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Pregnant mom's exposure to flu vaccine kick-starts fetal immune system

...s following maternal vaccination against influenza with Fluzone during pregnancy. The vaccination of pregnant women against influenza is considered safe and is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The authors detected anti-Fluzone antibodies in approximately 40% of cord blood spe...

Liver cancer patients with high serum levels of hepatitis B virus face poorer outcomes

...gnostic value of serum HBV DNA levels for patients with liver cancer undergoing chemotherapy. They found that patients with high pre-chemotherapy levels of HBV DNA had a significantly increased incidence of severe hepatitis ...

Soils offer new hope as carbon sink

...lable. BEST Energies Australia, a company involved with NSW DPI in the trials, has a pilot plant at Gosford which is producing minimal amounts for research purposes. "We are hoping the technology will take hold and pyrolysis plants will be built where there is a steady stream of green or other biomass ...

Math that powers spam filters used to understand how brain learns to move our muscles

...rofessor of biomedical engineering at Hopkins, who with his colleagues built the new model, says the artif...m memory bank. The computer learner was tasked with “looking” at a spot of light. Then all the lights were turned off. The spot of light was turned on a...

Threats to wild tigers growing

...cines made from tiger parts and tiger skins, along with habitat loss and fragmentation, is believed to be the chief reason for the losses. The assessment, by Eric Dinerstein of the World Wildlife Fund and 15 coauthors, describes the wild tiger's population trajectory as "catastrophic" and urges internatio...

Researchers find 24 species believed new to science in Suriname rainforest

...es believed to be new to science, including a frog with florescent purple markings and other amphibians, f...takeholders in deciding how to balance development with protecting important biodiversity that benefits local communities and the global ecosystem. “Suri...

Cigarette smoke alters DNA in sperm, genetic damage could pass to offspring

...lf-renewing spermatogonial stem cells. Yauk, along with colleagues at Health Canada and McMaster Universi... studies correlate mutations in non-coding regions with those in coding regions, and that some repetitive regions of DNA (not exam-ined in this study) are a...

Old memory traces in brain may trigger chronic pain

...m, Apkarian noted. Sensory abnormalities in people with chronic pain probably drive this memory abnormalit...jority is back pain. One of Apkarian’s studies with rats tried to separately measure their emotional suffering and their physical pain after being treat...

Gene therapy delivery of nerve growth factors reverses erectile dysfunction in animal model

Rats with erectile dysfunction, or ED, that were injected with a gene therapy vector containing either of two nerve growth factors were able to regain normal funct...

Discovery in orange cauliflower may lead to more nutritious crops

...e to store the compound. Developing staple crops with more vitamin A is important because vitamin A defi...aple crops more nutritious. Li, in collaboration with Joyce Van Eck from the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell, is currently working ...

Researchers track how spores break out of dormant state

...the spore coat structures break down, and it shows with unprecedented resolution how the new bacterium eme...milar to amyloid fibrils that have been associated with neural degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and prion diseases. “The extreme physical and chem...

Modeling the restless brain

...Australia. When a person reads a book or talks with a friend, task-related neural activity occurs in d...ctive topic of research in cognitive neuroscience, with their mysterious origin prompting one prominent researcher to label them the "brain's dark energy," ...

Simulations unravel outer membrane transport mechanism

...unplugging mechanism is very unlikely.” Coupled with increasingly sophisticated crystallographic studie...oteins actually works alone. Each works in concert with many other things.” Tajkhorshid is also a professor of pharmacology in the College of Medicine an...

How sneaky HIV escapes cells

...et out of the cell. However, if they were replaced with synthetic membrane anchors and clumping domains Ga... infect fresh cells. As such, drugs that interfere with exosome formation might be one way to inhibit HIV infections. “Viruses like HIV use pathways we b...

New study reports hotel guests at risk from carbon monoxide poisoning

...tly would be higher. This risk could approach zero with effective CO prevention measures.” The authors...gh the AH&LA educational foundation contracted with Schirmer Engineering (Deerfield, Illinois) to study CO risk in that industry. The AH&LA study ma...

Snoring in children might be an allergic type disease

...al, Pediatric Pulmonology has established children with rhinitis who were first born, were exposed to mate...risk factors for snoring among pre-school children with rhinitis were similar to those for allergic diseases in a group of children who have been monitored ...

CSIRO scientists join fight to save 'Tassie devil'

... a virus or other infectious agents are associated with the tumours,” AAHL’s Dr Alex Hyatt said. “If succe...ral changes can be detected that can be correlated with the disease. “We are hoping we can work together to develop a pre-clinical diagnostic test base...

The insect vector always bites twice

...dity among infected people is therefore associated with the degree of exposure of the subject to insect ve...it UR 024 studied this still little known response with the aim of identifying in the arthropod vector saliva the immunogenic proteins responsible. They cal...

A new plant-bacterial symbiotic mechanism promising for crop applications

...raint thanks to its ability to live in association with soil bacteria of the Rhizobium, genus, capable of ...rom the air. When these bacteria come into contact with their host plant, they trigger in the roots the formation and development of organs, termed nodules,...

Research team identifies new Alzheimer's gene

...omparing more genetic markers in the DNA of people with and without Alzheimer’s disease than ever before h...B2 — modifies an individual’s risk when associated with other genes, including APOE4. The study results appear in the June 7 issue of the prestigious peer-r...

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