Transplanting Animal Organs Could Soon Be A Reality
...h implications for pandemic influenza, a new study reports for the first time that a less-virulent strain of ...s during an outbreak in domestic poultry. Previous reports of human infection in Asia, Canada, and the Netherlands have been associated, in contrast, with high...First Whole Genome Map of Genetic Variability in Parkinson’s Disease
...h implications for pandemic influenza, a new study reports for the first time that a less-virulent strain of ...s during an outbreak in domestic poultry. Previous reports of human infection in Asia, Canada, and the Netherlands have been associated, in contrast, with high...Eating, body weight regulated by specific neurons
...h implications for pandemic influenza, a new study reports for the first time that a less-virulent strain of ...s during an outbreak in domestic poultry. Previous reports of human infection in Asia, Canada, and the Netherlands have been associated, in contrast, with high......h implications for pandemic influenza, a new study reports for the first time that a less-virulent strain of ...s during an outbreak in domestic poultry. Previous reports of human infection in Asia, Canada, and the Netherlands have been associated, in contrast, with high...New study shows measles immunization may prevent fatal brain infection
... and 7 additional SSPE patients identified in case reports were related to infections during the resurgence of measles in the United States during a drop in measles vaccination rates between 1989 and 1991. The ages of the patients ranged from 5 to 36 years, with a mean of 14. The researchers discovered wil...Researchers find Amchitka seafood safe for now
...raft in response and issued a final report. These reports and other Information about CRESP can be obtained from its web site www.cresp.org Additional quotes about the Report from CRESP people: Peer Review of the Draft: Before releasing the report, CRESP did, as it typically does with important studies, a...Independent researchers confirm the existence of ivory-billed woodpecker
...had prepared a manuscript critical of the original reports to the journal PLoS Biology. In that manuscript which is withdrawn, the authors concluded that definitive evidence was still necessary and wrote, "We sincerely hope that this evidence is forthcoming soon." Now it is. Prum and Robbins are delighted. ...Emerging staph strains found to be increasingly deadly and deceptive
...enters for Disease Control and Prevention, "recent reports of 'community-acquired' MRSA infections raise concern ?If MRSA becomes the most common form of Staphylococcus aureus in a community, it will make treatment of common infections much more difficult." The April 7, 2005, issue of The New England Journal...Amphetamines reverse Parkinson's disease symptoms in mice
...titute for Genome Sciences & Policy. The team reports its findings in the August 2005 issue of Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology. The research was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and a donation from The Long Island Community Foundation, a division of The New York Community Trust. ...Prenatal exposure to marine toxin causes lasting damage
...brain involved in learning and memory. More recent reports examining the effects of a range of doses have found highly reproducible behavioral consequences of sublethal doses of the marine toxin, including impairments to spatial memory. To explore the toxin's effects during development, the Duke team admin...Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident
...of the accident. As for environmental impact, the reports are also reassuring, for the scientific assessment...c and psychological, not health or environmental," reports Balonov, the scientific secretary of the Chernobyl Forum effort who has been involved with Chernobyl...Fresh water affected by salt from deicing roads
...g and gradually adding salt to fresh water systems reports Sujay Kaushal and colleagues in the September 2005 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The scientists used historical records over the last 30 years and direct measurements to quantify changes in baseline salinity and pr...Careless reporting on HIV 'could cost lives'
...al Health and Human Rights. Mills says that media reports were partly responsible for trials of the HIV drug... protests). Mills and colleagues found that media reports about opposition to the trials varied greatly, and some were "entirely incorrect". Some reports sai......has beaten back pink bollworm eight years running, reports a team of scientists from The University of Arizona in Tucson. The surprising finding is good news for the environment. Arizona farmers who plant the biotech cotton known as Bt cotton use substantially less chemical insecticides than in the past. I...Normal chromosome ends elicit a limited DNA damage response
...epair attempts the cap is supposed to hold at bay, reports the Salk team, led by Jan Karlseder, in the current issue of Molecular Cell. Scientists had long surmised that the protective telomere-protein complex had to unravel when enzymes need to gain access in order to copy the chromosome's DNA in preparat...NRL scientists detect 'milky sea' phenomena
...nd the world. However, there have been no previous reports or demonstrations of the OLS being used to detect ...e. Dr. Miller and the research team searched ship reports of milky sea sightings since 1992 and compared these with archived OLS satellite data. A British mer...Pillows - a hot bed of fungal spores
... was first studied in 1936, but there have been no reports in the last seventy years. For this new study, which was published online today in the scientific journal Allergy, the team studied samples from ten pillows with between 1.5 and 20 years of regular use. Each pillow was found to contain a substantia...MIT researcher finds neuron growth in adult brain
...at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory reports in the Dec. 27 issue of Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology that structural remodeling of neurons does in fact occur in mature brains. This finding means that it may one day be possible to grow new cells to replace ones damaged by disease or s...2005 AIDS figures released by WHO and UNAIDS
...tment strategies. The annual AIDS Epidemic Update reports on the latest developments in the global AIDS epidemic. With maps and regional estimates, the 2005 edition provides the most recent estimates on the epidemic’s scope and human toll, explores new trends in the epidemic’s evolution, and features a spec......tain View, Calif., that includes 200,000 published reports on more than 8,000 human, rat and mouse genes and their genetic interactions. This tool enabled the group to uncover about 300 genes and several genetic pathways not previously known to be involved in inflammation. The Nature article is the second i...