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Parasite infection may benefit MS patients

...rk generated by persistent parasite infections may offer a potential explanation for environment-related suppression of MS development in areas with low disease prevalence." ...

Severe mental retardation gene mutation identified

...tify whether are not they are carriers, and we can offer prenatal testing to the carriers who want it." In the broader picture, this research is not only benefiting families with X-linked mental retardation, but it is also defining the genes involved in intellectual development. "If you find genes th...

Knocking out survival protein could aid leukemia treatment

...combination with several existing drugs might also offer an effective one-two punch against drug-resistant forms of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The two forms of cancer kill about 20,500 Americans yearly. The survival protein is called Mcl1. It usually help...

Ultrathin films deliver DNA as possible gene therapy tool

...sed to coat implantable medical devices, the films offer a novel way to route useful genes to exactly where...available drug-coated stents, Lynn's devices could offer additional advantages. For example, Lynn hopes to deliver genes that could prevent the growth of sm...

Army research mission focused on autism

...now." With a mission-driven approach, the ASDRP offer three types of funding opportunities: To encourage new research ideas and bring more investigators into the Field of Autism research. When the funding opportunities are announced next month, investigators currently engaged in autism research, and res...

Satellites shed light on global warming

...e radar altimeter that oceanographers were able to offer proof of their existence by mapping the sea surface height and seeing them move by following the measurements of the surface. Radar altimeters work by sending thousands of separate radar pulses down to Earth per second then recording how long the...

Turning a cellular sentinel into a cancer killer

...vent p53 reactivation, they believe their findings offer ideas for new approaches to cancer therapy. The research was carried out independently by two Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) research teams led by Tyler Jacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Scott Lowe at Cold Spring Harbor...

NIH neuroscience microarray consortium launches high-throughput genotyping services

...es." Each of the four members of the Consortium offer specialized services. The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) offers both expression profiling and SNP genotyping on Affymetrix Genechips. UCLA, in addition to the Affymetrix platform, processes Agilent arrays; Duke offers LCM services, ...

100 percent juices found as beneficial to health as fruits and vegetables

...ned that the positive impact fruits and vegetables offer come not from just the fiber but also from antioxidants which are present in both juice and the whole fruit and vegetables. This 2006 review of the literature states, “When considering cancer and coronary heart disease prevention, there is no evi...

Music genes and musical geniuses

...er musicians and researchers in a single event, to offer meetings and debates as well as entertainment to t...cientists, the Festival of Music and Genetics will offer a rich calendar of concerts to entertain participating delegates. The overall framework of the event...

MIT bioengineer advances survival, promise of adult stem cells

...bryonic stem cells, believes that adult stem cells offer promising therapeutic possibilities. "I'm very ... few states, including California and Connecticut, offer state funding for broader embryonic stem cell research. There are no legal restrictions on funding t...

NYU scientists identify how development of different species uses same genes with distinct features

...tories in NYU’s Center for Developmental Genetics, offer new insight into the workings of developmental pathways across species. The study is published in the latest issue of the journal Science. The researchers examined the fruit fly Drosophila and the wasp Nasonia as genetic model systems. Fruit flies?d...

Chronic pain up almost 40 percent among US workers in past decade

...o-thirds, or 66 percent, of employers surveyed now offer worksite wellness programs to employees, compared to 40 percent in 1996. But while the number of wellness programs is relatively high, the number of programs addressing chronic pain is not. Only 22 percent of wellness programs include a component abo...

Temple University Hospital investigates treatment for cervical dysplasia

...e to cervical dysplasia, and is being developed to offer patients with cervical dysplasia and healthcare providers an option to surgical intervention," explained Hernandez. "Qualified participants must be 25 or younger, with an abnormal Pap test result in the past six months." According to Hernandez, HP...

Performing surgery on a beating heart may be safer

...eeds to be provided for those surgeons who wish to offer this option to their patients.? ...

St. Jude announces breakthrough in eye cancer treatment

...indings suggest that this treatment not only could offer children with retinoblastoma more effective and less-toxic treatment," Dyer said. "It could also increase the chance that their vision can be preserved by eliminating the tumor and preventing its spread from the eye to the rest of the body." The d...

Single molecule extends fat mice lives by reversing gene pathways associated with disease in obese

...t the small molecule resveratrol has been shown to offer survival benefits in a mammal. The study is reported in the November 1 advanced online edition of Nature. "Mice are much closer evolutionarily to humans than any previous model organism treated by this molecule, which offers hope that similar impac...

How fish mend a broken heart

...ted that illumination of the fishes' ability might offer important insights into "how heart regeneration is naturally optimized." In the current study, they found that heart regeneration proceeds through two coordinated stages. First, a mass of undifferentiated, pre-cardiac cells form. Those progenitor c...

Free drug samples influence prescribing, say one in three doctors

...s would be significantly more likely to accept the offer of a free lunch, an anatomical model emblazoned with a drug's name, or a consultancy than they would, even if offered without free samples. And they also felt that these free "gifts" would still influence the other doctors' prescribing decisions mo...

Proteins may predict lung transplant rejection

...he disease's development. The information could offer inroads to new therapies, said Wendt. Doctors may be able to increase the dose of anti-rejection drugs when the early markers of rejection appear. Or, they may reduce anti-rejection drugs for people who do not show early signs of rejection. (Anti-rej...

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