Archive for February 2019

Flu viruses nipped in the bud

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Flu viruses nipped in the bud - For many viruses, infiltrating cell replication and is only half the battle. Copies of the virus must then escape to infect other cells. Some viruses explode outside a host cell, destroy; others, like the influenza virus, taking a softer way. Now, a report in the latest...

Couch Potato Delight

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Couch Potato Delight - SAN FRANCISCO - As light a miniature oven in the body, scientists have created a compound that stimulates some of the fat cells to burn calories without forcing them to bear jogging, swimming or cycling. Chemical, described here today at the annual meeting...

Dozen Win Top Sciences To Price Baker

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Dozen Win Top Sciences To Price Baker - WASHINGTON, DC - National Science Foundation director Neal Lane yesterday announced the winners 1997 the National Medal of science, the highest scientific honor of the nation. Also announced were the winners of the National Medal of Technology. Medalists...

Cancer

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Cancer - Today Spotlighted of minorities is the 67th anniversary of LaSalle Leffall Jr., an oncologist who has drawn attention to the problem of the high mortality rate of cancer among minorities especially African Americans. Leffall published research in 1973 showing the increase of cancer mortality...

Growth hormone has closed his eyes

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Growth hormone has closed his eyes - The most common cause of blindness is the explosive growth of blood vessels near the retina, and scientists may have a finger key culprit in this process: growth hormone. The findings, reported in today's issue of Science * could lead to an alternative to drug-based...

Put medicine at the test

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Put medicine at the test - Claude Bernard, a French researcher founder of the field of experimental medicine, was born July 12, 1813. While conducting experiments on a animal fed a sugar-free diet, Bernard discovered that the liver stores sugar as glycogen. In other animal studies, it was observed...

New Kind of Cancer Mutation Found

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New Kind of Cancer Mutation Found - Scientists have discovered a new way for genetic mutations lead to cancer - making the DNA adjacent sections most likely to be mutated. The chance discovery, reported in the September issue of Nature Genetics could explain the unexplained cases of colon cancer...

Halting a Villain Stroke

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Halting a Villain Stroke - Strokes inflict 80% less brain damage in mice lacking a DNA repair enzyme, according to a report in the issue of this month Nature Medicine . In normal mice, the enzyme zealous deprives brain cells of energy - trying to repair damaged DNA - for hours after a stroke. The...

Antibodies Attack on Cancer of the pancreas

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Antibodies Attack on Cancer of the pancreas - A new therapy for pancreatic cancer reduced the tumor growth rate in patients in a pilot trial and in a separate study, kept the remote mouse tumors altogether. The treatment, reported in today's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

Painkiller From Poison Frog

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Painkiller From Poison Frog - A toxin derived from the skin of a South American frog led to a potential new pain reliever that may lack some of the side effects of morphine. In tests on animals, the drug, which apparently is not opioid receptors but rather by a receptor for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine,...
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- Go for the jugular against Parkinson A potential treatment for Parkinson's disease can be in an unusual place: the body of the carotid artery, a small organ in the neck. In February the number of Neuron José López-Barneo and colleagues at the University of Seville in Spain reported that in rats,...

Big plans for biomedical research in K.C.

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Big plans for biomedical research in K.C. - Much new research takes shape held in Kansas City, Missouri, that could one day compete with larger charities biomedical world. With $ 125 million in public funding, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research has begun to renovate a medical center of 55,000...

Hypertensive children risk widened hearts

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Hypertensive children risk widened hearts - An enlarged heart increases the likelihood of death from heart disease in adults. Now it seems that 8% of children and adolescents with high blood pressure - perhaps in 1250 in the United States - also have a disturbing thickening of the heart muscle. The...

Three steps forward on Alzheimer

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Three steps forward on Alzheimer - There have been nearly a century since first Alois Alzheimer fibrous plaques found infesting the brains of people with dementia but scientists still do not know with certainty, however-or even if - the plaques cause Alzheimer's disease. Now a trio of studies in...

New Strategy for schizophrenia

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New Strategy for schizophrenia - A new drug can block the symptoms of schizophrenia as in rats without apparent side effects. The work, described in Science tomorrow , suggests a new approach to drugs for schizophrenia that may one day lead to better therapies for the disease, which affects 1% of...

Flexible Fund for Alzheimer

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Flexible Fund for Alzheimer - Association today presented Alzheimer's largest single research grant, he has never given to a husband and wife team at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Neuropathologist John Trojanowski and Virginia Lee neurobiologist use the grant...

IOM civil Sons Bioterror Alert

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IOM civil Sons Bioterror Alert - W ASHINGTON , DC - Worried about an imminent new era of terrorism, a scientific committee urged the government today to redouble their efforts to protect civilians against emerging biological and chemical threats. The report, published by the Institute of Medicine...

Experiments on HIV Chimps Stir Debate

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Experiments on HIV Chimps Stir Debate - Eleven prominent AIDS researchers, primatologists and animal advocates urge vaccine developers not to inject chimpanzees with stem HIV that can cause diseases like AIDS in animals. In a letter published in Science tomorrow , they raise ethical and scientific...

The heart problems two

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The heart problems two - A sometimes fatal heart enlargement can be inherited or acquired through infection. In this month's issue of Nature Medicine , the scientists show that the virus causes symptoms in the same way as genes are faulty, suggesting that a single therapy could work against the...

Plastic and pig cells

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Plastic and pig cells - Make an artificial kidney A new artificial kidney consists of living kidney cells on a plastic scaffold restored the main functions of the organ during the test in dogs. If the device, described in the May issue of Nature Biotechnology , can replace kidneys in humans, it...

Eye lens costs on

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Eye lens costs on - American geneticist Barbara McClintock, who challenged the prevailing theory that genes are stable elements of chromosomes with his discovery of "jumping genes", was born in date 102. McClintock studied inheritance in corn, examining patterns of color appearing in the nuclei and...

AIDS Immune Drug thwarts

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AIDS Immune Drug thwarts - A potential AIDS drug called azodicarbonamide suppresses not only HIV, but also the human immune system, the scientists report in the August issue Nature Medicine . Although some scientists believe that the discovery casts doubt on the future of the drug in the treatment...

Lasker winners

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Lasker winners - "Nobels of America," the annual awards - light on money, but heavy prestige - the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, will this year six biomedical researchers. They include neuroscientist Seymour Kety, 84, pioneer explorer in the biological roots of schizophrenia, who works at McLean...

P53 bracing for war against cancer

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P53 bracing for war against cancer - Sometimes called the "genome guardian" protein known p53 responds to DNA damage or by halting cell division or causing the cell to commit suicide. Anyway, p53 action helps the formation of short-circuit preventing tumor cells that have undergone malignant mutations...

Cancer detection with light

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Cancer detection with light - Shining some light on the skin lesions and the extent of reflection can help dermatologist to identify the most dangerous form of cancer skin more easily, according to a new study. The technique could help pick up the cancer early and save patients from unnecessary biopsies....

Study bolsters link between smoking and breast cancer

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Study bolsters link between smoking and breast cancer - Smoking or inhaling secondhand smoke can increase the risk of breast cancer, according to a large study, published in the current number of Causes and control [cancer. The work may help explain why previous studies of the link between smoking...

Do-It-Yourself Drug Discovery

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Do-It-Yourself Drug Discovery - Chafing at the slow pace of commercial development of the drug, a disease advocacy group made last week to fund new drugs for his district . Last week, cystic fibrosis (CF) Foundation Bethesda, Maryland, has announced it will invest at least $ 30 million in a small...
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