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Understanding why C. difficile causes disease -- it's hungry

Researchers studying the genetics behind why C. difficile causes disease have come to a simple conclusion -- the bacteria do it because they are starving. That just might help them find a new treatment for what ca...

Definitive evidence found of a swimming dinosaur

...water trackway with 12 consecutive prints provides the most compelling evidence to-date that some dinosau...ampo track site in Spain's Cameros Basin, contains the first long and continuous record of swimming by a non-avian therapod dinosaur. A team led by Rubén...

A first -- Hebrew University scientist observes brain cell development in 'real time'

For the first time anywhere, a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has succeeded in observing in vivo the generation of neurons in the b...

How plague-causing bacteria disarm host defense

Effector proteins are the bad guys that help bacterial pathogens do their job of infecting the host by crippling the body's immune system. In essence, they knock down the front door of resistanc...

Adult stem cells from human cord umbilical cord blood successfully engineered to make insulin

...ding, which caps nearly four years of research, in the June 2007 issue of the medical journal Cell Proliferation, posted online this week. Their paper calls it "the first demonst...

Experimental gene therapy 'abolishes' arthritis pain and lessens joint damage

...pain, and significantly reduce long-term damage to the affected joints, according to a study published today in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism. While the study was done in mice, they are the first genetically e...

Genome of Clostridium botulinum reveals the background to world's deadliest toxin

The genome of the organism that produces the world’s most lethal toxin is revealed today. This toxin is the one real weapon in the genome of Clos...

'Smart' mice teach scientists about learning process, brain disorders

...nter has found. The results, appearing today in the online edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience , reveal a new mechanism of learning in the brain, which might serve in...

Skimmed milk -- Straight from the cow

...ports Cath O’Driscoll in Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI. Scientists in New Zealand have discovered that some cows have genes that give them a natural a...

Ants show us how to make super-highways

Certain army ants in the rainforests of Central and South America conduct s...ly, some ants use their bodies to plug potholes in the trail leading back to the nest, making a flatter surface so that prey can be delivered to the develo...

'Virtual autopsy' helps identify drowning as cause of death

...son has drowned, according to a study published in the June issue of Radiology. MDCT is comparable to co...at MDCT can be used either to facilitate or reduce the need for conventional autopsy when drowning is the suspected cause of death," said lead author Angel...

Treating HIV in war zones -- Public health emergencies need rapid advice from WHO

...herapy (ART), to a conflict-affected population in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The reported treatment outcomes were similar to those in HIV projects in non-conflict s...

Researchers use MRI to predict recovery after spinal cord injury

...nce imaging (MRI), radiologists can better predict the likelihood of full or partial recovery of patients... injuries (SCI), according to a study published in the June issue of the journal Radiology. "Our study demonstrates that the possibility and extent of ne...

Avian influenza survivors' antibodies effective at neutralising H5N1 strain

Adults who have recovered from the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza may hold the key to future treatments for the virus, according to an international team of researchers. In a stud...

Focused ultrasound relieves fibroid symptoms in women

...es fibroid-related symptoms in women, according to the results of a multicenter clinical trial reported in the June issue of the journal Radiology. Magnetic resonance-guided, focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) ...

'Nurse cells' make life and death decisions for infection-fighting cells

...ive and which die, according to research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and reported in the June issue of the journal Experimental Biology and Medicine. The infection-fighting cells, known as...

HIV and malaria combine to adversely affect pregnant women and their infants

University of Toronto researchers have uncovered the basis by which pregnant women protect themselves against malaria and have also discovered how the HIV virus works to counteract this defence. The research could lead to improved vaccines for pregnan...

Eavesdropping comes naturally to young song sparrows

Long before the National Security Agency began eavesdropping on the phone calls of Americans, young song sparrows were listening to and learning the tunes sung by their...

New research shows sharks use their noses and bodies to locate smells

...o need their skin – specifically a location called the lateral line. The lateral line is an organ used by...h exquisite sensitivity, movement and vibration in the surrounding water. According to the research team, this is similar to how humans can sense air flow ...

First confirmed common genetic risk factors for breast cancer

The most powerful genetic analysis of the DNA codes of over 40,000 women -- including those with breast cancer as well as those without the disease – has uncovered five common genetic variants that increase an individual’s risk for breast c...

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