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Bacteria feed on smelly breath (and feet)

...strains of bacteria found in the mouths of healthy volunteers and those suffering from progressive gum disease (periodontitis), a condition which is often associated with smelly breath. However, no assessment was made of the levels of methylotrophic bacteria present, low levels of which may be associated with b...

Scientists use manufacturing methods to reconstruct mastodon

...inch) thick. Crews of UROP students and community volunteers also made molds of the bones, which took about a w...he project last year. From the molds, students and volunteers then made fiberglass casts. "Casting the skull was a real process, too," Iknayan said. "The exhibit...

'EuroVacc 02' HIV Vaccine Trial Begins

...rime-boost regimen to NYVAC-HIV-C alone in healthy volunteers at low risk of acquiring HIV infection. The study will recruit 40 healthy volunteers: 20 at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) in Lausanne, and 20 at St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College London. All volunteers, male or female, should...

Tendency to hair loss inherited from the mother

...cted by hair loss. In blood samples taken from the volunteers they then looked for candidate genes ?and eventually discovered them: in their initial step they succeeded in narrowing down the search to a series of areas on various chromosomes. In an area where the largest contribution was suspected lay the gene ...

NIAID begins clinical trial of West Nile virus vaccine

... tested in ongoing trials at NIH. Fifteen healthy volunteers between the ages of 18 and 50 will receive three injections of the DNA vaccine into the upper arm: one at the start of the trial, a second approximately four weeks later, and a third approximately four weeks after that. To help force the DNA plasmid ...

NIH Researchers Discover How Insulin Allows Entry of Glucose Into Cells

..., the researchers hope to obtain cell samples from volunteers who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance. ...

Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola update

...ze affected communities are continuing, with local volunteers supported by Portuguese-speaking experts from Brazil and Mozambique. Conditions in Angola ?a country weakened by almost three decades of civil unrest ?have presented additional challenges. Supplies of water and electricity are intermittent, also in ...

HIV vaccine trial breaks ground for future research

...articipants who did not use intravenous drugs. The volunteers were men who have sex with men or women at high ri... months after the initial diagnosis. Of the 5,417 volunteers who were enrolled, 368 became infected during the study. The vaccine was found not to be effective i...

Vascular structure and function improve with diet and exercise

...cal exercise and Mediterranean-style diet plans in volunteers with pre-clinical risk factors for cardiovascular disease. The study reported preliminary data from the larger randomized Staged Nutrition and Activity Counseling (SNAC) trial. A Mediterranean-style diet has impressive cardio-protective effects, acc...

Special Imaging Study Shows Failing Hearts Are 'Energy Starved'

...us tissues. They first performed MRS on 14 healthy volunteers to measure cardiac CK flux at rest and with pharmaceutically induced stress to determine whether increased energy demand during stress increases the rate of ATP synthesis through CK. Then, 17 patients with histories of heart failure were similarly ...

MetaChip provides quick, efficient toxicity screening of potential drugs

...the HIV/AIDS epidemic," Dr. Fauci adds. The first volunteers were enrolled this week at sites in Durban, South Africa, and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Enrollment will begin shortly at sites in four additional African countries--Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Approximately 3,220 w...

International trial of two microbicides begins

...the HIV/AIDS epidemic," Dr. Fauci adds. The first volunteers were enrolled this week at sites in Durban, South Africa, and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Enrollment will begin shortly at sites in four additional African countries--Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Approximately 3,220 w...

NIAID Initiates Trial of Experimental Avian Flu Vaccine

...ue for another one. The VTEUs now enrolling adult volunteers are * University of California at Los Angeles (Joel Ward, M.D., Principal Investigator) * University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (James Campbell, M.D., P.I.) * University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, R...

Study: Soap And Water Work Best In Ridding Hands Of Disease Viruses

... water throughout each day. Researchers first had volunteers clean their hands and then contaminated their hands with Serratia marcescens and MS2 bacteriophage. Those are, respectively, a harmless bacterium and virus comparable to, and substituted for, disease-causing organisms. After that, scientists had the ...

Finding Cures For Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source An Answer?

...oftware collaborations, we propose a website where volunteers couldsearch and annotate shared databases. Individ...tions. Over time,the most dedicated and proficient volunteers would become leaders."The key to TDI's success, they argue, is that any discovery would beoff patent...

Researchers find how protein allows insects to detect and respond to pheromones

...ut by summoning the computing power of millions of volunteers aroundthe world, he said, the task will be completed in less than a year.IBM's World Community Grid, which was built using grid technologydeveloped by United Devices, will enable millions of people tovolunteer their personal computers to run Rosetta ...

UW's Rosetta software to unlock secrets of many human proteins

...ut by summoning the computing power of millions of volunteers aroundthe world, he said, the task will be completed in less than a year.IBM's World Community Grid, which was built using grid technologydeveloped by United Devices, will enable millions of people tovolunteer their personal computers to run Rosetta ...

Emory Study Tests Bone Marrow Stem Cells to Improve Circulation in Legs

...estudy is randomized and blinded, which means that volunteers will notknow whether they are receiving the study drug or the placebo.The goal of the study is to determine if and how much GM-CSF willincrease the number of circulating EPCs in patients with peripheralvascular disease. Another goal is to find out wh...

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