Aeras partners with Crucell to develop TB vaccine
...The Crucell-Aeras TB vaccine program will focus on improvement of the only currently available TB vaccine, Bacill...think we can contribute with our technology to the improvement of global health." Dr. Sadoff added, "We are very pleased to be working with Crucell and to be ...Researchers show chronic sinusitis is immune disorder; antifungal medicine effective treatment
...nts in the treatment group also showed significant improvement when their nasal passages were viewed through an endoscope, while the placebo group showed no change. Markers of inflammation in the mucus also decreased significantly in the treatment group, compared to the placebo group. Additional researchers on...Research on inherited eye disorders uncovers new information about blood-vessel formation
...disorders without many side effects, a significant improvement over drugs that more generally affect vascular growth, Nathans said. However, emphasized Nathans, far more work needs to be done to understand the role of the Norrin-Fz4 pathway in vascular development. "We're not sure how much this pathway generaliz...Stress hormones and heart failure
...estive heart failure were found to have a dramatic improvement in their cardiovascular function when treated with urocortin II. "We hope that this study expands our understanding of the potent actions of urocortin II in cardiovascular physiology and points to a precise targeting of the CRF2 receptor for i...Rimonbant shows promise in addressing multiple risk factors
...d/or smoking. This action results in weight loss, improvement of cardiovascular/ metabolic risk factors in overweight/obese patients and reduces tobacco dependence without post cessation weight gain in people who smoke. ABOUT RIO TRIALS (RIMONABANT IN OBESITY) RIO-Lipids is the first of four Phase III studies...UN study shows environmental consequences from ongoing boom in personal computer sales
...s a pluralistic organization devoted to continuous improvement in maximizing profit and environmental benefit. "Decisions taken from now on how WEEE is implemented in practice will have a big effect on what kind of system we end up with," says Hieronymi. The study notes that none of the existing legislation in ......en and blue combine to produce white. Mauch's improvement of the FISH method was combined with use of a "confocal" microscope a microscope that focuses on a horizontal plane or "slice" within a three-dimensional object. The combination made it possible to see gene activity within a single cell. It "a...JCI table of contents, March 1 2004
... free for the duration of the study, a significant improvement over untreated mice and mice receiving only the primary vaccine. Both morphologic analysis of the lesions and microarray analysis of gene expression in parallel revealed that the immune reaction halted carcinogenesis and reverted neoplastic lesions t...Announcement of the chicken genome sequence and genome variation maps
... vertebrate evolution and human health, and to the improvement of poultry breeding and food safety....Carbohydrates offer some help in muscle protein synthesis, but not enough for the desired effect
...synthesis and breakdown. In this work, the gradual improvement in net muscle protein balance after carbohydrate i...a progressive reduction in breakdown. However, the improvement was small compared with previous findings after intake of amino acids or amino acids and carbohydrat...Researchers receive $9.2 million for heart failure studies
...uel that is used by the heart and see if we get an improvement in pumping function." In the second project, Hani N. Sabah, Ph.D., professor of medicine at Case, director of the Cardiovascular Research Laboratories of the Henry Ford Heart and Vascular Institute and co-principal investigator of the program, w...Slow-moving ground water slows down water-quality improvements in Chesapeake Bay
...between implementation of management practices and improvement of water quality in the Bay. The Chesapeake Bay Program, a multi-agency watershed partnership, is implementing nutrient-reduction strategies in an attempt to improve water-quality conditions in the Bay by 2010. "Over the past dozen years we have see...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...tenance, and effective disinfection system for the improvement of water quality is high," say the researchers. Solar irradiation is the process by which sunlight eradicates bacterial growth. In the study, samples of river water and partially processed water from wastewater treatment plants were treated with ......lementing best management practices and the actual improvement in quality of the ground water entering the Bay. Ground water supplies about half of the water reaching the Bay; in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, half of the ground water is at least 10 years old to more than 50 years old. For more information, see ...Kidney injury's harmful effects on bones blocked in mice
...umans, we could be on our way to producing a major improvement in the well-being of patients with chronic kidney disease," says Keith A. Hruska, M.D., the Ira M. Lang Professor of Nephrology and professor of pediatrics and of cell biology and physiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. H...ESA to select new Earth Explorer missions
...e stratosphere. This will allow the validation and improvement of atmospheric models in support of climate research and numerical weather prediction. EGPM (European contribution to the Global Precipitation Monitoring mission) Compared with the Earth's total water budget the amount that is available as freshwa...JCI table of contents, February 2, 2004
...y site of action for leptin's effects on metabolic improvement in lipodystrophy. Using a congenital mouse model of lipodystrophy, the authors observed that administration of leptin under the skin was not as potent as lower doses administered directly to the central nervous system, which were able to correct the...'Grey goo' misconceptions could harm poor in developing world
...ing to a moratorium on research that promises vast improvement in the lives of five billion people in developing countries. Dr Singer said: "Opposition from Prince Charles and pressure groups around the world should not be permitted to diminish the health, environmental and economic opportunities of the poor ...Gulf between rich, poor will grow if high-profile nanotechnology opponents prevail: ethics experts
... called for on budding research that promises vast improvement in the lives of five billion people in developing countries, according to medical ethics experts at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. In an article to be published by the Institute of Physics' journal "Nanotechnology," and release...European Virtual Institute for Genome Annotation receives 12 million Euro
...egral part of the process, leading to an iterative improvement in methods," explains Thornton.The annotations will be integrated using DAS (Distributed Annotation System), an Open Source system developed by researcher Lincoln Stein and colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (NY, USA) for exchanging annotati...