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Study: Competition for sex is a 'jungle out there'

...e there is a great deal of plant diversity, plants suffer lower pollination and reproductive success. For s... these areas area also very fragile. They already suffer from low pollen receipt, and future perturbations of the habitat may exacerbate the situation." Acc...

Both alcoholism and chronic smoking can damage the brain's prefrontal cortex

... program manager, said: "Although our war fighters suffer fewer fatalities, they still suffer horrible injuries. And today one of the most devastating battlefield injuries is loss of a limb." T...

University of Utah to help build bionic arm

... program manager, said: "Although our war fighters suffer fewer fatalities, they still suffer horrible injuries. And today one of the most devastating battlefield injuries is loss of a limb." T...

Study finds drug may cut down involuntary movements

...atients with the disease attempt suicide, and many suffer from progressive cognitive decline. Unlike Alzheimer's disease, where patients usually lose their memory and insight into their disease at some point, most Huntington's patients understand exactly what is happening to them throughout most of their ...

New drug could reduce tissue damage after heart attack

...and most persistent increases in CRP concentration suffer higher mortality, and CRP is always deposited in and around the damaged heart tissue. Inflammation contributes significantly to the extent of heart attack damage and this can be exacerbated by CRP. The UCL team has previously shown that human CRP ...

Researchers reverse juvenile diabetes in animal model

...ve results that are life-altering for patients who suffer from this disease." In addition, Dr. Trucco and his team want to combine the dendritic cells with small portions (i.e. peptides) of insulin. Dr. Trucco believes that adding small doses of insulin to the dendritic cells will help guide the dendritic...

Experimental vaccine protects nonhuman primates when given after exposure to Marburg virus

...bout one quarter to one third of all AIDS patients suffer from some form of central nervous system disorder in the course of their infection, ranging from minor cognitive and motor disorders to severe dementia, collectively known as neuroAIDS. Even subtle neurocognitive disorders limit quality of life with ...

Immune response to HIV in the brain

...bout one quarter to one third of all AIDS patients suffer from some form of central nervous system disorder in the course of their infection, ranging from minor cognitive and motor disorders to severe dementia, collectively known as neuroAIDS. Even subtle neurocognitive disorders limit quality of life with ...

Liquid ventilation

...re avoided because the lungs of the premature baby suffer less stress and respire more easily. However, this story does not have a happy ending. The respirator, for the moment, is no more than a prototype. In the experiments carried out at the Cruces hospital in Bilbao with artificial lungs and with anim...

Animal models show that anabolic steroids flip the adolescent brain's switch for aggression

...other drugs later in life, but long-term users can suffer from mood swings, hallucinations and paranoia; liver damage; high blood pressure; as well as increased risk of heart disease, stroke and some types of cancer. Withdrawal often brings depression, and recent research suggests that some AASs may even b...

Infant transplant patients resist infections that kill adult AIDS patients

.... Yet 10 years post transplant, the patients don't suffer from infections as AIDS patients do. So promising is the work that it recently garnered a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support further research into the roles of T cells, B cells and antibody production in the outcomes ...

Texas scientists discover how a hepatitis C protein promotes liver cancer

... virus. Approximately 200 million people worldwide suffer from chronic hepatitis C, which can persist in the body for decades after an initial infection, often causing so much liver damage that a transplant may be a patient's only chance for survival. The most effective treatment available, interferon thera...

Argonne researchers confirm lead in Beethoven's illness

...se of his illness so that others would not have to suffer as he did. "Beethoven suffered from bad digestion, chronic abdominal pain, irritability and depression. Since he died in 1827 at age 57, there has been much speculation but no proof of the cause of his illnesses and death." Researchers performed the...

Dog genome sequenced

...er of guanine and cytosine DNA bases and appear to suffer higher rates of mutation." SINEs of genetic diversity Another study appearing in the dog genome section of Genome Research highlights an important source of canine genomic variation: SINEs, or short interspersed elements. SINEs are abundant...

Scientists fetch useful information from dog genome publications

...er of guanine and cytosine DNA bases and appear to suffer higher rates of mutation." SINEs of genetic diversity Another study appearing in the dog genome section of Genome Research highlights an important source of canine genomic variation: SINEs, or short interspersed elements. SINEs are abundant...

Sensors, a smart dose of medicine for cancer treatment

...ally, IMRT reduces the side-effects patients often suffer from radiotherapy and improves accuracy of dose delivery, and these are the most important impacts in the treatment of cancer." ...

Bacteria that cause tooth decay able to survive without important biochemical pathway

...trol and Prevention, 95 percent of adult Americans suffer from tooth decay. Considered by the U.S. surgeon general to be a "silent epidemic," tooth decay is a chronic childhood disease that affects five times more children than asthma and is estimated to result in 51 million lost school hours. In an effort...

MUHC investigators search for the root of sexual pain in women

...eam to initiate research with groups of women that suffer from genital pain associated with menopause--one of the most common forms of dyspareunia. The research concerning vaginismus will focus on the role of fear in sexual intercourse--the major roadblock to therapeutic efforts. "Women suffering from vagin...

Limiting the damage in stroke

...ns and too much NF-kB signalling, they discovered, suffer even more damage than normal; far more cells die. But if the IKK2 signal is blocked, damaged cells stay alive and even seem to recover. The effects are long-term; neurons in the damaged tissues were still alive several days after the stroke. Two fac...

Synthetic Protein Eases Arthritis Symptoms in Mice

...ight benefit people with rheumatoid arthritis, who suffer from excessive inflammation. A key promoter of inflammation is a chemical called tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha). TNF-alpha starts a chemical chain reaction leading to inflammation by binding to two cell surface receptors, TNFR-1 and TNFR-2....

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