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Fish fend off invading germs with an initial response similar to the one found in people

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Since the human response to infection is highly complex, research to understand how people fight infection is facilitated by studying how similar processes occur in simpler organisms. Zebrafish are becoming an important model ...


2 signals -- from within and out of cell -- specify motor neuron differentiation

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two signals - an external one from retinoic acid and an internal one from the transcription factor Neurogenin2 - cooperate to activate chromatin (the basic material of chromosomes) and help determine that certain nerve progenitor ...


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Recent Drug Use Masks Cocaine Abusers' Cognitive Impairment

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent cocaine use may hide some of the cognitive deficits commonly experienced by individuals addicted to cocaine, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory ...





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Drug discovery process more accurate, less expensive using novel mass spectrometry application

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cancer and cell biology experts at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have developed a new mass spectrometry-based tool they say provides more precise, cost-effective data collection for drug discovery efforts.


ACP recommends routine HIV screening for all patients

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

On World AIDS Day, the American College of Physicians (ACP) is giving doctors a call-to-action to routinely encourage HIV screening to all of their patients older than 13 years. This new practice guideline appears on the ...


Study suggests TB screening needs to be targeted for maximum public health benefit

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New estimates of the likelihood that a latent case of tuberculosis (TB) will become active have resulted in a roughly 50 percent increase over previous estimates of the number of people needed to be screened (NNS) to prevent ...


Researchers design new strategy to find drugs to treat neglected infection

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using an unconventional approach that they designed, University of Pittsburgh drug discoverers and their collaborators at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have identified compounds that hold promise for treating leishmaniasis, ...


Microfluidic Device Mimics Tumor Microenvironment, Helps Drug Discovery Efforts

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

One of the challenges that cancer researchers face in designing new antitumor agents is that of predicting how drug molecules will behave in the complex microenvironment that surrounds a tumor. In particular, tumors create ...


Fruit Fly Brains Provide Clues to Autism Research

Fruit Fly Brains Provide Clues to Autism Research

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Linda L. Restifo of the Arizona Research Laboratory at The University of Arizona has developed a highly unique and promising methodology that uses fruit fly brains to screen for drugs that ...


Substance abuse diagnostic test for teens can also predict high risk sexual behavior

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Alcohol and drug use are known contributors to adolescents engaging in dangerous sexual activity; leading to substantial health risks such as unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted illnesses, drug overdoses and alcohol ...


Report: Prostate cancer screening has yet to prove its worth

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

The recent release of two large randomized trials suggests that if there is a benefit of screening, it is, at best, small, says a new report in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.


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Potential new drug for cocaine addiction and overdose

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created Sep 15, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 2

Chemists are reporting development of what they term the most powerful substance ever discovered for eliminating cocaine from the body, an advance that could lead to the world's first effective medicine for ...


Researchers downplay MRSA screening as effective infection control intervention

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 23, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Three Virginia Commonwealth University epidemiologists are downplaying the value of mandatory universal nasal screening of patients for MRSA, arguing that proven, hospital-wide infection control practices can prevent more ...



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