Young Blood Revives Aging Muscles, Stanford Researchers Find
... satellite cells in elderly mice joined to younger partners ramped up Delta production to youthful levels after an injury. The group confirmed their results by putting satellite cells from old and young mice in a lab dish with either old or young blood serum. Old satellite cells in old serum and young satell...WHO suspends Marburg work, appeals for new funds
...evers is the engagement of affected communities as partners in control. To achieve this engagement, local belief systems about the causes of disease and traditional rituals for mourning the dead must be respected. When the public understands and accepts a few simple messages ?avoid contact with blood and othe...AIDS Public Awareness Campaign Expands Following Report Of Rapidly Progressive HIV
...male in his mid-40s who reported multiple male sex partners and unprotected sex, often while using crystal methamphetamine. At the direction of Governor George E. Pataki, the State Health Department is expanding its $2.2 million HIV/AIDS marketing and media campaign to run additional HIV counseling and testi...A New Species of Monkey is Discovered in Tanzania: The First in Africa for More Than 20 Years
...ternational. ``By sharing expertise and resources, partners get the most value for money spent.?/p> The Southern Highlands team was coordinated and funded by WCS; the project that produced the discovery in Ndundulu Forest received financial support from WCS, CI, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, th...Gene keeps neural cells on correct developmental path
...minally differentiated neuron." But some molecular partners of REST remain, perhaps fine-tuning gene expression in mature neurons, she said. REST seems to work globally, binding to the starting points of as many as 1,000 genes at once. The gradual loss of REST in differentiating neurons probably orchestrates...Measles Deaths Worldwide Drop By Nearly 40% Over Five Years
...r 150 million children against measles. Other key partners include the governments of Australia, Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom as well as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foun...Confocal imaging promises early detection of skin cancer
... Siemens dropped out of the project, the remaining partners sought a replacement. In stepped UK firm VisiTech ...experts.?/p> Though the project has ended, the partners want to make a smaller version of their prototype system. “We hope to develop a partnership for this...Youth With HIV Take More Risks After New Meds Introduced
Teens with HIV are having more risky sex with more partners than their counterparts did in the years before po...age, post-HAART youth had nearly double the sexual partners as pre-HAART youth. Post-HAART youth were also more likely to have had a sexual partner who used inj...Solutions that reduce death of marine life reeled in by International Smart Gear Competition
... to observe Earth Day, World Wildlife Fund and its partners in the International Smart Gear Competition announ... World Wildlife Fund in May 2004 to bring together partners representing fishermen, fisheries, policy and science to find solutions that will reduce the unneces...Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola update
...dly communicated and immediately met. WHO and its partners are nonetheless prepared and organized to continue the outbreak response for several additional months, if this is needed. An important present goal is to transfer skills and responsibilities for outbreak response to national staff, and training effo...Researchers develop rapid diagnostic tool for pathogen identification
...tious Disease Laboratory, is a global effort, with partners from around the world providing input into assay d...ak investigation, and blood product screening. Key partners in the work presented in the current publication include the Centro Nacional de Microbiologia of Spa......-based drug discovery and development to work with partners in bringing innovative products to the market.?/p>...Sexual cooperation: Mating increases longevity in ant queens
... bond so early reduces the conflict between mating partners because both sexes benefit from the queen experiencing a long reproductive phase after the colony reaches sexual maturity. ...Affymetrix and Stratagene Announce Strategic Software Alliance
... Stratagene has joined the community of Affymetrix partners developing methods for next-generation gene expression microarrays. "Affymetrix' tiling arrays are revolutionizing functional analysis," said Dr. Joseph A. Sorge, Chairman and CEO of Stratagene. "We believe that our technology will provide key functi...Measuring the impact of post-genomics on Mediterranean populations
...also laid the groundwork for networks of potential partners to meet and discuss project ideas they could submit in answer to the December 2004 call for proposals under the INCO-MPC (International Co-operation-Mediterranean Partner Countries) scheme. Under the Sixth Framework Programme’s (FP6) ‘Specific measu...Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance
...f Affymetrix products, dependence on collaborative partners (including uncertainties related to the outcome of the collaboration discussed in this press release), uncertainties relating to sole source suppliers, uncertainties relating to FDA and other regulatory approvals, competition, risks relating to intel...... a mix of MHC types. Females use smell to identify partners with suitable MHC molecules: choosing only males with the correct mix of immune genes critical for the survival of future offspring. In the experiment females were fooled by the protein fragments into believing that males with insufficient MHC molec...MetaChip provides quick, efficient toxicity screening of potential drugs
...n may not always be able to insist that their male partners use measures to prevent HIV transmission," notes NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "If effective, microbicides would be a valuable woman-controlled means of slowing the pace of the HIV/AIDS epidemic," Dr. Fauci adds. The first volunteers were en...International trial of two microbicides begins
...n may not always be able to insist that their male partners use measures to prevent HIV transmission," notes NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "If effective, microbicides would be a valuable woman-controlled means of slowing the pace of the HIV/AIDS epidemic," Dr. Fauci adds. The first volunteers were en...... even in the poorest countries in the world, to be partners in the choice and development of the crop improvement technologies best suited to their own priorities", says Richard Jefferson, founder and CEO of CAMBIA and Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University (CSU). "Most importantly, these new tools ar...