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Plants respond similarly to signals from friends, enemies

Two soil-dwelling strangers ?a friend and a foe ?approach a plant and communicate with it in order to enter a partnership. The friend wants to trade nitrogen for food. The foe is a parasite that wants to burrow in and harm the plant. In a new finding published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at North Carolina State University have found that the two strange...

Brain-injury rehabilitation depends on acetylcholine circuitry

The ability of the brain to recover from such injury as stroke or trauma depends on a particular circuitry of neurons that "talk" to one another using the brain chemical acetylcholine, researchers led by James Conner and Mark Tuszynski in the Neural repair Group at UCSD have discovered. Their finding in rats could help enhance rehabilitation to recover from such injuries by leading to the develop...

WHO suspends Marburg work, appeals for new funds

As of 7 April, 205 cases of Marburg haemorrhagic fever have been reported in Angola. Of these, 180 have died. Zaire Province has reported its first 6 cases, bringing the number of affected provinces to seven, all concentrated in the north-western part of the country. Mobile surveillance teams in Uige were forced to suspend operations yesterday when vehicles were attacked and damaged by loc...

Fat's fate depends on its source

A healthy metabolism requires a healthy dose of fat, suggests a new study published in the May issue of Cell Metabolism. Fats taken in directly from the diet or generated from sugars spark a cascade of gene activity in the liver necessary for healthy blood levels of sugar, cholesterol, and other fats, according to the researchers. Old fat stores alone failed to set those critical metabolic...

HIV Therapy Greatly Extends Life of Key T Cells, Scientists Find

Interleukin-2 (IL-2), an immune-boosting drug used experimentally in HIV therapy, greatly increases the lifespan of certain subsets of immune system T cells in some HIV-positive people who respond to this therapy, discovered researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH. A report desc...

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Optimizing the Direct Amplification of Missing cDNA 5' Ends Using the Eppendorf Mastercycler gradient

Using the Eppendorf Mastercycler gradient Institute of General Botany, University of Hamburg Christian Rohrer, Eppendorf AG, Hamburg In man...

Optimizing the Direct Amplification of Missing cDNA 5' Ends Using the Eppendorf Mastercycler gradient

Using the Eppendorf Mastercycler gradient Institute of General Botany, University of Hamburg Christian Rohrer, Eppendorf AG, Hamburg In many research projects, cD...

USB OptiKinase Eliminates Base Bias in Labeling of Oligonucleotide 5'-Ends

. Historically, T4 PNK has played a crucial role in molecular biology and it continues to be important in...

New Automated Yeast Cell Counter Ends Tedium & Errors of Manual Counting

, an automated device for counting mammalian cells, the new NucleoCounter YC-100 for yeast combines a fluorescence microscope with CCD camera and integrated i...

High court sends message on patent obviousness

is the requirement that the claimed invention is not obvious under 35 U.S.C. 103. Similarly, obviousness is a typical defense raised in patent infringement cases. Yet, overcoming obviousness objections, both in the PTO and in...

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Prince Charles lends support to Alternative Medicine

In an open show of support to Alternative Medicine, Britain's Prince Charles has urged the government to allocate 10 million pounds ($14.21 million) to fund a five-year research program into the effects of alternative medicine. The world is now sitting up and taking notice of holistic medicine and Prince Charles’s support to fund research in this field has come as a shot in the arm for th...

Exclusive breast-feeding advised for six months in infants recommends World Health Organization

A resolution put forward by Brazil, at the annual assembly of the world health organization is to be accepted advising exclusive breast-feeding for the first six months in all infants. The resolution was passed at the committee stage on Wednesday after 2 hours of debate where many national delegates and members of charitable organizations argued vehemently for breast-feeding. Nestle, a...

Chromosome Ends Trigger DNA Damage Response For Telomere Protection

Researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have suggested that a localized DNA damage response at telomeres after replication is essential for recruiting the //processing machinery that promotes formation of a chromosome end protection complex. Telomeres, the ends of linear chromosomes, represent a problem for the control of genome stability and the DNA damage machinery...

Vegetable and fruit intake depends on shopping

Blacks in America eat a lot of fruits and vegetables which increases by one third for every additional supermarket in their neighbourhood. Many different factors influence the variety and content of people's daily diet.//According to a new study by Scientists at the University of South Carolina, one of these is the convenience of shopping facilities. The survey looked at black and white...

Older women's heart health depends on location of fat

A new study by researchers in Denmark has shown that, it is not the amount of fat that matters but the distribution of the fat that is important, when it comes to the heart health of women over 60. The study involved a group of 1,356 women aged between 60 and 85 whose body fat distribution and amount of atherosclerosis in the abdominal part of the aorta was measured. Atherosclerosis in th...

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DiObex Presents Phase 2a Data of DIO-902 Demonstrating Trends of Improved Glycemic Control and Significant Reductions of LDL-Cholesterol and C-Reactive Protein

Top Line Data for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Presented at the67th Annual Scientific Sessions of American Diabetes Association SAN FRANCISCO, June 25, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- DiObex, Inc., aprivately-held biopharmaceutical company focused on the developmentof therapeutics to treat metabolic diseases, today announced thepresentation of top line data of its phase 2a study of DIO-902, afir...

Nexavar Significantly Extends Overall Survival by 44% in Liver Cancer Patients

- First Agent Ever to Demonstrate Significant Survival Benefit inLiver Cancer - CHICAGO, June 04, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BayerHealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.today announced that Nexavar(R) (sorafenib) tablets significantlyextended overall survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC), or primary liver cancer versus those taking placebo by 4...

MabThera Significantly Extends Survival And Cures More Patients With Aggressive Lymphoma Than Chemotherapy Alone

Seven year follow up of pivotal trial confirms that more patientsare alive today due to MabThera BASEL, Switzerland, June 4, 2007-A follow-up analysis trackingthe outcome of patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma(NHL) who were treated with the innovative cancer therapy MabThera(rituximab) over seven years ago has revealed exciting results(1). This analysis of the original...

Callisto Intends to Move Guanilib into Clinical Trials in Ulcerative Colitis

Announces Positive Data in Animal Models of Ulcerative Colitis NEW YORK, April 05, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CallistoPharmaceuticals, Inc. , a developer of new drug treatments in thefight against cancer and other major health threats, announcedtoday additional data confirming efficacy of Guanilib, afirst-in-class compound currently being developed for the treatmentof inflammatory bow...

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