PANTHER sensor quickly detects pathogens
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Researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have developed a powerful sensor that can detect airborne pathogens such as anthrax and smallpox in less than three minutes.
Molecular alliance that sustains embryonic stem cell state
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One of the four ingredients in the genetic recipe that scientists in Japan and the U.S. followed last year to persuade human skin cells to revert to an embryonic stem cell state, is dispensable in ES cells, thanks to the ...
Tiny polyps need 2 kinds of carbon to survive coral bleaching
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How well ocean reefs recover from the growing damage caused by warming sea temperatures depends both on how much the tiny coral polyps can eat, and how healthy they can keep the microscopic algae that live ...
Scientists find a protein that inhibits Ebola from reaching out to infect neighboring cells
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Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have identified a protein, ISG15, that inhibits the Ebola virus from budding, the process by which viruses escape from cells and spread to infect ...
A combination therapy of 3 vasodilators may treat portopulmonary hypertension
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Combination therapy of Prostacyclin, Sildenafil, and Bosentan helped a young male patient with severe portopulmonary hypertension improve enough to receive a liver transplant. It was also used post-transplant to help him ...
Women are treated less frequently than men with statins, aspirin and beta-blockers
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Women and men experience a similar prevalence of adverse drug reactions in the treatment of coronary artery disease; however, women are significantly less likely than their male counterparts to be treated with statins, aspirin, ...
National Zoo scimitar-horned oryx going into the wild
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A male scimitar-horned oryx from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Va., is playing an important role in ensuring the species does not vanish from the planet.
Researchers describe mechanisms by which capon gene causes heart rhythm disturbances
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A research team from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins University and China Medical University and Hospital in Taiwan have described for the first time the mechanisms by which variants of a specific gene, CAPON ...
Cancer risk slightly higher for women in discontinued hormone treatment trial
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A follow up study of participants in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trial led by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher has found that women who were taking the combined hormone therapy of ...
