OHSU researchers discover possible method for early detection, prevention of premature birth
...elopment of a test for these hard-to-diagnose, but common infections during pregnancy. Early testing follow...m births are a major public health problem and are common in the United States with more than 10 percent of births taking place prematurely," explained Michae...Scientists suggest framework for epigenetics in common disease
...n in the search to understand contributors to such common diseases as cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Wr...stand the genetic and environmental factors behind common diseases. "Epigenetics doesn't underlie all human disease, but we definitely need to develop the tec...Location of potential familial lung cancer gene discovered
...kers, which are DNA sequences that are known to be common sites of genetic variation, the researchers generated and then compared the alleles (the different variations each gene can take) of all affected and non-affected family members who were willing to participate in the study. The researchers found str...Bone, enamel, dentine, milk & saliva share gene family
...g to the same family; that is, they descend from a common ancestral gene, and for the most part, reside on the same chromosome. These genes are all responsible for calcium binding; whether it is the growth of bone on cartilage, tooth components like enamel and dentine, or production of calcium rich milk an...Plant respiration not just an evolutionary leftover, study shows
...ds to demonstrate in both wheat and Arabidopsis, a common research plant, that when plants are exposed to elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide or low levels of oxygen -- both conditions that inhibit photorespiration -- nitrate assimilation in the plant's shoot slows down. Eventually, a shortage of...New view of leukemia cells identifies best treatment options, Stanford researchers say
...ntify patients who need stronger treatment or less common chemotherapy drugs. AML is the most common form of leukemia, with about 10,500 new cases diagnosed each year. The cancerous white blood cells d...Microarrays, key genome expression trackers, work better when probes are sequence-verified
...hensive analysis of probe sequences on the 20 most common mammalian microarray platforms, the researchers fo...array platforms/technologies is certain to prove a common method, our results showing increased accuracy of sequence-verified probes across platforms (oligo v...It's a no-brainer: Prepare for West Nile virus
...rging physicians to be on the lookout for its most common manifestations. A U of T study, published in the M...h West Nile virus (WNV), encephalitis was the most common neurological manifestation. More surprisingly, encephalitis was an apparent risk factor for neuromus...Pump failure implicated in a form of dystonia
...utations in one particular gene, called ATP1A3, as common in all the families. This gene is the blueprint fo...acid, while different in the six mutations, had in common that all appeared to either jam the pump's molecular machinery, cause unstable misfolding in the pro...Why some neonates need caffeine
...his study provides an important answer as to why a common treatment works in alleviating a problem of "stopped breathing" during the sleep process....Drug prevents chemotherapy-induced hearing loss, study finds
...ylenol 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-induced ototoxicity, or hearing loss, caus...Researchers in UGA Vet School discover a mechanism that blocks replication of a retrovirus
...rk on cells already infected by retroviruses. Some common anti-retroviral drugs, such as reverse transcriptase inhibitors, function only immediately after the virus infects a new cell.......e strongest activity at an LC 50 of 29 ppm. Other common essential oils, such as catnip, have shown similar... oil from the Cinnamomum cassia tree is the most common source of cinnamaldehyde, but the tree used in this study indigenous cinnamon, or Cinnamomum osmop...Genetic model for devastating form of paraplegia suggests new treatments
...as other HSP-linked genes, appears to mediate this common function. This suggests that treatment of this common defect may be effective for many, perhaps most, HSP patients." The organism that the researchers use...Hormone helps fish to mate, may affect human hearing
...n they discover that they may share some things in common with these vocal Lotharios of the sea. And we hope that others who study the human auditory system will be inspired by these experiments." The fish study, which was supported, in part, by the National Institutes of Health, shows how steroid hormones...Cell study leap forward for tissue engineering, diseases
... in pathological conditions such a spina bifida, a common birth defect where the spinal cord fails to develo...formulating a cure for diseases. "Identifying this common mechanism is the first piece of the puzzle," he says. "We must now identify the molecules that allow...European researchers tackle mitosis
... whom is contributing an essential piece towards a common goal - understanding mitosis."...Vioxx in high doses causes hypertension
...t shows that 50 is better than 25. "This is really common with a lot of drugs, that there's a ceiling on the effective dose But unfortunately, there's usually not a ceiling on the side effects." Griffin and her colleagues, who include Wayne A. Ray, Ph.D., professor of Preventive Medicine, and C. Michael St...Growth study of wild chimpanzees challenges assumptions about early humans
..., suggesting instead that chimpanzees have more in common developmentally with Homo erectus and that modern humans are the "out-group." The study was coauthored by Adrienne Zihlman, professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Debra Bolter, who just earned her doctorate in ......velopment of COPD, which suggests they may share a common background," said the article's lead author Graciela E. Silva, MPH, University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ. "It is possible that factors such as smoking and repeated episodes of acute bronchitis may facilitate the evolution of asthma...