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Therapeutic prospects beyond Vioxx

...though these results are in mice, not people, they raise an exciting possibility which can be tested in humans," says senior author Garret FitzGerald, MD, Director of Penn's Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Ever since the association of selective inhibitors of COX-2 ?Vioxx, Bextra, a...

Sociality of sweat bees evolved simultaneously during climate change

...ge instead of one. The first brood (workers) helps raise the second brood (reproductives). Danforth, who teaches Alien Empire: Bizarre Biology of Bugs (Entomology 201), a two-credit course in insect biology, and maintains a Web site on bee phylogeny, http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/BeePhylogeny/ , is...

Scientists re-engineer a well-known antibiotic to counter drug resistance

...ly increase the length of hospital stays, but they raise patient mortality rates as well. Our successful synthesis of a novel vancomycin analogue with a molecular structure that restores much of the drug's binding ability could potentially lead to the development of a new generation of antibiotics that cou...

Georgia Tech accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster

...ed to make more accurate decisions in research and raise the profile of the Institute among the nation's mo... Jeff Skolnick and other world-class scholars will raise its presence in this competitive market and attract some of the nation's brightest students to join ...

Report finds cruise industry is protecting the precious places it visits

...llaboration among a broad range of stakeholders to raise awareness and develop cooperative programs, tours and initiatives; contribute to sustainability through local training and capacity building; and help organize local communities to capture revenue from increased tourism, through local handicrafts, co...

Multi-million pound UK Biobank underway

...eephone number that volunteers and GPs can ring to raise any queries with a study team member. No one is pressured into taking part, and participants can withdraw at any time if they change their minds. The first assessment centre is located in the centre of Altrincham, with appointments continuing into th...

Born with a love of speech

...e results, Dr. Vouloumanos, says that the findings raise as many questions as they answer. Given the similarity between the speech and speech analogues, the $64, 000 question is what is exactly about speech to which newborns are so drawn? Says Dr. Vouloumanos: "There's something about speech that infants ...

Ocean virus identified in human blood samples

...e researchers say, but the data are intriguing and raise important new questions. Further research is needed to establish proof that infection with this virus in humans is causing liver damage or some other problems, which may include encephalitis and spontaneous abortion. The viral group being studied is...

Cure for cancer worth $50 trillion

...mprovements ?those that extend life and those that raise the quality of life," explain the authors. "As the...rite the authors. "Improvements in life expectancy raise willingness to pay for further health improvements by increasing the value of remaining life." Murp...

Climate change: The rice genome to the rescue

... of its own research funds as part of an effort to raise $20?5 million for a major five-year project to mitigate the effects of climate change on rice production. "We need to start developing rice varieties that can tolerate higher temperatures and other aspects of climate change right now," he said. "For...

Study finds that nutritionally enhanced rice reduces iron deficiency

...study demonstrates that iron-biofortified rice can raise levels of stored iron in the body and can significantly contribute to reducing micronutrient malnutrition. "In the past, we relied on supplements and fortification to overcome vitamin and mineral deficiencies," said Howarth Bouis, director of Harv...

Researchers uncover mechanisms of estrogen in promoting cell death in breast cancer

...certain breast cancer cells or tumors. The results raise the possibility that estrogen therapy may overcome resistance to certain breast cancer hormonal therapies. The study appears in the December 7 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. When cancer treatments such as chemotherapy o...

New technique puts brain-imaging research on its head

...the soft netting of a head guide, and are asked to raise and lower their heads about an inch inside an MRI machine. The process is repeated several times as the MRI pieces together a complete movie of the brain's response to these skull motions. "Phil (Bayly) has developed a set of state-of-the-art hardw...

Scientists crack code for motor neuron wiring

... connectivity to muscle targets. The studies also raise the possibility that the combinatorial code contains additional information, beyond the regulation of motor neuron wiring. "This is still conjecture, but the sheer number of Hox proteins, and their capacity to direct neuronal differentiation, suggest...

Should doctors tell patients about expensive, unfunded drugs?

...t provided by government? Would it be unethical to raise the option of treatment with an unsubsidised drug? Researchers surveyed 184 Australian cancer specialists about their opinions and practices regarding potentially useful but unsubsidised drugs. A large proportion said they would not discuss an ex...

Penn researchers study the use of ultrasound for treatment of cancer

...ns, "These results are extremely encouraging. They raise the possibility that, in the future, treatments with ultrasound either alone or with chemotherapeutic and antivascular agents could be used to treat cancers." ...

The bioweapon is in the post

...ified by the US government as "select agents" that raise bioterror concerns. But not all of these sequences are dangerous, and some customers may have the clearance to work with those that are. So even legitimate orders may be flagged up as suspicious, and that means companies must employ biologists to car...

Carnegie Mellon scientists create PNA molecule with potential to build nanodevices

...ort stretches of evolutionary time. These results raise a number of questions about age-related gene expression changes, including whether metabolically active non-brain tissues display similar patterns of changes, and whether the divergence between human and chimp patterns was the direct result of select...

Navigating the brain for sense of direction as paradigm for higher cognitive functions

...ort stretches of evolutionary time. These results raise a number of questions about age-related gene expression changes, including whether metabolically active non-brain tissues display similar patterns of changes, and whether the divergence between human and chimp patterns was the direct result of select...

Gene Expression in the Aging Brain

...ort stretches of evolutionary time. These results raise a number of questions about age-related gene expression changes, including whether metabolically active non-brain tissues display similar patterns of changes, and whether the divergence between human and chimp patterns was the direct result of select...

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