Altering a protein makes mice less fearful
...t be effective in anxiety disorders," said Wemmie, who also is a physician and researcher at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Iowa City Health Care System. The UI team found that ASIC1a is concentrated in brain regions that are critical for fear behaviors and responses, including the amygdala and an area call...Phase II study of therapeutic vaccine shows efficacy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer
...signed to stimulate the immune systems of patients who already have cancer. The vaccine consists of an at... immune response to 5T4. Eleven of the 17 patients who received the complete course of vaccinations (six injections) mounted strong immune responses to the...Progesterone injections do not prevent preterm birth in twin pregnancies
... The result came as a surprise to the researchers, who previously discovered that weekly injections of the naturally occurring hormone, called 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone or 17-OHPC, reduced additional preterm births by one-third in women whose previous babies were born prematurely. Based on the resul...ESA announces 2007 award recipients
...s, and Phyllis D. Coley, a distinguished ecologist who has made seminal discoveries in the ecology of pla...). The award is given to a distinguished ecologist who has made exceptional contributions to ecology and whose principal residence and site of ecological r...Progesterone therapy and preterm birth: More evidence helps identify women who can benefit
...entify pregnant women at risk for preterm delivery who can benefit from progesterone treatment, the March...ost of whom had no prior history of preterm birth) who received progesterone suppository treatment between 24 and 34 weeks gestation had a greatly reduced ...JCI table of contents: August 1, 2007
...bservation that individuals with colorectal cancer who receive treatment with an antagonist of the receptor for EGF also develop hypomagnesemia. As noted by Shmuel Muallem and Orson W. Moe in an accompanying commentary "This work is another seminal example of the power of the study of monogenic disorders...U-M researchers find family of 'on switches' that cause prostate cancer
...ion is not regulated by androgen, says Chinnaiyan, who is the S.P. Hicks Collegiate Professor of Pathology at the U-M Medical School. Rearrangements in chromosomes and fused genes are known to play a role in blood cell cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, and in Ewing's sarcoma. A fused gene combination...Aggressive therapy best for certain AML patients
...in a year. Of AML patients with normal chromosomes who lack the mutation, on the other hand, four in 10 a.... The new study suggests that treating patients who have the mutation with an aggressive therapy such as an autologous stem cell transplant while they a...First case of successful ovarian tissue transplantation between two, nonidentical sisters
...splant from her 17-year-old sister, Sandra Alvaro, who had an identically matched tissue type (human leuk... already provided bone marrow in 1990, her sister, who was now aged 32 and had never become pregnant, badly wanted to help her sister by donating some of h...2007 EURYI: 20 young researchers to receive Nobel Prize-sized awards for breakthrough ideas
...The list of the 2007 Awardees includes researchers who will be based in eight countries Czech Republic, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey. Their original ideas are ranging from new techniques to manipulate antimatter to disease gene mapping and functional genomics in t...Particle emissions from laser printers might pose health concern
...cles, the report noted. Morawska and colleagues, who are with the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, initially were not trying to close that knowledge gap. It wasnt an area that we consciously decided to study, Morawska said in an interview. We came across it by chance. Initially we were ...'The Man Who Saved The Sea Turtles'
...sea turtles all over the world. In so doing, Carr, who died in 1987, created the template for many successful environmental campaigns that followed. Now, a Florida State University historian has documented Carrs life and analyzed his lasting impact in a new biography. Frederick R. Davis, an assistant p...New databases put wings on search for bipolar risk genes
... fullest detail possible, says James Potash, M.D., who led the Hopkins portion of efforts to assemble the...r disorder (BD) begins earlier than usual or those who also experience panic attacks. Suspect stretches of DNAincluding genesare more likely to stand out i...Reading a face is tricky business
EVANSTON, Ill. --- Reading the face of a person who is trying to conceal fear or other emotions is tri... anxiety, particularly in social situations. Those who tended to be socially anxious had the strongest brain response to subliminal expressions of fear. ...High rates of HIV infection documented among young Nepalese girls sex-trafficked to India
...ublic Health (HSPH) researchers of girls and women who were sex-trafficked from Nepal to India and then r...umentation and case records of 287 girls and women who had been sex-trafficked from Nepal to India between the years 1997 and 2005. All had been repatriate...New UD tissue-engineering research focuses on vocal cords
...mber's to a famous personality's. Julie Andrews, who starred in such classics as The Sound of Music, is among the professional singers who have undergone surgery to remove callus-like growths that can form from overuse of these two small, ...UF to lead research on life-threatening fungus
...al in Boston and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who will funnel patients'respiratory, urine and blood ...lant and leukemia patients, as well as among those who receive certain other solid organ transplants, he said. About 15 percent of all bone marrow transpla...Fish eyes could hold clue to repairing damaged retinas in humans
...perties could potentially restore sight to someone who is losing or has lost their sight due to diseased or damaged retina," says Dr Astrid Limb, who led the study. "Our findings have enormous potential. "It may be possible to store the cells in a ...Rare example of Darwinism seen in action
...CR and a leading authority on live-bearing fishes, who provided all of the life history information for t... will be the hardiest, best survivors and the ones who demand the most of the mothers placental nutrients. The mother, on the other hand, provides geneti......ger term aim for this research is to help patients who have lost bladder function or have had all or part... ready for transplantation. Professor Southgate, who is Director of the Jack Birch Unit for Molecular Carcinogenesis, in the Department of Biology at the...