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Risk of lymphoma increases with hepatitis C virus infection

...bnormal levels of certain antibodies in the blood, was also elevated for those with HCV infections. The ...a. The risk of lymphomas in HCV-infected patients was charted across more than five years of follow-up. "This is one of the largest studies ever conduc...

Fat screen delivers plant-derived chemical with antidiabetic effects

...s. The chemical they pinpointed, known as harmine, was first isolated more than 150 years ago from plants traditionally included in ritual and medicinal preparations around the world, the team reports in the May issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, published by Cell Press. The work suggests a new appro...

Molecule that destroys bone also protects it, new research shows

...rsity at Buffalo has shown. The component, IL-17, was recognized only in the past 18 months to be a primary cause of bone destruction and inflammation in autoimmune diseases. Therapies that target IL-17 or its cellular receptor currently are being developed. However, a UB molecular biologist has disc...

Scientists identify prion's infectious secret

...yeast and one for pathogenic fungi. When the prion was placed with peptide fragments from baker’s yeast, the baker’s yeast recognition element was activated, and likewise for the pathogenic fungi. Even more striking, Tessier could activate dif...

Egyptians, not Greeks were true fathers of medicine

...written in 1,500BC ?1,000 years before Hippocrates was born. "Classical scholars have always considere...of figs and bran. Other references show that colic was treated with hyoscyamus, which is still used today, and that cumin and coriander were used as intest...

WHO data confirms low level of resistance to Tamiflu

...wn that resistance of around 0.3% to oseltamivir was seen during the influenza seasons in which there ...ate that a low frequency of oseltamivir resistance was present in community isolates during influenza seasons in which there had been substantial oseltamiv...

Diminishing dinosaur steps saved by laser and laptop

...canning. The computer modelling for the project was done by Dr David Hodgetts, a senior lecturer in Re... The quarry, which lies to the north of Barcelona, was still active until fairly recently, but there are now plans to make it a protected site of special s...

Warts vaccine -- 1 of many in pipeline

...the papillomaviruses responsible for genital warts was on target at the halfway mark, according to Australian of the Year 2006 Professor Ian Frazer and trial manager, sexual health specialist Dr David Jardine More than 200 patients in China and Australia have taken part in the trial so far run from the...

DNA repair proteins monitored at double-strand break

...e disease and aging. "Prior to this work, there was no practical and efficient way to find and study the DNA repair proteins that organize themselves on and around a double-strand break in human cells," said Michael Kastan, M.D., Ph.D., St. Jude Cancer Center director. "Our approach solved that proble...

Survival of the rarest: Fruit flies shed light on the evolution of behavior

...t did best had a version of the foraging gene that was rarest in a particular population. For example, rovers did better when there were lots of sitters, and sitters did better when there were more rovers. "If you're a rover surrounded by many sitters, then the sitters are going to use up that patch a...

World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

...Global Biodiversity Information Facility who today was officially named Executive Director of the Encyclopedia of Life. "Through collaboration, we all can increase our appreciation of the immense variety of life, the challenges to it, and ways to conserve biodiversity. The Encyclopedia of Life will ulti...

The longest carbon nanotubes you've ever seen

...rganized by NASA and Rice University. The research was supported by NSF grant 0510823, in addition to support from the Office of Naval Research through North Carolina A&T SU. ...

Researchers publish first marsupial genome sequence

...ost approximately $25 million. The sequencing work was funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the NIH, and carried out at the Broad Institute Sequencing Platform, which is a member of NHGRI's Large-Scale Sequencing Research Network. "The opossum genome occupies a uniq...

Study shows continued success for new HPV vaccine against virus responsible for cervical cancer

...lead to cervical cancer. "The goal of the study was to see if we could prevent precancerous cases and ...that's why it is given to adolescents. Gardasil was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year for use in females 9 to 26 years of age....

Tissue engineered scaffolding allows reproduction of cartilage tissue

...s in the journal Artificial Organs. The procedure was extremely successful in tested mice as the study found these scaffolds to be a far more effective means of regenerating cartilage than traditional therapy. The shrinkage of cartilage that occurs frequently in other tissue engineering methods, and oft...

Dealing deadly cancers a knockout punch

...wed that the combination of reovirus and cisplatin was significantly more effective than cisplatin or reo...s well as the long-lasting therapeutic effect that was observed in this study. "Combination therapy results for reovirus in animals are particularly enc...

Study offers clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'

... The most common symptom of broken heart syndrome was chest pain, in 70 percent of patients, followed by...angina. Troponin-I, a blood test for heart damage, was positive in 95 percent of patients. Twenty percent of patients were unable to breathe on their own a...

High-dose anticlotting drug cuts heart attack, death risk in half

...atment with high-dose clopidogrel (600 mg or more) was associated with a 50 percent reduction in the risk...ithin 30 days of the PCI procedure, a finding that was highly statistically significant (p=0.009). There was no statistically significant increase in major...

DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis

...olution proposed by Mavrommatis and his colleagues was to evaluate and compare the existing methods to se...nvironmental samples being analyzed. "What we did was to take known sample genomes, shuffle them, create simulated metagenomes, and use those tools on the...

Parasites' impact goes beyond host to affect ecosystem

...n the intertidal zone. "We wanted to find out what was this parasite’s impact on the community," says Bye...Byers and Wood hypothesized that since L. littorea was the intertidal zone’s most voracious eater of green, weedy algae, and the flatworm C. lingua infects...

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