Archive for July 2018

Defective Protein linked to Lou Gehrig's disease

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Defective Protein linked to Lou Gehrig's disease - WASHINGTON, DC - Scientists have discovered two mutations that can be major contributors to the development of the lateral sclerosis amyotrophic (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease. The discovery, presented here today at the annual meeting of the Society...

Time Taps AIDS Researcher Award for Top

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Time Taps AIDS Researcher Award for Top - in an honor that has never been granted to a single scientist, Time magazine named David Ho, head of Aaron diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City (ADARC), its man of the year. The magazine tapped the 44-year-old...

Insulated herpesvirus Kaposi sarcoma

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Insulated herpesvirus Kaposi sarcoma - Researchers have isolated a new herpes virus strain from cells of Kaposi's sarcoma, the most common cancer in patients AIDS. The achievement, reported in tomorrow's issue of New England Journal of Medicine , may help researchers explore how the new virus spreads....

Hardy Evade Sperm Pill Birth Control for Men

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Hardy Evade Sperm Pill Birth Control for Men - The dream of many planners of the family is a birth control pill for men, something that would somehow cut production sperm, but leave intact libido and beard. For years, researchers have focused follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) for this delicate task....

Pig Retroviruses Raises Alarm Over Transplants

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Pig Retroviruses Raises Alarm Over Transplants - For the first time, scientists have discovered a retrovirus that infects swine human cells. The discovery, published in next month's issue of Nature Medicine , raises new questions about whether people could contract diseases if exotic animal organs...

Key Gene Behind fatal cancers Nabbed

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Key Gene Behind fatal cancers Nabbed - tumor progression. When a brain tumor loses its PTEN genes, a low-grade cancer (right) is likely to become highly malignant ( left) . scientists have discovered a gene, inactivation of which can help to take the...

Quirks chromosome could mean Lung Cancer Risk

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Quirks chromosome could mean Lung Cancer Risk - Some smokers may be more sensitive to damage from tobacco smoke DNA and thus more likely to develop lung cancer. Preliminary results of a population study, reported in the April 15 issue of Cancer , identify one of the many long-sought genetic factors...

Brookhaven Lab operators Given Pink Slip

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Brookhaven Lab operators Given Pink Slip - Secretary Energy Federico Peña yesterday said it will terminate the contract with the department the operator of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associated Universities Inc. . (UAI). During a visit to Upton, New York, laboratory, Peña AUI accused of mismanagement...

Gloomy assessment of the war on cancer

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Gloomy assessment of the war on cancer - Years of intense research to develop treatments against the revolutionary cancer have largely failed to make a dent in the cancer death rate the United States, according to a new report. The study, published in tomorrow New England Journal of Medicine , shows...

Cancer by remote control?

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Cancer by remote control? - Researchers have fingered a virus as the culprit behind a bone marrow tumor called multiple myeloma. Although viruses have been linked to other cancers, the modus operandi of it - sarcoma-associated herpesvirus sarcoma (KSHV) - is unusual: The virus appears to work behind...

A step forward for knee repair

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A step forward for knee repair - Athletes can live with muscle strains, but a torn ligament or tendon is a serious matter. Every year, surgeons in the US perform about 500,000 operations on tendons and ligaments, which usually recover slowly and incompletely. But faster, better healing may be on...

Do sAPP Zap neurons in Alzheimer's disease?

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Do sAPP Zap neurons in Alzheimer's disease? - A protein that accumulates in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease may help to cause mass death of neurons by triggering a destructive inflammatory response, a study to be published in number tomorrow Nature suggests. The discovery could...

AIDS Research Chief Bows Out

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AIDS Research Chief Bows Out - William Paul, who oversees one of the largest budgets at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as head of its Office of Research on the AIDS (SRO), aa decided to resign. "The time has come for me to give up the responsibilities of this position and return to the science...

Note of a tumor Ride

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Note of a tumor Ride - A brand of fatal cancer is its ability to spread like a windblown fire to other parts of the body. Today, scientists have identified an enzyme that can link the ability of a tumor to spread with an abnormality in the integrated self-destruct mechanism in all cells. The discovery,...

A doctor Fractal

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A doctor Fractal - Fractals - objects whose parts resemble the whole - were used to describe all the meandering coastline in the distribution of distant galaxies. Now there may be a very human application - as a tool for the diagnosis of malignant breast cancer. The technique, which appears in January...

cell therapy orders to fix their own DNA

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cell therapy orders to fix their own DNA - A new gene therapy technique that seems to exploit own genetics of a cell repair mechanism to rewrite its DNA sequence showed remarkable success in rats. The results, in this month of Nature Medicine , could have a major impact on efforts to cure hemophilia...

Deadly Path to a Big Heart

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Deadly Path to a Big Heart - As the belt in your old favorite pajamas, overworked hearts often lose their elasticity and ability to effectively pump blood - a condition called congestive heart failure. Tired hearts are prone to arrhythmias that cause sudden death. Now, researchers reporting in tomorrow's...

genetic risk for cancer of the cervix

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genetic risk for cancer of the cervix - Women carrying two copies of a variant of p53 gene are seven times more likely to develop cervical cancer uterine patients with one copy. The discovery, published in today's issue of Nature , helps explain the link between the disease and the human papilloma...

immune cells Regrow Spinal Cord

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immune cells Regrow Spinal Cord - rat Scientists have obtained severed the spinal cord of a rat to push after injection with certain immune cells. The findings, reported in the July Nature Medicine have raised hopes that the technique could help repair the brain and spinal cord trauma in people...

New HIV Strain Identified

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New HIV Strain Identified - P ARIS - An international team of AIDS researchers has identified what appears to be a new separate strain HIV-1, AIDS virus, which is sufficiently different from the known strains that can escape the current blood tests. This new strain, isolated from a Cameroonian...

Chlamydia Secrets Laid Bare

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Chlamydia Secrets Laid Bare - Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of Chlamydia trachomatis , the enigmatic bacterium that is the leading cause of venereal disease in the US . The work, described in Science tomorrow offers surprising insights into the bug that could lead to better treatments...

Panel finds no Danger in Implants

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Panel finds no Danger in Implants - Weighing in on one of the biggest controversies of the health of the decade, a scientific committee appointed by the court concluded this week that, on the basis of available evidence, silicone breast implants do not appear to elicit immune diseases such as lupus....

Why some terminally ill Choose Suicide

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Why some terminally ill Choose Suicide - A detailed analysis of the experience of the first year with the law on assisted suicide Oregon doctor suggests that the worst fears some opponents of the law was not supported outside. the terminally ill patients who choose to end their lives under the law...

Pot herbal

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Pot herbal - W ASHINGTON , DC - Marijuana today received the imprimatur of the most August body science of the United States: the drug and its active ingredients can relieve pain, nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy and anorexia of AIDS wasting syndrome, according to a report by the...

Tobacco takes Spark Out of TNT

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Tobacco takes Spark Out of TNT - Armed with a bacterial enzyme, tobacco can break down toxic explosive that contaminate the reasons many munitions factories, the scientists report in the issue May of Nature Biotechnology . If the plant is successful in field tests, experts say that the variants...

New Pain Killers may have a disadvantage

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New Pain Killers may have a disadvantage - When the Food and Drug Administration of the United States approved the anti-inflammatory drugs Celebrex and Vioxx earlier this year, it marked the beginning a new era of custom Engineered analgesics that target a specific enzyme. But the results in rats,...

Reenters Merck AIDS vaccine field

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Reenters Merck AIDS vaccine field - Merck & Co., a pharmaceutical plant that has abandoned the field of vaccine against HIV in the early 190s, is aggressively re-entering the arena. The company intends to launch two different vaccine testing before the end of the year, Science NOW has learned....

Experimental Treatment for Radiation Japanese victim

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Experimental Treatment for Radiation Japanese victim - T OKAIMURA , J APAN - As life returns to here normal this week after the worst nuclear accident ever in the country, sanded worker with the highest radiation dose is prepared for an experimental therapy that may be his best chance to survive...

Education Makes defective T cells Misbehave

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Education Makes defective T cells Misbehave - Researchers have a new clue to what causes multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease in which the immune system destroys the protective sheath around nerve cells. A study in the January Nature Medicine suggests that in MS, immune cells never learn properly...

Drug Research Gets Boost for Children

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Drug Research Gets Boost for Children - The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, which supports research on HIV infection in children, expands its scope considerably. At a Los Angeles press conference today, Paul Glaser, president of the board of the foundation, announced the creation of the...
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