Ancient olfaction protein is shared by many bugs, offering new pest control target
In the battle against insect pests, new research indicates that it may all come down to the sense of smell. A group of Rockefeller University scientists who had previously identified a key gene essential for the sense of smell in fruit flies now shows that this gene's function appears to be evolutionarily conserved across very different insect species. Research by Leslie Vosshall's laborat...A new study examines how shared pathogens affect host populations
Many pathogens are able to infect multiple species within a community and are commonly transmitted across species. Cross-species transmission is often associated with pathogen emergence and therefore has been considered as a negative factor for humans, wildlife, and species of agricultural importance. Many pathogens like malaria, Lyme disease or West Nile encephalitis that infect multiple hosts a...The lopsided brain: Attention bias is shared by humans and birds
When it comes to the world laid before us, our mind's eye has a bias. For reasons that are not entirely clear, during some tasks humans have a tendency to devote more visual attention to the left side of the visual world than the right side, a phenomenon known as pseudoneglect. Researchers now report that pseudoneglect is not restricted to humans but is shared by birds, suggesting not only that b...Bird flu -- Call for antiviral drugs to be shared
New predictions about bird flu, involving the use of a mathematical model, suggest that international cooperation to share antiviral drugs might be the best way to deal with an emerging pandemic. 'Bird flu'(avian H5N1 influenza) has not triggered a worldwide human epidemic yet because it rarely passes between people. If it does acquire this ability, it would take 6-8 months to develop a va...Nobel Prize for Medicine shared by Three scientists
Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries concerning "signal transduction in the nervous system." The three Nobel laureates will share the 9 million kronor ($915,000) prize for their pioneering discoveries "concerning one type of signal transduction between nerve cells, referred to as slow synaptic transmission," according to the award ci...Shared decision making in health care not beneficial to patient
Sharing your thoughts and discussing the symptoms and treatment benefits with your doctor does not seems to benefit the decision making and treatment. Researchers George W. Saba and Colleagues, University of California, San Francisco found in a study // in 18 patients who visited their doctor and shared the decision with their doctor. The researchers found that shared decision making...Gene Bias: Onomastics of Shared Surnames among Men Reveals Genetic links
What’s in a Surname? There’s a lot you can decipher from surnames, especially from those men who share similar surnames. Gender Bias, if you ask me! Or blame it on the Y chromosome that renders maleness // to a Man; researchers, have now unearthed a mysterious link, that traces the branches of a family tree to common Surnames. DNA of 150 pairs of men with shared British surnames was compared to r...Shared Care Results In Better Breast Cancer Outcomes
A new study conducted at the Medical College of Wisconsin Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research in Milwaukee has found that older breast cancer survivors, who were under the care of both a primary care //physician and a cancer specialist, had a better chance of beating their tumors as seen in follow-up mammography. The researchers found that about two-thirds of elderly breast ca...Call For Bird Flu Antiviral Drugs To Be Shared
New predictions about bird flu, involving the use of a mathematical model, suggest that international //cooperation to share antiviral drugs might be the best way to deal with an emerging pandemic. ‘Bird flu’ (avian H5N1 influenza) has not triggered a worldwide human epidemic yet because it rarely passes between people. If it does acquire this ability, it would take 6-8 months to deve...New Information on the Potential of Plasmin Shared at ISTH Congress
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. & GENEVA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 11,2007 - New information representing the continuing research anddevelopment program for Plasmin (Human), TAL-05-00018, waspresented by Talecris Biotherapeutics, Inc.(http://www.talecris.com) this week at the XXIst InternationalSociety for Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) Congress in Geneva,Switzerland. The information includ...