Poplar trees redirect resources in response to simulated attack
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have applied some of the same techniques used in medical imaging to track the distribution of nutrients in poplar trees in response to a simulated insect attack. The research provides new insights on a long-debated theory about how plants respond to environmental stress, and shows that radiotracer imaging can be a big he...A comprehensive response to HIV could prevent 10 million AIDS deaths in Africa by 2020
Based on successful animal studies, a novelvaccine that uses immune cells as factories to produce Her2/neu proteinmay offer a way to treat some human breast cancers, say researchers atThe University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. [Ed : is a protein often present / surexpressed in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/...Scientists solve structure of key protein in innate immune response
When bacteria invade the body, a molecule called CD14 binds to substances liberated from the bacteria and initiates the cellular defense mechanisms. In a report published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, scientists in Korea announced their elucidation of three-dimensional structure of CD14 and showed how it is perfectly suited to bind to certain bacterial products. The research appe...Gene Signatures Predict Interferon Response For Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Multiple sclerosis (MS) can be an unpredictable disease. It develops when the body's immune system attacks healthy nerve cells and disrupts normal nerve signaling. Patients experience a wide range of symptoms—including tingling, paralysis, pain, fatigue, and blurred vision—that can appear independently or in combination, sporadically or persistently. Although symptoms appear in no particular orde...Harmful chemicals may reprogram gene response to estrogen
New research shows that exposure to harmful chemicals and drugs during critical developmental periods early in life may actually "reprogram" the way certain genes respond to the female hormone estrogen. This genetic reprogramming may determine whether people with a genetic predisposition for a disease actually develop the disease. The new research shows that when rats with a genetic predis...IT critical in pandemic response, but many are not paying attention
Scientists say it's not a matter of if, but when. And when pandemic flu hits an event that could, at the least, keep large sections of the population from working, shut down travel and public institutions and cause infrastructure outages information technology may be called on to ease the burden of coordinating both public efforts and business. And if private companies do pr...Quick response manufacturing and biotech
MADISON Biotechnology companies interested in achieving greater efficiencies in product development and manufacturing processes are invited to an introductory briefing by the University of Wisconsin-Madisons The <a href="http://www.corprelations.wisc.edu/buswire/biotech_20040707....Stress response increases suicide risk
Psychological responses to stress may cause significant problems including suicidal impulses. It is well-known that some people respond to major stressors - like war and natural calamities with a full-blown crisis known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) where there is emotional numbness, panic and anxiety. And even lesser stressful events, like having an operation, can precipitate PTSD in...Gene variation simulates cholesterol response to oestrogen
According to a new study shows that women with a specific gene variant have a dramatic increase in 'good' cholesterol when they take oestrogen.// Previous research suggests that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) might protect women from heart disease. Now doctors at Forest University have discovered a strong genetic influence in how a woman's cholesterol profile responds to HRT. An an...Alcohol injures stress hormone response
According to some researchers at the University of Chicago,restoring alcoholics have impaired stress responses that lead to cognitive problems. //A group of 50 male alcoholics detoxifying in hospital were compared to 35 non-alcoholic controls in a test of stress hormone response and memory and problem solving. All participants were placed under stress by being required to do mental arithmetic and...Self control makes stress response easy
According to pshycologists, believing that one can control a stressful situation makes it easier on your heart and circulation.// Exposure to a stressful situation is potentially damaging to health because it increases blood pressure and resistance to blood flow. Over time, these responses may accumulate to increase the risk of heart disease. But the level of the physiological response to stress...Perceived stress decreases vaccine response
Researchers have found in a new study that people who have felt psychologically low or under stress had a lower response to a meningitis vaccine than expected.// Undergraduate students in the UK all get a vaccination against meningitis, to protect them from an outbreak of this potentially fatal brain infection. So they form an ideal population for studying the effects of stress on immune response...First Response Malaria P.f / P.v Antigen Strips
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Nearly Twice as Many Patients Taking Trexima were Migraine FreeCompared to Placebo CHICAGO, June 08, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- New data from two largetrials show that Trexima, when taken early, was nearly twice aseffective as placebo in eliminating all traditional migrainesymptoms at two and four hours across multiple attacks with justone tablet. The findings will be presented tomorrow at the...Data Demonstrated Metastatic Melanoma Response to Investigational Immunotherapy Ipilimumab
Clinical Phase I and II data presented at American Society ofClinical Oncology (ASCO) 2007 Annual Meeting CHICAGO, June 05, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Medarex, Inc.and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company today presented results frommultiple clinical studies of ipilimumab (MDX-010), aninvestigational immunotherapy, for patients with advanced melanoma.The results demonstrated an anti-tumor res...