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Factors from common human bacteria may trigger multiple sclerosis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Current research suggests that a common oral bacterium may exacerbate autoimmune disease. The related report by Nichols et al, "Unique Lipids from a Common Human Bacterium Represent a New Class of TLR2 Ligands Capable of ...


Iowa State University researcher discovers key to vital DNA, protein interaction

Researchers discover key to vital DNA, protein interaction

Biology / Other

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher at Iowa State University has discovered how a group of proteins from plant pathogenic bacteria interact with DNA in the plant cell, opening up the possibility for what the scientist ...


Adding tools against breast tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

At the end of a 10-year, coast-to-coast study of women with an unusual form of breast cancer, Richard J. Barth Jr., M.D., and three fellow researchers are making the case for a particular combination of treatments to stop ...


Alzheimer's lesions found in the retina

Alzheimer's lesions found in the retina

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but new research indicates they also may mirror a brain ravaged by Alzheimer's disease.


The bowels of infection

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Current research suggests that latent cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection may exacerbate inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The related report by Onyeagocha et al, "Latent cytomegalovirus infection exacerbates experimental colitis," ...


Metabolic syndrome risk factors drive significantly higher health care costs

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Risk factors for metabolic syndrome, such as obesity, high blood pressure, and elevated blood lipid levels, can increase a person's healthcare costs nearly 1.6-fold, or about $2,000 per year. For each additional risk factor ...


Human Tissue Act may have helped research, says study

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fears that medical research using tissue such as blood or material from biopsies would be obstructed by the Human Tissue Act 2004 may have been unfounded, a new study from the University of Leicester reveals.


Bird flu leaves the nest -- adapting to a new host

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Current research suggests that viral polymerase may provide a new therapeutic target for host-adapted avian influenza. The related report by Gabriel et al, "Spread of Infection and Lymphocyte Depletion in Mice Depends on ...


Elevated arginase levels contribute to vascular eye disease such as diabetic retinopathy

Elevated arginase levels contribute to vascular eye disease such as diabetic retinopathy

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Elevated levels of the enzyme arginase contribute to vascular eye damage and Medical College of Georgia researchers say therapies to normalize its levels could halt progression of potentially blinding diseases ...


Gene vital to brain's stem cells implicated in deadly brain cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center's Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a protein that activates brain stem cells to make new neurons - but that may be hijacked later in life to cause ...


Blood flow in Alzheimer's disease

Blood flow in Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers have discovered that the enzyme, endothelin converting enzyme-2 (ECE-2), may cause the decrease in blood flow in the brain seen in Alzheimer's disease and contribute to progression of the disease.


In vitro antibody production enables HIV infection detection in window period -- key to safer blood

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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

Researchers in Israel and Kenya have shown that the contribution of variable degrees of immune suppression, either due to existing chronic infections such as parasitemias and/or nutrition, in different populations may influence ...


The 'see food' diet

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Current research suggests that a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids may help prevent one of the leading causes of legal blindness among the elderly. The related report by Tuo et al, "A high omega-3 fatty acid diet reduces retinal ...


K-State plant pathologists develop online teaching modules used globally

Biology / Other

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Managing plant diseases that threaten the food supply and economy is a challenge for agriculturalists around the world.


Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(AP) -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.