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Research Shows a Promising New Method to Reduce Graft-Versus-Host-Disease After Bone Marrow Transplantation

By Guest PostOctober 13, 2010Health, Sciencedamon runyon cancer research foundation, global immunosuppression, graft-versus-host disease, immune attack, immune system, ivan maillard, leukemia

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—University of Michigan researchers have discovered a new method to prevent the immune-system attacks that often occur following bone marrow transplants.

Bone marrow transplantation can cure patients with leukemia and other cancers even when the disease is resistant to other treatments. The success of this procedure relies on killing cancer cells by using immune cells from a bone marrow donor while avoiding an immune attack against the patient’s organs, which causes a dangerous complication called graft-versus-host disease. (more…)

Nicotine May Play Key Role in Promising Alzheimer’s Therapy

By Guest PostOctober 13, 2010Health, Sciencea-beta, alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, alpha7 receptor, alzheimer, angela lee, bace-1 knockouts, bace1, brain nicotine receptors, calcium uptake, disease, enzyme, fiona laird, hey kyoung lee, hui wang, lihua song, neurological disorder, neurons, neuroscientists, neurotransmitters, nicotine, normal brain function, peptide, philip c wong, schizophrenia, sixth-leading cause of death, united states, university of maryland

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A team of neuroscientists has discovered important new information in the search for an effective treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, the debilitating neurological disorder that afflicts more than 5.3 million Americans and is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. Hey-Kyoung Lee , associate professor in the University of Maryland Department of Biology, and her research team have shown that they may be able to eliminate debilitating side effects caused by a promising Alzheimer’s drug by stimulating the brain’s nicotine receptors. (more…)

One Step Closer to a Drug Treatment for Cystic Fibrosis, MU Professor Says

By Guest PostOctober 13, 20101 commentHealth, Scienceatp, cell, cftr, chloride channels, cystic fibrosis, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, drug, fatal genetic diseases, genetic mutations, paper of the week, protein, tzyh chang hwang, university of missouri

*Study recognized for significance and importance in the world’s most common genetic disease*

COLUMBIA, Mo. – A University of Missouri researcher believes his latest work moves scientists closer to a cure for cystic fibrosis, one of the world’s most common fatal genetic diseases. (more…)

CU Student-Built Dust Counter Breaks Distance Record As It Heads for Pluto

By Guest PostOctober 13, 20101 commentSciencealan stern, andrew poppe, boulder, dust grains, johns hopkins university, jupiter, kuiper belt, mihaly horanyi, NASA, neptune, new horizons mission, orbit, pluto, satellite, sdc, sme, solar mesosphere explorer, solar system, space dust, student dust counter, university of colorado, uranus, venetia burney

A University of Colorado at Boulder space dust counter designed, tested and operated by students that is flying aboard NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto now holds the record for the most distant working dust detector ever to travel through space. (more…)

Population Change: Another Influence on Climate Change

By Guest PostOctober 12, 2010Environment, Sciencebrian o'neill, carbon dioxide, China, climate change, emission, European Union, fertility, global, greenhouse gas emissions, hewlett foundation, human population, India, industrialized countries, national science foundation, nsf, PET, population environment technology model, sarah ruth, shonali pachauri, united nations, urbanization

*Changes in population, including aging and urbanization, could affect global carbon dioxide emissions*

Changes in the human population, including aging and urbanization, could significantly affect global emissions of carbon dioxide over the next 40 years, according to research results published this week. (more…)

Tuberculosis Protects Itself Against Toxic Agents Sent to Destroy It

By Guest PostOctober 12, 2010Health, Sciencebacterium, cleavage function, harsh conditions, immunology, latent tuberculosis, mycobacterium tuberculosis, tapan biswas, tuberculosis, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Tuberculosis fights off the toxic agents, acidity and oxidants, that our immune system sends to destroy it, which is why the maddeningly drug-resistant bacterium can survive in harsh conditions in our bodies for essentially as long as its human host lives, new research shows. (more…)

Greater Priority Should be Given to Stroke Prevention in Developing Countries

By Guest PostOctober 10, 20102 commentsHealth, Sciencebill & melinda gates foundation, chronic disease, epidemiology, global poverty reduction, peter lloyd-sherlock, prioritise preventative, stroke prevention, university of east anglia

Increased global attention and research needs to be given to stroke prevention and the social and economic effects of the condition in developing countries, according to an academic at the University of East Anglia (UEA). (more…)

Dinosaurs Not So Fierce After All, says U of T Researcher

By Guest PostOctober 9, 2010Sciencegreat mass extinction, new dinosaur, opportunistic creatures, sarahsaurus, sauropodomorph skull

A new species of dinosaur discovered in Arizona suggests dinosaurs did not spread throughout the world by overpowering other species but by taking advantage of a natural catastrophe that wiped out their competitors. (more…)

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