Archive for December 2021

The role of mom in diabetes

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The role of mom in diabetes - insulin plants. Diabetes develops when the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas die. It warms the heart of a mother to see her child has inherited his nose, hair, or smile. But could it also have transmitted a trigger for...

New Clue to Huntington's disease

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New Clue to Huntington's disease - energy crisis. Mutant huntingtin protein can interfere with mitochondrial energy production (orange). The first signs of the disease Huntington's disease occurs in middle age: Jerks and muscle spasms are followed over the...
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- Enzyme Slows Parkinson's disease dopamine deficit. In the brain of Parkinson (top), dopaminergic neurons (dark areas) die in a brain region called the substantia nigra. People with the disease Parkinson's struggle with progressive worsening tremors, stiffness,...

Blood returns clues on the health of arteries

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Blood returns clues on the health of arteries - bloody easy. A new technique could enable doctors to monitor the artery with a blood test. Checking clogged arteries could someday be as simple as a blood test. Researchers report that a relatively quick and inexpensive...

Exercise as good as drugs?

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Exercise as good as drugs? - nuclear invasion. glucocorticoid receptors (marked in green) are usually dispersed in the cytoplasm (left) but move to the nucleus in response to the acceleration of blood flow (middle) or corticosteroid treatment (right). the benefits...

Scientists Chase Baffling Disease

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Scientists Chase Baffling Disease - something in the air? Scientists will not breathe until they understand what causes a mysterious respiratory illness. A mysterious disease that causes flu-like symptoms and pneumonia rapidly around the world last week after...

metastatic melanoma Made in Mice

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metastatic melanoma Made in Mice - Programmed for skin cancer. A mouse ear and tail with melanoma lesions. [1945019souris] genetically modified with ugly black lesions have provided new information on the operation of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer....

Slash and Burn histology

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Slash and Burn histology - bloody tangle. a new laser scanning technology reveals the vasculature of the brain of a rat. BALTIMORE, Maryland- - Biology does not get much more basic - or much more work - histology, examination of the finer details of tissue...

Do not eat bats

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Do not eat bats - Good eatin '. bats fruit can be tasty, but they concentrate the toxin from cycad seeds. The idea was simple, cooling, and controversial: the Chamorro people of Guam who feasted on a traditional delicacy, bats giant fruit may have ingested...

Repair smoke damage

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Repair smoke damage - You have good enzymes? How much damage cells of smokers with clear DNA can influence their risk of lung cancer. although smoking has long been linked to lung cancer, only 10% of heavy smokers develop the disease. Why them? One factor may...

Malaria AIDS AIDS of mothers

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Malaria AIDS AIDS of mothers - Safer pregnancy. Treating pregnant women with HIV to malaria can reduce the risk of transmitting the virus to the child, a study suggests. for the first time, a study of pregnant women infected with HIV found that co-infection...

Lungs Need Breathing Room

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Lungs Need Breathing Room - Although nature seems to strive for the perfect balance between form and function, it does not always realize it. Sometimes there is a good reason :. A new study suggests that if human lungs were designed to function optimally their most important task - the exchange of...

Inside stop malaria mosquitoes

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Inside stop malaria mosquitoes - Breaking the cycle. interfering with mosquito proteins might counteract the malaria parasite. As spreads malaria resistant to drugs, researchers have intensified their search for new ways to fight against the scourge of mosquitoes....

The Perils of Indoor Mold

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The Perils of Indoor Mold - Rising damp. Mold, growing here in flooded school basement, can aggravate asthma This is the nightmare of every owner :. Mold hidden inside a house. It is also the cause of many insurance claims and lawsuits against the manufacturers,...

Flu viruses Evadés Drug Key

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Flu viruses Evadés Drug Key - A small study of children with influenza in Japan estimated that the influenza virus can thwart a drug that was thought to be relatively foolproof. The paper, published in the August 28 issue of The Lancet , just as some countries stockpiled the same antiviral drug...

Celebrex Trial suspended

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Celebrex Trial suspended - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced that it has suspended a large clinical trial testing whether the COX-2 Celebrex can prevent colon polyps. Those taking the drug had an increased risk of heart attacks compared to volunteers taking placebo, results...

Nasty cancers have some Nerve

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Nasty cancers have some Nerve - Edgy and nervous. L1CAM protein (brown in the upper panel) resides in cells poised to break with most of the cancer (cells with b-catenin are brown in the lower panel) and invade other tissues. A. Ben-Ze'ev and N. Gavert / Weizmann...

Hide and Seek Surgical

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Hide and Seek Surgical - Lost. New technology can make sponges left in patients a thing of the past. Archives of Surgery In the turmoil and confusion of an emergency operating room, it is not surprising for occasional surgical sponge to go missing. But...

Weighty avoid a side effect

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Weighty avoid a side effect - Weight gain can be a serious problem for patients taking antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia - not only drugs have a sedative effect that slows people down, but they also stimulate the appetite, a combination that can mean a significant weight gain. It turns out that...

Beethoven Died From Lead?

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Beethoven Died From Lead? - Poisoned? Hair analysis suggests that high levels of lead from a medical procedure killed Beethoven. Jupiter Images In the days following the death of Ludwig van Beethoven, friends and admirers came to see her body and cut her...

Superbug stuns the patient's defense

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Superbug stuns the patient's defense - On the move. MRSA bacteria are on the rise outside the hospital. K. Lounatmaa / Photo Researchers Inc. Mention resistant staph bacteria, and most people think about the almost invincible strains - formally called methicillin-resistant...

Experts: Research AIDS Vaccine has "lost its way"

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Experts: Research AIDS Vaccine has "lost its way" - change of course. Ronald Desrosiers said NIH priorities for vaccines against the evil AIDS Harvard News Services BOSTON -. Two prominent researchers evaluated the downright depressing state of vaccine...

Additional books a bargain?

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Additional books a bargain? - books in the right place. A new study in mice found that subcutaneous fat, which accumulates in people in the hips and legs, can have advantages. Jim Naughten / Corbis can fat - even lots of it - to be healthy? A provocative...

Where there is smoke, there (genetic) Fire

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Where there is smoke, there (genetic) Fire - Smoking gun. People with certain variations in the nicotine-receptor gene are at greater risk of becoming addicted to smoking in adulthood. Hendrike Peer pressure can lead adolescents to start smoking, but their...

Gene Identified for Deadly Childhood Cancer

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Gene Identified for Deadly Childhood Cancer - signs of hope. Identification of a gene behind neuroblastoma may help in screening and therapies Sonya N. Herbert / Corbis News Fifteen years of genetic sleuthing finally paid .: researchers have nailed the gene...

Island Invaders: Infect and Conquer

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Island Invaders: Infect and Conquer - victim. Bulldog rats probably died out because of parasites transmitted by black rats. P. Wynne / patriciawynne.com As if black rats have a bad reputation already. A study published today in PLoS One suggests that a...

As Rods GB, so go the Cones

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As Rods GB, so go the Cones - Dimmed vision. In this three-dimensional rendering of a cone cell, red indicates that mTOR surplus phosphates, an indication that the cell dies of hunger. Claudio Punzo Rod cells in our eyes help us see in dim light. They also...

Obama will unveil his policy on stem cells. Debate Boosters

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Obama will unveil his policy on stem cells. Debate Boosters - Choreography Stem cells fans are in a frenzy about the upcoming change in presidential politics and held press conferences Abrim enthusiastically, if not the content. But at a meeting today at the Center for American Progress (CAP) in...

NIH Grant Pipeline Now Flush With $ timulus

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NIH Grant Pipeline Now Flush With $ timulus - National Institutes of Health will devote most of its $ 8.2 billion to research the economic stimulus bill for requests of grant funding it has already received and to complement existing grants. A smaller amount of approximately $ 100 million to $ 0...
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