become a fossil

...blonski said. "Small body size turns out to be bad news for preservation in general, and thus deep-sea species are undercaptured." Surprisingly, they found that burrowing clams living within sediments were no more likely to become fossils than similarly sized varieties that lived out in the open. Perhap...

Bone and cartilage growth to blame for heart valve disease

...the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute. "The exciting news is that this line of research suggests that there may be medical treatments in the future that could either treat this disease process." This research was completed with the support of an American Heart Association Grant-in-Aid (0350564Z) and a gra...

Efficiency, not more doctors, is the prescription for aging population

Recent news reports that threaten a shortage of doctors to treat the burgeoning elderly population are wrong, according to researchers at Dartmouth Medical School's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS). In a study published in the March/April issu...

New licensing agreement to maximize AIDS drug development

... director of CONRAD says, "This agreement is great news for everyone interested in developing an effective microbicide. The more partnerships we have like this one, the better our potential is for getting an effective product ready for distribution." "I am delighted for our two organizations to enter in...

Loosen leash on cancer protein 'watchdog,' researchers say

...ng process. Fortunately, we got more kinds of good news than we initially expected." Mice with such a predisposition generally developed about 50 intestinal lesions within six months of birth, but mice modified for the study had only developed three or fewer within that time frame. Moreover, there was no...

New vaccine for condition that kills 500,000 children a year

...irus that sometimes becomes deadly. "This is good news for children everywhere," said principal investigator David O. Matson, M.D., professor of pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) and head of infectious diseases at EVMS' Center for Pediatric Research. "In a matter of hours, vomiting and...

Chocolate milk could be key to longer, healthier life

...and quality of life in older individuals. The good news is the answer could be as simple as taking a stroll followed by a glass of chocolate milk. Senior lecturer at the Department of Sport and Exercise Science, Dr Benjamin Miller, says the goal of his research is not to make athletes out of the elderly...

Plastic surgeons countdown first full facial transplantation

Even after news of the first partial facial transplantation performed in France spread around the world, plastic surgeons have continued to research how to make the first full facial transplantation a reality. In the first peer-reviewed, scientific studies of their...

Chewing up a key regulator of fat synthesis keeps mice lean despite a high-fat diet

...ey were constantly burning fat." All this is good news for the fight against obesity and the disorders characterized by insulin-resistance known as "metabolic syndrome." Most people with insulin resistance will develop type 2 diabetes within 10 years, unless they lose 5 to 7 percent of their body weight-...

New egg freezing technique offers hope to hundreds of women

...lable for freezing. Dr Masashige Kuwayama told a news briefing that although sperm could be frozen, thawed and used for in vitro fertilisation with high levels of success, the freeze-thawing process could damage eggs and, until now, it had been very difficult to perform successful IVF using frozen-thawe...

Arctic coring expedition continues to yield new clues

...the IODP Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) is making news with new analysis of ocean-floor sediments. In the Aug. 10 issue of Nature, an article by several of the expedition scientists summarizes their findings: more evidence that the Arctic was extremely warm, unusually wet, and ice-free up to the time the...

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

... their beef as 'tested for BSE.'" Berlowitz cited news reports that the cost of such testing would add only6 to 10 cents to a pound of beef. His article further warns of poor oversight of cattle feed. In particular, the slaughterhouse practice of "rendering," or recycling dead cows and sheep into prote...

Experimental vaccine protects lab animals against several strains of H5N1

...ive as the virus mutates? Researchers present good news in the July 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. Elena Govorkova, MD, PhD, Robert G. Webster, PhD, and coworkers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., used reverse genetics to develop an influe...

Science captures the essence of fruit

...logy scientist Dr Richard Newcomb, that's exciting news for the world's food, perfume and cosmetic producers, who have for years sought synthetic solutions to mimic nature's flavours and fragrances in products ranging from ice cream to shampoo. "While manufacturers have largely been successful in copyin...

Biofuels researcher searches for new sources

...c ethanol. The Department of Energy called it in a news release "a renewable, cleaner-burning, and carbon-neutral alternative to gasoline" and "an economically viable transportation fuel." "Montana farms produce 10 million tons of wheat and barley straw that are typically left in the field. An additiona...

Scientists describe new African monkey genus ?first in 83 years

...n the online Science Express. "This is exciting news because it shows that the 'age of discovery' is by no means over," says William Stanley, a co-author of the study and mammal Collection Manager at The Field Museum, where the world's only specimen of this forest-dwelling monkey "resides" in the museu...

The appearance of your hands can reveal your age, study finds

...o make hands appear younger looking. "The good news is, although your hands may reveal more about your age than you desire, there are remedies out there," said Dr. Guy. "A good medical skincare regimen that focuses on the hands can be highly effective in maintaining skin thickness and fullness. Non-...

Biotech cotton provides same yield with fewer pesticides

...s yield, pesticide use and biodiversity. It's good news for the environment. "What we see is that it's positive here in Arizona -- no doubt about it," said Yves Carrière, an associate professor of entomology at The University of Arizona in Tucson. "We've reduced pesticide use in Arizona. We've wanted to ...

Insulin receptor stops progression of Alzheimer's disease

..., which is responsible for dementia. This is great news for patients since you treat early stages of disease," de la Monte says. Another promising result for Alzheimer's patients is that these drugs could be given in the form of a pill, de la Monte says. In the study, the drugs were injected to control t...

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