New method to analyse the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) of the human genome
...parate genes. Haplotypes may be one of the genetic reasons behind complex diseases that are not associated with just one gene or one genetic mutation, but with sets of genes. About a year ago, an international collaboration of scientists produced a haplotype map of the human genome named the HapMap. The pro...Brain differences could explain why males and females experience pain relief differently
...ximum pain relief. Pain is one of the most common reasons that people consult physicians. Thus, the management of pain has become one of the highest priorities in health care. Chronic pain from inflammatory conditions such as arthritis and fibromyalgia are the most prevalent and pervasive forms of chronic...Researchers now able to look deep into heart to view triggers of a heart's beat
...t greatest risk for sudden cardiac death. Yet, for reasons not well understood, it's normal for women of pre-menopausal age to have slightly prolonged QT intervals. Because many commonly used drugs, including the antibiotic erythromycin, decongestants containing epinephrine and anti-depressants, can block p...JCI Table of Contents, April 13, 2006
...low the virus to escape detection and killing. The reasons underlying the diverse versus restricted nature of the TCR repertoire have remained elusive. So called "memory T cells" are created in reaction to viral infection and these cells can subsequently influence the immune response to, and any adverse immu...Separate genetic mutations gave people, chimps bitter-taste sensitivity
...vity likely was diminished in chimps for different reasons than in humans. Wooding and Bamshad theorize chimps lost some PTC sensitivity as a result of plants disappearing and their diets being altered over eons, so that they were no longer pressured to taste the poisons found in those plants. But it also c...FDA grants Accentia Biopharmaceuticals...
...al antifungal for this indication. One of the many reasons Accentia chose Amphotercin B is that it has very low absorption across mucus membranes, and in this rather unique situation the Company does not need absorption of the drug into the sinus mucosa or the rest of the body. According to this disease mod...Research updates 65-year-old genetic discovery
...impanzees can not taste this bitter substance, the reasons why are different. Going forward, this new information can be used by researchers to understand bitter-taste receptors and how having particular bitter-taste receptors affect nutrition and health, Stone explains. With this week's "Nature" cover story...Scientists fly in for maggot fest
...s they live in, we can gain a greater insight into reasons for their behaviour. "Research in this field is all part of the overall approach to understanding life and Drosophila larvae are an excellent means of learning about the fundamental processes common to all living organisms."...Late-breaking news in understanding and treating neurological disorders
...who have undergone foramen ovale closure for other reasons have reported an improvement in migraine headaches. In this trial, 147 patients with migraine and an open foramen ovale received either no treatment or an operation to close the opening, and have been followed over six months. Initial results indicat...Rice tapped for model programs merging teaching, research
...ogy research. "I love teaching, and one of the key reasons I applied for this grant was for the opportunity to create closer connections between my teaching and my research," West said.The high school summer academy will expand upon an annual program Rice has conducted with the Science Academy of South Texas...Amid growing public concerns, bioscience firms begin formalizing ethical decision-making practices
...ethics evaluation mechanisms. "There are many good reasons why bioscience companies are working so hard to improve their ethical performance," says report co-author Abdallah S. Daar, MD, Director of Ethics and Policy at the McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Toronto. "In the current clim...New human retrovirus originated in mice
...e cancers," he said. "And secondly, there are many reasons to believe that the virus might not relate to prostate cancer." For example, he pointed out, analysis of prostate tissue by Silverman and his colleagues indicated that the virus appears only in a small percentage of connective tissue cells, called s...3-D imaging to enable clean energy technologies
...ts. Industrial plants need tomography for the same reasons hospitals do, explained L.S. Fan, a Distinguished University Professor and the John C. Easton Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Ohio State. "Hospitals use tomography to view areas of the body that ...Tweaking Taxol points way to a greener, more productive future
...rinated solvents can be used with his methods. For reasons ranging from competitive advantage to corporate culture, or to a desire to be a good corporate citizen, pharmaceutical companies are drawn to finding ways to minimize their environmental footprint as they make life-saving drugs. "In fighting one path...Researchers say environmental pollution is important piece of social justice debate
...arch/April issue of Child Development. "One of the reasons we wrote this paper was to put together information on the inequities in exposure to pollutants," says co-author Colleen Moore, a UW-Madison professor of psychology and the author of "Silent Scourge: Children, Pollution and Why Scientists Disagree." ...Researchers seek answers to combat TB epidemic
... treat many of these patients, which is one of the reasons why UF researchers chose to collaborate with them for this research project, Antony said. UF researchers also hope to initiate an international training program with PGIMER, allowing Indian researchers to come to Florida to learn sophisticated techni...Aggression-related gene weakens brain's impulse control circuits
... increased by 14 percent in men only. Although the reasons are unknown, this could reflect deficient pruning the withering of unused neuronal connections as the brain matures and becomes more efficient, speculates Meyer-Lindenberg. The researchers then looked at effects on brain activity using functional ...Minor mutations in avian flu virus increase chances of human infection
...ruses to a human host and appears to be one of the reasons why most avian influenza viruses, including current avian H5 strains, are not easily transmitted from human-to-human following avian-to-human infection. However, the report did suggest that "once a foothold in a new host species is made, the virus HA...Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center receives funding for novel breast cancer and obesity studies
...isk factors for breast cancer and may help uncover reasons for the higher mortality from breast cancer among African-American women. The first study funded under this grant will take a look at the protein level in blood samples from 200 African-American and Caucasian women at high risk and 200 at low risk fo...International symposium on radar altimetry in Venice, 13 to 18 March 2006
...ly connected to the sea-level, which is one of the reasons why Venice was chosen to host the international symposium "15 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry" a major scientific event on a class of space-borne sensor that precisely records the height of the global sea surface along with that of freshwater b...