Scientists reveal a protein's role in enabling AIDS virus to reproduce
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 23, 2008 |
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A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has discovered new details about how a simian strain of the AIDS virus replicates. The findings are significant because they suggest new strategies to prevent replication, ...
Managing computer fraud
May 23, 2008 |
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Shalini Kesar, a computer scientist at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, has devised an antifraud strategy for business. Writing in the International Journal of Business Information Systems from Inderscience Publis ...
Glowing films reveal traces of explosives
May 23, 2008 |
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New spray-on films developed by UC San Diego chemists will be the basis of portable devices that can quickly reveal trace amounts of nitrogen-based explosives.
What identifies cancer cells causing relapse and metastasis? Not CD133
May 23, 2008 |
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New data, generated by Shahin Rafii and colleagues, at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, through analysis of human colon cancer cells and mice, have shed doubt on the recently proposed designation of ...
More intensive dialysis does not improve outcomes among patients with acute kidney injury
May 23, 2008 |
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No significant difference in death rates or other outcomes was found between a group of patients with acute kidney injury that received intensive dialysis and another group that received a more standard regimen of dialysis, ...
Remote-control health
May 23, 2008 |
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With search engine companies establishing online personal health records for their users and surgeons on the brink of making robotic surgery routine, it makes sense to have a remote medical care system that can support nursing ...
Blood cholesterol levels predict risk of heart disease due to hormone therapy
May 23, 2008 |
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A new analysis of a subgroup of participants in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) hormone therapy clinical trials suggests that healthy, postmenopausal women whose blood cholesterol levels are normal or lower are not at ...
Sticky business – researchers devise new way of mapping the viscosity of cells
May 23, 2008 |
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A fluorescent dye can be used to map how viscous, or 'gloopy', different parts of a cell are, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society this month.
