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Protein That Promotes Survival Of Stem Cells Might Be Key To Poor Leukemia Prognosis

The complex and life-sustaining series of steps by which hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) give rise to all of the body's red and white blood cells and platelets has now been discovered to depend in large part on a single protein called Mcl-1. This finding, from an investigator at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, is published in the February 18 issue of Science. Mcl-1 blocks the biochem...

Have a taste for fat? Yes! A sensor in the mouth promotes preference for fatty foods

The sense of taste informs the organism about the quality of ingested food. It comprises five sub-modalities that perceive sweet, salt, sour, bitter, and umami stimuli. The possibility for an additional taste modality directed to lipid has often been suggested because many animals exhibit a spontaneous attraction for fats, but the existence of an actual sensor remained a matter of debate. <...

Texas scientists discover how a hepatitis C protein promotes liver cancer

Scientists at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) have identified a key biochemical connection between the hepatitis C virus and liver cancer. The molecular mechanism is similar to the one that links the human papilloma virus (HPV), the cause of genital warts, and cervical cancer, according to Dr. Stanley M. Lemon, the senior author of a paper on the discovery that w...

A Jekyll and Hyde of cytokines: IL-25 both promotes and limits inflammatory diseases

The same signal responsible for promoting the type of immune responses that cause asthma and allergy can also limit the type of inflammation associated with debilitating diseases like inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis and multiple sclerosis, according to researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. The researchers discovered how IL-25, a signaling protein kn...

Meth promotes spread of virus in HIV-infected users

Researchers at the University at Buffalo have presented the first evidence that the addictive drug methamphetamine, or meth, also commonly known as "speed" or "crystal," increases production of a docking protein that promotes the spread of the HIV-1 virus in infected users. The investigators found that meth increases expression of a receptor called DC-SIGN, a "virus-attachment factor,"...

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Merge Healthcare promotes Bowers to president

Bowers, who had been serving as the company's senior vice president of strategic business initiati...

UWM research dean promotes building boom

UW-Madison is an institution he deeply admires, but he also believes his own institution, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has untapped potential as a vehicle for technology transfer that can spark an economic tran...

GE promotes Milwaukee-area CEO to London position

GE announced on Thursday that Joe Hogan, head of GE Healthcare Technologies in Waukesha, will become president and CEO of Hogan will succeed Bill Castell as head of GE Healthcare in 2006. Hogan has served as president and CEO of the Wauk...

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Breast milk promotes cavity formation in babies

A new study appearing in the October issue of the journal Pediatrics says that the cavity forming potential of breast milk is more than that of Cow's milk. Dr. Ruth A. Lawrence of the University of Rochester // in New York and her colleague Dr. William H. Bowen used rats to demonstrate that breast milk had a potential to cause tooth decay faster than cow's milk. Baby mice did develop...

Celebrity Chef Promotes Family Meals

The Health Department and Sainsbury's are negotiating details about running a joint campaign fronted by the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver//, to promote the dying concept of family meals as a method of improving the nation's diet. This would mark a controversial departure for government public health campaigns in its tie-up with a commercial brand. The health department commissioned a re...

New Music Project Promotes Quality-of-Life After Cancer

'What's next?' is a question that enters the minds of many cancer survivors. After treatment, as life begins to reorder itself and adjust into what policy makers now //consider a chronic condition, survivors need to stay informed and become empowered self-advocates making daily conscientious choices to ensure quality-of-life. This national movement, commonly referred to as cancer survivor...

Acomplia Reduces Blood Sugar And Promotes Weight Loss

A six-month study named SERENADE (Study Evaluating Rimonabant Efficacy in Drug Naive Diabetic Patients) announced its findings// at the World Diabetes Congress in Cape Town. The study involved 278 patients with type 2 diabetes who were not taking any diabetic drugs. Its major finding is : Acomplia (rimonabant) can significantly improve blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabet...

Health Claim from FDA Promotes Dairy Products to Fight Osteoporosis Risk

A health claim, written in simple language will inform consumers, about the benefits of a including plenty of dairy products in their diet, to help avert osteoporosis//. This has been proposed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The scientific evidence, upon which this claim is based, is supported firmly by The National Dairy Council (NDC). The FDA intends to educate the public at...

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Anadys Reports Preclinical Data Showing ANA773 Promotes Anti-Tumor Activity of Natural Killer Cells

Poster Presentation on April 17, 2007 at AACR SAN DIEGO, April 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AnadysPharmaceuticals, Inc. presented data from an in vitro study showingthat the active metabolite of ANA773 promotes natural killer (NK)cell-mediated anti-tumor response by inducing cytokine secretion,cytolysis of tumor cells and enhanced antibody-dependent cellularcytotoxicity (ADCC), during a p...