Archive for January 2019

Breast Cancer Gene Dons New Hat

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Breast Cancer Gene Dons New Hat - A gene that can cause breast and ovarian cancer when mutated also seems to play a key role in T cell development, the soldiers of the immune system, according to a study this month of Nature Immunology . The results do not explain how the gene BRCA1 , contributes...

Genetic controls tumor vessels of

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Genetic controls tumor vessels of - difference ring. a gene sequence called TEM-7 (red) was highly expressed in endothelial cells of blood vessels in a colorectal tumor. researchers have yet obtained the most detailed picture of how cancer tumors secure blood...

Lasting Aftermath smoking

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Lasting Aftermath smoking - St. Louis - Scientists have elucidated a critical step in emphysema, a progressive destruction of lung tissue that often occurs in smokers. A new study shows that debris of a protein called elastin attracts a class of immune cells that deal additional damage. The research...

Looking for Alternatives

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Looking for Alternatives - British scientists shoulds Their beef up research on alternative medicine, selon Issued a report last week by the House of Lords. Answering Their call, a foundation headed by Prince Charles offert to fund research into alternative medicine and is eagerly Awaiting the government's...

Malaria shows its Soft Spot

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Malaria shows its Soft Spot - lucky finding. The Plasmodium parasite - seen here in the gut of a mosquito -. Can be killed with a common antibiotic An antibiotic that helps to fight zits and bad breath may be able to prevent a much more serious disease. In...

Smoke Gets Under Your Skin

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Smoke Gets Under Your Skin - How old are you? smoking causes premature aging. If you want to stay young, do not light up. Smokers often look old before their time, because they have many more wrinkles than nonsmokers of the same age. Dermatologists now believe...

Vitamin C can damage DNA?

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Vitamin C can damage DNA? - genotoxic? Vitamin C spurs chemical production DNA damaging, at least in a test tube. Vitamin C has long been touted as a healthy and balanced dietary supplement because it can protect against certain types of DNA damage. It also...

Towards a new, malaria-stop Mosquito

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Towards a new, malaria-stop Mosquito - Tamed. Researchers have genetically modified Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes for the first time BARCELONA -. Motivated by more than one million deaths from malaria each year, scientists have fantasized about the ultimate...

Protect the liver itself

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Protect the liver itself - healthy livers. A new discovery could help patients with liver cirrhosis (bottom) restore their liver health (top). Scientists have developed transgenic mice that do not receive the healing of the deadly liver known as cirrhosis -...

Drug Companies Share Data on antibiotic resistance

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Drug Companies Share Data on antibiotic resistance - Stubborn bugs. Cipro belongs to a class of antibiotics which pharmaceutical companies have found increasing resistance CHICAGO -. cajoled by an advocacy group based in Boston, two giant pharmaceutical companies...

Not such a pain in the back

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Not such a pain in the back - The humble stool sample can be much more valuable than most people think. By carefully sifting through the genetic content of stool samples, researchers have developed a test that can detect colon and rectum in their early, most curable stages. Although colorectal...

Stress management for beautiful skin

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Stress management for beautiful skin - Chill out, man. A key stress hormone can contribute to skin problems and baldness. Stress can make people nervous, have ulcers, and even dying young. If that were not enough, new research suggests it may contribute to...

Steroid to blame for Sudden Infant Deaths?

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Steroid to blame for Sudden Infant Deaths? - Weighing. experiments with lambs indicate a possible cause of SIDS. Bacterial infections may trigger high levels of brain steroid which can make infants too sleepy to wake up when they encounter difficulties in breathing,...

Subtle Mutation Linked to Lupus

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Subtle Mutation Linked to Lupus - Lupus, an incurable disease that strikes more than 16,000 Americans a year, causes the body's immune system to turn against itself, creating antibodies that will fight and kill their own cells. In a significant move, geneticists are now saying that a small change...

sticky cells Spells Trouble for Arteries

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sticky cells Spells Trouble for Arteries - sticky problem. Platelets (small spheres) maintain an arterial wall. , the tiny disc-shaped platelets floating in the veins of the help blood clot, protect against excessive blood loss after injury. But new evidence...

Flying blood color

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Flying blood color - Get the red. staph bacteria steal heme and iron trap, eliminating red color. In war zones around the world, bandits steal food intended for starving civilians. One of the most feared pathogens medicine performs the same kind of piracy,...

Two vaccines against HIV Better Than One?

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Two vaccines against HIV Better Than One? - pharmaceutical giants Merck and Aventis Pasteur decided to combine their experimental vaccines against HIV in a double blow. In tests on monkeys, the combination vaccine may work better than one of the two companies separately in human trials strategies....

Accounting for HIV

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Accounting for HIV - a huge boost in funding for HIV prevention efforts could prevent up to 29 million new infections by 2010, according to a new analysis. Access to HIV Prevention: Closing the Gap , released today by a panel of AIDS experts known as the Global...

Drug reduces the risk of cancer of the prostate

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Drug reduces the risk of cancer of the prostate - A steroid inhibitor which shrinks the prostate gland - and low-dose treated baldness - also helps to prevent the cancer prostate, the researchers found. The findings come from a massive test, 7 year nearly 19,000 men. But although the drug called...

Nuke Fungus

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Nuke Fungus - Radiation is one of the most effective means of killing germs, but it has been used clinically to treat only the cancer. This may be about to change. For the first time, researchers have turned radiotherapy against infection. With antibiotic resistance on the rise in bacteria, medical...

$ 168 million for malaria

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$ 168 million for malaria - Get help. The money from the Gates Foundation should encourage research on ways to prevent malaria in children. The chronic underfunding field malaria research has just received a major new impetus. Traveling in Mozambique mogul...

Early success for SARS vaccine

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Early success for SARS vaccine - A new vaccine against the SARS coronavirus has shown promising results in early trials, researchers report in the December issue of 6 The Lancet . The vaccine revved up immune responses in six monkeys, but researchers have not yet tested its ability to fend off disease....

Virus Strikes Again Nipah-like

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Virus Strikes Again Nipah-like - mortal. In the epidemic of Malaysia 1999, the Nipah virus has killed nearly 40% of its victims. An enigmatic, highly lethal virus group has struck again. More than 40 people in Bangladesh seem to have fallen ill with encephalitis...

New support for Hygiene Hypothesis'

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New support for Hygiene Hypothesis' - In some people, the immune system has a disturbing tendency to revolt: For some reason, he violently attacks the body itself. For years, scientists have wondered what triggers this rebellion. Now a team of immunologists may have hit on an important piece of the...

SARS somersault China Lab head

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SARS somersault China Lab head - SARS has sent the head of another senior official wheelchair China. Yesterday, the director Li Liming Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resigned and several officials of lower rank, after a report of an expert group showed the largest recent outbreak...

Pregnancy Mouse Goes Down the Tubes

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Pregnancy Mouse Goes Down the Tubes - high and dry. Disrupt endocannabinoid receptors of a mouse embryo strands in the oviducts. a new study in mice shows that a chemical the body related to a compound in marijuana may complicate pregnancy if present in excessive...

Green light for Glowing Smallpox

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Green light for Glowing Smallpox - Not black and white for long. a WHO Advisory Committee approved experiments that would add a fluorescent green marker gene to the smallpox virus. An Advisory Committee World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that scientists...

Drugs against cancer for diabetes?

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Drugs against cancer for diabetes? - Double life? Experts are intrigued by Gleevec effect on some diabetics. Is a diabetes treatment using targeted cancer drugs? This is a question asking two independent teams after giving leukemia patients Gleevec drug and...

Lopsided a look at

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Lopsided a look at - cancer Humans put much stock in symmetry. People with symmetrical faces, for example, are often seen as more attractive and worthy companion. But the benefits do not end there. According to a new study, women with more symmetrical breasts are less likely to develop breast cancer...

Do not fear the Hybrid

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Do not fear the Hybrid - Mixed up hybrid CDC scientists tested the H5N1 flu (above) and a human influenza virus. GOPAL Murti / VISUALS UNLIMITED experts have long feared that if a virus and human influenza strain H5N1 avian influenza currently circulating...
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