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Researchers identify a mutation that causes inflammatory bowel disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has linked a mouse mutation to an increased susceptibility for developing inflammatory bowel disease -- represented in humans as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, ...





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Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits

Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation-funded professor, Dr. Xiang Zhang has demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley the world's smallest semiconductor laser, ...


HIV-related memory loss linked to Alzheimer's protein

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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More than half of HIV patients experience memory problems and other cognitive impairments as they age, and doctors know little about the underlying causes. New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. ...


Transcription factors guide differences in human and chimp brain function

Transcription factors guide differences in human and chimp brain function

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Humans share at least 97 percent of their genes with chimpanzees, but, as a new study of transcription factors makes clear, what you have in your genome may be less important than how you use it.


Dutch PhD develops fast method for preparing flu vaccine

Medicine & Health / Research

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A shortage of flu vaccines may soon become a thing of the past. Researcher Manon Cox has designed an alternative process for producing large quantities of safe and effective vaccines at twice to four times ...


Facebook (and systems biologists) take note: Network analysis reveals true connections

Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections

Technology / Computer Sciences

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Facebook figures out that you know Holly, although you haven't seen her in 10 years, because you have four mutual friends -- a good predictor of direct friendship. But sometimes Facebook gets ...


New approach to sickle-cell disease shows promise in mice

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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A new genetic approach to treating sickle cell disease is showing promising results in mice, report researchers from Children's Hospital Boston. By inactivating a gene they previously discovered to be important in the laboratory, ...


New understanding of how to prevent destruction of a tumor suppressor

New understanding of how to prevent destruction of a tumor suppressor

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and colleagues at the University of Texas Southwestern and Case Western University have determined how the protein Mdm2, which is elevated in late-stage ...


Second-line CML drugs evoke faster response than front-line therapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Two medications approved as treatment for drug-resistant chronic myeloid leukemia continue to provide patients with quicker, better responses as a first treatment than the existing front-line drug, researchers at The University ...


Drug shows promise for T315I-mutated chronic myeloid leukemia

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Results from a phase II clinical trial indicate a novel drug may provide a treatment option for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients who do not respond to current therapies, researchers from The University of Texas M. ...


Quitting smoking can reverse asthma-inducing changes in lungs

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Asthmatic smokers may be able to reverse some of the damage to their lungs that exacerbates asthmatic symptoms just by putting down their cigarettes, according to research out of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.



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