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Minimally Invasive Cancer Treatments Highlighted

...at their survival was extremely good, with 3 and 5 year survival after ablation of 65% and 43% respectively. (Author, Gillams) Non-Surgical Pain Treatments for Bone Tumors (Tuesday, November 29) Cancer often metastasizes to bone, and can cause terrible pain that is unrelieved by narcotics and other stan...

Gene that helps mosquitoes fight off malaria parasite identified

...rasite to nearly 550 million people worldwide each year with these cases resulting in more than 2 million deaths annually. The protective gene was identified in a study conducted by a team of investigators from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Malaria Research Institute, the Imperial ...

Smoking damages key regulatory enzyme in the lung

...Cigarette smoking accounts for 440,000 deaths each year in the United States, or nearly one of every five deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Smoking kills more Americans than AIDS, illegal drugs, alcohol, car accidents, suicides and murders combined and increases one's ch...

UK is first to administer new anti-clotting technology

...nts are prescribed so-called "blood thinners" each year to prevent the formation of clots, which can block blood vessels, causing heart attacks, strokes and other debilitating or life-threatening conditions. Blood thinners, or antithrombotics, pose a risk of bleeding, particularly during surgery. The abil...

Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history

...Jones says will narrow the price spread in a given year but will not diminish the trends seen overall (plotted on several preliminary charts, appended). "When you think about it, a menu was a piece of ephemera it wasn't meant to be saved but thankfully some people collected them. We believe this is the fi...

Careless reporting on HIV 'could cost lives'

...d in Cambodia in 2004 and in Cameroon earlier this year (see Cambodia's prime minister halts AIDS drug trial, and Cameroon suspends trial of AIDS drug after protests). Mills and colleagues found that media reports about opposition to the trials varied greatly, and some were "entirely incorrect". Some re...

Embryonic stem cells accrue genetic changes

... batches of stem cells -- those grown in the lab a year to three years longer than their early counterparts -- displayed gross changes in the number of copies of chromosomes or parts of chromosomes, in the marks that control whether a gene is used by the cell, or in the sequence of DNA found in the cell's...

Breath of the dragon: ERS-2 and Envisat reveal impact of economic growth on China's air quality

...onger in the atmosphere at that less sunny time of year - lasting around a day rather than hours, as in th...e forthcoming GOME-2 instrument due to launch next year aboard ESA's and EUMETSAT's first MetOp spacecraft. About Dragon The Dragon Programme is a jo...

Study uncovers placental microtransfusions lead to transmission of AIDS virus during childbirth

...es. That's a half million newborn worldwide every year facing chronic illness and premature death on their first day out of the safety of the womb. "The question has always been how does the virus get from the mothers to the babies?" said principal investigator Dr. Steven Meshnick, professor of epidemio...

Delaware scientists make significant advance in study of small RNAs

...research was conducted over the course of the last year and a half by teams from the laboratories headed by Pamela J. Green, Crawford H. Greenewalt Endowed Chair in Plant Molecular Biology, a joint appointment in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and the College of Marine Studies, and Blake C. Mey...

Scientists discover the molecular switch for nerve cells' insulating jelly rolls

...ene encodes a growth protein made by neurons. Last year a group of German scientists discovered that it was implicated in determining the thickness of the myelin sheath around axons; however, until now it wasn't clear whether the gene also switched on production of the sheath. In a series of experiments,...

Pulp mill devastates swans' sanctuary in Chile

...plant was twice temporarily shut down earlier this year for environmental violations. Residents in Valdivia, 30 miles away, complained of noxious odors from the plant and the WWF mission found the facility's waste treatment, storage and disposal safeguards to be appalling. "Filter ashes, which can contain...

2005 AIDS figures released by WHO and UNAIDS

...h Organization (WHO). The joint report, which this year focuses on HIV prevention, was released today in a...imated 250 000 to 350 000 deaths were averted this year because of expanded access to HIV treatment. Commenting on the potential enhanced impact of integra...

Earliest European Farmers Left Little Genetic Mark On Modern Europe

...h Organization (WHO). The joint report, which this year focuses on HIV prevention, was released today in a...imated 250 000 to 350 000 deaths were averted this year because of expanded access to HIV treatment. Commenting on the potential enhanced impact of integra...

Newly discovered birdlike dinosaur is oldest raptor ever found in South America

... story of Nature October 13. It was excavated last year by a team of Argentine and American paleontologists, including Peter Makovicky, curator of dinosaurs at The Field Museum. "Buitreraptor is one of those special fossils that tells a bigger story about the Earth's history and the timing of evolutiona...

Science's Breakthrough of the Year: Watching evolution in action

...y, these often-startling discoveries occurred in a year when backers of "intelligent design" and other opp...tary discovery soared in 2005. The high point in a year of highlights may be the landing of the European spacecraft Huygens on Titan, Saturn's largest moon....

Tsunami + 1 year: Reviving exhausted fisheries should trump replacing boats, gear, experts say

One year after a tsunami devastated South Asian communities, global fisheries experts say habitat restoration, retraining and education programs are much needed to revive severely exhausted fisheries and steer survivors into more sustainable livelihoods than ...

Envisat radar surveillance protects endangered prehistoric fish

...te vessels have been fishing up to 26 000 tonnes a year ?nearly four times the legal quota. In the last few years authorities have introduced measures to limit illegal fishing in the EEZ, defend France's economic interests, protect ecosystems and stamp French sovereignty on their territorial waters. A s...

Clinical trial to test stem cell approach for children with brain injury

...ved from their own bone marrow starting early next year at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston and Memorial Hermann Children's Hospital. The clinical trial is the first to apply stem cells to treat traumatic brain injury. It does not involve embryonic stem cells. "There is no reparati...

Same-sex mating by fungi spawned infection outbreak, evidence suggests

...ouver Island," said Joseph Heitman, M.D., Ph.D. "A year after infection, some of these people still have not fully recovered. "The fungus appears to have become entrenched in the Vancouver Island area," he added. "It is unlikely to disappear, and all indications are that it is spreading. Our findings sug...

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