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Seaweed yields new compounds with pharmaceutical potential

...-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at concentrations worth pursuing, though researchers don't know yet whether the concentrations of the compounds required to kill the bacterium would be harmful to humans. The compound that was isolated in the greatest abundance -- named bromophycolide A by the researchers ...

Katrina floodwaters not as toxic to humans as previously thought, study says

..."What we had in New Orleans was basically a year's worth of storm water flowing through the city in only a few days," says study leader John Pardue, Ph.D., an environmental engineer and director of the Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute at LSU in Baton Rouge. "We still don't think the floodwaters...

New study pinpoints epicenters of Earth's imminent extinctions

... Earth's ecosystems, the global ecotourism economy worth billions of dollars per year, and the incalculable benefit of clean water from hundreds of key watersheds. This is a one-shot deal for the human race," he added. "We have a moral obligation to act. The science is in, and we are almost out of time." ...

Pretreating rogue cancer cells with aspirin cripples their resistance to targeted therapy

... Earth's ecosystems, the global ecotourism economy worth billions of dollars per year, and the incalculable benefit of clean water from hundreds of key watersheds. This is a one-shot deal for the human race," he added. "We have a moral obligation to act. The science is in, and we are almost out of time." ...

Sensors, a smart dose of medicine for cancer treatment

...lve these remaining issues." Jaksic believes it is worth the wait. "Unlike most projects, this device will go straight to market and our commercial partner, ScandiDos in Uppsala, Sweden, is a start-up created for the manufacture and marketing of the device." Jaksic is particularly pleased because the new ...

Study shows AIDS drugs cost-effective, care underfunded

...Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have analyzed a year's worth of total health care expenditures for 635 HIV-infected patients, including HAART and non-HAART medications, hospitalization, outpatient clinic visits, and more. According to the study, as long as a patient sticks to HAART treatment, "the happy parad...

Animal models show that anabolic steroids flip the adolescent brain's switch for aggression

...ssion and violence. Muscle mass and medals aren't worth the risk of hurting someone or landing in jail." Finally, researchers such as Melloni hope these new insights can lead to treatments for aggressive behavior, with or without steroid abuse. "Linking aggression to fluctuations in vasopressin makes it...

Cure for cancer worth $50 trillion

...of nearly $500 billion. A cure for cancer would be worth about $50 trillion. "We distinguish two types of ...ains in life expectancy over the last century were worth about $1.2 million per person to the current population, with the largest gains at birth and young a...

Screening blood for West Nile virus

...s contracted through contaminated blood seems well worth considering. In an accompanying commentary, Bruce Lee (of the University of Pittsburgh) and Brad Biggerstaff (of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) say that "The threat of disease certainly still exists, but with limited resources a...

University of Utah to help build bionic arm

... key part of a U.S. Department of Defense contract worth up to $55 million to develop the new device for soldiers and potentially others whose arms were amputated. "Imagine an artificial arm that moves naturally in response to your thoughts, that allows you to feel both the outside world and your own move...

Protecting endangered species helps reduce poverty

...ample, in Tortuguero, Costa Rica, live turtles are worth more to the local economy than turtle meat and eggs ever were. The community strongly supports conservation measures to promote ecotourism, and both turtle and tourist numbers have climbed over the past 30 years. Community forestry efforts in parts...

Both alcoholism and chronic smoking can damage the brain's prefrontal cortex

... key part of a U.S. Department of Defense contract worth up to $55 million to develop the new device for soldiers and potentially others whose arms were amputated. "Imagine an artificial arm that moves naturally in response to your thoughts, that allows you to feel both the outside world and your own move...

Amazon rainforest greens up in the dry season

...y, the next day's picture may be fine. Five years' worth of pictures means the scientists have at least one good image of every spot for every month of the year. To be able to figure out when the Amazon rainforest is growing, Huete's lab used a new measure, called Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), for dete...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...to set up the management structure and $15 million worth of laboratory studies to determine the genetic contributions to five common diseases. Affymetrix, a biotech company that develops the types of tools used in these kinds of genetic studies, will contribute enough laboratory resources to study two addi...

BioMed Central launches Biology Direct

... "Anyone who ever attended a scientific conference worth its salt knows that the discussions can be quite vigorous, often enough going to bare knuckles, especially during the coffee breaks or at the bar, but also in the conference room itself. Sometimes someone gets upset or offended but it is, definitely,...

Radiotherapy advance points way to noninvasive brain cancer treatment

... we can cure animals from their cancers, then it's worth investigating the molecular biology of this drug and seeing what the uptake mechanism is," she says. "But first, you want to know that it works and that it really has potential for saving lives." Because of the deadly nature of GBM, De Stasio says a...

APS lecturer shows rare video of 'teacher-student' immune cell interactions in live animal

The saying goes that a picture is worth a thousand words. But these pictures could one day be worth much more -- the lives saved by the development of new vaccines. Harvard University researcher Ulri...

In a technical tour de force, Salk scientists take a global view of the epigenome

... "In a single experiment we recapitulated 20 years worth of anecdotal findings and then some," says senior author Joseph Ecker, Ph.D., a professor in the Salk Institute's Plant Biology Laboratory. "Previously, only a hand full of plant genes were known to be regulated by methylation. In addition to those, ...

Mice lacking key immune component still control chronic viral infections

...systems to human disease isn't known yet, but it's worth noting that we never would have even known to look for them if it weren't for our ability to study genetically altered mice," he says. ...

Pollution threatens coral health by preventing lesions from healing, UCF study shows

...organizations and residents to decide whether it's worth the cost of solving whatever problems are discovered. Solutions include additional treatment of storm-water runoff and wastewater discharges and enforcing regulations on industries that are likely causing pollution. ...

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