Stomach Bug vaccine in the pipeline?

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Stomach Bug vaccine in the pipeline? - Copycat. Viruslike particles mimic the structure of the norovirus to trigger a response of the immune system. LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals Inc. the next time a "stomach flu" you sprint to the bathroom, take heart: a vaccine...

Embryonic stem cells appear safe, can help eye diseases

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Embryonic stem cells appear safe, can help eye diseases - take root. Three months after they were injected, dark RPE cells ( background ) can be seen in the eyes of this patient with Stargardt macular dystrophy. Adapted from SD Schwartz et al., The Lancet, published...

Starved of oxygen embryos can be "programmed" for heart disease

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Starved of oxygen embryos can be "programmed" for heart disease - The heart disease has long been rated the leading cause of death worldwide. Known as the silent killer, he tracks his prey from conception to adulthood, often striking without warning. A new study suggests that one of the risk factors...

International Programme Human Microbe Looks Ahead

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International Programme Human Microbe Looks Ahead - friend or foe? researchers are investigating the role that the billions of bacteria that live in our bodies, such as the gut bacteria Enterococcus faecalis ( photo ), play us sick and we maintaining good health....

US FDA Approves Possible Alzheimer test

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US FDA Approves Possible Alzheimer test - artistic design of a patient's brain cells affected by Alzheimer's disease. Image courtesy of the National Institute on Aging / National Institutes of Health on Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved...

Psychiatrist Gets First Sanctioned NIH Grant in 3 years

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Psychiatrist Gets First Sanctioned NIH Grant in 3 years - A psychiatrist whose failure to disclose the drug's corporate income contributed to a furor over conflicts of interest in research biomedical has just received its first national Institutes of Health grant (NIH) in 3 years. lax reporting...

stem cells move in Prime Time

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stem cells move in Prime Time - YOKOHAMA, JAPAN -For more than a decade, stem cell therapies have been touted as offering hope for those who suffer from genetic and degenerative diseases. The promise took a step towards reality last week with announcements here at the annual meeting of the International...

India launches a new laboratory for research on HIV

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India launches a new laboratory for research on HIV - viral target. New lab in India hopes to develop a vaccine against HIV ( above , to be released by infected cells). National Institutes of Health NEW DELHI -On Monday India opened a laboratory of $ 12...

Tokyo University researcher Fires More Surgery Stem Cell Claims

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Tokyo University researcher Fires More Surgery Stem Cell Claims - The University of Tokyo today rejected the researcher who claimed to have achieved what would have been the first world trial the treatment of human patients with cells created from their own induced pluripotent stem (iPS). The researcher...

ScienceShot: Who Killed Ramses III

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ScienceShot: Who Killed Ramses III - BMJ for more than a century, Egyptologists have puzzled over the mysterious disappearance of Ramses III in 1155 BCE According to the records of tests kept on the judicial Papyrus of Turin, an assassin murdered the Pharaoh...

Patients are under anesthesia Unconscious Really?

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Patients are under anesthesia Unconscious Really? - Awake? EEG can be used to ensure that you are really in. Wavebreak Media / Thinkstock the prospect of surgery while not fully "in" may seem like the stuff of horror movies. But a thousand patient remembers...

Bizarre 6-Inch Skeleton shown to be human

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Bizarre 6-Inch Skeleton shown to be human - Otherworldly? X-ray Courtesy show that Ata is not a hoax, but the DNA will disappoint UFO enthusiasts. Garry Nolan Alien? Subhuman primate? deformed child? Mummified fetus? The Internet is buzzing about the nature...

Live Chat: If chimpanzees being studied in Captivity

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Live Chat: If chimpanzees being studied in Captivity - See below for the chat box ?. Join us every Thursday at 15 pm EDT for a live conversation with scientists and experts worldwide. Topic of the day Chimpanzees may leave the research laboratory. In the coming weeks, US...