Fundamental Finding Yields Insight into Stem Cells, Cancer; Opens Door to Drug Discovery
Few things about growing older are asinevitable and obvious as “going gray,?yet scientists have been unableto explain the precise cause of this usually unwelcome transformation.In a report posted today on the Web site of the journal Science,researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s HospitalBoston say they have found the cellular cause of graying hair whileinvestigating th...NIAID Initiates Trial of Experimental Avian Flu Vaccine
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Groundbreaking research led by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) demonstrates for the first time that the signatures of the genes alone in terrestrial and aquatic samples can accurately diagnose the health of the sampled environments. This study, published in the April 22nd edition of the journal Science positions large-scale genome sequencing to accelerate advances i...Compounds in plastic packaging act as environmental estrogens altering breast genes
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Derek Cody and Laura G. Leff, Department of Biological Sciences, Kent StateUniversity, Kent, Ohio Assessing bacterial genetic diversity in natural environments is problematic because of difficulties in culturing native bacteria and the large number of species that may be encountered. The morpho...Fundamentals of Fermentation: Techniques For Benchtop Fermentors
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Extremely preterm infants born before 25 weeks' gestation often have severe neurologic and developmental disabilities, researchers report in the August 10th issue of The New EnglandJournal of Medicine.The EPICure Study Group identified 308 children born at the gestational age of 25 weeks or earlier in the UK and Ireland. Of these, 283 were assessed for neurologic function Based on their l...Experimental treatment for Ebola Virus Shows promising results in mice
Scientists at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, have said that an experimental treatment for the deadly Ebola virus has shown promising results in mice. In the study, researchers led by Dr. Manish Gupta took antibodies from the immune systems of mice that had survived infection with the deadly Ebola virus and injected them into other Ebola-free mice...Unnatural death common in mentally ill
Mental illness has an increased risk of death by homicide, suicide or accident. On an average mental health problems like depression or schizophrenia are related to higher rates of suicide.// What's not been clear is whether mental illness also increases the risk of other causes of unnatural death. Researchers at the University of Texas along with other colleagues in Italy did a compar...Staying mentally energitic prevents Alzheimer's
A new study shows there is some truth in the 'use it or lose it' advice when it comes keeping the brain active. It is long been believed that mental stimulation can protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease.// Researchers at the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Centre in the US now reveal new evidence for this. The report is part of the ongoing Religious Orders Study, involving the cognitive health of o...Heart bypass-mental decline link
Tens of thousands of bypass patients suffer mental decline after bypass surgery, including difficulty thinking and remembering. One leading theory is that the heart-lung machine is the culprit. But according to a new study,// the loss of mental sharpness suffered by many heart-bypass patients several months after surgery may not be caused by the heart-lung machine used in the operating room after...Grooved Segmental Buckle and Oval Sponge Kits
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Trophos Describes Identification, Characterization and BroadNeuroprotective Properties of TRO19622 in Journal of Pharmacologyand Experimental Therapeutics Neurodegenerative Disease Specialists Publish Details of a NovelDrug Candidate for ALS That Targets Mitochondrial Proteins MARSEILLE, June 19th, 2007 - Trophos SA, a biopharmaceuticalcompany specializing in the discovery an...Alnylam Reports Results of Human Experimental Infection Model with Respiratory Syncytial Virus
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2007 - AlnylamPharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeuticscompany, presented data from its experimental infection study atthe 2007 Pediatric Academic Societies' (PAS) Annual Meeting beingheld in Toronto. This study represents an important component ofthe company's clinical development program for ALN-RSV01, an RNAitherapeutic fo...Bipolar Disorder in Children Difficult to Diagnose, Reports the Harvard Mental Health Letter
BOSTON, April 25, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At leastone-third of the time, the symptoms of bipolar disorder firstappear in childhood or adolescence. However, in children, it can bedifficult to distinguish bipolar symptoms from those of otherdisorders, notes the May 2007 issue of the Harvard Mental HealthLetter. Children, especially young children, usually do not show theadul...