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Next Generation Body Scanner Launched By The University Of Manchester

...s in the brain, nerves and cartilage. Researchers working in the fields of cancer, stroke and mental illness...he brain communicate with each other. Researchers working on abnormalities in the kidneys will also benefit from the improved scanning, research is currently ...

'EuroVacc 02' HIV Vaccine Trial Begins

...ive vaccines against HIV/AIDS. This group has been working together for more than five years, and has developed a pipeline of potential vaccines. The EuroVacc Foundation, a non profit organization, was created in 2002 as an evolution of the network. The EuroVacc Foundation aims at facilitating European coll...

While on trail of dioxin, scientists pinpoint cancer target of green tea

...cancer cells grow drop. Drug makers are currently working on ways to block HSP90, which is known as a promis...re known to help prevent cancer. The team had been working on other chemicals to try to stop AH activity. "We initially hypothesized that EGCG would work in t...

Ebola virus: from wildlife to dogs

...search scientists and their partners (1) have been working to unravel the virus's biological cycle, in other words the whole range of ways in which the virus circulates in its natural environment, from its natural host (or reservoir) right up to humans. They showed that strong epidemics of Ebola have decimat...

Bugs, even 'bad' ones, can be educationally beneficial, new book says

...at Good are Bugs." Waldbauer and Waterstraat began working together after he saw and was intrigued by her paintings of beetles at the Anita Purves Nature Center in Busey Woods in Urbana. ...

Virologists make major step towards understanding the process of HIV infection

A working group of virologists headed by Professor Hans-Georg Kräusslich at Heidelberg University Hospitals, jointly with Professor Hanswalter Zentgraf, Division of Applied Tumor Virology of the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (German Cancer Research Center, ...

Scientists use manufacturing methods to reconstruct mastodon

...t preparators and lab crew spent about eight hours working together on it. It was probably the hottest day of the summer, and we all had to wear face respirators. That was unforgettable." The skeleton in the exhibit will be assembled from the fiberglass casts so that researchers can continue studying the re...

New Species of Coral Discovered Off Southern California

A working group of virologists headed by Professor Hans-Georg Kräusslich at Heidelberg University Hospitals, jointly with Professor Hanswalter Zentgraf, Division of Applied Tumor Virology of the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (German Cancer Research Center, ...

Active Vaccine Prevents Mice From Developing Prion Disease

...ch groups in both the United States and Europe are working on prion vaccines. But the NYU study is important because it breaks new ground in demonstrating that active immunization can protect a significant percentage of animals from developing symptoms of prion disease, explains Thomas Wisniewski, M.D., Prof...

Researchers pioneer new gene therapy technique using natural repair process

...mbination, Dr. Matthew Porteus of UT Southwestern, working with scientists from Richmond, Calif.-based Sangamo Biosciences, was able to replace a mutated version of the gene that encodes a portion of the interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R) in human cells, restoring both gene function and the production of the IL-...

Experiment station researchers to explore genome of disease-fighting fungus

...bbole, Heather H. Wilkinson and Michael Thon. Also working on the project is Dr. Alfredo Herrera-Estrella, from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Mexico. "There's both pharmaceutical and agricultural implications," said Kenerley, who is the lead researcher on the project. "We're going to get a...

Second messenger NAADP shows fast, dose-related impact on satiety cycle

...presentation is scheduled for 11:45 a.m. The team working on the study was comprised of Michiko Yamasaki, Grant Churchill and Antony Galione at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford; Sandip Patel at University College London; and Jose M. Cancela at CNRS, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Cellulair...

Life detection instrument passes key test on road to Mars

...ography. Skelley, a graduate student who has been working on amino acid detection with Mathies for five year... speculative, and people thought I was crazy to be working on an experiment to detect life on Mars," Skelley said. "I feel vindicated now, thanks to the work o...

Scientists map the world for nature conservation

..." says Professor Wilhelm Barthlott, founder of the working group and Director of the Nees Institute. It has emerged, for example, that the Sundarbans region (which spreads across Bangladesh and India), the world's most species-rich mangrove area, has not so far been included on many nature conservation prior...

Understanding how bacteria communicate may help scientists prevent disease

...Tech Biology Professor Ann Stevens, whose group is working on V. fischeri, the bacteria that causes luminescence and whose genome has recently been sequenced ("Complete genome sequence of Vibrio fischeri: A symbiotic bacterium with pathogenic congeners," by E. G. Ruby, M. Urbanowski, J. Campbell, A. Dunn, M....

Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies

...ople with high salaries were favored over singles, working men over stay-at-home moms, churchgoers over non-believers, and parents over children. The public outcry led Life magazine to feature on its cover a picture of a child rejected for treatment, prompting the committee to attempt to change its criteria ...

Scientists discover odd-ball rodent

... pig? Try none of the above. A team of scientists working in Southeast Asia have discovered a long-whiskered...mmins in a hunter's market in Central Laos. WCS is working in Laos to help enact an aggressive program designed to halt illegal wildlife trade where poaching h...

Cancer drug slows poxvirus in mice

... act of bioterror. For this reason, scientists are working to better understand the mechanisms of smallpox disease and to develop new and improved smallpox treatments and vaccines. NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIAID...

Key to elephant conservation is 'in the sauce'

...ontact than before. Elephant Pepper products are a working example of how the survival of elephants can be reconciled with the livelihoods of farmers." Since its founding, the Elephant Pepper Development Trust has served up to 250 farmers in the valley, and in 2003, the trust was awarded a $108,000 grant fr...

Stem cell treatment improves mobility after spinal cord injury

...n loss. Keirstead and his colleagues are currently working on other approaches using human embryonic stem cells to treat chronic injuries and other disorders of the central nervous system. In previous studies, Keirstead and colleagues identified how the body's immune system attacks and destroys myelin durin...

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