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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/...

UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders

Experts in bioengineering, imaging, molecular genetics, immunology, ethics, hematology/oncology and cellular biology to collaborate on Proposition 71 research Drawing together experts from fields as diverse as engineering to molecular biology, UCLA officials announced March 16 the formation of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine to conduct embryonic and adult stem cell resear...

Six million Africans face famine because of locusts, drought

With locusts and drought having destroyed crops and stripped grazing land for six million people across West Africa, small farmers have started selling livestock cheaply and eating the seed corn they should plant during next month's expected rains, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today. "The combined effect of drought and locust attack, pa...

Retrovirus struck ancestors of chimpanzees and gorillas millions of years ago, but did not affect ancestral humans

The ancestors of chimpanzees and gorillas were infected with a deadly retrovirus about three to four million years ago, but there is no evidence it infected ancestors of modern-day humans, according to research by genome scientists. The virus struck after humans had split off the evolutionary tree from primates, researchers said. The infection may have played a role in the evolution of such great...

Evidence of 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiosis discovered in marine fossils

Researchers from China and the United States have found evidence of lichen-like symbiosis in 600-million-year-old fossils from South China. The previous earliest evidence of lichen was 400 million years old, discovered in Scotland. The discovery also adds to the scarce fossil record of fungi and raises new questions about lichen evolution. Xunlai Yuan, a paleontologist with the Nanjing Ins...

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Grow Milwaukee includes millions for tech funding

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Cingular Wireless to invest $300 million in Illinois and Wisconsin

Nationwide, the company will spend $6.2 billion to enhance and expand its Allover network nationwide over the next year. Earlier year,...

Platypus Technologies receives $1.6 million NIH grant

The Small Business Innovation Research grant is for continued development of the company's proprietary liquid crystal based technology to enable faster screening of drugs for treatment of cancer. The com...

Massachusetts firm to buy UW spinoff Bone Care for $600 million

Bone Care and Genzyme, a 24-year-old company with annual revenues of more than $2 billion and almost 7,000 employees w...

SLE of Eau Claire lands $2.2 million in federal contracts

In a long-planned departure from its traditional focus, high-end computer chip company Silicon Logic Engineering has contracted with the U.S. Army for development of two different products. SLE, based in Eau Claire, announced today that it has secured $2.2 million in federal contracts for fiscal year 2005. The company has been working with the Armys Research, Development and Engineering...

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Drug May Make Breathing Easier for Millions

An experimental drug could make millions of people suffering from smoker’s lung breathe much easier. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or smoker’s lung, is an irreversible progressive illness caused by narrowing of the airways. It encompasses emphysema and chronic bronchitis. In tests involving 500 people who had suffered from COPD for more than a decade, the drug appeared...

Hundred million dollar gift for malaria institute

An anonymous donor has gifted 100 million dollars to Johns Hopkins University in the United States of America to set up a malaria institute. This would be the world’s foremost center for malaria research in the world. Public health experts say the Johns Hopkins Malaria Institute will put the university at the forefront of efforts to find an effective vaccine and new treatments for the mo...

George Bush pledges 200 million dollars for AIDS relief

American president George .W. Bush has pledged 200 million dollars to fight AIDS. The money will be directed toward a United Nations fund designed to pay for treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS, as well as malaria and tuberculosis. Those three diseases together killed some 5.5 million people last year, the bulk of them in Africa,according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The sheer n...

Over Six Million HIV Infected People In South Africa- Finds A Survey

Johannesburg: In South Africa over six million people were infected with HIV by 2004.// This puts the prevalence of AIDS in the country at a high of 14 percent. South Africa 's total population is 46.9 million. The latest figure announced by South African Health Department is far higher than the estimate of 4.5 million given by the official state statistics agency, Statistics SA, re...

GlaxoSmithKline to Supply United States with 8 Million flu vaccine, Fluarix

GlaxoSmithKline will supply 8 million doses of its flu vaccine, Fluarix. This dosage is twice the amount GSK shipped to US last year. This amount of 8 million doses only represents about 10% of the demand from the US, due to increased need for vaccines against flu.// The immense need for vaccination increased due to large vaccination awareness programs organized in the US during recent years, due...

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Pelosi: Bush Veto of Stem Cell Bill Says 'No' to the Hopes of Million of Families Across America

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SpeakerNancy Pelosi issued the following statement today in response toPresident Bush's veto of the stem cell bill: "Once again, the President has ignored the will of the Americanpeople, of leading medical researchers, and of a bipartisanmajority of the Congress. His cruel veto says 'no' to the hopes ofmillion of families across...

Trichomoniasis: Most Common Curable STD in U.S. Affects 7.4 Million Annually

April is STD Awareness Month: Time to Pay Attention to thisOverlooked Disease SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 02, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- DuringNational Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Awareness Month thisApril, Mission Pharmacal is urging increased awareness of, andtesting for, trichomoniasis (also known as "trich"), the mostcommon curable STD in the United States. Awareness of the conditionr...