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Soft-cell approach cuts animal tests

...lready known to have adverse health effects on the respiratory system of workers. Increasingly, new formulations ...ntly exposed or affected by air pollutants. As the respiratory system is both a site of toxicity for pulmonary toxicants, and a pathway for inhaled chemicals to re...

Fighting influenza & co. with 40,000 blood samples

Four million people die every year from respiratory diseases such as viral influenza. For elderly peop...men and men in the prime of their lives. 'Normally respiratory diseases are dangerous for children and the over-60s,' the project coordinator Dr. Oliver Schildgen ...

Horse genome assembled

...musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The SNPs are available at the Broad Institute web site ( www.broad.mit.edu/mammals/horse/snp ) and will be available shortly from NCBI's Single Nucleotide Polymorphism database, dbSNP ( www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP ). The initial sequencing...

Changes in amino acids in the 1918 influenza virus cut transmission

... influenza subtype virus capable of causing severe respiratory disease and death," says Dr. García-Sastre. "So if...alic acids, which are highly abundant in the upper respiratory tract of humans. For an avian virus to be able to jump to humans and to start a new pandemic, it has...

Helium helps patients breathe easier

... but now helium is also helping people with severe respiratory problems breathe easier. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada have discovered that by combining helium with 40 per cent oxygen allowed patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to increase their exercise cap...

Natural antibiotics yield secrets to atom-level imaging technique

...g skin, for instance, and the linings of the human respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts also crank out the short proteins in response to invading pathogens. In addition to fighting bacteria, AMPs attack viruses, fungi and even cancer cells, so drugs designed to mimic them could have widespread medical appl...

NIAID expands capability for influenza research and surveillance

...or evidence of the reemergence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Additionally, the researchers will explore strategies for controlling influenza outbreaks in agricultural settings. University of California at Los Angeles (principal investigator—Dr. Scott Layne) UCLA investigators will monitor ...

UQ research heralds vaccine technology breakthrough

...s. It can lead to severe and lifethreatening lower respiratory tract infection or bronchiolitis. About one in 1...ren aged two and under, especially those with weak respiratory symptoms, elderly people and the immunocompromised, such as people with HIV or those who have weaken...

Early exposure to indoor fungus molecules may protect infants against future allergies

...s are tiny molecules that scientists believe cause respiratory symptoms in adults. Crawling infants are often exp...indoor molds during infancy may be associated with respiratory symptoms, such as persistent coughing and wheezing." The UC-led team analyzed the effects of micr...

'Virtual Patient' to simulate real-time organ motions for radiation therapy

.... Currently Xu and De are focusing their energy on respiratory function. "Using advanced computational tools, it ...for the biomedical community to help patients with respiratory and cardiac diseases. At the same time, Xu will continue to work on the 3-D VIP-Man to create a "fam...

Fat fish put obesity on the hook

...llbladder disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea and respiratory problems, and some types of cancer. ...

Snoring in children might be an allergic type disease

...birth weight, body mass index at age 4.5 years and respiratory function whilst awake were found to be unrelated. The study cohort was drawn from participants in the Australian Childhood Asthma Prevention Study (CAPS) – a randomised controlled trial of dietary intervention and house dust mite avoidance during ...

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