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Researchers identify potential new weapon in battle against HIV infection

Researchers have discovered a potentially important new resistance factor in the battle against HIV: blood types. An international team of researchers from Canadian Blood Services, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Human immune cells react sensitively to 'stress'

Scientists working with Professor Bernd Kaina of the Institute of Toxicology at the Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have demonstrated for the first time that certain cells circulating in human blood ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Preventive hemophilia A treatment reduces annual bleeding events and frequency of infusions

A Rush University Medical Center led international research team has announced that a treatment to prevent bleeding episodes in children with hemophilia A also is effective for adolescents and adults.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study reveals details of alternative splicing circuitry that promotes cancer's Warburg effect

Cancer cells maintain their life-style of extremely rapid growth and proliferation thanks to an enzyme called PK-M2 (pyruvate kinase M2) that alters the cells' ability to metabolize glucose – a phenomenon known as the ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cold War's nuclear wastes pose challenges to science, engineering, society

Seven papers published in the current issue of Technology and Innovation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors report on efforts by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to ensure continued safe and secure storag ...

Technology / Other

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Fermi's latest gamma-ray census highlights cosmic mysteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every three hours, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope scans the entire sky and deepens its portrait of the high-energy universe. Every year, the satellite's scientists reanalyze all of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Targeted agent addition to herceptin has positive effect on metastatic HER-2 breast cancer

Adding Afinitor to Herceptin, the main treatment for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, helps some women with disease that has been resistant to previous Herceptin-based therapies, according to a study led by researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Big step forward for SKA radio telescope

The discovery potential of the future international SKA radio telescope has been glimpsed following the commissioning of a working optical fibre link between CSIRO's Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope in Western ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Zapping deadly bacteria using space technology

Technology developed with ESA funding and drawing on long-running research aboard the International Space Station is opening up a new way to keep hospital patients safe from infections.

Technology / Engineering

created May 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pakistani IT firm 'on top of the world' in Blackberry apps

Photo editing software developed by Pakistani technology firm Five Rivers became the best selling paid-for application for the Blackberry, the firm said Wednesday.

Technology / Software

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A breakthrough in the struggle against the increasingly resistant malaria parasite

About every minute two children die from malaria caused by a parasite in the genus Plasmodium. Researchers have recently identified pivotal regulators controlling the malaria parasite’s transmission and ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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