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Small species back-up giant marsupial climate change extinction claim

... performed on samples. And further work, due to be published later in the year, on other sites in the region confirm the stratification of fossils in the creek bed. The dig also failed to unearth evidence of human activity, suggesting they didn't inhabit the region at the same time as megafauna. Queensland M...

New Estimates For The Causes Of Child Deaths Worldwide

...e estimates of the causes of child deaths to date, published in the March 26, 2005 of THE LANCET, reveal that worldwide more than 70% of the 10.6 million child deaths that occur annually are attributable to six causes: pneumonia (19%), diarrhoea (18%), malaria (8%), neonatal sepsis or pneumonia (10%), preterm ...

White Blood Cell 'Waste Disposal' System Plays Critical Regulatory Role

...utrophil production and destruction. The research, published in the March issue of Immunity, suggests that the process for disposal of dying neutrophils is actively linked to neutrophil production. A clear understanding of the processes that control neutrophil turnover may contribute to the development of futu...

Genetically Modified Natural Killer Immune Cells Attack, Kill Leukemia Cells

... blood cancers. Results of the St. Jude study are published in the current online issue of Blood. The researchers demonstrated how to overcome significant technical hurdles that have until now slowed development of NK-based therapies for ALL, according to Dario Campana, M.D., Ph.D., a member of St. Jude Hema...

Mystery Blood Vessel Disorder Implicated In 'Mini' Strokes

...t carries blood out from the heart. In an article published online February 28, 2005 in the Annals of Neurology (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/ana) the same French researchers who linked dolichoectasia with aortic aneurysm reveal new evidence that links the disorder with small vessel disease, a si...

Potential Drug Target For Treating Cocaine Abuse Found

... cocaine abuse, new research shows. In an article published in the February 23, 2005, issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, Jonathan Katz and his colleagues at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) report the results of experiments showing that mice treated with a substance similar to the drug benztropi...

Genetic defects give the immune system the green light to attack the pancreas

...lead to type 1 diabetes. Armed with these findings published March 22 in the journal Immunity, the researchers are now trying to hone in on the exact genes involved, in mice and in human patients. “The significance of this study is that we found the chromosomal regions involved and can now zero in on the prec...

CoPub Mapper: mining MEDLINE based on search term co-publication

...rchical clustered to reveal a complete grouping of published genes based on co-occurrence. The CoPub Mapper program allows for quick and versatile querying of co-published genes and keywords and can be successfully used to cluster predefined groups of genes and microarray data. ...

Medical whistleblowers speak out

...lessons we can learn from these whistleblowers, is published in the open access international medical journal P...ain why PLoS sponsored the roundtable and why they published Lenzer's account: "Lenzer's report will, we hope, spark discussion and debate about how American med...

Biologists discover why 10% of Europeans are safe from HIV

...s School of Biological Sciences, whose research is published in the March edition of Journal of Medical Genetics, attribute the frequency of the CCR5-delta32 mutation to its protection from another deadly viral disease, acting over a sustained period in bygone historic times. Some scientists have suggested th...

Study reveals new technique for fingerprinting environmental samples

...he health of the sampled environments. This study, published in the April 22nd edition of the journal Science positions large-scale genome sequencing to accelerate advances in environmental sciences akin to the contributions DNA sequencing has made to biomedical sciences. "These DNA sequence fingerprints can ...

First North American Encapsulated Islet Transplant without Long-term Immune Suppression into a Patient with Type 1 Diabetes

...s School of Biological Sciences, whose research is published in the March edition of Journal of Medical Genetics, attribute the frequency of the CCR5-delta32 mutation to its protection from another deadly viral disease, acting over a sustained period in bygone historic times. Some scientists have suggested th...

Bioelectronic ‘signatures?hold key to DNA mutations

...n the March issue of Analytical Chemistry and were published earlier this winter in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The article can be found on the Web at (http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/ja043780a). ...

Researchers unlock mechanism creating jigsaw puzzle-like plant cells

...a surprising degree of strength. The findings were published in today's edition of the journal Cell. Zhenbiao Yang, a professor of plant cell biology at the UCR's Center for Plant Cell Biology and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, worked with a team of researchers which included Geoffrey Wasteneys fro...

New understanding of DNA repair may pave way to cancer treatments

...unction, that of initiating DNA repair. The study, published in the May 27th edition of Molecular Cell, points to new targets for treatment of cancer. Ze'ev Ronai, Ph.D., Director of the Institute's Signal Transduction Program, and his colleagues found that the protein ATF2 ("Activating Transcription Factor-2...

Global analysis of membrane proteins

...enteric bacterium Escherichia coli. Their study is published this week in Science magazine. The team, led by professor Gunnar von Heijne at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, has used a combination of experimental techniques and theoretical structure prediction methods to produce simple structural...

Duke engineers develop new 3-D cardiac imaging probe

... prostate. A peer-reviewed report on the work was published this month in volume 26 issue number 4 of the journal Ultrasonic Imaging. (Note: Because the journal's publication is backlogged, the issue date is 2004.) The research is funded by the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of He...

Aggressive aquatic species invading Great Lakes

... vital ecosystem. A study from McMaster University published in the March issue of the Journal of Great Lakes Research suggests that for the round goby, a recently introduced fish species, their ability to wrest territory from native fish plays a key role in their dominance of the Great Lakes. In the study, M...

Roche clinical trial registry and results database launched

...sistent with the information disclosure principles published earlier this year by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations (EFPIA). The Roche strategy may model an industry-wide solution. Roche would support and participate in a future industry solution that provides a public database in...

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

...communication in elephants that is scheduled to be published in 2006. Meanwhile, she and her colleagues continue to analyze the results of the 2004 experiment and plan to gather new data when they return to Mushara waterhole in May 2005. That experiment will include a new study on the impact of acoustic and se...

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