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Potential treatments for neurofibromatosis

...y and immunology, said one target of their efforts will be mast cells, which are immune system cells that ...cells and their proteins in ways that they believe will starve the tumors. "It's much easier to develop targets against a non-malignant cell than it is the...

How the environment could be damaging men's reproductive health

...er of cases was rather low and only larger studies will be able to show whether this is a genuine association or not." The study did not find a statistically significant difference between boys born to mothers who smoked or who worked in a potentially harmful environment where they might be exposed to he...

Surprising findings reported about iron overload

...of findings in the five-year, 100,000-person study will be published tomorrow, April 28, in The New Englan...nd Barton said they hope that results of the study will prompt more primary care physicians to consider hemochromatosis and iron overload as a diagnosis. Na...

Variation in women's X chromosomes may explain differences among individuals, between sexes

...rration of particular portions of the X chromosome will depend on the number of active genes normally contained within that segment, he explained. The findings also highlight key differences between female and male genomes, according to the researchers. For one thing, women are known to consist of a mos...

World-first Living Donor Islet Cell Transplant A Success; Procedure Offers Promise For Diabetics

...tion is that these islets from near-perfect organs will work better, although it's too early to tell," he says. The recipients use the same drugs to prevent organ rejection as are used in the Edmonton Protocol. Dr. Shapiro was invited to participate in the operation in Kyoto, Japan, where he originally ...

Programmable cells: Engineer turns bacteria into living computers

.... At some point in the future, he said, scientists will be able to choose a behavior they want from cells, and a computer program will create a genetic circuit to accomplish the task. "Then we can do an experiment to see if the communi...

UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders

... UCLA Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine will enable us to continue fostering such interdiscipli...wledge for the benefit of people worldwide." UCLA will provide $20 million over five years to launch the campuswide institute, which will enable teams of r...

Wisconsin researchers identify sleep gene

... get slow waves," Cirelli says. "The cell membrane will remain activated, preventing long periods of deep, non-REM sleep." The researchers say that the fly research translates to humans even more than they thought it would. "Humans have the same kind of genes and potassium channels. And we know that slow...

Norovirus, AIDS vaccine and Hepatitis Virus

...he people traveling to tropical areas of the world will experience traveler's diarrhea (TD). TD, defined as three or more loose stool movements in a 24-hour period, frequently results from exposure to bacterial or viral pathogens. Noroviruses (NoV's) are considered to be one of the leading causes of nonba...

DuPont's first biologically derived polymer receives global recognition

...rd ceremony. Also, on Feb. 25, DuPontTM Sorona® will receive the 2005 "New Technologies in Renewable Ma...ers can now be made with natural ingredients. This will reduce the dependency of traditional chemical fiber products on oil resources. It will be another bo...

NASA links nanobacteria to kidney stones and other diseases

...efully, eradication or treatment of these diseases will be possible in the near future. We need more research and support to solve this puzzle, but we feel that we are close," adds Ciftcioglu. NB was discovered in the 1990s and has been found in the calcium phosphate centers of kidney stones. This novel ...

Live fast, die young true for forests too

...iscovery could help scientists predict how forests will respond to ongoing and future environmental changes. "One implication of this fast turnover rate is that the world¹s most productive forests may be those likely to respond most quickly to such things as climatic change," said Nate Stephenson, a USGS...

Camera Traps Catch Eye of the Tiger

...raps to help conduct presence/absence surveys that will provide a range map for tigers in Sumatra's lowland rainforest. The cameras will also help provide a density estimate of tigers in various habitat types and determine whether there ...

BioMed Central welcomes the new National Institutes of Health public access policy

...ticipates that many other funding bodies worldwide will now follow the example set by NIH. All NIH grante...th most of the traditional subscription publishers will be expected to go through a process of resubmitting their papers to the PubMed Central repository. I...

Probing the promise and perils of nanoparticles

...aduate students Pascale Leroueil and Seungpyo Hong will discuss their research at the 229th national meeti...s. The work that Banaszak Holl, Hong and Leroueil will discuss is one of several major research programs under way in the U-M Center for Biologic Nanotechn...

New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem

... Maine, online at http://gmbis.iris.usm.maine.edu, will enhance current understanding of the complex marin...information together in one place. "This new tool will enhance our understanding of biological patterns in the Gulf of Maine, across space and time, and il...

Not-for-profit publishers call NIH public access rule a missed opportunity

...osal have not been addressed. These include: # It will be costly and duplicative because NIH will create a new government program to supplant existing and highly successful private efforts; # It wil...

Substance protects resilient staph bacteria

...e report of the study, led by Michael Otto, Ph.D., will appear in the March edition of The Journal of Clinical Investigation and is now available online. Collaborators, all scientists at RML in Hamilton, MT, include Stanislava Kocianova, Ph.D.; Cuong Vuong, Ph.D.; Yufeng Yao, Ph.D.; Jovanka Voyich, Ph.D.;...

Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges

...chanism we proposed proves true in humans, then it will help explain why addicts go on prolonged binges, r...drug tolerance raises the likelihood that a person will become addicted. "Right now, there's nothing really effective in getting people off methamphetamine...

Epstein-Barr virus protein crucial to its role in blood cancers

...e first use of future therapies from these studies will be in lymphoproliferative disease in transplant and immunocompromised patients because this is a clear case of EBV-driven B-cell lymphoma. The use of peptides to block the interaction between this essential EBV protein and the specific pathway in hu...

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