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International team analyzes human genetic variation in key immune region

... International Haplotype Map ("HapMap") Project, a worldwide scientific collaboration to catalogue human genetic variation on a genome-wide scale. The latest findings, particularly the analyses of the HLA gene region, provide new and complementary information that can be integrated with data from the recently ...

Recurrence of a flu pandemic similar to infamous 1918 flu could kill 62 million

...irus were to strike today, about 62 million people worldwide would die. This could represent a devastating impact on global mortality, more than doubling deaths from all causes in a single year. However, only four percent of these fatalities would occur in the developed world. The developing world would abs...

Mayo Clinic study suggests that a central nervous system viral infection can lead to memory deficits

...Picornaviruses infect more than one billion people worldwide each year. Generally individuals contract two or three enterovirus and/or rhinovirus infections each year. In some cases the viruses get into the brain, and in some children these viruses can cause long-lasting brain injuries. "We think picornavirus ...

Tuberculosis: The bacillus takes refuge in adipose cells

...is. Tuberculosis kills almost two million people worldwide every year and is considered by the World Health Organisation to represent a global health emergency. However, the bacillus is much more prevalent in the world's population than the statistics would lead us to believe, because only 5 to 10% of those ...

Experimental cancer drugs counter muscle deterioration seen in muscular dystrophy

...ealth, the study was made available to researchers worldwide by expedited publication at Nature Medicine's website on September 17, 2006. Puri's team discovered that ongoing treatment with the deacetylase inhibitor Trichostatin A, currently under clinical study for breast cancer, restored skeletal muscle mas...

World-wide warning of highly drug-resistant tuberculosis

...hese highly drug resistant strains of tuberculosis worldwide and improved means of diagnosis of tuberculosis and early detection of drug resistance are urgently required, they add. Among 536 cases of tuberculosis confirmed at a rural hospital in South Africa earlier this year, 41% were multi-drug resistant...

New mechanism underlying pain found

... the initial injury has healed. Millions of people worldwide suffer some form of neuropathic pain, and the current treatment options are limited or inadequate for many people. The research presented today suggests that the persistent pain may be caused by specific types of ion channels, called "pacemaker chann...

UCLA researchers unravel a mystery about DNA

...ing bacterial diseases that kill 13 million people worldwide each year. The researchers used single-molecule spectroscopy to monitor the transfer of energy between -- and hence the distance separating -- pairs of fluorescent chemical tags attached to key structural elements of RNAP and the DNA double helix d...

Hope for major advance in fighting world killer disease

University of Leicester scientists are heading a worldwide research project which could revolutionise the diagnosis and treatment of diarrhoea in children in developing countries. The four-year project, the results of which are now being piloted in four hospitals in India, will offer a means of identifying ...

Faster, more accurate tuberculosis test developed

...al growth. Over 5,000 people die of TB every day worldwide and the poor are disproportionately affected, explained David A.J. Moore, MD, lead author of the study and senior lecturer in infectious diseases and tropical medicine at Imperial College London. "This is a curable illness. MODS was developed for dev...

An artificial cornea is in sight, thanks to biomimetic hydrogels

... promise a new view for at least 10 million people worldwide who are blind due to damaged or diseased corneas o...e need for donor tissue. At least a dozen groups worldwide are working to develop artificial corneas, Myung says. "Only two or three are on the market, but the...

Bad blood between boys and girls

... one of the most common parasites in humans with a worldwide prevalence of 20-80%, increased the likelihood that these women would give birth to a boy. This is the first study, published in Springer's journal Naturwissenschaften this week, to suggest an effect of parasitic infection on the sex of a baby. Ka...

HIV/AIDS linked to extensively drug resistant TB

...survival of 16 days. "This is an issue of grave worldwide importance," said Friedland. "MDR and XDR carry the danger of blunting or reversing the success of TB programs and the roll-out of anti-retroviral therapies for HIV where they are desperately needed in resource limited settings. Urgent intervention i...

End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources

...t area data spanning 200 years show several places worldwide have shifted from net deforestation to net reforestation ?the "forest transition." Forest transitions," says geographer and historian Dr. Mather, who coined the term, "occurred between 1810 and 1930 from the lowlands of Denmark to the mountains of...

LSD treatment for alcoholism gets new look

...on of it as a threat to public safety, triggered a worldwide ban in the late 1960s--including its use in medical experiments. However, the ban on its use in medical experiments appears to be lifting, Dyck noted. A few groups of researchers in the U.S., including a team at Harvard, have recently been granted pe...

Recycling technology

...s. Some 40 million LCD television sets were sold worldwide last year with expected sales likely to top 100 million by 2009. Now scientists in the Department of Chemistry at the University of York have won a major DTI competition to investigate ways of extracting and recycling liquid crystals from waste LC...

A valuable fly for research into disease

...eases and many others. More than 5,000 researchers worldwide are currently working with this organism and producing results that will have beneficial effects for health; Spain is among the leading countries for research that uses this animal model. Twenty-six international researchers, selected on the basis o...

Discovery in the evolution of the immune system absorbing cells

...in Nature Immunology, the most prestigious journal worldwide in the field of immunology. According to Dr Sunyer, "this is important so that we can understand not only how the immune systems of fish and amphibians work but also the origin and composition of the immune systems of humans and mammals". The work ...

Genome info from 'plant destroyers' could save trees, beans and chocolate

...responsible for $1 billion to $2 billion in losses worldwide each year. Phytophthora ramorum is associated with sudden oak death, a disease that has devastated the nursery industry and oak ecosystems in California, Oregon and Washington.More than 1 million native oak and tanoak trees have been lost to the dise...

Plant studies reveal how, where seeds store iron

...ontent of plants. Their research helps address the worldwide problem of iron deficiency and malnutrition in humans. The team found that iron is stored in the developing vascular system of the seed of Arabidopsis, a model plant used in research. In particular, iron is stored in the vacuole, a plant cell's cent...

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