Archive for November 2017

Cheap Port-a-MRI Scanners?

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Cheap Port-a-MRI Scanners? - A hospital's imaging magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) room has no space for credit cards. MRI magnets used to paint accurate pictures of your insides are strong enough to pull a screwdriver out of your hands from a meter away. , Portable devices can be cheaper more in...

Ethics Committee Backs New controls on finding fabrics

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Ethics Committee Backs New controls on finding fabrics - clinical researchers received a bioethics kit for Christmas, and some may be afraid to open it. He arrived this month in the form of a draft report of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) President calls for tighter controls on...

Stem Cell Battle heats

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Stem Cell Battle heats - biomedical and scientific groups began an intense lobbying effort to convince Congress to resist conservative campaign to block federal support for research human stem cells. Both parties should encounter Capitol Hill in the coming weeks. The first skirmishes could take place...

Increase CJD Death rattles Britain

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Increase CJD Death rattles Britain - H Ebden B RIDGE , UK - A recent sharp increase the number of deaths from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in Britain has caused concern that an epidemic long dreaded the fatal brain disease is imminent. But the numbers may be a statistical fluke,...

Bill Gates Makes Major Donation AIDS

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Bill Gates Makes Major Donation AIDS - Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and his wife Melinda will announce a contribution of $ 25 million to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), the largest single philanthropic gift ever made to the research against AIDS, science has learned. "Bill and Melinda...

Birth of beta blockers

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Birth of beta blockers - Today is Sir James Black's birthday, a British pharmacologist who revolutionized the treatment of heart disease and ulcers of his discovery of two important drugs. In an attempt to find a drug that would relieve the pain of angina, discovered black propranolol, which...

Clue Aboriginal Hepatitis

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Clue Aboriginal Hepatitis - Today is the 74th anniversary of Baruch Blumberg, an American research physician whose work has led to a blood test and a vaccine against hepatitis B. as head of geographic medicine and genetics section of the national Institutes of health, Blumberg has traveled the world...

Gene therapy for hemophilia promising

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Gene therapy for hemophilia promising - The idea of ​​replacing faulty genes with functional ones is appealing, but it has come under severe criticism from a voluntary patient with a deficit hereditary enzyme died last fall ( science , 17 December 1999, p. 2244). Now a first report from a different...

Pull the plug on the cancer

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Pull the plug on the cancer - The fountain of youth that keeps the immortal cancer cells can be disabled by a mutated enzyme, the researchers say. The key cancer cell immortality are the telomeres of the cell, repetitive stretches of DNA at the ends of chromosomes that can protect the chromosomes...

Bicker mammograms

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Bicker mammograms - A new analysis of older studies sparked a debate about whether the use of mammograms to screen women for breast cancer saves lives. After reviewing eight published studies on the effectiveness of screening, a team of scientists found that both showed no benefit while six others...

Plans March Cancer Unite, space agencies

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Plans March Cancer Unite, space agencies - cancer research and send humans to Mars may seem light years away, but advances in technology have put them on the same flight path. Last week, NASA and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced that each intends to spend annually $ 10 million for the...

Study Pushes AIDS origins back to 1930

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Study Pushes AIDS origins back to 1930 - The strain of the virus responsible for almost all cases of AIDS appeared in the 1930s, say scientists who have used a "clock molecular "to date the origin of HIV. The discovery, published in the June 9 issue of Science , casts doubt on the idea that the...

Gutsy bacteria Spell Relief

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Gutsy bacteria Spell Relief - Millions of people suffer from inflammatory bowel disease, which causes a painful set of symptoms and is difficult to treat. Now researchers have developed a technique that works well in mice -. Using bacteria to deliver soothing compounds directly to the site of inflammation...

The origins of New, Disease Booming

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The origins of New, Disease Booming - ATLANTA - Some of the biggest dangers to human health lurk in the animal kingdom. About three out of four "emerging" diseases affect human populations from animals, according to an inventory of all human pathogens presented here Sunday at the International...

"No Villains" in the BSE tragedy

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"No Villains" in the BSE tragedy - London - The record was huge - tens of British dead, tens of thousands of destroyed livelihoods or are afflicted, 170,000 cattle slaughtered, and a bill of $ 7.5 billion. Yesterday, an independent panel reported that the BSE epidemic in Britain was caused by a...

"No Villains" in the BSE tragedy

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"No Villains" in the BSE tragedy - London - The record was huge - tens of British dead, tens of thousands of destroyed livelihoods or are afflicted, 170,000 cattle slaughtered, and a bill of $ 7.5 billion. Yesterday, an independent panel reported that the BSE epidemic in Britain was caused by a...

'Replicon' Give proteins hepatitis C

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'Replicon' Give proteins hepatitis C - Cut and paste full HCV virus (genome top) does not replicate well in the lab. a version of replicon cut and transferred (bottom) did. The virus that causes hepatitis C (HCV) has frustrated researchers because of his stubborn...

cancer cells build roads lymph

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cancer cells build roads lymph - On the move. breast cancer cells (above) can hitch a ride on the lymphatic tissue. Cancer turns deadly when it spreads from a tumor and attack organs throughout the body. two research groups have now demonstrated a trick tumors...

'Toxicology Chip' test Passes

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'Toxicology Chip' test Passes - active genes. Microarrays, which can detect the activity of thousands of genes at once, can help predict the toxicity of chemical compounds SAN FRANCISCO -. Scientists dream of one day using a single chip studded with DNA to...

Rising Price Tag AIDS

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Rising Price Tag AIDS - AIDS not only causes immense human suffering, it is also a significant financial burden. The cost of prevention and care in the developing world will more than quadrupled to $ 9.2 billion annually by 05, according to an international group of experts. The report, published...

New therapy ships Cancer Kills blood

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New therapy ships Cancer Kills blood - Like all animal tissues, cancerous tumors need blood to survive, and one of the hottest areas of research cancer is to find ways to block the blood supply. Now scientists have created a new treatment that destroys blood vessels supplying tumors in mice while...

Penetrating Command Center Cell

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Penetrating Command Center Cell - Blow out. When an HIV protein is present, the nuclear membrane (green) may burst. Researchers have discovered how HIV can penetrate the tight nucleus of an infected cell, a necessary step for the virus to replicate. Somehow,...

Attacking the roots of Noses flowing

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Attacking the roots of Noses flowing - CHICAGO - While thousands enter the new year sneezing and coughing winter colds, a company pharmaceutical said it might have something to offer. A new antiviral drug shortens the course of colds by one day, according to results of a clinical trial large Phase...

Fallout genetics of the cold war

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Fallout genetics of the cold war - nuclear legacy. nuclear fallout DNA mutations can be passed from one generation to another. CAMBRIDGE, UK - For survivors of the atomic bombs on Japan fell at the end of the Second World War, burns and disfiguring diseases...

Attack red blood

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Attack red blood - drug loading. Expanding the membranes of red blood cells and slip drugs inside, researchers believe they can deliver them more efficiently. Scientists use own red blood cells of a patient to deliver needed drugs directly to cells in the body....

Cancer-Killing Cation

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Cancer-Killing Cation - enter! Unlike normal cells (top right), the cancer cells in culture invite F16 to enter. Yellow indicates a strong negative charge. A small molecule blowing power plants tumor cells but leaves normal cells unharmed may provide a model...

Lingering Legacy Lead

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Lingering Legacy Lead - Indianapolis. dark red areas show blood lead levels in children over 20 m g / dL, the pink areas above 10 m g / dL. colored spots indicate soil levels DENVER -. There are over 2 decades, the United States began to eliminate lead...

Ebola Feathered Friends

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Ebola Feathered Friends - Ebola. Undo connects the deadly virus to bird viruses. The devastating Ebola virus might be able to steal a victim to another, speculate scientists have confirmed a link between Ebola and bird viruses. The results suggest that the...
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