Risk-taking in infertility treatment correlates with women's negative moods
...o transfer (3ET), and then rating the riskiness of each choice, said Dr. Newton. We found a significant association between womens mood states and their perceptions of the likelihood of a multiple pregnancy. Women estimated their chance of having a multiple pregnancy as lower when they were experiencin...Stem cell procedure successfully treats amyloidosis patients
...th. Between 1,200 and 3,200 new cases are reported each year in the United States, although researchers believe the disease is highly underdiagnosed. To determine whether a second course of this treatment could be beneficial, the researchers enrolled 62 patients on this trial, of whom 17 patients recei...Cloning the male genome may help infertile men
...of retrieving a single viable sperm to inject into each egg. Such a sperm is therefore precious to couple...se were allowed to develop into blastocysts, where each early embryo contains between 70 and 100 cells. 64 blastocysts were transferred to 6 foster-mother...New research holds promise for protecting cancer patients against infertility
...ntagonist cetrorelix by 3 subcutaneous injections, each of them four days apart, concurrently with their chemotherapy. The scientists observed that there was evidence that ovarian function was suppressed, but that this returned to normal after chemotherapy stopped. Follicle stimulating hormone levels ...Researchers discover method for identifying how cancer evades the immune system
...he researchers found that the immune signatures of each of the human breast cancer cases nearly matched th...cation of the need to understand the signature for each patients individual cancer. I see it as the beginning stages of personalized medicine, where we d...JCI Table of Contents -- July 2, 2007
...alignancy with over 1 million new cases in the USA each year. In the July 2 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, two separate studies by research teams at Glasgow University and Baylor College of Medicine uncover 2 previously unidentified regulators of SCC development, providing insights into t...Key to tackling malaria may lie in bed nets for adults and older children
... from malaria, which kills over one million people each year. Current international guidelines recommend..., we could prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths each year." The research was welcomed by Dr Alex Mwita, programme manager for the National Malaria Con...p53 gene mutations and inflammation trigger skin cancer
...alignancy with over 1 million new cases in the USA each year. In the July 2 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, two separate studies by research teams at Glasgow University and Baylor College of Medicine uncover 2 previously unidentified regulators of SCC development, providing insights into t......bility"helping these different organizations learn each other's protocols and procedures, and determine how to resolve differences in a training environment. The training program has detonated 5 vehicles over the last two years to simulate dirty bombs. Then, the team hides sealed objects (standing in for...The Cancer Genome Atlas awards funds for technology development
... than 200,000 cases of cancer in the United States each year. In addition to the detailed genomic data it will generate, there is great hope that TCGA will both advance technological development and drive down its cost, said NCI Director John E. Niederhuber, M.D. Our greatest challenge will be in apply...Mother-of-pearl -- Classic beauty and remarkable strength
...ead, the wall contained distinct clumps of bricks, each an irregular column of crystals with identical com...The overall effect resembles a camouflage pattern, each roughly columnar cluster a slightly different shade. She suggests that this mosaic architecture of...CU researchers solve mystery of how DNA strands separate
... double helix where the two strands fork away from each other, like the free ends of two pieces of thread wound around each other. The forked area opens and closes very rapidly. But scientists have debated whether helicases ...New approach to pulmonary hypertension shows promise
...ase that currently has no cure and kills thousands each year. "We believe this finding opens the door to...bnormalities, so far considered to be unrelated to each other, may in fact be the result of a single problemactivation of NFAT. "Therefore, by attacking ...Tick-related disease thrives on cholesterol, study suggests
...400 to more than 1,000 people contract the disease each year. It is transmitted by the bite of Ixodes scap...in E (apoE). For about a month several mice from each group ate a diet high in cholesterol, while the rest of the animals ate a diet with normal cholester...First baby is born after oocytes were matured in the lab and frozen
...the women. More than one embryo was transferred to each patient because IVM is known to have lower rates of implantation. The resulting pregnancies were singleton pregnancies, with the exception of one, which started as twins but became a singleton pregnancy due to spontaneous reduction. Dr Holzer said...Personalized approach to ovarian stimulation achieves high ART pregnancy rates
...algorithm) to calculate the best starting dose for each patient, both the number of oocytes retrieved and ...tive multi-national clinical study and it provided each patient with an individualised starting dose of FSH, which could be maintained throughout treatment ...Time-lapse recordings reveal why IVF embryos are more likely to develop into twins
... blastocyst formation. It was time-consuming, with each recording taking up to five days, and required specialist equipment and knowledge. However, she said it should enable embryologists to work towards avoiding twin pregnancies during IVF. This could be another tool in their armoury, she said. Those emb...Marine worm opens new window on early cell development
...atenin in only one of the two daughter cells after each cell division. They showed that the regulation of beta-catenin accumulation forms a molecular switch between two new daughter cells, causing the cells to be different from one another. This universal mechanism operates in embryos as a binary decision...Early fire risk for mountains near Los Angeles
...h no spring precipitation. They predicted that for each inch of spring rain, that moisture level will be reached 10 days later. The researchers plan to refine their technique to pinpoint a single high fire-risk threshold between 77 percent and 71 percent foliage moisture. The uncertainty is caused by t...Cell receptor may lead to new 'biomarker' for pancreatic cancer
... -- the disease that kills more than 33,000 people each year. In laboratory studies led by Andrew Lowy, MD, and Susan Waltz, PhD, the Cincinnati researchers found that a specific cell receptor -- known as the RON receptor tyrosine kinase -- was overexpressed, or increased, in pancreatic cancer cells. T...