Interactive health information system to detect Japanese encephalitis in Asia
...is is made possible by a 5-year, $27 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. One of the cornerstones of the JE Project is to improve clinical surveillance of Japanese encephalitis so health officials can fully understand the magnitude of the problem and target resources strategically based...Old bones unearth new date for giant deer's last stand
... was found across the middle latitudes of Eurasia, from Ireland to east of Lake Baikal. The males would ha...hought that the antlers would have prevented males from entering even moderately dense woods, at least for part of the year, and one former theory for their...Bugs in the gut could play key role in understanding human disease and drug toxicity
...g and novel treatments for diseases say scientists from Imperial College London and Astra Zeneca. In a rev...han the host. The combination of interacting genes from the body and gut microbes can be considered a 'super-organism', capable of co-ordinating many physio...Obese women with early-stage breast cancer more likely to die than women of normal weight
...y, researchers analyzed the data of 2,010 patients from 1978 to 2003 with stage I/II breast cancer who were treated with lumpectomy, lymph-node dissection and radiation therapy with or without chemotherapy. Patients were categorized into three groups according to their weight: normal (452 patients) over...The PSA bounce Does it have clinical significance?
...In this retrospective analysis, data were gathered from the records of 4,839 men treated only with external-beam radiation between 1986 and 1995 at nine institutions throughout the US. The median follow-up was 6.3 years. Treatment during this time period consisted primarily of conventional radiation the...ASPB opposes ban of GE crops in Butte County Ballot Measure D
...imate Agricultural Operations," which are exempted from the type of activities that can be designated as a...ished a study this year which found no unique risk from genetically engineered foods compared to traditionally bred food crops. The report can be read on ...Toward a better understanding of taste and smell impairments
PHILADELPHIA, PA A team of researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center and Jefferson Me...sciplinary team of basic scientists and clinicians from the MonellJefferson Chemosensory Clinical Research Center (CCRC) to investigate how inflammation con...Botulism bug says no to nitric oxide, provides key to molecule's role in human cell signaling
...of nature's simplest molecules, nitric oxide (NO), from a toxin to anaerobic bacteria the planet's oldest... have ultimately shown is how this protein evolved from being part of a protective mechanism into a system that learned to use the toxin to benefit the orga...U-M scientists see ubiquitin-modified proteins in living cells
... cell growth and gene transcription and moved Jun from its usual location in the cell's nucleus into holl...lex is transported to the lysosome getting it away from DNA in the nucleus and preventing Jun from continuing its normal gene transcription function," he ad...Is more better: Counting birds may only tell part of the story
... (University of Colorado Boulder) reviewed studies from the past 20 years, looking at whether a large numb...ndicator of habitat quality if it was disconnected from reproductive success or survival. After reviewing multiple studies, Bock and Jones found that cou...Component of volcanic gas may have played a significant role in the origins of life on Earth
...or could have been introduced onto the early Earth from meteorites. "There are lots of ways to make ami...s now western Australia. These most likely evolved from some simpler life forms because, like all modern life, cyanobacteria are highly sophisticated living...Yale scientists find cooperative RNA switches in nature
...000 , an on-line web resource where top researcher from around the world rank scientific publications Brea...rk Lee, Jeffrey Barrick and Gail Mitchell Emilsson from Yale and Zasha Weinberg and Walter L. Russo from the University of Washington. The work was supporte...Society for Psychophysiology Research
...veloped a paradigm that can distinguish antisocial from normal children on the basis of brain waves recorded during performance of a frustrating task. In this study they showed that a 14 week behavioral treatment program aimed at helping antisocial children who are aggressive and impulsive cope with frust...UCR researchers identify key plant enzyme that defends against multiple infections
Scientists from the University of California, Riverside have ident...kely involved in a variety of processes that range from stress and defense responses to proper development during aging. This is an important discovery beca...T cell's memory may offer long-term immunity to leishmaniasis
...as been found in U.S. military personnel returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. In the October issue of Nat...onse against a pathogen, need constant stimulation from the pathogen in order to remain effective against the disease. "Without the persistent attack from ...HHS awards $232 million in biodefense contracts for vaccine development
...he disease, which infects the lungs and can spread from person to person through the air, is nearly always fatal unless antibiotic treatment is started within 24 hours of infection. NIAID also modified an existing contract with DynPort Vaccine Company LLC of Frederick, Md., to include the manufactur...MIT: Recycling of scrapped electronics studied
... quality and reusability of the materials produced from it, a consideration critical to overall resource e...l the value of materials is maintained all the way from their first use to their recovery. Value added compares the price of the recovered material to the p...New risks for bladder cancer identified by MIT team
...of Toxicology at MIT. "This is very important from a public health point of view," said Tannenbaum, w...ernatives for the latter. Authors of the paper from MIT are Tannenbaum, Paul L. Skipper, a BE principal research scientist, and Jinping Gan, a former gr...Experts present new research on hot topics in aging at GSA's annual meeting in Washington, DC
...n Older Adults: Ultimately, all persons suffering from dementing illnesses need to surrender driving. Ide...ing a serious health priority. Ideally, retirement from driving should occur as close to the optimal time as possible, neither too early, nor too late. Driv...URBANA -- Developing a petroleum-free fuel from corn byproducts is one of the goals of a newly nam... will pool their expertise, attacking the problems from different directions to improve the efficiency of bioconversion of plant fibers into fuels and other...