 New drug screening identifies chemical agents with potent anti-cancer activity
 05.01.2012 15:21  4 views  0 comments
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 Drugs already approved for clinical use across a variety of therapeutic categories can be screened to identify effective agents for thyroid cancer, according to a recent study. These findings could rapidly be implemented into a clinical trial to test how effective the treatment would be. Read more »
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New practice model may reduce miscarriage after assisted reproduction
05.01.2012 15:14 2 views 0 comments
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 Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services today announced the publication of an article in the December issue of Reproductive BioMedicine Online (www.rbmonline.com) about miscarriage rates following IVF treatment with frozen thawed embryos which may revolutionize clinical and laboratory practice. Read more »
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The bigger picture of population genomics
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 More and more laboratories are generating more and more data relating to the sequence of DNA, but making sense of the mass of data remains tricky and attention is switching to automatic procedures to help researchers understand large amounts of sequence information. Researchers have now developed a tool to compare data from sequences of pooled samples. Read more »
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Progress made toward a genital herpes vaccine
04.01.2012 22:48 2 views 0 comments
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 New research points investigators toward finding a genital herpes vaccine that works on both viruses that cause disease. Read more »
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How can Lyme disease be prevented and controlled?
04.01.2012 22:48 4 views 0 comments
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 A new article assesses the potential reasons for the continued lack of success in prevention and control of Lyme disease and identifies areas where additional knowledge could be used to improve Lyme disease prevention and control strategies. Read more »
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Guidelines stress caution when combining anti-epileptic, HIV drugs
04.01.2012 22:48 2 views 0 comments
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New guidelines will help physicians better choose seizure drugs for people on HIV/AIDS medication, avoiding deadly drug interactions and preventing critical anti-HIV drugs from becoming less effective, possibly leading to a more virulent strain of the disease. Read more »
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Russian river water unexpected culprit behind Arctic freshening, researchers find
04.01.2012 20:37 3 views 0 comments
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 A hemisphere-wide phenomenon -- and not just regional forces -- has caused record-breaking amounts of freshwater to accumulate in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea, researchers have found. Read more »
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Fish mimics octopus that mimics fish
04.01.2012 20:37 2 views 0 comments
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 Nature's game of intimidation and imitation comes full circle in the waters of Indonesia, where scientists have recorded for the first time an association between the black-marble jawfish and the mimic octopus. Read more »
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Benefits of statin therapy may extend beyond lowering lipids
04.01.2012 20:37 3 views 0 comments
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 A new study has identified a molecular pathway that leads to abnormal cardiovascular blood clotting and turned it off using a popular class of cholesterol-lowering drugs, statins. Read more »
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Salt water alone unlikely to halt Burmese python invasion
04.01.2012 20:37 2 views 0 comments
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 Invasive Burmese python hatchlings from the Florida Everglades can withstand exposure to salt water long enough to potentially expand their range through ocean and estuarine environments. Read more »
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New gene that regulates body weight discovered
04.01.2012 20:37 3 views 0 comments
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 While studying a brain protein related to the involuntary body movements that are side effects of drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia, a pharmacy professor discovered that the protein also plays a role in regulating body weight. Read more »
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Fish oil during pregnancy does not protect against excessive adipose tissue development, study suggests
04.01.2012 20:37 3 views 0 comments
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 Is obesity in infants "programmed" in the womb? Previously, researchers assumed that consumption of "bad" fats during pregnancy contribute to excessive infant adipose tissue growth and that "good" omega-3 fatty acids prevent expansive adipose tissue development. A new study showed no evidence to support this "perinatal programming" theory. Read more »
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Ecologists call for screening imported plants to prevent a new wave of invasive species
04.01.2012 20:37 3 views 0 comments
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 A recent analysis suggests that climate change predicted for the United States will boost demand for imported drought- and heat-tolerant landscaping plants from Africa and the Middle East. This greatly increases the risk that a new wave of invasives will overrun native ecosystems in the way kudzu, Oriental bittersweet and purple loosestrife have in the past, members of the international team say. Read more »
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No more free rides for 'piggy-backing' viruses
04.01.2012 20:37 2 views 0 comments
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 Scientists have determined the structure of the enzyme endomannosidase, significantly advancing our understanding of how a group of devastating human viruses including HIV and Hepatitis C hijack human enzymes to reproduce and cause disease. Read more »
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Russian runoff freshening Canadian Arctic, NASA finds
04.01.2012 19:21 3 views 0 comments
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 A new study allays concerns that melting Arctic sea ice could be increasing the amount of freshwater in the Arctic enough to have an impact on the global "ocean conveyor belt" that redistributes heat around our planet. Researchers detected a previously unknown redistribution of freshwater during the past decade from the Eurasian half of the Arctic Ocean to the Canadian half. Yet despite the redistribution, they found no change in the net amount of freshwater in the Arctic that might signal a change in the conveyor belt. Read more »
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'Nanowiggles:' Scientists discover graphene nanomaterials with tunable functionality in electronics
04.01.2012 18:54 3 views 0 comments
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 Scientists have used supercomputers to uncover the properties of a promising form of graphene, known as graphene nanowiggles. What they found was that graphitic nanoribbons can be segmented into several different surface structures called nanowiggles. Each of these structures produces highly different magnetic and conductive properties. The findings provide a blueprint that scientists can use to literally pick and choose a graphene nanostructure that is tuned and customized for a different task or device. Read more »
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Updated rotavirus vaccine not linked to increase in bowel obstruction, research shows
04.01.2012 18:54 3 views 0 comments
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 The rotavirus vaccine was pulled from the marketplace in 1999 after being associated with painful gastrointestinal complications, however, the updated rotavirus vaccines do not appear to increase the occurrence of these potentially fatal side effects, according to a new study by child health experts. Read more »
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Simple online tool to aid GPs in early ovarian cancer diagnosis
04.01.2012 18:54 2 views 0 comments
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 The lives of hundreds of women could be saved every year, thanks to a simple online calculator that could help GPs identify women most at risk of having ovarian cancer at a much earlier stage. Read more »
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inflammatory bowel disease emerges as a global disease
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 The incidence and prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease are increasing with time and in different regions around the world. Read more »
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Cancer-killing compound spares healthy cells
04.01.2012 18:48 2 views 0 comments
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 Lithocholic acid (LCA), naturally produced in the liver during digestion, has been seriously underestimated. A new study shows that LCA can kill several types of cancer cells, such as those found in some brain tumors and breast cancer. Read more »
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