NIH awards $20.7 million to make smallpox vaccine safer
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...eople worldwide are afflicted with AIDS. AIDS is currently incurable. However, cocktails that contain chemical agents that block various steps of viral replication have allowed millions of people to survive with the disease. "This work could provide us with another class of molecules to add to the cocktail,...Pancreatic cancer blood test & gene studies show promise
...sults can be replicated in a larger clinical trial currently being planned, this approach could help prevent surgery for patients whose biopsy shows they have pancreatitis, not cancer. The research team receives funding from the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor, the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer ...OneWorld Health completes enrollment, treatment in Phase III India trial
...ans. An estimated 1.5 million people worldwide are currently infected; 200 million people are at risk of acquiring VL; and as many as 200,000 people die annually. Left untreated, it is fatal. With the exception of malaria, VL kills more people than any other parasitic disease. While most Westerners have never...Drug combo effective in advanced breast cancer
...s with this alteration." The treatment combination currently is being tested in large, randomized Phase III studies to further confirm the UCLA results and provide proof of principle. If the studies are successful, it will change the way breast cancer patients with this genetic alteration are treated, Pegram s...Land Regeneration Network celebrates first year success
...rowth has rapidly exceeded expectation. Membership currently stands at roughly 1250 individuals from about 890 companies and organisations in Wales - the majority of which are SMEs. Awareness of the LRN and its activities continues to grow, evident through the lively participation at our networking events, sig......are resistant to Taxol, one of the best treatments currently available for breast and other cancers. It is now in the first phase of human clinical trials as a treatment for many forms of solid malignancies such as pancreatic cancer. Encouraging success stories such as discodermolide inspired creation of the ...One step further toward treatment for degenerative diseases
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...imin, with the projected brand name of Xifaxan, is currently under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administrat... been prescribed internationally since 1987 and is currently approved in 17 countries worldwide. "This is potentially one of the most important advances ove...A new way to kill cancer: SLU research shows viruses can destroy lung, colon tumors
...ential to treat many cancers that are resistant to currently available therapeutics. It also may be possible to use these viruses in combination with other therapies to create novel treatment regimens." Dr. Wold and his colleagues Karoly Toth, Konstantin Doronin, Ann E. Tollefson, Mohan Kuppuswamy, Baoling Yin...Bird's eye views earth's magnetic lines
... of these animals". Virginia Tech researchers are currently carrying out related experiments to characterize the biophysical basis of the magnetic compass in insects, amphibians, and mice....Motion that powers sperm provides key to unravelling rare genetic disorder
...ldren to benefit from prenatal diagnosis. "We are currently investigating the role of this and other BBS genes in causing the disease in the hope that one day we may be able to develop effective treatments to alleviate some of the problems encountered by sufferers. Understanding how rare diseases such as BBS ...Tufts University groundbreaking research on caterpillar locomotion
...need to solve the artificial muscle problem first, currently there are no good soft actuators (motors) available," according to Trimmer. "Professor Trimmer is a trailblazer in the field of biosystems and neural processes," said Susan Ernst, a biologist and dean of the School of Arts & Sciences. "His work could...Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop DOE leadership-class computing capability for science
...puters 100 to 1,000 times more powerful than those currently available will have a profound impact on computational scientists ability to simul!ate the fundamental physical, chemical, and biological processes that underlie the behavior of natural and engineered systems. ORNL was one of four laboratories that s...Orange, tangerine peels could be better than drugs for lowering cholesterol
... fed the compounds, she adds. The researchers are currently exploring the compound's mechanism of action on cholesterol metabolism. They now suspect, based on early results in cell and animal studies, that it works by inhibiting the synthesis of cholesterol and triglycerides inside the liver. A long-term hum...Fat fighting undermined by over active eating pacemaker
...e a more difficult and complicated problem than we currently anticipate....Mimicking humpback whale flippers may improve airplane wing design
...py flipper is a more efficient wing design than is currently used by the aeronautics industry on airplanes. The tests show that bump-ridged flippers do not stall as quickly and produce more lift and less drag than comparably sized sleek flippers. The tests were reported by biomechanicist Frank Fish of West Ch...Chronic respiratory symptoms prevalent among Alaska natives
...han five million children in the United States are currently diagnosed with asthma, and asthma rates continue to increase each year," said Paul A. Kvale, MD, FCCP, President-Elect of the American College of Chest Physicians. "With a better understanding of how asthma affects specific populations, such as Alas...First time in the U.S.: Saint Louis University tests third-generation vaccine against smallpox
...chemotherapy for cancer, you shouldn't receive the currently licensed vaccine." Dr. Frey said this study vaccine, known as MVA-BN and provided through Bavarian Nordic, is different than other vaccines that are now available. Like the current vaccines, the study vaccine is a live-virus vaccine made from vaccini......pite growing resistance by microbes to antibiotics currently in use. Tuberculosis, once commonly referred to as consumption, has a long history. Evidence of tubercular decay has been found in the bones of Egyptian mummies. It was identified by Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician, as the most widespread an...