Archive: 05/03/2009
New swine flu cases in Europe, US, Latin America
(AP) -- The swine flu epidemic spread deeper into the United States, Europe and Latin America - and in Canada, back to pigs - even as Mexico's health chief hinted Sunday it may soon be time to reopen businesses ...
May 03, 2009 |
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US flu tally jumps to 226 as labs catch up
(AP) -- The government's tally of confirmed swine flu cases in the United States jumped Sunday to 226 in 30 states, but officials said that's largely from catching up on a backlog of lab tests rather than ...
May 03, 2009 |
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Ethanol test for Obama on climate change, science
(AP) -- President Barack Obama's commitment to take on climate change and put science over politics is about to be tested as his administration faces a politically sensitive question about the widespread ...
May 03, 2009 |
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Austrian breakthrough in quantum cryptography: Record in the transmission of entangled photon pairs (Update)
Austrian physicists say a breakthrough in next-generation quantum cryptography could allow encrypted messages to be bounced off satellites, the British journal Nature reported Sunday.
May 03, 2009 |
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Moving gene therapy forward with mobile DNA
Gene therapy is the introduction of genetic material into a patient's cells resulting in a cure or a therapeutic effect. In recent years, it has been shown that gene therapy is a promising technology to treat or even cure ...
May 03, 2009 |
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Personalized treatment for early lung cancer
Cancer vaccines and targeted therapies are beginning to offer new treatment options following surgery for patients with early stages of lung cancer, experts said at the first European Multidisciplinary Conference in Thoracic ...
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Women more vulnerable to tobacco carcinogens, new results show
Women may be more vulnerable than men to the cancer-causing effects of smoking tobacco, according to new results reported this week at the European Multidisciplinary Conference in Thoracic Oncology (EMCTO), Lugano, Switzerland.
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Process controlling T cell growth and production identified
Identifying one of the processes that plays a role in naďve and memory T-cells' growth and production could one day lead to better vaccines and possibly more effective cancer immunotherapy, said researchers at Baylor ...
May 03, 2009 |
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Neuroscientists discover long-term potentiation in the olfactory bulb
Ben W. Strowbridge, Ph.D, associate professor of Neuroscience and Physiology/Biophysics, and Yuan Gao, a Ph.D. student in the neurosciences program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, are the first to discover ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 03, 2009 |
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Genetic study confirms the immune system's role in narcolepsy
Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health have identified a gene associated with narcolepsy, a disorder that causes disabling daytime sleepiness, sleep attacks, irresistible bouts of sleep that can strike at ...
May 03, 2009 |
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Biologists find birdsong of isolates reverts to norm over several generations (w/Audio)
In an experiment that points to a role for genetics in the development of culture, biologists at The City College of New York (CCNY) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have discovered that zebra finches raised in isolation ...
May 03, 2009 |
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Small molecules might block mutant protein production in Huntington's disease
Molecules that selectively interfere with protein production can stop human cells from making the abnormal molecules that cause Huntington's disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
May 03, 2009 |
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Nanotechnology holds promise for STD drug delivery
Yale researchers describe a breakthrough in safe and effective administration of potential antiviral drugs — small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules that silence genes — the first step in development of a ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 03, 2009 |
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Debate over speed vs. deliberation in developing vaccines heats up
One week into the race to catch up with the swine flu virus, here's the score: Virus, hundreds. Vaccine, zero. While the virus has moved with lightning speed to four continents, U.S. authorities are debating whether to make ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
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Computational Analysis Helps Researchers Understand Emerging H1N1 Flu Strain
As part of a broad-based effort to understand the precise genetic make-up of H1N1 - now being referred to as “swine flu” in North America - a group of virologists and computational biologists from Columbia ...
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