Archive for May 2021

Approach to gene therapy raises issues

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Approach to gene therapy raises issues - cause for concern? A new study suggests that the adeno-associated virus (above) can damage chromosomes in gene therapy. The treatment of patients with gene therapies requires a safe vehicle to transport useful genes...

Disease Inhibited muscle in mouse

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Disease Inhibited muscle in mouse - Strong. In mice, increased the production of utrophin maintains healthy muscle tissue ( right ), which prevents damage ( left ) seen in muscular dystrophy Duchenne. For decades, researchers have struggled to find ways to...

HIV Still Going Strong

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HIV Still Going Strong - BARCELONA - HIV infects 40 million people today around the world, will have a balance sheet even more this decade that previously thought, researchers said the surprisingly sober opening plenary session of the biggest AIDS conference ever held. the first scientific presentation...

Hormone Study Stopped British

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Hormone Study Stopped British - In another blow to the long-term hormone therapy prospects, the Medical Research Council UK (MRC) today set a term to a large British study planned to enroll at least 20,000 women. The decision is a direct consequence of the judgment of a similar trial in the US there...

Elephantiasis Worm routed

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Elephantiasis Worm routed - Leave antiparasitic drugs just once a year could be enough to stop the spread of tropical parasite that causes elephantiasis of the deformity disease. The spectacular results, reported in December 5 number of The New England Journal of Medicine , suggest that a global...

fried risk minimized Cancer

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fried risk minimized Cancer - Maybe just a Fries are still fattening, but new research minimizes the risk of acrylamide to cancer. Less than a year ago, Swedish scientists have caused widespread concern among health officials and the general public when they...

Bone marrow cells Bolster Pancreas

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Bone marrow cells Bolster Pancreas - insulin plants. coax the cells of the bone marrow develop into pancreatic beta cells like those represented here would be a boon for diabetics. Scientists say they have shown for the first time in a live animal cells from...

Ironing Out Hemochromatosis

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Ironing Out Hemochromatosis - iron out. iron built in mice with defective HFE genes (top), but not when a hepcidin gene is added (bottom). a recently discovered peptide can prevent iron accumulation associated with a common genetic disorder, a new study....

Dangerous Monkey Business

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Dangerous Monkey Business - unfit for human consumption. As our closest cousins, chimpanzees carriers of diseases that can mutate into human plagues. A controversial theory that the AIDS epidemic was accidentally started by Western health workers in Africa...

Nile Vaccine New West unveiled

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Nile Vaccine New West unveiled - All in the family. DNA encoding the Kunjin virus, a cousin of the West Nile virus, causes the muscle cells to make enough viral and boost immunity to ward off West Nile infections. Researchers have developed a unique vaccine...

The modified bacteria Take HIV

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The modified bacteria Take HIV - welcome the invaders. a population of CD4 coated Lactobacillus bacteria could be used as an anti-HIV barrier in the vagina. the best way to block the transmission of HIV during sexual intercourse is condoms, but men sometimes...

Why Fat raises your blood pressure

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Why Fat raises your blood pressure - Rising tension. Fat cells produce compounds that cause high blood pressure, a study shows. [1945018épidémie] Obesity has reached proportions in the Western world, bringing with it a surge in hypertension. But why do people...

Fix these genes or Else

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Fix these genes or Else - SEATTLE - Cancer cells are a mishmash of DNA damage: broken chromosomes, rearranged bases, chromosomes or too short too long. But despite the wealth of observed associations between DNA damage and tumors, scientists are just beginning to understand the genetic accidents...

Bug spray and weight at birth

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Bug spray and weight at birth - Fat and happy? Two household insecticides, now banned, were associated with lower than average weights at birth. exposure to insect repellents may be the decrease in the size of newborns? A new study suggests that happening in...

Medicinal tears

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Medicinal tears - safe teardrops A component tears fight against bacterial infections of the eyes NEW ORLEANS -. researchers have identified a compound in tears that appears to protect the cornea from infection by a microbe known. The results, presented here...

Stop Malaria Placenta

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Stop Malaria Placenta - rascal Sticky. VAR2CSA the protein (with labeled antibodies attached green) helps red blood cells infected with malaria lock on the placenta. Malaria infects 30 million pregnant women annually, causing anemia and other problems that...

A Chiral Wildcard

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A Chiral Wildcard - mirror, mirror. Tests with the freshwater crustacean Daphia (Box) suggesting that the toxicity of a pesticide may change because it persists in the environment. many widely used pesticides may have unpredictable effects on wildlife as...

Bumping Iron No Cure for Hookworms

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Bumping Iron No Cure for Hookworms - iron eaters. Hookworms Gobble blood and nutrients, making hundreds of millions of people with anemia. Richard Bungiro How do you treat an infection that robs the body of iron? The simplest answer - with more iron - may...

Tiny Yes, but are they safe?

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Tiny Yes, but are they safe? - With products of nanotechnology worth over $ 32 billion already on the market, the United States needs to develop a systematic approach $ 50 million-a force -Year to investigate the risks of nanomaterials to human health and environmental safety potential. This is according...

Better Made mosquitoes in the laboratory

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Better Made mosquitoes in the laboratory - [opener Eye. mosquitoes resistant malaria - recognizable in this image by the green fluorescence of their eye facets -. fare better when feeding on infected blood Johns Hopkins University If you want to protect people...

Treatment of schizophrenia without side effects?

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Treatment of schizophrenia without side effects? - New target. drug molecules interact with the rat version of a receptor of the human glutamate. Richard Harper, Jon Erickson and Daniel Robertson / Eli Lilly and Co. scientists are excited about what they...

The Mystery of the Dying Cheetahs

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The Mystery of the Dying Cheetahs - Pooped. captive cheetahs are besieged by amyloid fibrils and (bottom panels, respectively) in their liver. Yumi A / National Academy of Sciences, PNAS (08) Although rapid famous, cheetahs can not seem to overcome a deadly...

Tough Times for

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Tough Times for - Taz devil destroyer. cancerous tumors decimating Tasmanian devil populations. Menna Jones Contagious cancer was sweeping the populations of Tasmanian devils, killing most adults. Now, young devils spawn earlier than ever before. But is this...

bottle chemical linked to the disease

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bottle chemical linked to the disease - ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND - The first major epidemiological study of bisphenol A, a common ingredient in baby bottles and beverage containers, suggests that relatively high doses of the chemical double the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The result...

Cholesterol Drug Dies Inflammation - or does it take

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Cholesterol Drug Dies Inflammation - or does it take - A powerful cholesterol drug cut the incidence of heart attack and stroke in half when given to people with elevated levels of inflammation, as a? new clinical trial. The results have attracted much attention because people in the study had normal...

NIH: We conflicts Averse

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NIH: We conflicts Averse - Fearing that the US Congress will force the hand because of public interest, the National Institutes of Health is moving to change its rules on conflicts financial interest for scientists who receive grants. A new set of regulations could be ready in 6 months to 1 year,...

Updated: Ebola-Reston virus in pigs Jumped In at least one human

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Updated: Ebola-Reston virus in pigs Jumped In at least one human - The Ebola-Reston virus recently discovered for the first time in pigs in the Philippines, has now been confirmed infected at least a human being. Scientists are relieved because the person was not ill and is unlikely to have transmitted...
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