Archive for February 2018

Slideshow: Rally for research funding in Washington, DC

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Slideshow: Rally for research funding in Washington, DC - Thousands of researchers, physicians, and patient advocates gathered this morning in downtown Washington, DC, park, urging Congress and the White House to support federal funding for biomedical research. Scroll down to...

NIH Details 2013 Cuts Impact sequester

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NIH Details 2013 Cuts Impact sequester - NIH National Institutes of Health After weeks of worrying about how in-mandatory budget map-2013 cuts known as sequestration will play the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the biomedical research community of the...

Japan joins fight against neglected diseases

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Japan joins fight against neglected diseases - drug target. The TB bacteria will be a target for a new Japanese effort to develop treatments for neglected diseases. Janice Haney Carr / CDC tens of thousands of new compounds will be screened for efficacy against...

Obesity gene linked to hunger hormone

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Obesity gene linked to hunger hormone - Researchers believe they have touched why a common obesity gene causes weight gain: those who carry a version of it n 't feel full after eating and taking in extra calories. Indeed, the variation of OFL gene in question, one on six individuals wear, leads...

Is the Other malaria Get more dangerous?

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Is the Other malaria Get more dangerous? - protected? In Madagascar, the vivax malaria infects people with the trait Duffy-negative, which usually provides resistance to disease. Pauze Marc-André / Sipa Press / Newscom Two new genetic studies of a parasite...

Why Bee Sting This might be good for you

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Why Bee Sting This might be good for you - allergy sufferers rejoice. Two new studies suggest that your sneezing and wheezing may actually protect you. The researchers report that mice that develop an allergic reaction to the venom in bee stings are more likely to survive potentially lethal doses...

Live Chat: Secrets of the Grave

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Live Chat: Secrets of the Grave - This week, researchers described an ambitious project to explore 1,000 years of the disease and the health of people buried since the year 1039 in a cemetery along with a wellness pilgrimage route known in Tuscany, Italy. By studying the skeletons of farmers, peasants,...

High-Fiber Diet May Ward Off Asthma

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High-Fiber Diet May Ward Off Asthma - an apple a day ... fiber in fruits and vegetables can relieve asthma. Christingasner / iStockphoto / Thinkstock fiber consumed in fruits and vegetables appears to help calm the activity of overzealous immune system which...

Drug Company Teaming With Yale to share Trial Data

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Drug Company Teaming With Yale to share Trial Data - a request. people may apply clinical trial data through a new website. clinicaltrialstudytransparency.com/Janssen Pharmaceuticals Johnson & Johnson announced an unusual partnership today with Yale University,...

Virus Middle East more widespread than thought

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Virus Middle East more widespread than thought - Trail infection. scientists found the MERS virus in camels from Sudan and Ethiopia, suggesting that the virus is more widespread than previously thought. Bernard Gagnon / Wikimedia Commons It is called the...

Compound Cell Lifespan can increase without the need of a strict regime

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Compound Cell Lifespan can increase without the need of a strict regime - img alt=" Let us live. Nematodes survive along When exposed to a product of metabolism." src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_v8_nM6cKukmzO1AYvQOO65a0yRsX3o5iaR8ZLDoC0UrSkVMB7y8HdgCAonTxwI7ESHEPahPaWm9WqED6FPlV-MFrCMOtKFIYBEtkP-7XBfFIkMvf_8bHCv7es6iA_3Nfq9vgtOxPFzOf_2TbZQ_-JF6U_FW1XkMTtt-9p_GNC-eb7rt_SkTgVlvp0f3tdI_SZOuU6gxVqvlCbSltpFIySc6BJ2EzmmPwRXiPJK=s0-d"...

EU. Medicines Agency relaxes the rules for sharing data

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EU. Medicines Agency relaxes the rules for sharing data - university pushed a cautious sigh of relief when the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced yesterday that he would soften project controversial rules to open the clinical trial data to public scrutiny. In particular, the agency said it...

NIH expands its program for breaking medical mysteries

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NIH expands its program for breaking medical mysteries - An effort at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to diagnose mysterious ailments is expanding. Representatives of the Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP), administered by the Institute (NHGRI) of the NIH National Human Genome Research,...

Prevention, style Papua New Guinea

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Prevention, style Papua New Guinea - a community gathers to watch a video on the impact of HIV on a local family and meet the star. special section on HIV Early on Friday evening in March at Kona children, one of many villages nestled in the hills surrounding...

The elusive cardiac patch

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The elusive cardiac patch - Login to see full text Username Enter your username Sciencemag.org. Password Enter the password that accompanies your username. you have forgotten your username or password? Log Join / Subscribe Buy...

What really Ebola virus?

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What really Ebola virus? - Behind the epidemic without previous Ebola in West Africa is a species with an incredible power to exceed its host. Zaire ebolavirus and the filovirus family to which it belongs must virulence mechanisms that first disarm the immune response and then dismantle the vascular...

United States declares war on the Ebola epidemic

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United States declares war on the Ebola epidemic - Marc September 16, 2014 as the day the United States declared all-out war on the Ebola epidemic raging in West Africa. As President Barack Obama said in remarks he made today to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta,...
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