Global Warming Would Foster Spread Of Dengue Fever Into Some Temperate Regions
...nseasonably hot year. The researchers used three different general circulation models topredict the patterns of global climate change; all three showed that dengue'sepidemic potential increases with a relatively small temperature rise. Thehigher...Rare Mutation Find May Offer Clues To Treating Osteoporosis
...ger, was born with TDOsyndrome in 1956. Two of her three children now have it, as did her mother, hergrandfather and his mother. She wears crowns on all her teeth to prevent themfrom wearing away. Cavities were not a major problem for her growing up becauseof fluoride-treated water and because large gaps b......he United States has remained steady over the last three decades,a recent survey of bacterial meningitis cases in the metro Atlanta area and inGeorgia has revealed a marked shift in the last eight years in both theage-specific incidence and in the specific subgroups of the disease. Results ofthe survey ar......ters is a fragmentedcomet that crashed to Earth in three major groups over a period of time asshort as four hours, in two groups of two and one solitary chunk. It ispossible that the comet or asteroid actually broke into more than five pieces,but most of the Earth at that latitude was ocean 214 million ye......ased to thrive in the absence of FSH or LH. In all three remaining groups, estrogen... continued to rise and pregnancies resulted in all three groups. "This suggests that if you administer FSH ...Jefferson Researchers Use Gene Therapy To Treat Rare, Inherited Brain Disease
...normal brain development. According to Dr. Freese, three years ago, his colleagues at Yale were contacted by Canavan families for their expertise in gene therapy to see about the possibility of developing a therapy for the disease. Drs. During, Leone and Freese developed a gene delivery system based on lip...Soy Protein With Phytoestrogens Inhibit Atherosclerosis Progression As Well As Premarin
...clerosis in the iliacarteries before treatment and three years later. They found that atherosclerosis progressed in about 64 percent of theanimals in the control group, but in only 44 percent of the animals in thephytoestrogen group and 42 percent of the animals in the Premarin group, asignificant ...New Study Of BRCA1 Shows No Need For Widespread Screening Of American Women
...ab. The genetic analysis showed that only three of the 120 white women withbreast cancer had disea...ed mutations in BRCA1 (0 percent). (There werealso three Native American women, none of whom had such mutations.) "From this study we can conclude th...Prostate Cancer Switch May Yield Map Of Cancer Machinery, Targets For Drugs
...gan exploring its molecular mechanism. The three scientists discovered the switch as a short stretch of RNAnestled in the string of "messenger RNA," a molecule which constitutes theblueprint for the receptor and which moves out of the cell's nucleus to theprotein-making machinery, where it governs ...Needlestick Injuries Common In Female Veterinarians, Study Finds
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Two out of every three female veterinarians have reportedaccidental needlestick wounds while they were on the job, according to arecent study. The injured veterinarians reported side effects in 16.4 percent of theunintentional needlestick wounds, ranging from many ca...Yale Announces New Biotech Firm
...ers Squibb,"Gardiner said. On the market for only three years, Zerit recentlysurpassed AZT as the most frequently prescribed medication in a class ofdrugs called reverse transcriptase inhibitors. Zerit was the fastestgrowing product for this major pharmaceutical firm in 1997, achievinggrowth of more than...'Mean Gene' Found In Africanized Honey Bees
...-- has been identified by a group of scientists at three institutions. Greg Hunt, a bee specialist with the Purdue University Department of Entomology and principal investigator on the research project, says finding the mean gene in honey bees "may help us understand what makes Africanized bees so aggressi...Small-Scale Fires Key To Understanding Forest Structure
... headwaters. The researchers divided the area into three regions based ondifferences in topography. ... very dryyears throughout California." The three areas investigated were a south-facing slope, headwaters andnorth-facing slope. Natural fire breaks ...Pitt Researchers Develop Strategy To Use Dendritic Cells To Treat And Prevent Tumors
...tions against tumor recurrence, as well. In fact, three monthsafter these mice were injected with either fused DC-tumor complexes or mixturesof co-cultured DC's and tumor cells, they were able to reject additionalinjections of lung carcinoma cells. None of the re-challenged mice developedtumors. ...... modern human to move at any speed." Kramer worked three speeds -- slow, normal and fast -- into her progr...s and had a stride that covered a little more than three feet, with a modern 5-foot 6-inch American or European female weighing 120 pounds whose stride is a...Rapid Progress Reported On New Class Of Anti-Cancer Drugs
...ter, who reported onresearch by a collaboration of three Duke laboratories into the detailedstructure and b...along withinsights from the ongoing studies in the three Duke laboratories, will beimportant for further development of inhibitory drugs." In an int......gene's ability to penetratehuman cells. The first three patients who have been evaluated all showed E1Agene expression in both cancer and non-cancer cells. Additionally, these threepatients all exhibited decreased levels of surrogate tumor markers. Planningfor Phase II trials is currently underway. A si...Study Finds Some People Are 'Born To Smoke'
...agers, Pomerleau says, because they suggest one in three kids who sample acigarette will become lifetime tobacco customers, and vulnerable to tobacco'sadverse health effects. For that reason, he says, it's critical to reduce thenumber of teens who smoke that "first" cigarette. Previous studies have indic......ns Schoolof Public Health. The scientists studied three GST genes, and found thatcertain genetic variants ...e in risk, occurred in women with mutations in all three genes. "This appears to be a significant increase in risk," said KathyHelzlsouer, MD, associ......sively increased from 0.75milliliters in the first three treatments to 3 milliliters in the next sixtreatments to finally 5 milliliters in the last 11 treatments. Four weeks after the first 2,000-microgram injection, a second2,000-microgram injection was made, increasing the total amount of growt...