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NIAID begins clinical trial of West Nile virus vaccine

...blic health threat, especially to older adults and people with weakened immune systems," says Anthony S. Fau...ell as from mother to child during pregnancy. Most people experience no symptoms or only mild symptoms, such as fever, headache and body aches; more serious c...

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

...e something in common with the neurons that die in people with diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's: both have unusually low levels of a protein called UCHL1. "It would be ironic if the shortfall in a same gene brokered the path to brain disease or rejuvenation," says Nottebohm, who is Dorothea Leo...

Protein Discovery Could Unlock The Secret To Better TB Treatment

...rug resistant TB. In England and Wales around 400 people die each year from the disease. The top challenge ...infectious TB of the lungs infects around 10 to 15 people every year. In a study published on 1st March 2005 in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, a ...

Doctors closer to using gene analysis to help trauma patients

...ient’s recovery as well as the elements that cause people to die sometimes weeks after an injury occurs. Ide...ool used in clinical medicine, it’s important that people are able to get the same answers wherever the tool is being used.?/p> Genomic analyses took plac...

OneWorld Health drug receives 'Orphan' designation from U.S. and European regulatory agencies

...t attack internal organs. An estimated 1.5 million people worldwide are currently infected; the number of ne...ar is estimated at 500,000; and as many as 200,000 people die annually. More than 90 percent of VL cases occur in five countries: India, which bears the great...

Confocal imaging promises early detection of skin cancer

...ent statistics for Germany show that some 10 to 12 people in every 100,000 get the disease every year. Alarm...ienced dermatologists, and in Brescia, Italy, with people who were not experts in the field ?proved the principle of confocal imaging. “We demonstrated our s...

Findings have implications for tracking disease, drugs at the molecular level

...to see single nanoparticles under conditions where people usually look at thousands or millions of stain molecules. This could allow us, for instance, to track a single molecule of a drug in a cell or other biological sample." Other advantages of the technique are that the gold particles can be prepared ea...

Secret of smallpox's success may lead to bioterror cure

...t is for a disease that you can't ethically expose people to in trial. The vaccine will go through safety studies in humans, though." Because of the importance of the research for national security, Jacob's work is on a fast-track, with the studies projected to yield a usable vaccine virus within eighteen ...

The biggest family tree ever

...by analyzing genetic samples from at least 200,000 people all over the world. National Geographic and IBM a...ion kit and submitting their DNA sample. "As more people provide their genetic information to the project, researchers will be able to fill in the local deta...

The circadian clock: Understanding nature's timepiece

...gets. He says it could one day be possible to move people ahead eight hours simply with a pill and light therapy. All terrestrial organisms ?even single-celled organisms ?have circadian rhythms. In some cases, the circadian clock contributes to survival strategies as simple as not drying out when the sun c...

Stem cell research - new cell lines

...in type-1 diabetes, which affects at least 100,000 people in Australia. So far there is no cure for it. "Human embryonic stem cell research offers a permanent answer to the problem. It gives the hope that we can produce a pure population of those cells in large numbers and transplant them into the patient....

Scientists generate patient-specific stem cells, Science study says

...ility between the stem cell lines and the cells of people who supplied each line's nuclear DNA, suggesting that the patient's body might tolerate the cells after transplantation. The authors caution that work with human embryonic stem cells and studies of stem cells in animal model systems indicate that se...

Currents could disrupt ocean food chain

...verything from zooplankton to the larger fish that people consume." The Atlantic Conveyer current has the strongest impact in the North Atlantic, but it is a global phenomenon, Schmittner said. Surface waters from the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Ocean and the southern Atlantic are pulled n...

SuperLigands - a database of ligand structures derived from the Protein Data Bank

...ility between the stem cell lines and the cells of people who supplied each line's nuclear DNA, suggesting that the patient's body might tolerate the cells after transplantation. The authors caution that work with human embryonic stem cells and studies of stem cells in animal model systems indicate that se...

Six million Africans face famine because of locusts, drought

...ed crops and stripped grazing land for six million people across West Africa, small farmers have started sel...e Organization's (FAO) Edouard Tapsoba said. "The people in these areas need food aid and help to re-launch their own farming efforts in the form of fertiliz...

Thai spice helps cut blood sugar swings

...rials have shown either effect. Nevertheless, many people seem to believe HCA will help them lose weight. It... slowing progression to diabetes 2 and since these people have an obesity problem, it could potentially have an additional benefit in the therapeutic field. B...

AIDS Public Awareness Campaign Expands Following Report Of Rapidly Progressive HIV

...d the importance of garnering the participation of people with HIV in aiding New York in this effort. The De...tly, focus on HIV prevention and the importance of people knowing their HIV status. The Department will spend up to an additional $450,000 on this important t...

New strategies to reduce hospital-aquired infections

...care institutions affect approximately two million people resulting in about 98,000 deaths at a cost of $29 billion in the United States each year," said Dr. Cervia. "We know that tap water, previously unrecognized as a source of many of these infections, harbors pathogenic microorganisms that can pose a si...

Distributed Basic Local Alignment Search Toolkit (W.ND-BLAST)

...care institutions affect approximately two million people resulting in about 98,000 deaths at a cost of $29 billion in the United States each year," said Dr. Cervia. "We know that tap water, previously unrecognized as a source of many of these infections, harbors pathogenic microorganisms that can pose a si...

To Stop Evolution: New Way Of Fighting Antibiotic Resistance Demonstrated By Scripps Scientists

...antibiotics that have been used to treat them, and people infected with these resistant strains have to be treated with alternative antibiotics. For years scientists have been combating drug resistance by coming up with new types of antibiotics, and for years bacteria have been evolving ways around these an...

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