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Snippets 01/2005
Epilepsy drug may delay ageing
Scientists of Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, found out, that some Epilepspy drug lenghtened the
lifes of C. elegans in their laboratory.
Although this is no proof for an effect in humans they believe that it might
be a breakthrough in the anti-aging research.
collected from
Nature
13 December 2004;
www.nature.com
Allergens reveal common contours
According to a new computer analysis many allergens in plants have a similar shape although their sequences are very
different.
The new study quantifies the effect of shape on the allergic reaction by looking at their structures and
classifying them according to those features. It showed, that all examined allergens belonged to only 20 families and
4 families accounted for 2/3 of them.
Collected from
Nature
11 January 2005;
www.nature.com
Stem cells from fat enhance growth of bones
A girl at a hospital in Gießen could gain a complete head bone after lossing big parts in an accident 3 years ago.
Medicinists mixed stem cells, that they had won from fat cells of the girl, with small fragments of bones. The stem cells
started to grow as bone cells and formed her head bone again.
Collected from
FAZ
18 December 2004
www.faz.net
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Danger of Influenca higher than in the last 50 years
The president of the Robert-Koch-Institut asked for quick development of prevention against a possible worldwide Influenca
epidemy.
According to him the danger for such a pandemy has never been as high as today during the last 50 years.
Experts working for the Federal Government had already warned, that the BRD needed to invest hundreds of millions in development and
production of pharmaceuticals.
Read more at:
FAZ
13 January 2005
www.faz.net
HIV may cause eye disease
Infection with HIV seems to cause heavy eye diseases as well.
Especially the millions of infected people in southern Africa
can suffer from retinal cancer which causes retinal carcinomes earlier than expected from other populations.
Collected from:
FAZ
05 January 2005
www.faz.net
Number of hypertonic diseases expected to rise until 2025
According to a US-American study 2/3 of the adult world population will suffer from hypertonie in 2025.
Regional
developments had already been described but the recent study was the first to give a global prediction.
Especially
developing countries will have to face high increases in the number of hypertonic people, in 2025 they are expected to host
75% of them.
Still hypertonie can be influenced by loss of weight, changes of eating habits and sport.
Collected from:
Deutsches Ärzteblatt
14 January 2005
www.deutsches-aerzteblatt.de
Survival is not always enough
Babies that are born before the 37th week of pregnany and are less that 1200 gram have good chances to survive birth
today, the question is only the price they have to pay during their lives.
Scientists from Zurich and Great Britain
followed the development of 1300 children born in 1995 after less than 26 weeks.
Only 300 of them lived till the 6th
birthday and 20 % were disabled in some ways.
Collected from
Suedeutsche Zeitung
14 January 2005
www.sueddeutsche.de
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