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More Effective Cancer Treatment And The Migration Of Modern Man From Africa To Western Eurasia
The Collaborative Research Centre 806 "Unser Weg nach Europa: Kultur-Umwelt-Interaktion und menschliche Mobilität im Späten Quartär" (Our Road to Europe: Culture-Environment-Interaction and human Mobility in the late Quaternary) will be directed by Professor Dr. JÃørgen of the Department of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology. This research centre is looking at the mobility of populations in the last 190,000 years. The focus of research will be the journey of modern man from Africa to Western Eurasia and Europe, in particular. Migration processes, and the exchange of ideas, technology and culture that entails, are an important prerequisite for important developments. The centre"s main aim is to research, using scientific and archaeological methods, how human behaviour, the climate and the environment influenced important population movements. The scientists particularly want to examine the impacts that these factors have had on the actions and reactions of populations such as emigration, immigration and adaptation to new environments. Other universities and institutions are also involved the project. These include: the University of Bonn; RWTH Aachen University; Heidelberg University; the University of Duisburg-Essen as well as the Rhineland Regional Council; the Rheinisches Amt fÃør Bodendenkmalpflege (Rheinland Department for the Preservation and Care of Field Monuments) as well as the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann.
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BJOG Release: New Study On The Cause Of Early Preterm Birth
An exploratory study to be published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, has shown that women going into early preterm labour (before 34 weeks gestation) have low-levels of progesterone in their saliva as early as 24 weeks, and that moreover, these levels fail to rise during pregnancy in the normal way. This offers the possibility of developing a simple, non-invasive test to identify women at increased risk of delivering early.
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Discovery Of Faulty Genes Could Reveal Risk Of Bone Disease

The discovery of faulty genes by Edinburgh researchers could help people with Paget"s disease, a painful bone condition. Dr Omar Albagha has found three genes associated with the disease which, if detected early enough in people, could hasten diagnosis and treatment. Paget"s disease affects around three percent of the population over 55 years old in the UK. The carefully regulated system of renewing bone is disrupted. New bone cells (osteoblasts) increase dramatically, are overactive and enlarged causing weak, mis-shapen bones leading to pain deformity, osteoarthritis, fractures and even deafness. Genetic factors are important but until now, only one gene is known to be linked to one third of the people with Paget"s disease. The research team in the rheumatology section at Edinburgh University wanted to find other gene abnormalities that might predispose people to the disease. Speaking at the European Symposium on Calcified Tissue in Vienna today (26 May), Dr Albagha said, "This discovery is important so that we can better understand the development of Paget"s disease and identify those at risk." There were 750 patients with Paget"s disease in the study. They did not have the known faulty gene, but 104 of them had a family history of the disease. One thousand healthy people were in the control group. In the analysis of more than 300,000 gene variations covering all known human genes, three genes were found to be associated with Paget"s disease. Further research is now underway to determine how these faults cause the disease. The damage caused by Paget"s disease is irreversible, but it can be treated. Paracetamol and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) relieve the pain, and bisphosphonates help slow down the excessive bone turnover. "Now we have identified the faulty genes, we will be able to develop ways to screen people ideally in their 30s with a family history of the disease. If necessary, we give them treatment early before the damage is done," said Dr Albagha. The European Calcified Tissue Society


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