Scientists develop 'super peptide' that kills Candida albicans
...e systems such as those suffering from HIV/AIDS or undergoing organ or bone transplants. This discovery, say t... systems, such as those diagnosed with HIV/AIDS or undergoing organ or bone marrow transplants. Moreover, if it gets into an individual's bloodstream, C. albican...Fertility study shows increased estrogen shortens window of implantation in mice
...certain yet promising. Levels of estrogen in women undergoing in vitro fertilization rise due to the ovarian hyperstimulation required for retrieving multiple eggs. One prediction from their investigation, Dey says, is that exposure of the uterus to these increased estrogen levels may be contributing to high im...US researchers find first conclusive evidence that lead is linked to male infertility
...n semen from the partners of 140 consecutive women undergoing their first IVF cycle. They found that lead leve...hers found that in the 140 men whose partners were undergoing IVF, higher lead levels in the seminal plasma correlated with low expression of mannose receptors an...Medical devices safe, but could be safer with better regulation
...three times higher than the usual rate in patients undergoing bronchoalveolar lavage. Bronchoalveolar lavage is a common procedure in which a bronchoscope is used to put sterile saline into the lower airways and then remove it so potential infectious agents and other causes of respiratory illness can be identi...MIT sugars research affecting bypass patients, drug industry
...ample, significantly improve outcomes for patients undergoing major operations such as heart bypass surgery and impact a multi-billion dollar drug industry. In the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences for the week of January 13, a team led by the professor, Ram Sasisekharan, r...Facing extreme ice conditions, coast guard, NSF deploy second icebreaker to Antarctica
...ting to this extensive ice. Because Polar Star is undergoing substantial maintenance and is unable to steam south, Healy is being deployed to help Polar Sea meet two challenges, Sutherland explained. The first is to break a channel through the ice to Hut Point at McMurdo Station and to keep it open. Although ...'Binary' enzyme created by TSRI scientists demonstrates Darwinian evolution at its simplest
...e to have a genetic system of molecules capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution with only two distinct subunits....Clinical trial shows timing of chemotherapy improves survival in breast cancer
...te early regrowth of white blood cells in patients undergoing chemotherapy. "If confirmed with additional research, this approach may change the standard of care in breast cancer treatment," said Dr. Norton, who added that the improved treatment is based on a concept that might also apply to other disea...Infection with second strain of HIV compromises treatment
...ute (HHMI) esearchers are reporting that a patient undergoing experimental therapy for HIV infection became "superinfected" with a second strain of the virus, which compromised his treatment. "This finding has strong public health implications because it means that if you are already infected with HIV you can b...University of Pittsburgh findings published in Science illustrate how KSHV causes cancer
... to grow. vIL-6 protects virus-infected cells from undergoing growth arrest and apoptosis, or cell death, which is the normal way that the immune system attempts to limit viral infections. "The importance of this finding is that it demonstrates that there is an overlap between the immune system and tumor suppre...Drug averts Parkinson's disease in fruit flies, suggesting new approach for humans
... geldanamycin itself, derivatives of which are now undergoing clinical trials as possible antitumor agents. However, she says these findings should stimulate chemists and pharmaceutical researchers on the trail of a new class of drugs that, by bolstering molecular chaperones, could prevent neurodegenerative di...Hopkins researchers find postoperative fevers common following hemispherectomy
...he child is active and playful. Of the 10 patients undergoing hemispherectomy since 2001, only one has required the insertion of a shunt to drain CSF, and none have been diagnosed with bacterial meningitis....Study: Isoflavone-enriched soy proteins fail to increase bone mineral density in young women
...vones had beneficial effects on the bones of women undergoing menopause or who already were postmenopausal," said Dr. John J.B. Anderson, professor of nutrition at the UNC schools of public health and medicine. "We felt that if this were true for older women, it might also be true for healthy young women and co...Leading cancer research organization urges FDA to speed approval of drugs for precancers
...pecific cancer-related genomic changes in patients undergoing treatment. "Second, many also worried about the risks of giving medicine to seemingly healthy people including those with precancers. However, this attitude clearly has changed with the treatment of other life-threatening conditions such as cardiov...Kurt Wthrich of The Scripps Research Institute wins 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...entially in a particular configuration, while also undergoing spinning motions similar to the gyroscopic precessions of bicycle wheels or spinning tops under an external torque. Any fluctuating magnetic field orthogonal to that of the NMR magnet will perturb the alignment of the nuclear magnetic moments away f...One in every three primates now threatened with extinction
...low hundreds of individuals, Vietnam is at risk of undergoing a major primate extinction spasm within the next few years if rapid action is not taken. Fully 20 percent of the top 25 primates are located in Vietnam, with another 16 percent from China and 12 percent from Indonesia." Twenty-three of the 25 primate...Genetic findings in monkey herpes virus could aid research in human cancer
...atient taking immunosuppressive drugs or a patient undergoing chemotherapy, you are more likely to develop Kaposi's sarcoma. In sub-Saharan Africa, many children 6 years of age develop Kaposi's with very bad lesions. It's the number one childhood cancer in this region primarily as a result of widespread HIV inf...Yale researchers shed light on B cells involvement in autoimmune diseases like lupus
...bodies escape normal controls by proliferating and undergoing somatic hypermutation outside of the germinal center, which is the normal location for these processes....Stanford researchers find cause, possible cure for gluten intolerance
...t tubes using tissue taken by biopsy from patients undergoing unrelated medical procedures. "Even with prolonged treatment (exposure to intestinal enzymes), the peptide doesn't lose the ability to induce the inflammatory response," Shan said. When they looked more closely at the fragment, Shan and her colleague...... all along. Now the theory behind one such idea is undergoing its most exhaustive test yet at the University of Rochester. James D. Fry, assistant professor of biology, is running fruit flies through a series of tests to see if a few, subtle changes in the flies' environment could be enough to trigger the creat...