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Chronic Sinus Infection Thought To Be Tissue Issue, Mayo Clinic Scientists Show It's Snot

...s strikingly teaches against what has been thought worldwide about the origin of chronic sinus infection: that inflammatory cells break down, releasing toxic proteins into the diseased airway tissue," says lead researcher and Mayo Clinic ear, nose and throat specialist Jens Ponikau, M.D. "Instead we found that...

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

...two decades leading efforts to combat HIV and AIDS worldwide are warning that limited international relief supplies of antiretroviral therapies currently being distributed in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean will not get to those who can least afford to pay for them. In an article appearing in the American Jour...

Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management

...rily women and children, die prematurely each year worldwide (400,000 in sub-Saharan Africa) from respiratory diseases caused by the pollution from such fires, according to previous studies by the researchers. The current study, published in the April 1 issue of the journal Science, concludes that by 2030, sm...

High-powered gene profiles provide clues to genes involved in common form of lung cancer

...he study is part of a renewed effort by scientists worldwide to uncover the basic biology of lung cancer, the number one cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for about 75 percent of all lung cancers and is responsible for nearly 120,000 deaths in this...

Revueltosaurus skeleton unearthed at Petrified Forest upsets dinosaur tale

...ought. Rather, the theropods were well established worldwide before the ornithischians spread out into North America, Europe and Africa at the very end of the Triassic, perhaps from possible origins in South America. "We have pretty much erased the record of Triassic ornithischian dinosaurs from North America...

Agilent Technologies introduces high-capacity human protein removal system for proteomics research

...ought. Rather, the theropods were well established worldwide before the ornithischians spread out into North America, Europe and Africa at the very end of the Triassic, perhaps from possible origins in South America. "We have pretty much erased the record of Triassic ornithischian dinosaurs from North America...

Diabetic nerve therapy shows 'striking' results

...ganisation estimating that some 300 million people worldwide could be affected by 2025. The causes of diabetic neuropathy are not fully understood but researchers investigating the effect of glucose on nerves believe it is likely to be a combination of factors. Sangamo's Chief Medical Officer, Dr Dale Ando, ...

Discovery of an American salamander where it shouldn't be: Korea

...nd some 60 to 100 million years ago may have had a worldwide range, from the Americas through Europe and Asia. Since then, as the world's climate cooled, salamanders in the Americas flourished while those elsewhere somehow suffered extinction. "It's really huge," said Robert Kaplan, a professor of biology at ...

Malaria killing a million a year

...t estimates that 350 million to 500 million people worldwide contract malaria per year, up somewhat from the estimate of 300 million to 500 million cases annually that WHO has been using since 2001. "Current methods do not allow for a more precise estimate, given that malaria is most often not diagnosed with ...

New complete muscle grown in the lab

...nners of the Nobel Prize in science, it commands a worldwide reputation for its pioneering work in nanotechnology, computer science, biotechnology, water-resource management, materials engineering, aerospace and medicine. The majority of the founders and managers of Israel's high-tech companies are alumni. Bas...

Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month

...to this drug development effort, has an exclusive, worldwide license to DB289 and related compounds developed by the UNC-based scientific consortium for African sleeping sickness and other devastating diseases such as TB, which together affect millions of people annually," Tidwell said. "Besides DB289, several...

Hepatitis C responds best to combo of ribavirin and interferon, study concludes

...Disease Control and Prevention, 170 million people worldwide are infected with HCV, and in the United States, alcoholic liver disease and chronic hepatitis C are the leading causes of cirrhosis. An additional estimated 25,000 new cases of HCV occur in the United States each year. Interferons have been proven ...

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades

Growing desertification worldwide threatens to swell by millions the number of poor forced to seek new homes and livelihoods. And a rising number of large, intense dust storms plaguing many areas menace the health of people even continents away, international experts warn in a new re...

MSU researchers receive $4 million grant to uncover gene functions

...hy oils." The NSF's Arabidopsis 2010 project is a worldwide effort to catalogue the function of every gene in the plant - something never before accomplished with any plant or animal. The $4 million grant begins Dec. 1 and will continue for four years. The project will create eight full-time jobs for technic...

Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders

...other regions, now provides 38% of fish production worldwide but less than 2% in sub-Saharan Africa. The WorldFish Center warns that simply maintaining today's per capita fish supply in sub-Saharan Africa (6.6 kg/year) requires a 20% increase in production within 10 years and a 32% increase within 15 years (2...

Leptin-signaling Protein Maintains Normal Body Weight And Energy Balance In Mice

...other regions, now provides 38% of fish production worldwide but less than 2% in sub-Saharan Africa. The WorldFish Center warns that simply maintaining today's per capita fish supply in sub-Saharan Africa (6.6 kg/year) requires a 20% increase in production within 10 years and a 32% increase within 15 years (2...

Beauty queens urge girls not to sacrifice their bones

...003, noted that many pre-teenage and teenage girls worldwide have an obsession with beauty at the expense of he...lead-in to World Osteoporosis Day 2005, celebrated worldwide on October 20, which this year features the theme "Move it or Lose it" - the role of exercise in bui...

AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat feminization of HIV/AIDS

...n now make up nearly half of the 40 million people worldwide currently infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and in some developing countries, women represent the vast majority of those living with HIV/AIDS. At the start of the pandemic in the early 1980s, men accounted for almost 90 percent of cases...

Researchers predict infinite genomes

...ire from nature or grow in the lab. Yet scientists worldwide routinely tap these known genomes in public databases to hunt for drug targets, explain ecological niches, and chart evolution. How well do these microbial genomes reflect reality? As comparative genomics itself evolves, Fraser expects TIGR to incr...

Team of international scientists departs today to discover the unknown in China's Himalayan region

...otspot. The biodiversity hotspots are 34 regions worldwide where 75 percent of the planet's most threatened mammals, birds, and amphibians survive within habitat covering just 2.3 percent of the Earth's surface (roughly equivalent to the combined areas of the five largest U.S. states). This habitat originall...

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