HIV handicaps itself to escape immune system pressure
People with the ability to stave off AIDS for years after initial infection by HIV have been called "long-term non-progressors" or "elite controllers." One component of this remarkable resistance comes from an individual's HLA genes. Long-term non-progressors tend to have HLA genes that help t...Group Health Cooperative Shows Investing in More Primary Care Pays for Itself
Medical home model leads to less emergency room costs and avoidable hospitalizations SEATTLE, June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An evaluation of recent innovations in delivering primary care at a Group Health Cooperative medical center shows significant success and rapid return on invest...Group Health Cooperative shows investing in more primary care pays for itself
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Wash away your gray? Maybe. A team of European scientists have finally solved a mystery that has perplexed humans throughout the ages: why we turn gray. Despite the notion that gray hair is a sign of wisdom, these researchers show in a research report published online in The FASEB Journal ( htt...Biodiversity itself begets a species cascade, researchers say
EAST LANSING, Mich. Biodiversity feeds on itself, researchers found, as evolving animals open niches for other new species. Such is the case, says a Michigan State University researcher, with a parasite found to be evolving in sequence with an emerging host insect in western Michigan apple trees....Scripps scientists develop first examples of RNA that replicates itself indefinitely
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Parents expect to pass on their eye or hair color, their knobby knees or their big feet to their children through their genes. But they don't expect to pass on viruses through those same genes. New research from the University of Rochester Medical Center shows that some parents pass on the huma...Scientists discover how deadly fungus protects itself
February 3, 2009 (Bronx, NY) Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered how a deadly microbe evades the human immune system and causes disease. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ), may h...Marine phytoplankton changes form to protect itself from different predators
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As the Legislature's budget-writing committee wrestles with balancing the state's biennial budget, calls for additional cuts in spending by the University of Wisconsin System will likely move front and center. In some ways, that's logical: The UW System budget is one of the state's five biggest s...Jatropha Couple Oil Crop Cultivation Technology Commercially Released
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