Archive for June 2021

Smile While You Sweat [

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Smile While You Sweat [ - N EW O RLEANS - As for exercise? This may be the key to all the good your workout makes you. A neuroscientist announced today at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience here that rats compelled to exercise a weakened immune system suffered, while those who...

Hong Kong home

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Hong Kong home - Two other cases of a new and deadly influenza virus were diagnosed in Hong Kong. On Saturday, the public health authorities announced that a 54 year old male and a 13 year old girl, both had contracted a strain of flu that before this spring was thought to infect only birds. "It...

The oldest surviving HIV Virus Tells All

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The oldest surviving HIV Virus Tells All - Many AIDS researchers suspected that the most common strain of HIV, HIV-1, has been lurking in the human population since the 1950s or even earlier. Now scientists have confirmed that is the case: HIV-1 fragments from a 1959 blood sample cases represent...

A preemptive strike against the pain

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A preemptive strike against the pain - The recovery from surgery may be less of a trial if the nerves are numb right of patients prior to surgery. A clinical study reported in tomorrow's issue of Journal of the American Medical Association shows that blocking the potential pain impulses to the...

Get in Shape Up Molecules

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Get in Shape Up Molecules - Dorothy Hodgkin, a British X-ray crystallography, which won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work to determine the structures molecular complex organic molecules, was born on 10 May 1910. Hodgkin began studying sterols in 1932, when the rays were used...

Fatal contraction SIDS?

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Fatal contraction SIDS? - Babies who die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) are more likely to have abnormal heartbeats few days after birth, according to a study tomorrow New England Journal of Medicine . If the finding is confirmed by other studies, it may help doctors identify high-risk...

Mold That Made History

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Mold That Made History - Today is the birthday of Alexander Fleming, a Scottish bacteriologist born in 1881 who accidentally discovered penicillin, one of the most important drugs 20th century. A strange and rare mold Penicillium notatum happened to be floating around in the laboratory of Fleming...

Bug Warrior Dies waste

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Bug Warrior Dies waste - The Cold War may have ended several years ago, but it left some questions unresolved dangerous: 3000 nuclear waste sites in the United States only. Now researchers may have found a way to fight against this accumulation of waste using a genetically modified microbe resistant...

China faces of Health Crisis

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China faces of Health Crisis - Smoking will kill 100 million men in China - one in three under 30 today - when they reach mean age or older, according to two articles published in tomorrow British Medical Journal . "This alarming study is a landmark in research on public health," said Jeffrey Koplan,...

A Chip Off the Old Bladder

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A Chip Off the Old Bladder - For the first time, researchers have created artificial bladders working dogs. Experts say the success described in the February issue of Nature Biotechnology , has significantly advanced the prospect of repairing or replacing damaged human bladder tissue grown from...

Conviction Tainted Blood Trial in

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Conviction Tainted Blood Trial in - P ARIS - The trial of three former French ministers long term HIV blood scandal in France came to an end today with a conviction and two acquittals. Although former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and former Social Affairs Minister Georgina Dufoix were found...

successful hand transplant Declared

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successful hand transplant Declared - Six months after receiving the first transplant of the hand of the world, 48 years, Clint Hallam of New Zealand has a strong grip and feel in several fingers. His intervention was successful, Hallam doctors report in this week's issue of The Lancet . The operation...

Enzyme Suggests Way Halt Huntington

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Enzyme Suggests Way Halt Huntington - By tinkering with an enzyme in mouse brain cells, medical researchers may have opened the door to a treatment for Huntington's disease an as-yet- incurable progressive brain disorder. The results, which appear in tomorrow's issue of Nature show that an enzyme...

"Gutsy" Approval of stem cell

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"Gutsy" Approval of stem cell - research using cells from human embryos received an important seal of approval this week. In a decision that Stanford biologist Paul Berg called "gutsy", the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBCC) recommended July 14 that the federal government should fund not...

Pediatrician and Polio Pioneer

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Pediatrician and Polio Pioneer - Today is the 83rd anniversary of Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist who played an important role in the development of vaccine against polio. After investigating virus outbreaks for the US Army during the Second World War, Robbins joined...

Photo Of Grim Statistics AIDS

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Photo Of Grim Statistics AIDS - The AIDS epidemic shows no signs of slowing down, according to the United Nations (UN) statistics released yesterday. Some 5.6 million people were infected with HIV this year, and 2.6 million died of the disease. For the first time, most African women in sub-Saharan...

The Harm homocysteine ​​

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The Harm homocysteine ​​ - W ASHINGTON , DC - Doctors have known for decades about a rare metabolic disorder that increases blood levels an amino acid called homocysteine, which causes mental retardation in children severely affected and early cardiovascular problems in others. Recently, however,...

AIDS Research Head to Retire

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AIDS Research Head to Retire - The respected, hyperkinetic supervisor of the research program on AIDS of $ 2 billion to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced his retirement yesterday. Neal Nathanson said his last day will be September 1st. "This is my birthday 73rd, and the family said...

Gene therapy could help the hearing

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Gene therapy could help the hearing - A good dose of a single protein makes the crucial sensory cells grow again in the tissues of the ears of baby rats. The discovery, published in the June issue of Nature Neuroscience raises the prospect that gene therapy could treat some forms of hearing loss....

A handle on hypertension

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A handle on hypertension - pressure point. Region bind steroids (green) mineralocorticoid receptor. A mutation in the receptor results hypertension. One in five Americans and Europeans has high blood pressure, a dangerous disorder with many genetic causes are...

Starving TB in His Hiding Place

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Starving TB in His Hiding Place - The bacterium that causes TB infects one third of the global population and kills up to 3 million people a year. The pathogen's success secret is that it can persist undetected in the lungs for decades. Now a team of researchers has discovered a vulnerability that...

Victims of Nazi Science Remembered

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Victims of Nazi Science Remembered - Leaders of fundamental research organizations top of Germany met in Berlin on 14 October to dedicate a monument to victims of the research Nazi brain time, just days after a historic commission published a preliminary report on violations of biomedical sciences...

Back-Stabbing infections HIV AIDS Molecule

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Back-Stabbing infections HIV AIDS Molecule - AIDS researchers thought they were studying a cell ally in the fight against HIV. The molecule called RANTES, appears to delay the onset of disease. But now RANTES appears to be like two face as they come. Although the researchers tested the molecule slows...

Protein Links Diabetes and obesity

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Protein Links Diabetes and obesity - burden. Obese people are at greater risk of type II diabetes. A newly discovered protein may help explain why overweight often suffer from type II diabetes. The protein, dubbed resistin is produced by fat cells and appears...

Butchers practices blamed for vCJD Outbreak

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Butchers practices blamed for vCJD Outbreak - traditional slaughter practices in many small European slaughterhouses seem to increase the risk of spread of the disease variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow. Five people in a village near Leicester, UK, probably contracted...

Calling Cancers With Gene Chips

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Calling Cancers With Gene Chips - the doctor is. Microarrays may become increasingly important for the diagnosis of cancer. to choose the best therapy for spreading the cancer, doctors need to know which created a fabric. Now researchers trained a computer...

Alternative Medicine here to stay

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Alternative Medicine here to stay - Lending a hand. Alternative therapies, such as massage, are increasingly popular. The use of alternative medicine-- which means all remedies herbal acupuncture to the imposition of hands - has been steadily increasing in...

Fatal Attraction of Unscathed Huntington

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Fatal Attraction of Unscathed Huntington - A new study casts doubt on a theory long about what goes wrong in the brain of patients with Huntington's disease . The findings suggest new approaches to drug design against the fatal neurological disorder. The Huntington's patients have a mutated form...

Dig up the roots of asthma

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Dig up the roots of asthma - Difficult breathing. mouse in this breathing room will probably get asthma after inhaling methacholine, which induces the disease in this strain of the subject asthma. While asthma attacks are triggered by a series of environmental...
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