The specter of a drug-resistant form of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza is a nightmare to keep public health officials awake at night. Now, however, a study published this week (Dec…

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Medicago Inc. (TSX-V: MDG) a biotechnology company focused on developing highly effective and affordable vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and Virus-Like Particles (VLPs), reported positive interim results from a Phase I human clinical trial with its H5N1 Avian Influenza vaccine candidate (“H5N1 vaccine”)…

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Inhibiting fatty acid synthesis in brain cancer cells may offer a new option to treat about 50 percent of deadly glioblastomas that are driven by amplified signaling of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), according to a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center…

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Next month legislators at the US state of Maine are to discuss making it compulsory for cell phone manufacturers to put warnings on cell phones that say they can cause brain cancer; this is despite the fact that scientists are divided over the issue and manufacturers claim the devices are safe…

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Researchers from the University of Groningen have clarified the structure of an enzyme that disturbs the communication processes between bacteria. By doing so they have laid the foundations for a new method of tackling bacterial infections such as cystic fibrosis…

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Mold and mildew may be doomed. Researchers are closer to understanding how these and other fungi grow. “Fungi have a big impact on our dinner plate,” said Dr. Brian Shaw, Texas AgriLife Research plant pathologist. “We tend to think that getting food on the table is easy. But fungi are major disease-causing organisms for both [...] Read more »

A first-of-its-kind consensus statement by 50 medical experts from around the world has pronounced surgery to be a legitimate and effective treatment for type 2 diabetes, bringing the procedure a significant step closer to wider use and acceptance…

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Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have determined the structures of two enzymes that customize histones, the spool-like proteins around which DNA coils inside the cell…

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New Nasal Vaccine Blocks Parasite Transmission to Mosquitoes An experiemental nasally administered malaria vaccine prevented parasite transmission from infected mice to mosquitoes and could play an important role in the fight against human malaria. The researchers from Japan report their findings in the December 2009 issue of the journal Infection and Immunity…

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The WHO held a “side event” on Thursday at the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen to highlight climate change’s effect on public health, CNN reports…

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