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Researchers find how protein allows insects to detect and respond to pheromones

University of Washington TechTransferrecently licensed software that will give scientists a huge advantagein the fight against disease.The software, known as Rosetta, predicts how proteins fold, informationthat is highly valuable to biological and biomedical researchers.UW Tech Transfer's Digital Ventures licensed Rosetta software withoutcharge to the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), a...

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...

VCU Researchers Identify Networks Of Genes Responding To Alcohol In The Brain

Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have identified several genetic changes in the brains of mice caused by ethanol, which may help researchers better understand how and why people become addicted to alcohol. In the March issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers reported significant differences in the gene expression patterns regulated by alcohol in two mouse strains know...

Medical molecules designed to respond to visible light that can penetrate tissue

If you have ever covered a flashlight with your hand and seen the red light that still comes through, then you have seen light in the therapeutic window ?that magic wavelength that is not absorbed or reflected away by tissue. Scientists believe that they can use light at that wavelength to signal manmade molecules to release drugs at disease sites in the body. Such possibilities will be d...

Identification of specific genes predicts which patients will respond to Hepatitis C treatment

For the first time, physicians at University Health Network and University of Toronto have identified a small subset of genes that can predict whether a patient with chronic Hepatitis C will be able to respond to current treatments. The study, published in t...

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Third Wave responds to Digene patent lawsuit

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Readers respond - Imagining the possibilities

What a difference a week makes. In last week's issue, I noted that while wireless communications were about to get dramatically better, data services for mobile phones were still rather uninspired. For all the hype around mobile data services, we were pretty much wallowing in news, sports, and weather - the fare that was easier and cheaper to receive on the car radio than on the mobile phone. <br...

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Unborn babies respond to light

In a breakthrough discovery, American researchers have found some of the first concrete evidence that babies do respond to stimuli in the womb. There have always been theories that unborn babies will respond to regimens such as 'hothousing',// where the baby is read to or played music while still in the womb. However, the effectiveness of inventions like this has been questionable in...

Ankylosing spondylitis may not be detected in children

Childhood ankylosing spondylitis may be more common than thought of and may remain undetected because of this//, says a new study in US. Ankylosing spondylitis or arthritis of the spine is a disease that may affect young children. Children who suffer from pain in their joints and stiffness for a long time must be medically examined for spinal arthritis as timely medical intervention ma...

Acute Gastroenteritis Responds To Treatment With Either Gatorade Or Pedialyte

Satish S.C. Rao, M.D, Ph.D., FACG of the University of Iowa and colleagues at the Osmania Medical College in Hyderabad have found that Gatorade and Pedialyte are equally effective as oral rehydration salts in children suffering from and vomiting related to acute viral gastroenteritis.// The researchers have presented their findings at the 70th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Americ...

Monkeys Respond To HIV Treatment

US based researchers are reported to identified two drugs meant for treating HIV patients also served to protect monkeys from contracting the AIDS virus. // As to whether the same can be applied to human beings also has not yet been confirmed, even though it may be possible. Rhesus monkeys were experimented upon by the Centers for Disease and Prevention’s Dr. Walid Heneine, through i...

New Device Developed For Treating Cervical Spondylitis

A neurosurgeon here claims to have developed a device to facilitate keyhole surgery for cervical spondylitis and disk prolapse, in what is being regarded as a breakthrough in spinal treatment. // Ravi Dev, a young associate professor in the department of neurosurgery at King George's Medical University (KGMU), has developed a unique vertebral drill that he says will save patients from...

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Remicade Two Year Data in Ankylosing Spondylitis Show Improvement in Spinal Mobility and Spinal Inflammation

Findings from the ASSERT Trial Presented at EULAR BARCELONA, Spain, June 15, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Datapresented today at the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)Annual European Congress of Rheumatology showed that patients withankylosing spondylitis (AS) who received REMICADE(R) (infliximab)over two years experienced significant improvement in spinalmobility. In addition,...

In New Study, Duloxetine Was Equally Effective, Regardless of Switch Method, in Reducing Painful Symptoms in Ssri Non- or Partial-responders with Depression

SAN DIEGO, California, 23 May 2007 - The antidepressant duloxetinehydrochloride was equally effective in reducing painful symptoms indepressed patients who did not respond, or responded onlypartially, to treatment with a selective serotonin reuptakeinhibitor (SSRI), regardless of whether those patients wereswitched from an SSRI abruptly or gradually. This newdata was presented t...

Long-Term Extension of Ulcerative Colitis Study Shows Remicade Responders Maintained Improvement Through Two Years of Follow-Up

Separate Survey Underscores Impact of Disease on Work Status andProductivity WASHINGTON, May 23, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Findingspresented today at Digestive Disease Week(R) 2007 (DDW), fromlong-term extensions of the ACT trials (Active Ulcerative Colitis 1& 2) show that subjects with moderately to severely activeulcerative colitis (UC) who had responded to REMICADE(R)(inflixi...

New Clinical Study Results Indicate Higher Early Virologic Response with Celgosivir Combination Therapy in HCV Non-Responders

Data to be Presented April 15th at EASL Conference in Barcelona,Spain VANCOUVER and SAN DIEGO, CA, April 11, 2007/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - MIGENIX Inc. , a clinical-stage developerof drugs for infectious diseases, has received new top-line resultsconfirming the previously announced clinical results (November 6,2006) indicating evidence of clinical benefit, safety andtolerability in a Phas...

DVT Awareness Survey Findings for Respondents in High-Risk Groups: Obese Individuals

WASHINGTON, March 15, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Up to two millionAmericans are affected each year by DVT, with up to 600,000hospitalized. Its primary complication, pulmonary embolism (PE),claims up to 300,000 lives annually -- more than breast cancer andAIDS combined. The Coalition to Prevent Deep-Vein Thrombosis (DVT) recentlysponsored an online survey of a nationally representative sa...

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