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A New Way to Kill Cancer Cells
Ovarian and breast cancer treatments being developed that mix a protein inhibitor and traditional anticancer drugs are showing signs of success, according to a new review for Faculty of 1000 Biology Reports.
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Potential new drugs for fox tapeworm infection in humans
Scientists are reporting development and testing of a new series of drugs that could finally stop the fox tapeworm -- which causes a rare but life-threatening disease in humans -- dead in its tracks. The report, which appears in ACS' Journal of ...
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NuRD and Pluripotency: A Complex Balancing Act
Guang Hu, PaulA. Wade. Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are defined by two essential featurespluripotency and self-renewalwhose balance requires the concerted action of signal transduction pathways, transcription factor ne....
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Kidney Exchange Algorithm Launches Chain of 10 Transplants
An algorithm devised by Carnegie Mellon computer scientists launched a long-running chain of live kidney donations that thus far has resulted in 10 patients receiving kidney transplants, with the potential for even more.
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UN adopts young persons sexual health resolution
The United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD) has adopted a new resolution that is expected to dramatically improve sexual and reproductive health among the worlds young population. Sexual health was described by the member states ..
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Columbia firm is world's first to market with stem cell drug
A Columbia-based biotechnology company said this week it received the worlds first government approval to market a stem cell drug , in Canada.
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CDC Awards $5.2 Million to Evaluate Community Strategies to Reduce Impact of Pandemic Influenza
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today announced $5.2 million in new cooperative agreements designed to evaluate the effectiveness of community-level measures that could be used during an influenza pandemic to reduce the spread of ...
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Yeast NADPH oxidase [Genetics]
The large protein superfamily of NADPH oxidases (NOX enzymes) is found in members of all eukaryotic kingdoms: animals, plants, fungi, and protists. The physiological functions of these NOX enzymes range from defense to specialized oxidative ...
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Fighting bacteria's strength in numbers
Scientists at The University of Nottingham have opened the way for more accurate research into new ways to fight dangerous bacterial infections by proving a long-held theory about how bacteria communicate with each other. read more
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CDC Announces Weeklong Event to Focus on the Importance of Influenza Vaccination
77 Million Doses of Vaccine Supply Delivered, with Record Numbers Expected by End of Year...
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Multistate E. coli Outbreak Linked to Cookie Dough (June 2009)
CDC is collaborating with public health officials in many states, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to investigate an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections.
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Babies' susceptibility to colds linked to immune response at birth
Innate differences in immunity can be detected at birth, according to new research. And babies with a better innate response to viruses have fewer respiratory illnesses in the first year of life.
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4 Medical Implants That Escaped FDA Scrutiny
Medical devices sustain and improve the quality of life for millions of Americans. But as the over $100 billion-a-year industry pushes thousands of devices to market every year, reports of faulty devices, repeat surgeries, and recalls have increased. ...
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Signaling pathways point to vulnerability in breast cancer stem cells
Whitehead Institute researchers have identified signals impinging on breast epithelial cells that can induce those cells to acquire and stably display migratory and self-renewing characteristics.
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Hybrid vaccine demonstrates potential to prevent breast cancer recurrence
A breast cancer vaccine already shown to elicit a powerful immune response in women with varying levels of HER2 expression has the ability to improve recurrence rates and is well tolerated in an adjuvant setting, according to new research from a ...
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Are We Ready for Americas Next Flu Challenge?
Just two years ago, an influenza pandemic swept the globe, causing hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths in the United States alone, including the deaths of an estimated 1,280 children.
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Figuring out the heads or tails decision in regeneration
Wounds trigger regeneration in planaria, a flatworm commonly studied for its regenerative capabilities. Until now, no molecular connection between wounding and the onset of the regeneration of an entire head or tail in planaria had been identified.
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Researchers reveal an RNA modification influences thousands of genes
Over the past decade, research in the field of epigenetics has revealed that chemically modified bases are abundant components of the human genome and has forced us to abandon the notion we've had since high school genetics that DNA consists of only ...
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Let's get moving: Unraveling how locomotion starts
While experiments in the 1970s using electrical brain stimulation identified areas of the brain responsible for starting locomotion, the precise neuron-by-neuron pathway has not been described in any vertebrate until now. To find this pathway, ...
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Is Red Wine Good for the Health of Press Releases?
Last week, the journal Cell Metabolism published a study in mice exploring the interactions between the compound resveratrol (which some research indicates may promote health) and genes associated with longevity. That it produced a virtual flurry of ...
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Viruses This Week in Bats
OK they're cute, but are they deadly? I was lucky enough to appear alongside the guys over at This Week in Virology (thanks Vincent, Alan, Rich and Dickson) to discuss the recent publication of a paper ( here in open access) which identified bats ...
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In Cancer Battles, New Drugs Bulk Up Immune System (News and Features)
James P. Allison has spent much of his career making a case for moving immunologists into the mainstream of cancer therapy. Now drugs that goose the immune system to build defenses against cancers are in promising human trials.
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RNA interference found in budding yeasts
Some budding yeast species have the ability to silence genes using RNA interference (RNAi). Until now, most researchers thought that no budding yeasts possess the RNAi pathway because Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the protoypical model budding yeast does not.
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Triple Crown-Bound Horse Breeders Start to Look to Genetics
When the Kentucky Derby winner crosses the finish line in front of 160,000 roaring spectators on May 5, there's a good chance it will have two copies of a gene that makes a horse a sprinter. [More]
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NHS set to benefit from UK-led technologies
Video games, pioneering gene therapies and new medical devices are set to transform treatments on the NHS, with support from the Department of Health and the Wellcome Trust. The experimental technologies are being developed through the Health ...
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The next chapter of apoptosis research
Death. Morbid and depressing to most but a topic that fascinated me in college. A natural part of my everyday life. Before you report me to the Garda as a serial killer, zoom down to the microscopic level. Billions of our cells die everyday and many ...
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UPDATE: Diphtheria: Haiti Pre-decision Brief for Public Health Action
Diphtheria: Haiti Pre-decision Brief for Public Health Action
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Dickensian childhoods leave genetic scars
Being maltreated as a child can perhaps affect you for life. It now seems the harm might reach into your very DNA. Two recently published studies found evidence of changes to the genetic material in people with experience of maltreatment. These are the ...
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Tiny Plants Could Cut Costs, Shrink Environmental Footprint
Tiny plants could cut costs, shrink environmental footprint May 14, 2012 Print Version Burkhard Schulz found that a fungicide used to treat brown spots on golf courses inhibits a plant's ability to produce steroids, resulting in smaller, feminized corn ...
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Supply Chain Management with Advance Supply Information
Supply chain managers work in a constant state of uncertainty: demand uncertainty, or how much a firms customers are going to ask for, and supply uncertainty, or how many components or raw materials a firms suppliers can provide at a given point in .
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