Health-Related Themes. Antibiotics - Seven Wonders of the Microbe World (5/7) Microscope: The Tube That Changed the World. BBC Documentary - The Cell 1 of 3 The Hidden Kingdom. Introduction to Cells. Potential new vaccine blocks every strain of HIV. Antibiotics that target mitochondria effectively eradicate cancer stem cells, across multiple tumor types: Treating cancer like an infectious disease. Rebecca Lamb1,2,*, Bela Ozsvari1,2,*, Camilla L.
Lisanti3,**, Herbert B. Tanowitz4, Anthony Howell1,2, Ubaldo E. Martinez-Outschoorn5, Federica Sotgia1,2 and Michael P. Lisanti1,2 1 The Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, UK 2 The Manchester Centre for Cellular Metabolism (MCCM), Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, UK. Psych News Alert: Anxious Parents Can Transmit Anxiety to Children, Twin Study Shows. The association between parental and offspring anxiety and neuroticism appears to be environmental rather than genetic—that is, children and adolescents learn anxious behaviors from their parents rather than inheriting anxiety genetically.
That’s the conclusion of a remarkable study titled "The Intergenerational Transmission of Anxiety: A Children-of-Twins Study" by Thalia C. Eley, Ph.D., of Kings College London and colleagues at institutions in the United States and Sweden. The study was published in AJP in Advance. Researchers used data from the Twin and Offspring Study of Sweden comprising information on 387 monozygotic twin families and 489 dizygotic twin families. Parental anxious personality was self-reported by twins using 20 items from the Karolinska Scales of Personality. For both anxiety and neuroticism, the models provide support for significant direct environmental transmission from parents to their adolescent offspring. Triclosan Antibacterial Soap No Better at Killing Germs Than Regular Soap. Triclosan-laden soap took nine hours to show significant antimicrobial activity.
You’ve hit your limit of 5 free articles this month.Try our subscription options: Weekly home delivery with free shipping, access to Newsweek’s web site, and the complete online archive. Scanning ultrasound removes amyloid-β and restores memory in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Most MS Patients Who Received Stem Cell Transplants Still in Remission Years Later. Most of the multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who took part in the cutting-edge stem cell study HALT-MS are still in remission years later.
The phase 2 study has demonstrated impressive results by rebuilding the immune system using a patient’s own stem cells. Studying 24 study volunteers who underwent stem cell transplants between 2006 and 2010, Dr. Scientists discover how to change human leukemia cells into harmless immune cells. “B-cell leukemia cells are in many ways progenitor cells that are forced to stay in an immature state,” Majeti said.
So he, McClellan and student Christopher Dove, an MD/PhD student and the paper’s other lead author, did more experiments and confirmed that methods shown to have altered the fate of the mouse progenitor cells years ago could be used to transform these human cancer cells into macrophages, which can engulf and digest cancer cells and pathogens. There’s big-time interest in differentiation therapies for cancer. In new study, 100 percent of participants taking HIV prevention pill Truvada remained infection-free.
World AIDS Day event takes over Times Square in New York.
(D Dipasupil/Getty Images for (RED)) As far as emotions go, AIDS researchers tend to be a staid bunch who look skeptically at every new finding. But the results of a study released this week on an HIV prevention drug have many cheering. The study conducted at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco involved more than 600 high-risk individuals, most of whom were men who have sex with men. UBC Science - Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia. Human blood with red blood cells, T cells (orange) and platelets (green).
Measles Vaccine Still Doesn't Cause Autism. ShareTweetShareSendLink But a new paper published in JAMA should end debate once and for all.
Ebola vaccine trial proves 100% successful in Guinea. A vaccine against Ebola has been shown to be 100% successful in trials conducted during the outbreak in Guinea and is likely to bring the west African epidemic to an end, experts say.
The results of the trials involving 4,000 people are remarkable because of the unprecedented speed with which the development of the vaccine and the testing were carried out. Scientists, doctors, donors and drug companies collaborated to race the vaccine through a process that usually takes more than a decade in just 12 months. “Having seen the devastating effects of Ebola on communities and even whole countries with my own eyes, I am very encouraged by today’s news,” said Børge Brende, the foreign minister of Norway, which helped fund the trial. “This new vaccine, if the results hold up, may be the silver bullet against Ebola, helping to bring the current outbreak to zero and to control future outbreaks of this kind. Sea Slug has Taken Genes from the Algae it Eats, Allowing it to Photosynthesize Like a Plant, Study Reports « @mbl.
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Paralyzed Man Walks Using Brain Power. Her name is ‘Sparkle.’ She operates a drone. She is sick of whiny boys. Researchers create self-propelled powder to stop bleeding. UBC researchers have created the first self-propelled particles capable of delivering coagulants against the flow of blood to treat severe bleeding, a potentially huge advancement in trauma care. "Bleeding is the number one killer of young people, and maternal death from postpartum hemorrhage can be as high as one in 50 births in low resource settings so these are extreme problems," explains Christian Kastrup, an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia.
Traditional methods of halting severe bleeding are not very effective when the blood loss originates inside the body like the uterus, sinus or abdomen. "People have developed hundreds of agents that can clot blood but the issue is that it's hard to push these therapies against severe blood flow, especially far enough upstream to reach the leaking vessels. Self-assembling material that grows and changes shape could lead to artificial arteries. News story Researchers at QMUL have developed a way of assembling organic molecules into complex tubular tissue-like structures without the use of moulds or techniques like 3D printing. Monday 28 September 2015 The study, which will appear on Monday 28 September in the journal Nature Chemistry, describes how peptides and proteins can be used to create materials that exhibit dynamic behaviors found in biological tissues like growth, morphogenesis, and healing. The method uses solutions of peptide and protein molecules that, upon touching each other, self-assemble to form a dynamic tissue at the point at which they meet.
As the material assembles itself it can be easily guided to grow into complex shapes. Lead exposure in mothers can affect future generations. From trees to power: McMaster engineers build better energy storage device. McMaster Engineering researchers Emily Cranston and Igor Zhitomirsky are turning trees into energy storage devices capable of powering everything from a smart watch to a hybrid car. The scientists are using cellulose, an organic compound found in plants, bacteria, algae and trees, to build more efficient and longer-lasting energy storage devices or capacitors. Geneticists Found the 'Master Tumor Suppressor' That Stops Cancer in Elephants. A longstanding mystery in biology is why the rate of cancer incidence in a species does not scale up with body size and longevity. Take elephants for instance, which live to approximately the same age as humans and have 100 times more cells, yet hardly ever develop cancer, a disease which is estimated to affect 40 percent of Americans at some point in their lives.
Scientists find gene that makes plants more carefree under climate stress. Rerouted Nerves Enable Paralyzed People to Use Hands. Testosterone Seems To Help People With Social Anxiety. Scientists produce clearest-ever images of enzyme that plays key roles in aging, cancer. Ancestral background can be determined by fingerprints. Researcher: Children's cancer linked to Fukushima radiation. Inroads against leukemia. A molecule isolated from sea sponges and later synthesized in the lab can halt the growth of cancerous cells and could open the door to a new treatment for leukemia, according to a team of Harvard researchers and other collaborators led by Matthew Shair, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology.
The study is described in a Sept. 28 paper in Nature. Exercise in a bottle could become a reality. Stress Hormone May Contribute to Amyloid-Beta in Alzheimer's. Timing Your Blood Pressure Meds Right Might Prevent Diabetes. High-Fructose Diet Slows Recovery From Brain Injury. Engineers create artificial skin that can send pressure sensation to brain cell. Drug used to treat cancer appears to sharpen memory. Premature birth and problem pregnancies near fracking wells. 3-D printed guide helps regrow complex nerves after injury. New Study Confirms The Lethal Effect Of Smoking - The Latest News. Tiny motors could suck carbon dioxide from the ocean. New test detects all the viruses that infect people, animals.
Antidepressants plus blood thinners cause brain cancer cells to eat themselves in mice. Scientists solve structure of virus linked to diabetes, infant death, and neurological conditions - Diamond Light Source. 3D printed teeth to keep your mouth free of bacteria. Discovery about protein structure opens window on basic life process. Air Pollutants Get Into the Body via the Skin - The Latest News. Quantum physics meets genetic engineering. Converting skin cells to stem cells creates ‘kidney structures’ Lithium safe, effective for children with bipolar disorder.