BRCA1 causes ovarian cancer through indirect, biochemical route
Mutated BRCA1 genes cause ovarian cancer indirectly, by interfering with the biochemical signals one ovarian cell sends to another, according to a team of researchers led by scientists at the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Their work is being published in the March 29 issue of the journal Current Biology.</p...UIC researchers show protein routes messages in nerve cells
Nerve cells relay messages at blink-of-the-eye speeds by squirting chemicals called neurotransmitters across tiny gaps called synapses to awaiting message receptors. But lots of different receptors and neurotransmitters work simultaneously. Which goes where to send the proper message? Research reported in the July 20 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience (released online July 13) by a team...Researchers discover new route to hemoglobin synthesis
For years, sedatives have been the gold standard for treating newborns suffering from opiate withdrawal. However, new research suggests that opiates themselves are superior to sedatives for treating infants born to women who used heroin or methadone while pregnant. Opiates appear to better "ameliorate the withdrawal, facilitate feeding and potentially reduce the likelihood of seizures," ac...Evolution reveals an independent route for diversity in animal form
Researchers have found that Cnidaria, a group of marine animals noted for diverse morphology among its constituent species, actually lacks the ancient "Hox" gene system that is essential for the development of most other animals . The finding is surprising because the Hox system is largely responsible for so-called axial patterning, the developmental process that directs the formation of d...York mathematician probes geometric route to combat viruses
A mathematician at the University of York has been awarded a Research Leadership Award of more than £700,000 by the Leverhulme Trust to study the geometry of viruses. Viruses have highly sy...Router Failure and Software Crash UW-Madison Network
Madison, Wis. A network crash last week left many , which monitors and sustains the UWs networks, experienced a system-wide crash last Fri...Flawed Routers Flood UW Server
Madison, WI- Over 2,200 computers on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus were infected with the latest e-mail virus last week. At the same time, it was revealed that beginning in May 2003, UW-Madison discovered that it was the recipient of a continuous large scale flood of inbound Internet traffic destined for one of the...Insomnia affects direction and route memory negatively
According to a US study insomnia or loss of sleep affects finding way around negatively. It has an impact on route and navigation and there is difficulty finding the way around.// This was tried and tested on rats. When sleep was tampered with rats' spatial memory was affected. Still, experts at UK were not convinced and divided over the findings published in the Journa...Doctors Urged to opt for Intra-dermal Route for Anti-rabies Vaccine
Himachal Pradesh Medical Officers Association has urged the doctors working in various hospitals in the state to opt for intra-dermal route for anti-rabies vaccine, as recommended by World Health Organisation //. The Association in release said that by following the intra-dermal route, the doctors could vaccinate five patients from on vial of vaccine and the cost would 70 per cent less...Indonesia En Route to HIV Epidemic, Experts Warn
The World Health Organization has sounded its concerns about HIV-infected cases growing by leaps and bounds in Indonesia//, and announced a ‘generalized HIV epidemic’ in Papua, one of the country’s most remote regions. Talking numbers are frightening –there is an estimated number of 169,000 to 216,000 HIV cases in the most populous Muslim nation of the world, which has a head coun...