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Association of herpesvirus with lung disorder questioned

Contrary to the results of a recent U.S. study, investigators in Japan found no association between a herpesvirus infection and a potentially life-threatening form of high blood pressure, as reported in the March 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. The researchers reported that they were not able to detect human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), also known as the Kap...

New research questions basic tenet of neuron function

New findings by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center challenge one of the established views of how nerve cells communicate with one another. Every time we move, feel emotions, think or remember, the nerve cells, or neurons, in our body transmit messages to one another via chemical signals called neurotransmitters. Within neurons are tiny organelles called synaptic vesicles that s...

Amazon trees much older than assumed, raising questions on global climate impact of region

Trees in the Amazon tropical forests are old. Really old, in fact, which comes as a surprise to a team of American and Brazilian researchers studying tree growth in the world's largest tropical region. Using radiocarbon dating methods, the team, which includes UC Irvine's Susan Trumbore, found that up to half of all trees greater than 10 centimeters in diameter are more than 300 years old....

New evidence questions the simple link between prion proteins and madcow disease

While newly published research confirms that under laboratory circumstances prion-protein can be absorbed across the gut, it also shows that this is unlikely to occur in real life. In addition, the results show that the places in the gut that do take up these disease-associated proteins are different from the locations where infectivity is known to be amplified. The findings will be published in...

Mute swan population helps explain longstanding evolutionary question

In an important new study forthcoming from The American Naturalist, biologists from the University of Oxford tracked a colony of mute swans for more than two decades to explore a longstanding evolutionary question: whether the number of eggs laid by a female bird ?known as "clutch size" ?changes in accordance with natural selection. "Extensive debate in the literature…was first focused on...

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WARF questions relevancy of documents used to uphold patent challenge

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Net neutrality: To control or not control, that is the question

, D-Massachusetts, will bring this hotly contested issue to th...

In the wake of Katrina, more questions than answers about global climate change

About a month before Katrina turned...

Madison grid computing efforts attack big research questions

UW-Madison professors Wesley Smith and David Schwartz are working with the Grid L...

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The Link Between Hepatitis B Vaccine And Multiple Sclerosis Questioned

A recent study by Harvard researchers suggests a link between the hepatitis B vaccination and multiple sclerosis. In their study, people who received the vaccine were three-times more likely to develop MS // over the next three years than those who were not vaccinated. While this finding is disturbing, the investigators emphasize the overall effect of the vaccine on the development of MS...

Treatment Options For Retinitis Pigmentosa Questioned

Retinitis pigmentosa, a progressive eye disease targeting the light-collecting cells of the retina, affects one in 4,000 people worldwide and can cause // vision loss. Researchers say for patients suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, the addition of docosahexaenoic acid to vitamin A therapy may not provide long-term benefits, according to a recent study. Researchers followed 221 patients...

New protein diet program questioned.

The New protein rich diet that created waves among the public was questioned as they recommend the patients to include double the amount // of proteins in their daily diet. Scientist at the Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization wrote the book on this diet. This best seller sold half a million copies in Australia. The diet said that 30-35% o...

Wisdom behind High Protein Diet Questioned

The Total Wellbeing Diet advocated by scientists from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization // has come under severe scrutiny with an editorial in the journal Nature questioning the wisdom behind the intake of a high-protein diet. A normal Western diet usually consists of 15 percent of protein, but the Total wellbeing Diet advocates a 30 to 35 percen...

Gender Question Solved

An Australian research team led by Dr Josephine Bowles and Professor Peter Koopman from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at The University of Queensland, has// successfully identified the reason behind why males produce sperm and females produce eggs. The findings were published in the scientific journals Science. This discovery is of great value and is thought to find solutions to...

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100 Questions in Cardiology

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Geron Corp. Licensee TA Sciences Announces Landmark 7/07/07 Teleconference to Answer Questions About TA-65, Their Telomerase Activator With Proven Age Management Benefits

NEW YORK, June 15, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Telomerase ActivationSciences, Inc. (T.A. Sciences) recently announced the results ofthe Pivotal 2005 Anti-Aging Trial of TA-65, the first human trialever to show demonstrated, measurable and positive anti-agingbenefits from a Telomerase Activator. Statistically significantresults were found in those taking TA-65 across several keyconditions of agi...

To Stent or Not: Is That the Question?

Reporting of COURAGE study results confused the public about theneed and benefits of angioplasty PORTLAND, Ore., June 07, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- The onslaught ofanti-stent news reports over the past few months has shaped thepublic's view that angioplasty doesn't work and its use shoulddecrease. Confused by the media coverage, patients have extensivelyquestioned their cardiologists about the...