PNNL lands $10.3 million NIH biodefense contract to unlock proteomes of salmonella and pox
...s that regulate the bacteria that cause salmonella poisoning and typhoid fever, and the monkey pox virus. The five-year award is the Department of Energy lab's third $10 million National Institutes of Health grant or contract in the past year and the second for Richard D. Smith, principal investigator and a Ba...Long-term effects of carbon monoxide poisoning are an autoimmune reaction
...ike in cases of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. CO poisoning is the leading cause of injury and death by poisoning worldwide, with about 40,000 people treated in the U.S. annually. Brain damage occurs days to weeks...Tiny molecules have big potential as cancer drugs, Stanford researcher believes
... would home in on the proteins tumors need without poisoning patients. Matthew Bogyo, PhD, assistant professor of pathology, will discuss his studies of some of these molecules at an Aug. 24 talk during the "Genomic Approaches to Enzymology" session of the American Chemical Society's national meeting in Philad...Symptoms of foodborne botulism may help predict fatality
...otulism makes it a potentially lethal type of food poisoning and a possible agent of bioterrorist attack. Data from the Republic of Georgia (a former Soviet nation south of Russia) suggest that an infected person's symptoms could help doctors predict how immediate the risk of death is, allowing physicians to ...Drug prevents chemotherapy-induced hearing loss, study finds
..., Ore. -- A drug used to treat people with Tylenol poisoning prevents hearing loss caused by a common chemotherapy drug, an Oregon Health & Science University study reports. The study published in the journal Hearing Research found that rats treated with N-acetylcysteine, or NAC, did not suffer from platinum-i...Salmonella infects cells and saves itself by altering host membrane lipids
...dation. Salmonella, the bacterium that causes food poisoning and typhoid fever, can do that. "Salmonell... "While this research is not a cure for food poisoning or typhoid fever, our work is revealing a fundamental mechanism by which these bacteria cause diseas...Researchers describe long-perplexing 'magic spot' on bacteria
... and Salmonella enterica, bacteria that cause food poisoning in humans. Artsimovitch and her colleagues identified previously overlooked RfaH genes in other bacterial pathogens, such as those that cause cholera and bubonic plague. "Not only do RfaH proteins from different bacteria look similar, they act simila...Researchers report definitive evidence that HIV-AIDS is not from oral polio vaccine
...met with some calamities. Worobey contracted blood poisoning from a rattan palm spike that stabbed his hand. He hiked out of the forest to seek medical attention. His two companions, Jeffrey Joy and the well-known evolutionary biologist W.D. (Bill) Hamilton, came down with malaria. Hamilton later died from com...Top US scientist honored with prestigious award
... provoke the violent symptoms associated with food poisoning or toxic shock syndrome. A research investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, vice chair of the department of Immunology, and professor at National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colorado, Dr. Marrack is former president of...NETs protect against pathogenic bacteria
...occus, a bacterium which causes diseases like food poisoning and toxic shock syndrome. The scientists were able to find NETs in experimental cell cultures as well as in tissue samples of dysentery and human biopsies of appendicitis.......he anti-inflammatory livestock drug diclofenac was poisoning these raptors as they scavenged livestock carcasses recently treated with this drug while alive. Studies showed diclofenac caused acute kidney failure in vultures when they ate the carcasses of animals that had recently been treated with it. USGS co...Bacteria lingering in body may pose future food poisoning risks, Stanford study finds
.... - Bacteria responsible for a lethal form of food poisoning may escape the immune system by hiding out in the gall bladder of seemingly healthy people. The finding by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine suggests that an unwitting food worker could transmit the bacteria to others by contamina...NAFTA arbitrators in environmental case agree to formal public input, a first for trade hearings
...ne additive MTBE due to concerns about groundwater poisoning caused by leaking storage containers and the product's suspected carcinogenicity. IISD has warned that Chapter 11, improperly interpreted, could lead to a "regulatory freeze" in the three NAFTA countries, with environmental policy decisions inhibit...New book explains plants, medicine
...a very long table describing the symptoms of plant poisoning complete with antidotes There are twelve chapters in Part II that look at every conceivable part of the human body (featuring a look at dental plants, one of Elvin-Lewis's areas of expertise) and mind as they relate to plant and herbal treatments,...'Homegrown' relief for victims of arsenic poisoning in South Asia
...rld Health Organization calls it the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history." Halfway around the globe, in a region that is no stranger to misery, 100 million people in eastern India and Bangladesh suffer from skin ulcers, tumors and other debilitating and even fatal consequences of arsenic poisoni...Edible urban plants found to contain lead
.... --- Chicago has one of the highest rates of lead poisoning in the United States, an extremely persistent health problem that particularly plagues urban areas. Now a new study by Northwestern University researchers shows that edible plants grown in urban gardens could contain potentially hazardous amounts of ...Saliva spits out information on chemical exposure
...easy to detect chemical exposure or even nerve gas poisoning -- simply by analyzing a victim's saliva. And the ...nosis is the key, as some treatments for nerve gas poisoning are effective, if initiated in time. Typically, however, testing for chemical exposure requires draw...Study calls for cheaper antitoxins for plant poisoning in less-developed countries
Antitoxins for plant poisoning and antidotes to snake venom should be included in...eases; however, this effort seems to be passing by poisoning and envenoming. Treatments for poisoning and envenoming should be included in the campaign to increa...UGA researchers use transgenic trees to help clean up toxic waste site
... this part of New England, the symptoms of mercury poisoning were called the "Danbury shakes.") Meagher's lab actually has two genes that can effect phytoremediation, merA and merB, but since the merA is active on ionic mercury, the cottonwoods trees chosen for the Danbury trial express the merA gene. "This is......reakage and death of the embryo, as well as in the poisoning of adults. "Researchers believe that the main reason for the increasing count is the population rebound after the pesticide DDT was banned in 1972," Steenhof explained. "Declines associated with pesticides during the 1950s may have been more severe ...