Herbal Twist: Plausible Cure for Diabetes 'Crops' Up

We have always gone back to nature and tapped its endless resources for cures to many nagging ailments. With the world stepping into the 'herbal' mode, not surprising that// scientists have drawn upon the medicinal character of a crop that has been in circulation for thousands of years and may even...

Health Officials Investigating Plausible Chikungunya Outbreak in Bengal villages

West Bengal- Four villages belonging to West Bengal’s North 24, parganas District, is reeling under the onslaught of a ‘puzzling’ fever, which has affected nearly 2000 people.// The symptoms point towards a possible Chikungunya outbreak. District Chief Medical Officer, Kusum Adhikari said, t...

Child Abuse a Plausible Reason for Schizophrenia

Paul Hammersley, of the University of Manchester, and Dr. John Read, from the University of Auckland, New Zealand argued at the medical conferences //in London and Madrid about the link between child abuse which results in schizophrenia. They had reviewed 40 studies of psychiatric patients and foun...

Unlocking the key to human fertility

... their own identity. Says Dr Miller, "Up until now, Doctors have struggled to understand idiopathic male infertility. Our latest research offers a plausible explanation for why some sperm malfunction or fail to function correctly." If the DNA carried by a sperm cell was unwound and stretched out, it wo...

Reexamination of T. rex verifies disputed biochemical remains

...h a sample containing old, quite possibly very ancient, bird-like bone, contaminated with only fairly explicable proteins. Hemoglobin and collagen are plausible proteins to find in fossil bone, because they are two of the most abundant proteins in bone and bone marrow." ...

Poll of Business Executives Shows Most Companies Not Aware of True Costs of Healthcare

...burden of illness in America, according to Dr. Loeppke. In fact, he says, the Milken Institute has shown that compared to current trends, by 2023 with plausible improvements in preventing and treating chronic conditions, the U.S. could: Avoid 40 million cases of chronic disease Decrease...

Travelers Face Greater Risk of Leg Clots

...arvard Medical School in Boston. "Previously, this had been assumed to be a plausible risk. But, pooling all of the worldwide data together, we were able to iden...ave strong evidence for any preventive treatment," he noted. "There is some plausible reasoning that would suggest that walking around during long travel and hyd...

Discovery Points to Regulation of Calcium Metabolism

...one loss. The study appears online June 28 and in an upcoming print edition of the journal Nature Genetics . This research identified "a highly plausible common biological mechanism leading to two diseases. This offers a potentially attractive new pathway for drug discovery, and the next task is to buil...

Red Cross, CDC Ready Country for Emergency Threats

...d feed 500,000 people, four times more clients than the organization had to shelter during its busiest night after Hurricane Katrina. "There are plausible response situations that would be larger than any one organization could handle on its own," says Becker. "A flu outbreak - alone or coupled with anot...

Newborn weights affected by environmental contaminants

...which supports the hypothesis of growing endocrine disruption related to environmental contaminants. Contaminants found in plastic materials represent plausible candidates, since they are known to diminish the action of male hormones. "Our study underlines the importance of probing the impact of environment...

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International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Features Discovery of Asbestos-Related Pain Origin from Scientists at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit

...n on the interior wall of the ribs. "This action of the pleural plaque against the covering of the bone and the bone itself is a biologically plausible and an anatomically logical explanation of the unrelenting pain which some patients experience," said Dr. Harbut. This new imaging approach ...

HEALTHPOINT-Sponsored Venous Leg Ulcer Clinical Trial Enrolls First Subject for Second Phase II Study

...the area of wound healing." The trial is the second of two planned-dose response trials, extending the dose range being tested and exploring two plausible dose frequencies. Enrollment into the trial is preceded by screening and run-in phases and is expected to continue through the middle of 2010. The fi...

BioMarin Announces Positive Results From Phase 2A Clinical Study of 6R-BH4 in Sickle Cell Disease

...icine, Philadelphia, PA. "These study findings are significant and support the concept of using BH4 to treat sickle cell disease, a somewhat novel but plausible approach. Recent reviews of the pathophysiology in sickle cell disease have shifted the focus away from the physical sickling of red blood cells and m...

Pooled-Analysis of 54 Clinical Studies Shows No Increased Risk of Heart Attack With Abacavir Therapy

...ople in the abacavir HAART and 1.4 per 1,000 people in the non-abacavir HAART. GSK's review of clinical and pre-clinical data to date did not reveal a plausible biologic mechanism for the results seen in the D:A:D study. Inflammatory biomarkers that may be associated with cardiac risk, hs-CRP and IL-6, were ...

Totality of Available Data Reaffirms PROCRIT(R) (Epoetin alfa) Is Safe and Effective When Used Appropriately as Labeled to Treat Chemotherapy-Induced Anemia

...ting for approximately 50 percent of the 7,444 patients in the company's database; -- Suggest that vascular thrombotic events (VTEs) are the most plausible explanation for increased mortality with ESAs in cancer patients seen in some studies with high hemoglobin targets; -- Recommend additional r...

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Positive Preliminary Phase 2 Data on KRX-0401 in Patients with Chemo-Insensitive Rare Sarcoma

...apy; and 3) and the difficulty encountered thus far in the discovery of drugs that will inhibit this pathway without causing excessive toxicity. It is plausible that perifosine may be useful in combination to reduce the resistance to other cancer treatments. To date, over 1,200 patients have been treated with...

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Infant formula adulteration with melamine underscores need for better detection methods

... of "safety." However, at a time when public health is threatened by recurring incidents of deliberate or inadvertent food contamination, it is less plausible to do soand consumers see little distinction between the two. Both quality and safety need to be addressed not only in terms of microbial contaminatio...

Why do we choose our mates? Ask Charles Darwin, prof says

... romantic fireworks can begin. Jones says Darwin set the standard for original thinking about animal reproduction and was first scientist to propose plausible mechanisms of evolution, and from there he took it one step further he confirmed that animals' mating choices can drive evolutionary change. "He no...

Climate change could drive vast human migrations

... degradation, towards the bottom of which social safety nets collapse, while tensions and violence rise," said a statement from CARE. "In this all-too plausible scenario, large populations would be forced to migrate as a matter of immediate survival." De Sherbinin pointed out that human population is projecte...

Activated stem cells in damaged lungs could be first step toward cancer

...ondary mutations in any one of these cells may provide the signals needed for unregulated cell growth and tumor progression. "This work provides a plausible mechanism to account for this type of event that we previously didn't have," Stripp said. ...

Some vocal-mimicking animals, particularly parrots, can move to a musical beat

...sound you are trying to imitate, as well as the sound you are producing, so if you notice a difference, you can change your vocalization. So it seems plausible that vocal mimicry and keeping a beat might rely on some of the same mechanisms." ...

Native Americans descended from a single ancestral group, DNA study confirms

...o originate in, and spread throughout, the isolated population. As strong as this evidence was, however, it was not foolproof. There were two other plausible explanations for the widespread distribution of the allele in the Americas. If the 9-repeat allele had arisen as a mutation multiple times, its pre...

Historical increase in corn yield -- it's in the roots

...ing soil water from deep in the soil profile. There is some evidence suggesting that hybrids with narrower root angle have this capability. It is also plausible that decrease in root angle combined with growing plants at higher density could cause the increase in biomass accumulation. Root systems with improve...

Female birds 'jam' their mates' flirtatious songs

...oiding overlap. "Most evidence points to vocalizations in early humans having a function in both mate attraction and resource defense, so it seems plausible that 'signal jamming' and especially 'jamming avoidance' played a role in our evolutionary history. If so, our results may help to explain the first s...

USC researchers identify gene variant associated with both autism and gastrointestinal dysfunction

...t says. "However, our study is the first to bring together genetic risk for autism and co-occurring GI disorders in a way that provides a biologically plausible explanation for why they are seen together so often." In the brain, the MET gene is expressed in developing circuits that are involved in social be...

'Fattysaurus' or 'thinnysaurus'? How dinosaurs measure up with laser imaging

...ing created their 'best-guess' reconstruction of each animal, they then varied the volumes of body segments and respiratory organs to find the maximum plausible range of mass for the animals. Even scientists cannot be sure exactly how fat or thin animals like T. rex were in life, and the team were interested...

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Bio-Matrix Scientific Group & Entest BioMedical Submit Research Proposal to U.S. Army for Funding Adipose-Derived Stem Cells to Treat Traumatic Brain Injury

...erapeutic effect of ASCs on TBI-associated brain ischemia and inflammation via intravenous administration or by intro-cerebral transplantation. It is plausible that our proposed study will pave the way for an ASC-based therapy for TBI, which hopefully will be much more feasible and safer than other stem cell-...

New Genomatica Chemical Process Targets Ailing Ethanol Assets

...chers examine all possible biological pathways to create target chemicals from various low-cost, renewable feedstocks. In this case, they explored all plausible paths from glucose and sucrose to MEK, and selected the optimal version. Researchers then used the computer models to design the ideal microbe and mad...

Ortho Biotech Statement On JAMA Publication Regarding Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents

...rtant to understand that VTEs are common in cancer patients. VTEs may be underdiagnosed as a cause of death in cancer patients. For this reason, it is plausible that unrecognized VTEs are a potential explanation for increased mortality with ESAs in cancer patients, especially in those studies with high hemoglo...

Cray Rides Again

...Its a whole new line of computer systems. Kiefer has seen more supercomputing projects than Michael Jackson has cosmetic surgeonsand with much more plausible results. He worked on the back end of the Cray-1 project, doing design verification during production. Now hes overseeing the marriage of the old and ...

Despite confinement, crop genes can spread fast to wild

...f tobacco plants - could result in transgene escape within just 22 generations. Similarly, a leakage rate as low as one-tenth of 1 percent, along with plausible values for the other parameters, leaves a 60 percent chance of transgene escape within the first 10 generations. The situation, says Haygood, is wo...

FDA programs encourage and expedite drug development and approval

...r a disease or condition that has a prevalence of 200,000 or fewer affected persons in the United States. Under the law, this can include a medically plausible subset of persons with a disease that affects a large number of people, such as those who metabolize a type of drug differently than the larger popula...

Transient Gene Expression Following Single and Double Exponential Decay Electroporation Pulses

...n contributed by the second pulse element, which is purported to be the DNA movement phase. While the Twin-pulse mechanism seems plausible in theory, in practice its benefits were not observed, and published reports demonstrating its efficacy compared to single pulse...

General Considerations for Successful Transfection Experiments

... significantly between adherent and suspension cells. It is speculated that the limiting step is the uptake by endocytosis; however, a plausible mechanistic explanation on a molecular level does not yet exist. Therefore, the search for more efficient transfection reagents is mai...

Plausible in Biological Definition

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

...plain its apparent occurrence. Darwin and many contemporaries also believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics, an idea that was much more plausible before the discovery of the cellular mechanisms for genetic transmission. (Darwin, incidentally, acknowledged his theory would remain somewhat incom...

James D. Watson

...d a number of controversial views. He is for instance a strong proponent of genetically modified crops , holding that the benefits far outweigh any plausible environmental dangers, and that many of the arguments against GM crops are unscientific or irrational. A discussion of his views on these matters are ...

Life

...t currently accepted models build in one way or another upon the following discoveries, which are listed in a rough order of postulated emergence: plausible pre-biotic conditions result in the creation of the basic small molecules of life. This was demonstrated in the Urey-Miller experiment . Phospholi...

Origin of life

...iscoveries, which are listed in a rough order of postulated emergence: plausible pre-biotic conditions result in the creation of the basic small molecules ...A. Graham Cairns-Smith of Glasgow University in 1985 and adopted as a plausible illustration by just a handful of other scientists (including Richard Dawk...

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Tracheae

...pedia. ... upper respiratory tract - the nose and throat and trachea ... Thus, a relationship between insect tracheae and crustacean gills is plausible ... Strictly speaking, the cerebral trachea represents a primary branch of the first ... Pronunciation of tracheae . tracheae synonyms. trach...

Synergid

... cell of Torenia fournieri attracts pollen tubes by a diffusible but ... The two synergid cells to either side of the egg cell are the most plausible ... GardenWeb Shopping Organization Directory Events Calendar ... synergid . synergid . One of two small cells lying near the micropyle of th...