Blood Weekly

Blood Safety - HTLV-I/II inactivated in blood products by photochemical inactivation

Pediatric Leukemia - Bloodstream infections occurred in children undergoing acute leukemia treatment

SARS-Coronavirus Inactivation - Solvent and detergent treatment completely inactivates SARS-coronavirus

Stem Cell Research - Cord blood CD4+CD25+ FOXP3+ T cells suppress antigen-specific T cell responses

Wound Healing - Human mesenchymal stem cells successfully improve skin-substitute wound healing

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia - Pediatric protocols yield better outcomes for young-adult ALL patients

Acute Myeloid Leukemia - Cyclin A1 expression predicts disease-free and overall survival in AML patients

Anemia - A better screening test for infant iron deficiency?

Angiology - Recent findings in angiology provide new insights

Angiology - Shipment of disposable thrombin processing device to Biomet subsidiary CFT begun

Angiology - Study found no correlation between platelet activation and angiographic severity

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Researchers detail new studies and findings in the area of HIV/AIDS pathogenesis

Angiosarcoma - Paclitaxel and pegylated-liposomal doxorubicin are both active in angiosarcoma

Antifungal Drugs - Caspofungin safe and effective antifungal agent

Antimicrobials - JNK pathway essential for normal antimicrobial peptide release in Drosophila

Apoptosis - Data advance knowledge in apoptosis research

Apoptosis - Estrogen protects primary osteocytes against glucocorticoid-induced apoptosis

Aspergillosis - Aspergillosis outbreak occurred in ostrich flock in Turkey

Bactericidal Effect - HIF-1 alpha expression regulates the bactericidal capacity of phagocytes

Biflavonoid - Biflavonoid acted as inhibitor of DNA topoisomerases

Blood Supply - American Red Cross asks for help with blood shortage

Bone Resorption - Researchers looking forward to new bone inhibitor development for study and use

Botulism Vaccine - Botulinum neurotoxin heavy chain fragments formulated for vaccine development

Business & Finance - Hematolymphatics-focused company completes $17.3M financing

Candida Infection - Breakthrough Candida infections occurred in patients receiving voriconazole

Cardioprotection - Research in cardioprotection provides new insights

Cell Transplants - Early secondary cancer detection important in prolonging overall HSCT survival

Chronic Hemodialysis - Darbepoetin alfa treatment is safe and cost-effective

Clinical Trials - Aggregate results of phase 2 trials for recombinant human thrombin presented

Colonoscopy - Non-small bowel lesions detected by capsule endoscopy

Coronary Heart Disease - Patients with CHD have higher expression of HO-1 in heme oxygenase-1

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - "Mad cow" proteins successfully detected in blood

Diagnostics - PCR-RFLP rapid & reliable for discriminating N. asteroids complex species

Drug Development - Marine compounds active against multiple disease categories

Drug Development - U.S. FDA grants approval to market cefuroxime axetil antibiotic tablets in U.S.

Embryogenesis - Boundary cap cells persist throughout embryogenesis

Embryonic Mutation - Hypomorphic mutation in hnRNP U results in postimplantation lethality

Endometrial Cancer - Increased IL-6 serum levels associated with uterine serous papillary histology

Epstein-Barr Virus - Latent EBV induces remission of splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocyte

Fanconi Anemia - Gene discovery sheds light on causes of rare disease, cancer

Finance - Biopharmaceutical company reports second quarter 2005 financial results

Finance - Lab-products provider reports profitable first quarter

Finance - PolyHeme developer reports $20.3 million loss for the fiscal year

Finance - Polymer-based membranes developer announces net sales of $112.6 million

Gastrectomy - Preoperative imaging of surrounding arteries by 3D-CT aided gastrectomy studied

Gastric Cancer - Overexpression of MUC13 associated with intestinal-type gastric cancer

Glioblastoma Multiforme - Efficacy of temsirolimus in recurrent glioblastoma multiforme evaluated

HIV/AIDS & Tuberculosis Coinfection - Parotid mycobacteriosis often caused by M. tuberculosis in advanced AIDS

HIV/AIDS Diagnostics - HIV-1 RNA from dried-blood spot samples correlates with plasma viral load

HIV/AIDS Drug Development - HIV-1 protease inhibitor derivatives have antiviral activity

HIV/AIDS Drug Development - Nucleoside analog exerts antiviral effects via mutagenesis of HIV genome

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - Increasing trend of HIV-seropositive migrants in Greece

HIV/AIDS Exposure - CD91 expression increased on monocytes of exposed/HIV-1-seronegative subjects

HIV/AIDS HAART - Racivir safe and effective in HAART-naive HIV-infected patients

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - HIV-1 Env-dependent cell-cell fusion modulation related to disease progression

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - HIV-1 Tat induces VCAM-1 expression in pulmonary artery endothelial cells

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - HIV-1 pol replication capacity predicts disease progression

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - New data illuminates research in HIV/AIDS pathogenesis

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Oligoclonal T cells infiltrate the brains of children with AIDS

HIV/AIDS Postexposure Prophylaxis - HIV postexposure prophylaxis not routinely offered following sexual assault

HIV/AIDS Research - Biological assay system demonstrates human retroviral protease activity

HIV/AIDS Research - R5/R5X4/X4 HIV-1 subtype C envelope glycoproteins expressed in insect cells

HIV/AIDS Research - Recent findings illuminate research in HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS Risk Behavior - Safe sex practices declined with the introduction of HAART

HIV/AIDS Screening - HIV infection detected in emergency department screening in low prevalence area

HIV/AIDS-Associated Disease - Eye is unlikely to be a site of productive or latent cytomegalovirus persistence

HIV/AIDS-Associated Disease - Poor performance status/HAART absence predicts shorter survival in KSHV/HHV8

HIV/AIDS-Related Dementia - CSF viral load correlates with phase of HIV-associated dementia

Heart Surgery - Aprotinin plus cell salvage effectively lowers transfusion needs

Hematology - CryoStor improves cryopreservation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells

Hematopoiesis - STAT5 activation has role in SC self-renewal in normal/leukemic hematopoiesis

Hemophilia - Gene therapy advance treats blood disorder in mouse models

Hemophilia - Product trial offered for Kogenate FS

Hemophilia Complications - Researchers analyze HCV and HIV in co-infected hemophiliacs