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Inheriting a tendency to brain infection

...06 issue of the journal Science, they describe two young patients who carry mutations in this gene who are susceptible to the disease while being otherwise immunologically normal. The paper was published in advance online. As many as eight out of 10 adults are infected by the herpes simplex virus. For ...

Thermal imaging shatters arousal gender gap myth

... difference in the amount of time it takes healthy young men and women to reach peak arousal," said Dr. Irv Binik, psychology professor and founder and director of the Sex and Couple Therapy Service of Royal Victoria Hospital, which is part of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). Thermal im...

Mouse study reveals new clues about virulence of 1918 influenza virus

...e function, the 1918 flu disproportionately killed young people in the prime of life. Modern analyses of 1918 flu victim autopsy samples show extreme and extensive damage to lung tissues. This observation gave rise to the hypothesis that the 1918 flu virus infection provoked an uncontrolled inflammatory re...

Hair samples show babies can be exposed to 'crystal meth' while in the womb

...ies, and global use has soared, particularly among young women, say the authors. An estimated half a million Americans alone are thought to use it every week, including 5% of pregnant women. The authors carried out hair sample analysis on more than 8,000 people, totalling more than 34,000 test results ...

Study defines effective microbicide design for HIV/AIDS prevention

... countries, for example, HIV infection rates among young women between the ages of 15 and 24 are more than three times higher than among their male counterparts. Women are about twice as likely as men to contract HIV during vaginal intercourse, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Pre...

Gene therapy accelerates healing of damaged skeletal muscle

...he Canadian Medical Association Journal shows that young farm children, particularly boys, are about twice as likely as the total population of young Canadian children to die from an injury. Brison and colleagues collected and analyzed Canadian data...

Gene therapy protects mice from the effects of whole-body irradiation

...he Canadian Medical Association Journal shows that young farm children, particularly boys, are about twice as likely as the total population of young Canadian children to die from an injury. Brison and colleagues collected and analyzed Canadian data...

Farm kids almost twice as likely to die from injury as children overall

...he Canadian Medical Association Journal shows that young farm children, particularly boys, are about twice as likely as the total population of young Canadian children to die from an injury. Brison and colleagues collected and analyzed Canadian data...

No-mow grass may be coming to your yard soon

... seeds, flowers, roots, leaves, stems, pollen, and young vegetative tissue. "Without them, plants are tiny dwarves, with reduced vasculature and roots, and are infertile," Chory explained. "They also regulate senescence or aging. Since brassinosteroids mainly regulate cell expansion, though, they are one...

Zebra finch males prefer females with exaggerated maternal traits

... issue of Current Biology. In most bird species, young individuals take their parents as a model for what their later sexual partner should look like. This is the process of sexual imprinting, made famous by the Nobel prizewinner Konrad Lorenz. Nonetheless, most birds prefer mates in which specific trait...

A rice future for Asia

...ce research, very few of Asia's best and brightest young people are interested in a career in an industry t... their children to be rice farmers, and even fewer young Asians are choosing careers in rice science, despite its vital importance to the region. However, ...

Cutting calories slightly can reduce aging damage

...these groups were compared with samples taken from young rats. The old sedentary rats that ate until they were full had increased levels of harmful oxidizing and inflammatory molecules in the liver that were associated with cell damage caused by aging. Meanwhile, aging rats that exercised and consumed a c...

Fertility hope as study shows eggs survive in older ovaries

...eagues have found that the total number of eggs in young and normal healthy adult female mice do not decline over time and that overall egg number is maintained for longer than previously thought. Their research suggests that mice have a source of renewable oocytes, Professor Findlay said. "The mechanis...

Wasps queue for top job

...iour - the more likely they are to spawn their own young in the future, the lazier they become. The tests... age, a wasp's contribution to feeding the queen's young depended only on its position in the queue to inherit queenship. Lower-ranked helpers, and helpers i...

UNH researcher restoring oyster reefs to Great Bay

...t hard substrate ?typically oyster shells on which young oysters settle and grow ?and seeding it with disease-resistant young oysters. Natural oyster reefs are formed by live oysters atop mounds of empty shells; one initiative...

Scientists tie several cancers to common 'oncogene engine'

...develops near muscles and tendons in teenagers and young adults. The scientists had been alerted to the pos...sarcoma, which tends to affect female children and young adults. "It is now apparent that all of these tumors share this central family of oncogenes that ar...

Hope I die before I get old?

...en they're young. In fact, the study finds, both young people and older people think that young people are happier than older people -- when in fact research has shown the opposite. And while both...

Prevention is the best option: fighting autoimmune diseases

...ght it." IBD is usually diagnosed in children and young adults. It affects 1 in 200 people and an estimated 100,000 Australians and there is no cure. "Regulatory T cells have previously been difficult to quantify in humans and conventional methods could identify fewer than a third of the total number. Th...

Gorilla susceptibility to Ebola virus: the cost of sociality

...s finding is worrying because all adult female and young gorillas--on whom post-epidemic population recovery relies--live in groups. These findings provide new insights into what is still a poorly understood disease and could shed light on the evolutionary costs experienced by primates living in groups. ...

Science captures the essence of fruit

...th desired traits to be quickly recognised amongst young breeding populations that frequently number in the tens of thousands. "However, it is also possible for us to isolate genes that produce desirable flavour and fragrance compounds for use in industrial biotechnology applications." HortResearch has...

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