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Enzyme apathetic Alzheimer - ESCAPED an enzyme? These plates characteristics can accumulate in the brains of some people with Alzheimer's disease because an enzyme can not break b amyloid. SAN DIEGO - When you hear of insulin, you probably think of diabetes,...

Hampered Virus Kills Cancer cells - Scientists have modified a common respiratory viruses to destroy cancer cells while leaving healthy unharmed, said a report in tomorrow's issue of Science . The next step - a clinical trial in human cancer patients - is already underway The cancer killer pathogen...

An American Original: Cancer Deaths Decline - WASHINGTON, DC - A deadlock that has gripped the longest and most expensive war in modern times - war against cancer - can finally eased. The cancer death rate in the US fell by 2.6% between 1991 and 1995, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced...

This Little Piggy Going to Market Organ - LONDON - claims in the British media this week that the government is ready to give fire green transplantation of organs from genetically modified pigs in human patients were dismissed as "pure speculation" by a Ministry of Health official. The official...

Bacchus Knows Best: drugs against cancer in grapes - [? a laboratory of tests indicated that a chemical found in grapes and other fruits and vegetables is a potential antitumor agent. But experts warn that the compound, described in a report in tomorrow's issue of...

Vaccine protects against cholera in Vietnam - A vaccine against cholera cheap performed well in a pilot in Vietnam. The discovery, published in the tomorrow The Lancet , is a breakthrough in the search long and frustrating in developing countries an effective vaccine against cholera, a potentially...

Mary Had a Little ... Clone - Creating a new organism from a single cell was more science fiction than science. Not anymore. Scientists have cloned a sheep using a cell nucleus taken from the udder of an adult sheep, according to a report is expected later this week Nature . The breakthrough has...

A better recipe against Parkinson's disease? - At work. Nurr1, shown in white in the brain of embryonic mice, invites the development of nerve cells of the midbrain dopamine. People with too little dopamine in their brains develop the debilitating symptoms...

Moles and melanoma - The number and shape of moles on your skin can indicate your risk of malignant melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer. The results, reported in tomorrow's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association , suggest that doctors should regularly examine moles...

Soot and death - Scientists have linked two major air pollutants with mortality rates increased in 12 European cities. The findings, published in the issue of tomorrow British Medical Journal , are sure to fuel a contentious debate in Europe and the United States on proposed standards that greatly...