Short-term social stress may benefit immune response to infection
...search at The Ohio State University had shown that persons caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's disease did not gain the same level of protection from an influenza vaccination as did their counterparts without the same chronic stress. The mice in Wiesehan's and Dr. Sheridan's study experienced a very differe...Tiny scaffolding allows stem cells to become working fat cells
...nt medical potential. While experts once thought a persons number of fat cells was set at birth, they now know individuals can either lose existing fat cells or grow new ones. And aside from the implications for dieting and obesity, a person's population of fat cells has other vital roles. Fat cells extract ...Nanotechnology's progress and challenges addressed during ACS meeting
...de may help diagnose Alzheimer's disease in living persons Alzheimer's is hard to diagnose in living persons and is only definitively diagnosed upon autopsy. Now, in a preliminary study led by noted scientist ...Discovery may lead to better Candidiasis drug
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...pounds may help the immune systems of HIV-infected persons fight the disease without invasive gene therapy. ...olated immune cells from the blood of HIV-infected persons and cultured the cells with the chemical compounds. They were surprised to see that the compounds p...TGen and Kronos initiate Alzheimer's disease study
...only known as "SNPs") in the DNA of 1,000 deceased persons confirmed to have Alzheimer's disease at autopsy and 1,000 deceased persons confirmed to be free of Alzheimer's disease at autopsy. Because of the number of SNPs surveyed-mor...UAlbany CNSE enters NanoBio alliance with Albert Einstein College of Medicine
...d "to advance medical science and the treatment of persons suffering from injury and disease by understanding the pathophysiology of specific diseases at the molecular scale." In particular, the programs will focus on developing the nanoscale knowledge base for the following objectives: disease identifica...Loss of sight and enhanced hearing: A neural picture
... In fact, systematic studies have shown that blind persons perform nonvisual tasks better than those with sig...ormally devoted to vision become active when blind persons perform nonvisual tasks, but much remains to be learned about the nature and extent of this phenomen...JCI table of contents, 3 January 2005
...ns is becoming a growing problem in newly-infected persons as the efficacy of HAART is compromised and therapeutic options are consequently limited. In the January 3 issue of the Journal of Clinical investigation, Joachim Hauber and colleagues from The Heinrich-Pette-Institute for Experimental Virology and I...A genetic difference at the opiate receptor gene affects a person's response to alcohol
... poppy plant. Several researchers have shown that persons with a family history of alcoholism tend to have d...a-endorphin, a natural opiate hormone, compared to persons without a family history of alcoholism. Children of alcoholics, who are not themselves alcoholics, ...Eating red meat may increase the risk of rheumatoid arthritis
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...racted immune cells from the blood of HIV-infected persons and tested what would happen if telomerase remaine...omerase activity in immune cells from HIV-infected persons prevents telomeres from shortening. "This is the first step toward developing other telomerase-bas...Stretching the supply of flu vaccine: Solution offered in new SLU research in New England Journal
...e given under the skin were as vigorous in younger persons but not in people older than 60 years. "We are lea...." The nation's vaccine supply for younger healthy persons conceivably could be stretched 2.5 times using the scheme published in this study. People in this ag...Safety and immunogenicity data available for new pertussis booster vaccine candidate for adolescents
...imals. Almost all reported cases of tetanus are in persons who have either never been vaccinated, or who completed a primary series, but have not had a booster in the preceding 10 years. Infants of unvaccinated mothers are at risk for neonatal tetanus. Early symptoms are lockjaw, stiffness in the neck and ...Experts present new research on hot topics in aging at GSA's annual meeting in Washington, DC
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