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Measles Deaths Worldwide Drop By Nearly 40% Over Five Years

...ve children from other diseases. “We now have the opportunity to replicate this successful model as we tackle other child killers such as malaria,?Bellamy said, noting that in late 2004, Togo’s children received four life-saving interventions at once. The landmark campaign reached over 95% of the children under...

Road salt affects mitigation wetlands

...hers if they wanted to use the road building as an opportunity to do research. "PennDOT has really gone out of their way to consider the environmental impact of what they have done," says Silver. "They have been extremely good about talking to the college to minimize the effects of having a road across campus a...

One gene links newborn neurons with those that die in diseases such as Alzheimer's

... a fascinating, learned behavior, so it offers the opportunity to show how integration at different levels of biology can be made to pay," Nottebohm says. "It allows us to think about the brain in ways that no single level of analysis would allow." ...

Genetic therapy reverses nervous system damage in animal model of inherited human disease

...s that there is a particularly important window of opportunity for gene therapy in infants," Wolfe said. "In our study, we could see that gene therapy used during this particular time led to a restoration of damaged neurons, even though the lesions that represent the disease were already extensive." According t...

UN votes to ban human cloning

...ed the views of a number of speakers, in saying an opportunity had been missed to adopt a convention prohibiting reproductive cloning because of the intransigence of those who failed to recognize that other sovereign States might want to permit strictly controlled applications of therapeutic cloning. The Declara...

FDA Works To Speed The Advent Of New, More Effective Personalized Medicines

...ssion will allow members of the general public the opportunity to hear about the science behind personalized medicine, an issue of critical importance to both consumers and FDA. Presentations will be from experts in the field and there will be time for questions. For more information ; for public session . ...

Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication

...0 feet from the waterhole. The array gave them the opportunity to record hundreds of seismic rumbles from elephants and other visitors--the most comprehensive study of large animal seismicity ever attempted in the wild. Breeding herds came to the waterhole five or six times a day during the experiment, sometime...

Leprosy microbes lead scientists to immune discovery

With the unusual opportunity that human leprosy infections provide for study of human immune responses, scientists have discovered how the body's early warning system prompts a rapid immune response by two separate armies of defensive cells. The finding helps explain why, when t...

Technique may allow cancer patients to freeze eggs, preserving fertility before starting treatment

...hnique might allow women diagnosed with cancer the opportunity to have children when chemotherapy and radiation treatments rob them of their fertility, researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have found. By having her eggs frozen before she begins cancer treatments, a woman can pre...

First frozen egg baby born in Canada

... birth to this beautiful baby. I wish to take this opportunity to thank the MUHC staff, and especially the staff of the Reproductive Centre." The McGill Reproductive Centre of the MUHC is pioneering a revolutionary new freezing technique, which has dramatically increased egg survival rate. Human eggs are very f...

Great White shark evolution debate involves WSU Lake Campus geology professor

...reasons he selected Wright State was the extensive opportunity for fossil research in this region of Ohio. ...

Not-for-profit publishers call NIH public access rule a missed opportunity

... wasteful of federal research dollars and a missed opportunity to take advantage of available technology and exis...violating copyright agreements. "This is a missed opportunity that represents a waste of government resources," said Martin Frank, PhD, Executive Director, Americ...

New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem

...em-based management. The Dynamic Atlas creates the opportunity for credible gains in our knowledge about how the patterns of life in the Gulf are unfolding." For example, the Atlas can be used for simple analyses, such as calculating the rate at which fish species are being first identified in the various regio...

Use of PET can reduce, may eliminate more strenuous drug development trials with animals

...early the same set of genes as humans, offering an opportunity to learn about the function of the many genes shared by both. This could lead to improved diagnosis of disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, epilepsy, cardiovascular illnesses and many cancers. Researchers can gain a broader underst...

International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort

...es or promoting longevity. "We are excited by the opportunity to apply our technology to all publicly available SNPs. This effort is so important that Perlegen is willing to contribute some of its own resources to make this possible," said Kelly A. Frazer, Ph.D., vice president of genomics at Perlegen. "We are ...

Sequencing of marine bacterium will help study of cell communication

The opportunity to annotate the genome of the glow-in-the-dark bac...raduate student, Marie Faini, and I were given the opportunity to be members of the team that annotated the sequence." Annotation is a complex process that assign...

Affymetrix and Stratagene Announce Strategic Software Alliance

...ought leaders in our field, we believe we have the opportunity to position our technology as a standard for expression analysis." ...

Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective

...he publication of these papers represents a golden opportunity to jump-start the expansion of HIV testing services in the U.S.," said Yale lead author A. David Paltiel, associate professor of health and policy administration in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine. "Our fin...

Study shows nanoshells ideal as chemical nanosensors

...ice's Laboratoryof Nanophotonics. "That creates an opportunity to design all-opticalnanoscale sensors -- essentially new molecular-level diagnosticinstruments -- that could detect as little as a few molecules of atarget substance, which could be anything from a drug molecule or a keydisease protein to a deadly c...

New imaging method gives early indication if brain cancer therapy is effective, U-M study shows

...t regimen that's not working and gives doctors the opportunity to switch patients early on to a therapy that may be more effective. Results of the study appear the week of March 28 in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Most primary brain tumors have a high mortalit...

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