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Research may lead to new strategies against sepsis
Jan. 25, 2013 Scientists at the Center for Translational Medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine are inching closer to solving a long-standing mystery in sepsis, a complex and often life-threatening condition that affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S. every year
Potential benefits and threats of nanotechnology research
Jan. 25, 2013 Every day scientists learn more about how the world works at the smallest scales. While this knowledge has the potential to help others, it’s possible that the same discoveries can also be used in ways that cause widespread harm
New method identifies genes that can predict prognoses of cancer patients
Jan. 25, 2013 In recent years, it has been thought that select sets of genes might reveal cancer patients’ prognoses
Science needs a second opinion: Researchers find flaws in study of patients in ‘vegetative state’
Jan. 24, 2013 A team of researchers led by Weill Cornell Medical College is calling into question the published statistics, methods and findings of a highly publicized research study that claimed bedside electroencephalography (EEG) identified evidence of awareness in three patients diagnosed to be in a vegetative state. The new reanalysis study led by Weill Cornell neurologists Drs
Pathogenic bacteria adhering to the human vascular wall triggers vascular damage during meningococcal sepsis
Jan. 24, 2013 Researchers at the Paris Cardiovascular Research Center (PARCC) have shown how adhesion of Neisseria ( N. ) meningitidis to human microvessels in a humanized mouse model leads to the characteristic cutaneous lesions of meningococcal sepsis
HIV-like viruses in non-human primates have existed much longer than previously thought
Jan. 24, 2013 Viruses similar to those that cause AIDS in humans were present in non-human primates in Africa at least 5 million years ago and perhaps up to 12 million years ago, according to study published January 24 in the Open Access journal PLOS Pathogens by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Until now, researchers have hypothesized that such viruses originated much more recently
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