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3/10/10
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For decades, the traditional practice in animal testing has been standardization, but a study involving Purdue Univ. has shown that adding as few as two controlled environmental variables to preclinical mice tests can greatly reduce costly false positives, the number of animals needed for testing and the cost of pharmaceutical trials.
Mar 9 | News
A team of engineers from MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) are working on tiny, low-power chips that could diagnose heart problems, monitor patients with Parkinson’s disease or predict seizures in epileptic patients.
Mar 8 | News
The notion that bacteria are bags full of enzymes is being overturned by revelations from laboratory experiments that bacteria fixes, or digests, carbon by building miniature factories inside themselves. Called carboxysomes, these structures are able to convert carbon dioxide into sugar, which represents energy for a living organism.
Mar 4 | News
Researchers from the Arizona State Univ. have helped advance understanding about the antibacterial activity of clay minerals and their ability to kill what the best antibiotics on the market can't touch.
3 hours ago | News
Rice students put calculations by German physicist Gustav Mie, made in 1908, to the test when they decided to look at the optical properties of single nanoparticles.
6 hours ago | News
Using green algae to produce hydrocarbon oil for biofuel production is nothing new; nature has been doing so for hundreds of millions of years, according a Texas AgriLife Research scientist.
6 hours ago | News
A federal court has ruled that the vaccine additive thimerosal does not cause autism.The court expressed sympathy for parents coping with their autistic children, but concluded Friday that they had not proved the children's illness was a result of the mercury-containing preservative in the...
6 hours ago | News
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Baxter International Inc. reported late-stage clinical trial data for its flu vaccine candidate Preflucel, saying the drug provided a 71 percent protection rate against all strains of the flu.Preflucel is designed to protect against swine flu, influenza B, and Hong Kong flu. Baxter and its...
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New findings that shed light on how genetic damage to muscle cell proteins can lead to the development of the rare muscle-wasting disease, nemaline myopathy, are reported today, March 15, in the Biochemical Journal.
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The American Thoracic Society has released a new official clinical policy statement on congenital central hypoventilation syndrome, a disorder of respiratory and autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulation. The ANS regulates reflexive acts, including heart rate and blood pressure, digestion, body...
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Nearly 50 passengers aboard an international cruise ship docked in Brazil have been stricken with vomiting and diarrhea, a health official said Friday. It was the same ship that last week was briefly placed under quarantine after hundreds of people came down with gastroenteritis."At least 47...
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Progenics Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Friday that an oral version of its constipation drug Relistor met its goal in a clinical trial, and the company plans further trials of the drug.Relistor is designed to treat constipation caused by use of opioid painkillers, which is a common side effect of...
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A new study of the scorpion family Typhlochactidae, a group of nine dark-adapted species endemic to Mexico, shows that specialized traits are not necessarily an evolutionary dead end. At least three reversals, or a return to generalized morphology, were found in a phylogenetic analysis.