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Scientists tie several cancers to common 'oncogene engine'

...advanced melanoma. "We have just opened a trial to offer the same vaccine to patients with all of the other cancers in this related family," said Fisher. "Prior to this, virtually no rational experimental treatments were available for these diseases, and patients have already started coming from throughout...

Researcher studies, treats military with 'silent disease'

...al disease or liver damage," she said. "We may not offer them treatment because chances are that person's disease may not progress." The standard treatment--24 to 48 weeks of a once-a-week injection with interferon and several pills of ribavirin each day--are what Sjogren speculated would cause a decrease...

Loosen up, DNA: Leukemia gene changes genetic packaging

...k, using a drug to target the JAK/STAT pathway may offer a new strategy for altering chromatin structure, much like HDAC inhibitors do. "We hope that others will take what we have learned from fruit flies and apply the findings to people," said Li. "If this phenomenon occurs in people as well as flies, w...

Speeding the search for elusive chromosomal errors

...re rapid and precise results than karyotyping, and offer as much as 50 times higher resolution than other, more commonly used microarrays, such as bacterial artificial chromosome arrays," said Dr. Shaikh. "Our study is one of the first to report using these microarrays in a clinical setting to detect const...

Gorilla susceptibility to Ebola virus: the cost of sociality

...group-dwelling and solitary gorillas. The findings offer a unique glimpse into the factors affecting the threat the deadly virus poses to great apes. The work is reported in the July 12th issue of the journal Current Biology by a team of researchers including Damien Caillaud and colleagues from the Unive...

Research links protein to breast-cancer migration

...l to all types of cancers and has the potential to offer alternative therapies to stop cancers spreading to other organs in the body." News of the scientific breakthrough comes as the University announced Breast Cancer Campaign funding for two other research projects worth nearly £300,000. Dr. Andrew Gil...

Global warming may have damaged coral reefs forever

...ving perspective the outer carbonate islands still offer healthy coral reefs. Early results from diver tourist surveys in the inner islands suggest that diver satisfaction is high with granite reefs, wrecks and whale sharks. Lead researcher Nick Graham, of Newcastle University's School of Marine Science ...

Metal homeostasis research in plants will lead to nutrient-rich food and higher yielding crops

...d to be better sources of essential elements would offer humans improved nutrition. For example, over three billion people worldwide suffer from Iron and/or Zinc deficiencies. Food consumption studies suggest that doubling the Iron in rice can increase the Iron intake of the poor by 50 percent. Rice is a ...

HIV-1's high virulence might be an accident of evolution

... international team of researchers is the first to offer an explanation for this striking difference. The ...ht balance maintained in the other primates--might offer a new approach to HIV therapy, Kirchhoff said. "A strong immune response can be good in the short t...

Natural vitamin E tocotrienol reaches blood at protective levels

Two recent studies offer new evidence suggesting an alternative form of natural vitamin E can be taken by mouth and will reach the blood in humans at levels determined to protect against stroke and other diseases. Vitamin E occurs naturally in eight different forms. The p...

Researchers find cause of frontotemporal dementia

...research is needed for that. But this finding does offer the prospect of a new treatment for FTD and possib...leads to FTD, administration of this protein could offer a simple solution. However, the trick will be to administer the right quantity, because too much pro...

Ready, set, mutate?and may the best microbe win

...-to-head contest for evolutionary dominance, today offer the first glimpse of how individual genetic-level adaptations play out as Darwinian natural selection in large populations. The results appear in the May 19 issue of Molecular Cell. "One of our most surprising findings is that an estimated 20 millio...

Breaks in hibernation help fight bugs

...ng to researchers at Penn State. The finding could offer an insight into the spread and emergence of infectious disease in wildlife, and has potential implications for human health. Many warm-blooded animals slip into an inert sleep-like state as part of a unique strategy to get past harsh winters when...

New GI technologies improve internal organ visualization

...sducer at the tip of an endoscope to visualize and offer therapeutic intervention to the gastrointestinal t...with negative CE results. "Both procedures offer value to patients with unknown sources of intestinal bleeding or other small bowel problems, and sho...

Septum keeps neurons in synch, can reduce epileptic seizures by 90 percent

... would say there is hope," Colom said. "We want to offer people with epilepsy new options," he said, but progress will depend upon funding, he added. Next steps The researchers will repeat the study using animals that are awake and mobile, though it is more difficult to record the brain's discharges in...

Brazil creates buffer zone around coral reefs off Atlantic coast

...Brazilian law, buffer zones around protected areas offer strong protection, with special permits from environmental authorities required for any economic use. "The buffer zone will guarantee the biodiversity integrity in the Park and ensure that local communities can continue carrying out their means of ...

Protein clue to tailor-made antibiotics

...olved to kill each other with protein toxins might offer ways of constructing new, tailor-made antibiotics that target particular microorganisms." Researchers are now trying to establish what it is about this blocking mechanism (which they've christened 'competitive recruitment') that lowers the cells' d...

Scientists stop autoimmune disease without shutting off immune system

... Similar drugs being developed for human use could offer a potential treatment for PV, the researchers said. The results appear in the Aug. 22 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The research was funded the National Institutes of Health."Even if we can't block the immune response, if...

Parkinson's disease mechanism discovered

...sease. According to the researchers, the findings offer a promising opportunity for developing new drugs to treat the underlying causes of Parkinson's disease and related neurodegenerative disorders. The research team, which included Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators Susan L. Lindquist and Na...

Super-sized cassava plants may help fight hunger in Africa

... million people worldwide. Sayre said he hopes to offer these plants to countries where cassava is an important crop. The current study appears in the online early issue of the Plant Biotechnology Journal. Sayre collaborated with Ohio State colleague Uzoma Ihemere and scientists from BASF Plant Science i...

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