Archive for April 2020

NIH increases the heat malaria

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NIH increases the heat malaria - Placement of the heat. NIAID spends more on research on malaria. BETHESDA, MARYLAND - The US government is ratcheting his attack against malaria, a disease which kills up to 1.5 million people per year. According to...

Mystery Disease Stalks Malaysian Children

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Mystery Disease Stalks Malaysian Children - A deadly disease that triggers heart failure in children - apparently never seen before - has resurfaced in Malaysia. A team of experts from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now Malaysia trying to help the government learn what...

New cousin to Cell Security Guard

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New cousin to Cell Security Guard - Scientists have identified the first gene with a strong resemblance to the p53 gene, a tumor suppressor significantly linked to near half of all human cancers. The researchers hope that the new gene, described in issue tomorrow Cell , give them a better understanding...

BSE and vCJD: the same disease

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BSE and vCJD: the same disease - One of the most worrying consequences of the outbreak of the Great Britain of the "mad cow" - that humans could be infected by the contaminated beef-- consumption? seems to be confirmed by the research to be published this week in Nature . More than 20 Britons...

Anticancer Drug Aids liver transplants

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Anticancer Drug Aids liver transplants - Livers are so delicate that even the most robust donor samples fail if they are not transplanted within 24 hours. But a fortuitous coincidence led to the discovery that interferon (IFN) , a powerful anticancer drug, may double the lifetime...

Blood Cells linked to brain disease

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Blood Cells linked to brain disease - White blood cells can play a crucial role in the development of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the fatal human version of what is called "mad cow disease", Swiss scientists report in Nature tomorrow new -. on the basis of a related disease in mice and first...

The resistant leukemia Secret

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The resistant leukemia Secret - A rare incurable type of leukemia appears to be due to a mutant cell receptor that binds a signaling molecule closely if he is deaf to signals normally halt cell division. The researchers who discovered the mutant receptor hope the finding, reported in tomorrow's issue...

Fisheries

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Fisheries - Tumors Tumors can betray their presence by making cells that enter the bloodstream. Look for these rare cells takes a keen eye and good luck, but now researchers have developed a tool that ups the chances of detection. The technique, described in Proceedings of the National Academy of...

Up colds

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Up colds - risk of heart attack A cold can make your headache - and perhaps your heart too. The chances of suffering a heart attack rocket for victims of colds and flu, the researchers report in Lancet tomorrow . For decades, experts in public health have noticed that epidemics of colds and flu...

Enzymes Bum Cut Cigarette Cravings

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Enzymes Bum Cut Cigarette Cravings - Some people who try smoking get hooked ever. Now scientists have found that these people are less susceptible to tobacco addiction because their bodies decompose under its addictive component, nicotine. The results, reported in tomorrow's issue of Nature , may...

Telltale Puff

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Telltale Puff - disease B Oston - already breathalyzers help police keep drunk drivers off the road. Now, they can become a quick and non-invasive way to diagnose diseases. A pair of scientists reported at the meeting of the American Chemical Society here today that they have developed a machine...

A legacy Anemic

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A legacy Anemic - There are sixty-one years old this month, W. Warrick Cardozo published a paper in Archives of Internal Medicine entitled "immunological studies in Sickle Cell Anemia", which reported the results of an early disease studies. Cardozo, a young American physician, discovered that...

Transplants easier with cord blood

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Transplants easier with cord blood - bone marrow transplants can be a lifesaver, rebuilding the source of blood cells after radiation or chemotherapy destroyed. But for some patients with blood disease, no matching donor can be found. In tomorrow New England Journal of Medicine , the researchers...

Impenetrable brain

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Impenetrable brain - The blood-brain barrier, which controls the chemical trafficking and brain, can be even more complex than previously thought. Certain compounds that seem to penetrate the entire brain, as indicated by the analysis of the brain, are caught by a second line of defense. Experts...

Smallpox Gets a last minute stay of execution

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Smallpox Gets a last minute stay of execution - smallpox, one of the most deadly viruses to infect humans, just got a reprieve of his own death sentence this week. According to a senior official at the White House, President Bill Clinton signed a memorandum ordering the US not to seek the destruction...

A battle plan for tumors

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A battle plan for tumors - Today is the birthday of Helen Dyer, a biochemist born in 1895 and known for his research on biological cancer precursors. Working at the National Cancer Institute, Dyer has found that vitamin B-6 may thwart a potent liver carcinogen in animals. The discovery has stimulated...

He broke the mold antibiotic

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He broke the mold antibiotic - The man who coined the term "antibiotics" and pioneered their development is born this day in 1888. While studying plant and animal way rest breaks down in the soil microbiologist Selman Waksman at Rutgers University discovered a menagerie of bacteria filamentous soil....

Mouse Drug May Mean Safer Chemotherapy

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Mouse Drug May Mean Safer Chemotherapy - A new compound could one day help alleviate the severe side effects of cancer treatment for some people. In Science today , the researchers report that a small organic chemical protects mice against lethal doses of radiation. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy...

Damming a Cascade Blindness

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Damming a Cascade Blindness - Scientists may have found a new way to block a chain of molecular signals leading to the most common form of blindness. A compound that blocks the receptor for a signaling molecule successfully prevented half the growth of blood vessels rampant in the eyes of newborn...

Group urges Boost for Global Health

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Group urges Boost for Global Health - How the pharmaceutical industry can be encouraged to make medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases that sicken or kill billions of people in the world, but offer little in the way of economic benefits? Senior politicians strategies described last week at...

Shark cartilage blow on the water

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Shark cartilage blow on the water - Shark cartilage is a popular folk remedy for cancer, although there is no scientific evidence that it works. But a new study may dull its appeal :. Scientists reported last week that not only sharks get cancer, but they may even have a cartilage cancer Sharks...

Breast cancer deaths fall

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Breast cancer deaths fall - The number of deaths from breast cancer has fallen sharply since the 1980s, the researchers report in the matter on 20 May The Lancet . American women under 69 are 25% less likely to die from breast cancer in 00 than they were in 1987; the UK, the number is likely to...

Here's to your health

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Here's to your health - Etiquette Resveratrol -. as well as alcohol -. may protect against heart disease Despite a diet full of fat chock- artery-clogging, people living in France are much less prone to heart disease than Americans or the British. Scientists...

Backs UK expanded research on embryos

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Backs UK expanded research on embryos - In the vicinity . If approved by Parliament, UK scientists may be able to extend the work on human embryonic stem cells LONDON -. The British government today approved the cloning of human embryos to harvest stem cells,...

A legacy of Healthful Drink

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A legacy of Healthful Drink - To your health. The protection offered by alcohol seems to depend on your genetic makeup PHILADELPHIA -. For years, researchers have difficulty knowing exactly why moderate drinkers are less prone to heart disease than those...

New weapon against Ebola

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New weapon against Ebola - formidable enemy. Ebola. scientists have moved closer to developing a vaccine against one of the deadliest diseases known. In the November 20 issue of Nature , they say a new DNA vaccine can protect macaques develop haemorrhagic...

Gates takes on AIDS

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Gates takes on AIDS - hope. clinics like this could benefit a donation day Gates DAVOS, SWITZERLAND -. In a huge boost to efforts to develop a vaccine against AIDS, Bill Gates announced at the World Economic Forum here on January 27 as the Bill and Melinda...

Coronary stents with a twist

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Coronary stents with a twist - ORLANDO, FLORIDA - Doctors may keep open a blocked artery with a mesh tube, but as Dick Cheney discovered months last, these so-called coronary stents sometimes clog. Researchers are looking for new ways to limit the growth of cells that lodge in the devices. Now,...
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