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Scientists Working on Vaccine to Cure Asthma Resulting from House Dust Mite Allergies

Scientists Working on Vaccine to Cure Asthma Resulting from House Dust Mite Allergies

Posted by on March 31, 2011 · 2 Comments

House dust mite allergies are a significant cause of asthma in many people. Now researchers in Monash University are working on a vaccine that will potentially cure patients in about 3 doses. Allergies to house dust mites is a leading cause of Asthma and the respiratory condition affects more than 2 million Australians and costs more than $600 million in health expenditure each year. Currently, people [...]
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Hormone Combination Increases Height in Turner Syndrome Girls

Hormone Combination Increases Height in Turner Syndrome Girls

Posted by on March 31, 2011 · 1 Comment

A team of researchers that was led by Thomas Jefferson University, has concluded that low doses of estrogen increases the height and offers other advantages to girls suffering from Turner syndrome. This study was published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The study, which took more than 20 years to complete, will change the practice of treating girls with Turner syndrome, says the study’s [...]
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Scientists Study Behavior of a Component of Potential HIV Vaccine

Scientists Study Behavior of a Component of Potential HIV Vaccine

Posted by on March 31, 2011 · 0 Comment

Creating an HIV vaccine has been quite a challenge for medical scientists. Now an international research team has discovered how an important component of a potential HIV vaccine operates – it opens up like a flower. This finding is expected to reveal new targets for HIV and AIDS vaccines. The research paper was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In the new [...]
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New NSF and BBSRC Awards Will Encourage Efficient Sunlight Harvesting Methods

New NSF and BBSRC Awards Will Encourage Efficient Sunlight Harvesting Methods

Posted by on March 29, 2011 · 0 Comment

To help come up with more efficient ways to harvest sunlight through biological photosynthesis, in the United States and the United Kingdom scientists have been awarded funding totaling more than $10.3 million. The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.K. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) collaborated in issuing these jointly funded awards. Photosynthesis allows [...]
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Cancer Drug Discovered at University of Michigan heads to Clinical trials

Cancer Drug Discovered at University of Michigan heads to Clinical trials

Posted by on March 29, 2011 · 0 Comment

At-406 is a drug developed by scientists at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. This drug has the potential to treat multiple types of cancer. The drug is now in its early testing. A study, published this week in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, showed that AT-406 effectively targets proteins that block normal cell death from occurring. Blocking these proteins caused tumor cells [...]
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Marijuana Use May Hurt Intellectual Skills in multiple sclerosis Patients

Marijuana Use May Hurt Intellectual Skills in multiple sclerosis Patients

Posted by on March 29, 2011 · 1 Comment

Marijuana offers physical relief for the patients who use it. But a new study suggests that in patients of MS (multiple sclerosis) this physical relief is outweighed by the drug’s apparent negative effect on thinking skills The research was published in the March 29, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Some clinical trials have reported a mild [...]
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GABA Determines How Quickly You Learn Dances and Other Motions

GABA Determines How Quickly You Learn Dances and Other Motions

Posted by on March 4, 2011 · 1 Comment

A new study published not too long ago in Current Biology that shows people who quickly learn dance moves and other forms of motion have high GABA response levels than others. GABA is a chemical messenger that is important for the plasticity of the motor cortex. Motor cortex is the region of the brain that is involved in planning, control, and execution of voluntary movements. Charlotte Stagg of the [...]
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2 New Species of Stingrays Discovered in the Upper Amazon

2 New Species of Stingrays Discovered in the Upper Amazon

Posted by on March 3, 2011 · 0 Comment

A new study has published the discovery of two new species of stingrays. These species were found in the upper Amazon. The research was spread over 10 years and conducted by an Lovejoy, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UTSC, and Marcelo Rodrigues de Carvalho of the University of Sao Paolo. Their work in the Upper Amazon confirmed the new genus, Heliotrygon, and the two [...]
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