Vaccine Technology Takes Center Stage In Rochester
...lts in nursing homesaround Rochester currently are taking part in the study. Rochester has become a national model not only in suchresearch but also in ensuring that as many people as possible areimmunized. Physician Peter Szilagyi created a program that hasboosted the numbers of children in inner-cit...Mice Lacking Gene Show Reduced Alcohol Preference And Sensitivity
...er that craving. "Our research shows that taking away the D2 receptor cut alcoholconsumption in half," said Tamara Phillips, Ph.D., the lead author of the paper.Phillips is a research geneticist at the Portland VA Medical Center andprofessor of behavioral neuroscience at OHSU. "It also changed alco...Dinosaur Tooth Enamel: A Key To Investigating Ancient Climate On Land
...of climate on land to include othertime periods by taking advantage of the geographically widespreadoccurrence of dinosaur teeth in the fossil record for most of theMesozoic era (65 to 248 million years ago)....Sick Kids Improves Access To Global Genome Database
...nuedat the end of January 1999. HSC is considering taking over the management of theentire GDB. The Hospital for Sick Children is Canada's premier health research facility andone of the world's leading centres for genetics research. Through its Centre forApplied Genomics it offers scientists from HSC and ac...Test For Genetic Trait May Indicate Heart Benefits Of Hormone Replacement Therapy
...sterol -- the "bad" low-density lipoproteins -- by taking HRT," says H.Robert Superko, M.D., FACC, in research presented today at the American HeartAssociation's 71st Scientific Sessions. Superko, director of research and clinical affairs at the Berkeley HeartLab andthe Lawrence Berkeley National Laborator...New Drug "Cocktails" Prove Effective Against Hepatitis
... virus, either permanently or as long as they kept taking the drug "All in all, Lamivudine appears safe and effective," said Schiff. "In the future, I expect it will be used in combination with other drugs as part of an overall treatment of chronic Hepatitis B patients." Interferon alfa-2b +ribavirin vs.......ntly, levels are lower still in women who had been taking hormonereplacement therapy (HRT) for more than seven years. "These data indicate that total plasma (blood) homocysteine levels are lower inwomen than in men and that HRT, especially long term HRT use, may play animportant role in lowering homocystei......to suffer from coronary heart disease. Even after taking account of other confounding factors (such as general diet and exercise) they found that the reduction was still significant. Hu et al suggest that the protective effect of nuts may be due to the unsaturated fats that they contain which have benefici...Ancient Antarctic Environment Rocked By Volcanic Eruptions
...h, in Socorro, N.M., one of eight U.S.universities taking part in the Cape Roberts project....Scientists Finger A Molecular Kingpin In Body's Response To Cigarettes
...age while working atLitron Laboratories, suggested taking a look at the effects ofcigarette smoke, which counts dioxin-like compounds among itsconstituents. So the team set out, with funding from the NationalInstitute of Environmental Health Sciences. Gasiewicz and Dertinger studied "knock-out" mice, a...Penn Researchers Awarded $10 Million Grant To Study Link Between Genes And Hormone-Related Cancers
...population whosecancer risk may be increased after taking hormones."...Vitamin E Prevents Early Plaque Formation
...formation. Humans can obtain this response by taking vitamin E supplements. Kazi Islam, a fellow in the Center of Human Nutrition, also participated inthe study. This news release is available on our World Wide Web home page at http://www.swmed.edu/home_pages/news/ To automatically rec...Saving Endangered Species Becomes Part Of Ag Center's Animal Reproduction Projects
...t May they have made more than a dozen attempts at taking eggsfrom female tigers at the Baton Rouge Zoo, combining them with sperm from maletigers at the Audubon Institute and transferring the embryos into female lionsat the Audubon Institute. But so far none of the attempts has resulted in apregnancy. ...New Monitoring Technique Checks Thyroid Cancer Without Misery
... hope assays like this will avoid the need to stop taking thyroid hormone andmake monitoring faster, easier and more sensitive." A similar assay using PCR to monitor prostate cancer treatment is beingtested elsewhere. Other researchers on the project were Matthew D. Ringel, M.D., and Pau...Migratory songbird breeding linked to winter habitat
... understood. To test their hypothesis that events taking place on the birds' winteringgrounds influence their condition and arrival time at the breeding grounds,Marra and colleagues studied American redstarts in two of their winter habitatsin Jamaica - a moist, black mangrove forest and a drier, scrub habi...The UK Braces Itself For The Flu Season, Are You Looking Information On The Virus?
...ysfrom influenza infection, with complete recovery taking 10 days on average. However, in certain groups of the population, especially the elderly and thosewith underlying diseases, like asthma or heart and lung disease, influenza ismore devastating and can even be fatal. As with many illnesses, prevention...West Coast Measurements Confirm Asian Air Pollution Can Travel To U.S.
...the pollution, but withthe rapid industrial growth taking place in Asia we expect that the impacts willincrease," he said. The findings are part of a three-year project called the Photochemical OzoneBudget of the Eastern North Pacific Atmosphere, funded by the National ScienceFoundation. Measurements taken ...Russia Has Designs On Its Astronauts' Used Underwear
.... Meanwhile, stored waste builds upon the station, taking up valuable space and posing a potential health threat tocrew. The search for the most suitable combination of microbes is expected totake up to a decade. Many of the strains are stored in national andinternational collections. The researcher......llergy andInfectious Diseases showed that patients taking HAART have latently infectedimmune system T-cells .... That is, all HIV-infected individuals,even those taking HAART and who have no measurable virus in their blood, shouldcontinue practicing safe sex and other ......edby the National Science Foundation. Also taking part in the research were several University of Rochesterstudents, including undergraduate Howard Scher and graduate student RoryCottrell. The find came thanks to the perseverance of the students and Tarduno,who spent six weeks during both summers tr...