Archive for April 2021

New genetic marks for deadly brain cancer

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New genetic marks for deadly brain cancer - say tumor. A genetic mutation may help doctors diagnose deadly tumors in the brain. Photo courtesy of Duke PhotoPath While survival rates for many cancers have improved over the years, brain cancers often remain...

Also in Icelandic geneticists Refrigerate Financial

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Also in Icelandic geneticists Refrigerate Financial - deCODE Genetics, the Icelandic company that made a name for himself with his work of personalized medicine before running into a financial pit mud, tried to be optimistic today about his future. At present, it has just enough money to survive...

NIH Decides: Surplus Embryos only

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NIH Decides: Surplus Embryos only - US National Institutes of Health has released its highly anticipated draft guidelines for the research funded by the federal government on stem cells. The draft regulation would allow research only on human embryonic stem cells derived from surplus embryos that...

New details emerge about the swine flu

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New details emerge about the swine flu - US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new details on the case of swine flu in the United States. The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ( MMWR ) sending supporting evidence earlier that the virus is spreading from human to human, adding...

The stem cell scientists in California federal Red Tape Fear

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The stem cell scientists in California federal Red Tape Fear - The federal government has opened the door to research on embryonic stem cells, and is now to determine what ethical chains to join. But researchers in California are worried that the expected limits could still cause aggravation if they...

Preparations for the flu: when it is good wing There

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Preparations for the flu: when it is good wing There - detailed preparation plans developed over the past five years have been a boon for officials struggling against the swine flu. But not everyone is reading from the same page, as shown at press conferences held today in...

FBI anthrax investigation under scientific examination

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FBI anthrax investigation under scientific examination - A review of the long-awaited scientific evidence relating to the investigation of the 01 attacks of anthrax letters finally take off. The study, to be conducted by the National Academies, will check the validity of scientific techniques used...

Antivirals have helped prevent the flu Spread?

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Antivirals have helped prevent the flu Spread? - As another day passes with the World Health Organization (WHO) not declaring that the swine flu outbreak is a full pandemic -scale, more questions are surfacing about why this novel H1N1 has not spread as easily in European and Asian communities...

Swine Flu Vaccine may take more than

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Swine Flu Vaccine may take more than - Add two months the production schedule of a vaccine against the virus causing the swine flu, says an advisory group to the World health organization (WHO). It may be mid-July before the manufacturers have the "seed stock" appropriate to start making the vaccine...

Skeleton pushes back the origins of leprosy

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Skeleton pushes back the origins of leprosy - punches. Bone erosion observed in the photographs of a 4000 years skeleton are compatible with leprosy. Gwen Robbins et al., PLoS ONE , 4.5 (May 09) Leprosy has been with us much longer than we thought. In a...

AIDS Meeting Requests Lift US Ban on Visitors with HIV

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AIDS Meeting Requests Lift US Ban on Visitors with HIV - This article has been updated with a list of other countries with similar bans and a statement the Department of Health and Human services (HHS) . The International AIDS Society (IAS), which portrays the biennial international event that...

The collaboration of the Latin American cancer develops

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The collaboration of the Latin American cancer develops - Note :. This article has been corrected and updated to include more information on the projects The US National Cancer Institute will help the Chilean Ministry of Health has set up a register bank and cancer national tumor, as well as...

Inside Swine Flu China's quarantine system

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Inside Swine Flu China's quarantine system - BEIJING -China may have strict quarantine procedures in the world to limit the spread of the influenza A H1N1 as I discovered first hand today. I'm Asia science editor . My family and I lived in Beijing for nearly 2 years. Earlier today, we got on...

House Panel Gives NIH Raise 3.1%

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House Panel Gives NIH Raise 3.1% - In the House of Representatives spending panel today approved an increase of $ 942 million for the National Institutes of Health that would bring its budget $ 2010-31300000000. This boost of 3.1% is about double what President Barack Obama requested. According to...

Ground Zero for malaria drug resistance?

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Ground Zero for malaria drug resistance? - brewing problem. Malaria, which is carried by mosquitoes, is more difficult to conquer Cambodia Jupiterimages Malaria fighters nightmare appeared in the western Cambodia. Parasites with resistance to the most effective...

A human genome in record time

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A human genome in record time - A new type of technology has sequenced the human genome in a month and reagents is less than $ 50,000, according to a report released today in Nature Biotechnology . But this step, the quick cheap genomes does not mean the end for large sequencing centers. human...

Researcher Sued Over prostate cancer test

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Researcher Sued Over prostate cancer test - A leading prostate cancer researcher was sued by a biotechnology company for making false statements about a biomarker to detect prostate cancer, according to a surprising story in Pittsburgh. Tribune-Review yesterday article indicates that in 01, Robert...

Mixed results for swine flu vaccine in young

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Mixed results for swine flu vaccine in young - Early clinical trial results suggest that children healthy older under 9 will likely need two doses of vaccine against swine flu, but those between 10 and 17 can be obtained with a single stroke, US health officials announced today. In studies sponsored...

Case Closed: Famous Royals Suffered From Hemophilia

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Case Closed: Famous Royals Suffered From Hemophilia - Royal affliction. Prince Alexei bled frequently and for prolonged periods. State Archives of the Russian Federation descendants of Queen Victoria males were hit by poor health. The son of the British monarch...

Pandemic Vaccine "come too late for many," CDC concedes

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Pandemic Vaccine "come too late for many," CDC concedes - The prospect that Americans receive the vaccine against swine flu in time to protect this second wave of American epidemic continues to dim. with pandemic showing "widespread activity" in 47 states-six more than a week ago, the Centers for...

Sick of swine flu? Here Comes H3N2

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Sick of swine flu? Here Comes H3N2 - With reporting by Martin Enserink . While world attention focuses on the new H1N1 virus causing the swine flu pandemic, H3N2, seasonal flu strain has emerged in many countries of Asia is outstanding and some variants can outfox the seasonal vaccine in use....

Want to stop AIDS? Go Big

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Want to stop AIDS? Go Big - Big bucks. Spending huge sums of money on AIDS awareness campaigns, like this one in Kpomassè, Benin, could stop the spread of the disease, according to a new model. Jacky Naegelen / Reuters a group of researchers proposes a radical...

Researcher at the Army Lab Rabbit Fever infected rabbit

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Researcher at the Army Lab Rabbit Fever infected rabbit - A researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Frederick, Maryland, contracted fever also known as tularemia, USAMRIID officials announced today. The disease is caused by bacteria Francisella...

Parsing Budget 2011 NIH :? Is Up Big Science, Science Petit Bas

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Parsing Budget 2011 NIH :? Is Up Big Science, Science Petit Bas - director is planning the National Institutes of Health Francis Collins to lead his ship to institute a "big biology" at the expense single investigator grants? It was the fear of some in the community of biomedical science Monday when...

Are healthy "Test Tube Babies?

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Are healthy "Test Tube Babies? - destiny. the IVF births may be different, genetically, than those born naturally. Wikimedia Commons / Ekem SAN DIEGO -When Louise Brown was born July 25, 1978, she began an era. the first "test tube baby" is a mother herself...

half a million for Gene sequencers

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half a million for Gene sequencers - Prize-Center The 10th edition Albany Medical largest US price biomedical-will go to three scientists who have conceptualized the human genome project: Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health; Eric Lander, founding director of the Broad Institute...
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