New UNC study reveals screening tests can boost early discovery of AIDS virus
...n see which pools are negative for HIV and thereby eliminate all individual testing of specimens from groups showing no virus, the physician said. If a smaller pool is found to contain the virus, then each specimen gets tested individually through what's called a polymerase chain reaction (PCR). "One important......ng invention by a team from Yale University should eliminate a major concern about ICSI safety chromosome abnormalities in the children born by this technique. Scientists from the university's School of Medicine will present to the ESHRE conference (Tuesday 2 July) the concept and first results of a method th...National Institutes of Health green lights additional research into new breast imaging system
...or unnecessary biopsies," said Jiang. "If we could eliminate even half of the them, it would be an enormous savings in money, not to mention human pain and lost work productivity." Jiang said he is encouraged by the early findings but cautioned that the research is in the preliminary stages, and that the tech...Research shows different races, ethic groups receiving different levels of preventive care
..., such as not having resources to obtain care, and eliminate them," she said. In the new study, she and colleagues found that after controlling for age, education, employment and insurance status, 66 percent of white women who would have been eligible for mammography received it compared with 70 percent of b...Potential of regenerative medicine explored
..." are showing promise in initial lab tests and may eliminate the need for time-intensive plasma replacement therapy in immunologically sensitive patients prior to transplantation. Ms. Hout will be presenting this work Friday, June 14. An injected solution of blood-soluble drag-reducing polymers (DRPs) improv...Molecular clues to an inherited epilepsy
...essence, "locks on the gate." An ideal drug would eliminate only the abnormal closing properties of the sodium channels, not their initial openings that are important to normal brain function. "We now have a physiologic event that we can target with a drug and test in the laboratory to identify drugs that are...Stanford researcher advocates aggressive, preventive anal cancer treatment
...s through sexual contact, but their immune systems eliminate the virus before any damage is done. However, some strains of the virus are more tenacious than others, and immune-suppressed individuals have a harder time eliminating HPV from their systems. In these people, the virus can cause dysplasia (or abnorm...RING Finger proteins target cellular molecules for disposal
...s is regulated, how cells "know" which proteins to eliminate and when, is the subject of intense scientific investigation. "Many proteins that are important regulators of progress through the cell division cycle are inactivated by being destroyed, reduced to their component parts at particular times in the cy...Hebrew University professor designs medication to lower recurrence of cardiovascular disease
... area to help it heal. (Macrophages are cells that eliminate foreign matter and particles such as bacteria from the body by ingesting them.) In many cases, the accumulation of macrophages in the area causes a new blockage to form. The medicine Prof. Golomb developed prevents the macrophages from accumulating i...Children's Hospital Boston researchers use therapeutic cloning to create functional tissue in cows
...tire hearts. Additionally, it has the potential to eliminate the rejection responses associated with transplantation of "non-self" tissues, and thus the need for immunosuppressive drugs, which carry the risk of serious and potentially life-threatening complications and enormous cost to the United States health...1st evidence that nuclear transplantation ('therapeutic cloning') can eliminate tissue rejection
...loning to generate medically important tissues and eliminate tissue rejection. Heart 'patches' and miniature kidneys engineered from cloned cells were successfully tested in a large-animal model, the cow, which has a sophisticated immune system similar to that of humans. "These results bode well for the future...Researchers solve killer protein's 'crime'
...roughout life as a means to, among other purposes, eliminate potentially cancerous cells. Now, by reconstruc...cule drugs designed to imitate Reaper's ability to eliminate IAPs would potentially target only cancer cells, leaving healthy cells unharmed," says Steller. "Thi...Researchers uncover biochemical connection between high-fat diets and increased colon-cancer risk
...wondered if the vitamin D receptor might also help eliminate lithocholic acid. The researchers discovered that ... identifies a possible target for helping the body eliminate excess lithocholic acid, exploiting the research might not be so simple. Taking extra vitamin D woul...Researchers find new genetic influences on alcohol metabolism
...n have a variant form of ALDH that works slowly to eliminate alcohol," said Crabbe, "and these individuals experience the bad side effects when they drink. As you can imagine, very few Asians with the variant ALDH become alcoholics. Because we inherit which form of ALDH we have from our parents, this is a ve...Two genetic suspects are identified in the mystery of why we need to sleep
...suggest treatments and behavior modifications that eliminate or minimize the impacts of: Night shift work Sleep disorders Jet lag to name a few The next research phase of Shaw and his colleagues, Ralph Greenspan and Donald Robinson, at The Neurosciences Institute, is to pin down the mechanisms by which ...New research could spearhead permanent nuclear waste storage
...ks from a distance. This would be non-invasive and eliminate the need for someone to physically scoop a sample of the heterogeneous material from the dangerous tank environment for lab testing. The new testing method potentially could save millions of taxpayers' dollars annually. The high-level radioactive was...Eliminating battlefield transfusions
... unique blood plasma volume expander may reduce or eliminate the need for blood transfusions in situations such as these. Plasma expanders, including those being presented at an upcoming meeting, are now being studied by a number of military researchers seeking the ideal surgical fluid to treat combat casualti...Gene study determines how humans are related to fruit flies and nematode worms
...he researchers also rigorously tested the genes to eliminate a number of possible biases that could occur by chance, or by natural selection, or for other reasons. "We did every relevant analysis known to molecular evolutionists, and took every known precaution to account for intrinsic biases in the data, "Bl...Prescription drug pollution may harm humans, aquatic life
...e how efficiently natures self-cleansing processes eliminate these man-made pollutants. Color images of Roberts, Venkatraman and Blumenfeld available; Contact Phil Sneiderman Related Links: A. Lynn Roberts Web Page: http://www.jhu.edu/~dogee/people/faculty/roberts.html Padma Venkatramans Web Page: http://...Don't be fooled about your oral health: AAP uncovers common misconceptions
...ing the tongue (where the sulfur resides) can help eliminate bad breath. Cavities are the number one cause of tooth loss. Together periodontal disease and cavities are the primary cause of tooth loss. Pregnant women should skip professional dental checkups. Periodontal health can affect unborn babies healt...