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Scientists reveal structure of new botulism nerve toxin subtype

Scientists reveal structure of new botulism nerve toxin subtype

Biology /

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have determined the atomic-level structure of a third subtype of botulinum neurotoxin — a deadly toxin produced ...


Ovarian cancer subtypes are different diseases: Implications for biomarker studies

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a new analysis of tissue biomarkers expressed in ovarian cancer samples, published by PLoS Medicine, David Huntsman and his colleagues from Vancouver General Hospital suggest that substantial differences exist between ovaria ...





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Study shows dream-enacting behavior is common in healthy young adults

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A study in the Dec.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that dream-enacting behaviors are common in healthy young adults, and the prevalence of specific behaviors differs between men and women.


HIV vaccine failure probably caused by virus used, says new research

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The recent failure of an HIV vaccine was probably caused by the immune system reacting to the virus 'shell' used to transmit the therapy around the body, according to research published today in the Proceedings of the Na ...


Rethinking sexism: Study examines how society maintains the status quo

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

There is a tendency to think that only men treat women in a sexist way, but a new study by a University of Miami researcher and his daughter shows that both men and women participate in maintaining a gender hierarchy in our ...


Nanostructured Integrated Circuit Detects Type and Severity of Cancer

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of investigators from the University of Toronto have used nanomaterials to develop an inexpensive microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that ...


Progress made on group B streptococcus vaccine

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have completed a Phase II clinical study that indicates a vaccine to prevent Group B Streptococcus ...


New chromosomal abnormality identified in leukemia associated with Down syndrome

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers identified a new chromosomal abnormality in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) that appears to work in concert with another mutation to give rise to cancer. This latest anomaly is particularly common in children ...


SCID Kids Leading Healthy, Normal Lives 25 Years After 'Bubble Boy'

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mention the words "bubble boy" and many will recall David Vetter, the kid with big eyes and a thick thatch of dark hair who died 25 years ago after spending almost the entire 12 years of his life in a germ-free, ...


Study finds no relationship between PCR rate and race in women with breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Locally advanced breast cancer patients who received the same class of neoadjuvant chemotherapy were found to have no evidence of disease at the time of their surgery, or achieved pathological complete response, at the same ...


Scientists join forces to explain HIV spread in Central and East Africa

Scientists join forces to explain HIV spread in Central and East Africa

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists studying biology and geography may seem worlds apart, but together they have answered a question that has defied explanation about the spread of the HIV-1 epidemic in Africa.


Microchip can detect type and severity of cancer

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Toronto researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier ...



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