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• Speech Emerges In Children On The Autism Spectrum With Severe Language Delay At Greater Rate Than Previously Thought
• Researchers ID Queens, Mysterious Disease Syndrome as Key Factors in Bee Colony Deaths
• Trackable drug-filled nanoparticles - a potential weapon against cancer
• ‘Shelf Life’ of Blood? Shorter than We Think
• Hopkins Researchers Describe First ‘Functional HIV Cure’ in an Infant

Speech Emerges In Children On The Autism Spectrum With Severe Language Delay At Greater Rate Than Previously Thought Posted: 04 Mar 2013 07:30 AM PST New findings published in Pediatrics (Epub ahead of print) by the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Center for Autism and Related Disorders reveal that 70 percent of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) who have a history of severe language delay, achieved phrase or fluent speech by age eight. This suggests that more children presenting with ASD and severe language delay at age four can be expected to make notable language gains than was previously thought. read more

Researchers ID Queens, Mysterious Disease Syndrome as Key Factors in Bee Colony Deaths Posted: 04 Mar 2013 07:22 AM PST A new long-term study of honey bee health has found that a little-understood disease study authors are calling “idiopathic brood disease syndrome” (IBDS), which kills off bee larvae, is the largest risk factor for predicting the death of a bee colony. read more

Trackable drug-filled nanoparticles - a potential weapon against cancer Posted: 04 Mar 2013 07:11 AM PST Tiny particles filled with a drug could be a new tool for treating cancer in the future. A new study published by Swedish scientists in Particle & Particle Systems Characterization shows how such nanoparticles can be combined to secure the effective delivery of cancer drugs to tumour cells - and how they can be given properties to make them visible in MR scanners and thus rendered trackable. read more

‘Shelf Life’ of Blood? Shorter than We Think Posted: 04 Mar 2013 07:04 AM PST A small study from Johns Hopkins adds to the growing body of evidence that red blood cells stored longer than three weeks begin to lose the capacity to deliver oxygen-rich cells where they may be most needed. read more

Hopkins Researchers Describe First ‘Functional HIV Cure’ in an Infant Posted: 04 Mar 2013 06:56 AM PST A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the University of Massachusetts Medical School describe the first case of a so-called “functional cure” in an HIV-infected infant. The finding, the investigators say, may help pave the way to eliminating HIV infection in children. read more

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