Study Results Promise Faster Recovery From Life-Threatening Blood Cell...
A key compound resupplies bone marrow with fast-acting stem cells that can more quickly rekindle blood cell production, according to a study published online today in the journal Blood. While the study...
View ArticleCanadian Research Breakthrough Holds Promise for Development of Effective...
Researchers Dr. Marc Therrien at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Université de Montréal, and Dr. Frank Sicheri, at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount...
View ArticleMice Can Eat 'Junk' And Not Get Fat: Researchers Find Gene That Protects...
University of Michigan researchers have identified a gene that acts as a master switch to control obesity in mice. When the switch is turned off, even high-fat-diet mice remain thin......> full story
View ArticleCancer numbers worry doctor
IN six months Rockhampton doctor Stephen Murray has cut 542 skin cancers from 284 people. He knew it was the skin cancer capital of the world, but these latest statistics even shocked him......>...
View ArticleMolecular 'GPS' Helps Researchers Probe Processes Important In Aging And Disease
With all the hype about beneficial antioxidants in everything from face cream to cereal bars, you'd think their targets—oxygen radicals—must be up to no good. It's true, the buildup of oxygen radicals...
View ArticleBuilding Better Bone Replacements With Bacteria
Bacteria that manufacture hydroxyapatite (HA) could be used to make stronger, more durable bone implants. Professor Lynne Macaskie from the University of Birmingham this week (7-10 September) presented...
View ArticleNew developments in reproductive medicine
Three out of ten women who undergo polar body diagnosis go on to have a child. The extensive technique of polar body analysis (PBA) is described by researchers in reproductive medicine at Lübeck in an...
View ArticleDesigning Probiotics That Ambush Gut Pathogens
Researchers in Australia are developing diversionary tactics to fool disease-causing bacteria in the gut. Many bacteria, including those responsible for major gut infections, such as cholera, produce...
View ArticleSmall Molecule Inhibits Pathology Associated With Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1
Researchers at the University of Illinois have designed a small molecule that blocks an aberrant pathway associated with myotonic dystrophy type 1, the most common form of muscular dystrophy......>...
View ArticleScientists Pinpoint Critical Molecule To Celiac Disease, Possibly Other...
It was nine years ago that University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers discovered that a mysterious human protein called zonulin played a critical role in celiac disease and other autoimmune...
View Article'Achilles' Heel' In Y Chromosome Linked To Sex Disorders
The unique mechanism behind the evolutionary survival of the human Y chromosome may also be responsible for a range of sex disorders, from failed sperm production to sex reversal to Turner...
View ArticleBetter Immune Defense Against Anthrax
Scientists discover a gene in anthrax-causing bacteria may help defend against this form of bio-warfare. Spread of the deadly disease anthrax by spores of the bacterium Bacillus anthracis is a known...
View ArticleGene variant heightens risk of severe liver disease in cystic fibrosis
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered a genetic risk factor for severe liver disease in people with cystic fibrosis. Those who carry a particular variant of the...
View ArticleSharing The Results Of Research Critical To Advancement Of Biological Sciences
Sharing the fruits of research in the biomedical sciences is critical for the advance of knowledge, yet with the advent of large-scale data gathering following the completion of the genome projects...
View ArticleGenome Of Irish Potato Famine Pathogen Decoded
A large international research team has decoded the genome of the notorious organism that triggered the Irish potato famine in the mid-19th century and now threatens this season's tomato and potato...
View ArticleBeans' Defenses Mean Bacteria Get Evolutionary Helping Hand
Bean plants' natural defences against bacterial infections could be unwittingly driving the evolution of more highly pathogenic bacteria, according to new research published today (10 September) in...
View ArticlePandemic Flu Can Infect Cells Deep in the Lungs, Says New Research
Pandemic swine flu can infect cells deeper in the lungs than seasonal flu can, according to a new study published today in Nature Biotechnology. The researchers, from Imperial College London, say this...
View ArticleScientists Use MicroRNAs to Track Evolutionary History for First Time
The large group of segmented worms known as annelids, which includes earthworms, leeches and bristle worms, evolved millions of years ago and can be found in every corner of the world. Although...
View ArticleMayo Clinic Identifies 2 Genes as Potential Therapeutic Targets for Multiple...
A Mayo Clinic study has found that two genes in mice were associated with good central nervous system repair in multiple sclerosis (MS). These findings give researchers new hope for developing more...
View ArticleScientists Discover Mechanism to Make Existing Antibiotics More Effective at...
A new study published in the September 11, 2009 issue of Science by researchers at the NYU School of Medicine reveals a conceptually novel mechanism that plays an important role in making human...
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