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Anthrax Attack Requires Early Detection & Quick Response
A large attack on a major metropolitan area with airborne anthrax could affect more than a million people, necessitating their treatment with powerful antibiotics. A new study finds that in order for a response to be effective, quick detection and treatment are essential, and any delay beyond three days would overwhelm hospitals with critically ill people.
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Anterior Cingulate Cortex: Monitoring The Outcomes Of Others' Decisions
Good decision-making helps us to achieve our goals in a complicated world. Understanding which decisions are successful and which ones fail is important, and learning how other people make decisions is an important way of refining this ability. What happens in the brain when this useful information is withheld? Brain imaging researchers from Royal Holloway University of London (UK) investigated activity in the human brain at the time that volunteers interpreted the successes and failures of their own decisions, or the successes and failures of others" decisions. Crucially, when this important information was withheld, a region of the brain called the Anterior Cingulate Cortex became active in different ways depending on whether the information withheld related to decisions of the person in the scanner, or whether it related to the person that they were monitoring during the experiment. This tells us that this area works in different ways depending on whether gaps in important information relate to ourselves, or whether they relate to others".
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Bed Bugs' Own Chemistry Used Against Them
Scientists here have determined that combining bed bugs" own chemical signals with a common insect control agent makes that treatment more effective at killing the bugs.
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New Protein Center Opens At The University of Copenhagen

On the 4th June, the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Copenhagen will open the doors of its new research center, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research. The Center is the result of a historic donation from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, which in 2007 gave the University 80 million euros for its establishment. The protein center, headed by director Michael Sundstrç¶m, will be housed in three recently renovated floors of the Panum Institute in Copenhagen. With its over 150 international researchers, ultramodern laboratories and advanced instrumentation, the center will be a beacon in the field of protein research. "With the establishment of the research center (CPR), Danish protein research will acquire working facilities that make frontline research possible," explains Dean Ulla Wewer. World-class Research The unique construction of the center, which encourages synergistic collaboration between several disciplines, including protein characterisation, proteomics, systems biology and disease biology will provide the optimal environment for the scientists and has already attracted leading international researchers to the University of Copenhagen. "The facilities are the best currently available, and as we have all the basic financing in place, our researchers are free to concentrate on their work and look forward to groundbreaking results, explains Ulla Wewer." Proteins Provide Answers By combining the study of proteins in diseased and healthy cells with the ability of computer technology to process enormous quantities of data, the center"s prospect is to uncover the causes of a range of deadly diseases and thereby contribute to the development of new and effective treatments. "It requires profound insight into the biology of disease to develop new and targeted methods of medical treatment. Our aim is to record and understand the changes taking place in proteins that can lead to disease", explains director Michael Sundstrç¶m and stresses that the Protein Center opens up new opportunities for investigating the complicated progression from protein to disease. The research will first and foremost benefit those whom it ultimately serves: The people who are afflicted with serious disease and for whom effective treatment is not currently available. At the same time, health science research conducted at universities and hospitals will be able to have access to a valuable re and companies in the region will benefit from the knowledge and techniques that the center produces. Students can be introduced to the practises, methods and equipment that will prepare them for work at the highest international level. University Copenhagen


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