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Researchers discover new gene responsible for brittle bone disease

...netic and protein level will we be able to someday offer something better." ...

Living laboratory found on shoreline statues

... body, and identical in size, shape and material - offer a perfectly replicated study environment to test for the effects of different levels of exposure to the environment, currents and sea level on marine settlements. Research leader, Dr Leonie Robinson, commented: "Although the key facts about barn...

Handling HPV vaccines and screening: The views of 100 authors

...widening group of professionals. Starting with the offer of HPV vaccines to pre-adolescent girls and the optional vaccination of young and middle-age women, HPV vaccines may in some instances be recommended as a universal vaccine for both genders towards the prevention of cervical cancer. "An unprecedented...

Protect patients from exploitation by alternative medicines industry

...es that it is because the complementary therapists offer something that doctors cannot offer ?hope. If you eat this, take that, avoid this, and really believe this then we can promise you since...

On the golf tee or pitcher's mound, brain dooms motion to inconsistency

...ns for combating it. In their paper, the engineers offer no advice for baseball trainers to help pitchers throw more strikes. A potential application of the research, Shenoy says, could come in future efforts to achieve new kinds of computing by building artificial circuits modeled on the brain. But Shenoy...

Researchers use multiphoton microscopy to watch chromosomes in action

...sms of gene transcription. The technique also may offer a new tool for researchers across the biological sciences. Webb says it marks the success of an interdisciplinary trend that offers new potential for researchers in a variety of fields. "Interaction between the physical sciences and the life science...

For super-obese patients, duodenal switch beats gastric bypass

...perienced team, but the duodenal switch appears to offer a considerable advantage in terms of the amount and possibly the duration of weight loss." The super obese make up only a fraction of the U.S. obesity pandemic, but their ranks are increasing faster than any other group. When the term was coined i...

International team analyzes human genetic variation in key immune region

...mmune system diseases. In addition, the results offer insights into the evolutionary history of the MHC ...hat analyzing select SNPs within the HLA genes may offer a more economical alternative for characterizing the most common genetic variants in the region than...

Protowings may have helped bird ancestors cover rough terrain

...hors believe to be widespread in birds, appears to offer an answer to the question first posed by St. George Jackson Mivart in 1871: "What use is half a wing?" ...

Crohn's disease gene identified

...e genetics of the disease. One mutation appears to offer significant protection from IBD, and will be a cru... large study sizes made possible by the consortium offer more definitive conclusions. "This important discovery not only offers new hope for better therap...

Scientists' cell discovery unearths evolutionary clues

... of fungi and similar to that of all animals. They offer an excellent experimental system for studying aspects of evolution and communication that are not easy to study in more complex multi-cellular organisms. The York and Dundee teams have worked with field biologists in Germany, the US and Japan, an...

Scientist works to improve treatment for brain tumors

...ient care, and is the first center in the state to offer Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery, a knifeless approach to brain surgery and radiation therapy. ...

Adults who go to bed lonely get stress hormone boost next morning

...mber of social, life and biomedical disciplines to offer a 21st century look at how biological, social and cultural dynamics intersect and affect health throughout the life span. Cortisol is often characterized as a negative hormone because of evidence, mostly in animal models, that long-term elevations...

Mayo Clinic Cancer Center: Harnessing the measles virus to attack cancer

...is work maturing to the point of now being able to offer this novel and promising treatment approach to patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme." She also reports that toxicology studies, conducted in conjunction with Federal Drug Administration, showed an excellent safety profile. Mayo Clinic i...

Increased sensitivity to nerve signals keeps diabetes at bay

...hat increase the sensitivity to such signals might offer a new approach to diabetes treatment, the researchers said. Mice in which the pancreas cells that produce insulin, or beta cells, lack so-called M3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors develop some symptoms of diabetes, including impaired glucose tole...

Gardenia fruit compound starting point for diabetes therapy

... diabetes therapies, they said. Such a drug could offer a big advance, the group added, as no currently available therapy for diabetes actually targets the underlying causes of disease in insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells. Insulin controls blood levels of glucose, the body's main energy source. In t...

Diabetes research takes wing thanks to long-lived fruit fly

...lism and limiting its energy output. It might also offer a new way to control insulin production. Like JNK, the insulin receptor is also involved in determining life span. Caloric restriction ?limiting the calories an organism ingests ?generally increases lifespan in organisms ranging from worms to flies,...

MUHC announces a transplant first in Quebec

...st in transplantation, allowing us to successfully offer combined organ transplants within one institution." The world's first heart transplant was conducted less than forty years ago; complex combined transplants have only been conducted since the 1980's. Multi-organ transplants, such as the combined hea...

Mechanism for neurodenegerative diseases linked to transport proteins

...is cell transport is blocked in these diseases may offer targets for future therapy. In a new study published online June 4 in Nature Neuroscience, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine showed how a chemical pathway that is obstructed in Kennedy disease interferes with...

AIDS vaccine research offers new insights on survival

...rvival following infection with an AIDS-like virus offer a new means of predicting an AIDS vaccine's effectiveness, a discovery that could help scientists as they test these vaccines in clinical trials. Led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and the Vaccine Research Center (VRC...

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