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Dutch researchers have built a three-dimensional model of a type of virus that causes SARS in a step that could one day help in the battle against the deadly disease.

The model, created using hepatitis coronavirus from mice, will help scientists understand severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which appeared in China in 2002 and killed some 800 people globally before being brought under control.

“I think we can translate what we found for this virus to the SARS virus,” Berend Jan Bosch, a virologist at Utrecht University who worked on the study, said in a telephone interview on Monday.

“If you are going to study the SARS virus you will basically find the same features.”

The researchers reported their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Coronaviruses cause diseases in animals and in people from the common cold to severe gastrointestinal illness. They also cause SARS which scientists believe, like influenza, initially came from an animal.

The 2002 outbreak of SARS is estimated to have cost as much as $100 billion. Quarantine and travel restrictions helped contain the disease.

Bosch and colleagues used a new type of electron microscopy to take images of the virus in a frozen state.

“Because we take so many pictures from different angles, we could combine the images to recreate the virus in 3D,” Bosch said.

The researchers also discovered that the virus’ outer coating or envelope, which it uses to fuse with and spread to healthy cells, is thicker than thought due to an extra internal layer.

Deciphering the structure of the mouse coronavirus is a basic finding but one that can allow researchers to better understand the human form of the virus, Bosch added.

“It is a broader understanding of the architecture of coronaviruses,” he said. “It is really fundamental knowledge.”

Christopher Cox will most likely be remembered as the regulator who was unable to do enough to protect investors during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

When the 28th chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission steps down early this year, he will leave behind an agency tarnished by regulatory missteps and threatened with being reorganized out of existence by a reform-minded Congress.

Under Cox’s watch the investment banks that the SEC loosely supervised either collapsed or reorganized as bank holding companies in 2008 and the agency was criticized for interfering with free markets when it temporarily stopped investors from making bearish bets on financial stocks.

The most recent blow to the agency, now entering its 75th year, was its failure to spot financier Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion securities fraud despite his activities being flagged to SEC staff over many years.

Some of the criticism is undeserved, securities experts said, as the genesis of the crisis began well before Cox became chairman and the cures extend beyond the reach of the agency. However the perception remains that the 56-year-old former California congressman did not do enough to protect investors.

“Cox had the greatest perception of inactivity in the face of this crisis. People wanted the SEC to be this outspoken proponent of investor protection, reinvigorate its mission and let people know that the SEC was on top of this,” said Jay Brown, a securities professor at Sturm College of Law.

“What has ended up happening is that it has been one inadequacy after another. Not only does the chairman not get out in front of these issues, it looks like the SEC was asleep at the switch.”

Cox was criticized for reassuring the public about Bear Stearns’ capital levels just days before the investment bank’s dramatic collapse and federally engineered rescue last March.

The SEC’s inspector general, an internal watchdog, issued reports scolding the agency for failing to adequately supervise Bear Stearns and limit the amount of risk it took on.

A devastating article in the Wall Street Journal in June described Cox as missing from critical meetings and conference calls during the Bear Stearns crisis and bailout, exacerbating the perception of a regulator who was missing in action.

Cox said in an interview that the WSJ article was disappointing and that he worked around the clock the weekend of the crisis. He stayed in Washington instead of going to New York because the SEC’s main operations are in Washington.

The agency was founded during the Great Depression to help restore investor confidence in securities markets by requiring public companies to tell the truth about their businesses and by demanding that those trading in securities treat investors with fairness and honesty. But it was never meant to, like the Federal Reserve, regulate broader safety and soundness issues.

“To the extent the SEC’s 2004 adoption of voluntary regulation for investment banks cast it in the role of a safety and soundness regulator — a role for which it has neither tradition nor statutory mandate — the SEC fared no better than banking regulators,” Cox told Reuters in an interview.

The questions about the SEC’s performance come at a particularly bad time, as Congress gets ready to revamp the country’s financial regulatory structure. A report issued by the Treasury Department at the end of March recommended a less powerful SEC and a merger between securities and futures regulators.

HIRED TO CALM

President George W. Bush appointed Cox as head of the SEC in 2005 to heal deep divisions among the agency’s commissioners and bring calm to an institution that had bulldozed its way through regulatory reforms and accounting scandals involving Enron, WorldCom and other companies.

For much of his tenure, Cox did just that. The SEC remained out of the limelight and its five commissioners unanimously adopted noncontroversial securities rules.

Cox focused on modernizing the SEC and corporate disclosure through tools such as a machine-readable computer code, XBRL, or interactive data. He made it easier for investors to read and understand mutual fund prospectuses, forced companies to disclose their executives’ compensation in a standard format, and instilled rules to make it easier for shareholders to communicate via the Internet.

He defended the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform law, enacted in response to the Enron debacle, and reached agreements with international regulators in an effort to improve coordination on securities policy, accounting rules and global enforcement cases.

And unlike some Bush appointees, Cox enjoyed cordial relations with key congressional panels after spending 17 years in the House of Representatives.

However, he angered shareholder activists by overriding a court decision and restricting their access to the annual corporate proxy document used to nominate board directors. And although the agency brought its second-highest number of enforcement actions in 2008, Cox made it harder for staff lawyers to negotiate settlements with companies.

Cox, who was a senior associate counsel to former President Ronald Reagan, had a free-market philosophy which was perfectly aligned with the business-friendly Bush administration. But the administration’s stance proved to be a weakness as it failed to adequately regulate increasingly sophisticated financial products that blew up and triggered the financial crisis.

Former SEC chairman Harvey Pitt, who resigned in 2003 after a tumultuous 18-month tenure, praised Cox as a strong chairman who had to deal with an unprecedented crisis.

“The question really is, was he true to the SEC’s mission and mandate and did he try to improve his effectiveness? In my view, the answer is yes,” said Pitt.

James Cox, a securities professor at Duke Law School, said it is unfortunate that the outgoing chairman will likely be seen as symbolic of a weak agency as he has pushed hard on mutual recognition of regulatory standards and interactive reporting technologies that will ultimately revolutionize the entire financial reporting process.

Others predict Cox, who will leave when President-elect Barack Obama’s administration takes over later in January, will be remembered less warmly.

Lynn Turner, the SEC’s chief accountant during the Clinton administration, described Cox as “the worst” SEC chairman to ever lead the agency of 3,500 employees. “I can’t think of anything he did that was really protecting investors,” Turner said.

Any accident is a tragedy, but motorcycle accidents are a special breed. They usually involve serious injury and the majority of accidents are the fault of the other drivers not watching the motorcycle. If you are ever hurt in an accident, then don’t hesitate to hire an Arizona motorcycle accident lawyer to make sure that you are covered.

The law around motorcycle accidents can be a little unique, so you should definitely make sure that you are hiring someone who has serious experience with local motorcycle cases. That’s just another reason to find a Phoenix motorcycle accident attorney if you need one. It’s always worth your time to make sure that the right person is on the job.

The other benefits should be pretty easy to see. Having a good lawyer will mean that the insurance companies aren’t able to bully you. You might not be an expert in the relevant law, so let a lawyer read all the paperwork to make sure that you aren’t getting cheated. Arizona motorcycle accident lawyers will show just how serious you are and it might make their settlement terms a bit more generous. If you can’t settle, then you are at least covered for the court case.

In a new study, scientists at Mayo Clinic have cited that people with low-grade gliomas (brain tumour) were found to have longer survival rate after undergoing aggressive surgeries to successfully remove the entire tumour.

And in case it could not be possible to remove the entire tumour safely, patients survived significantly longer when surgery was followed by radiation therapy.

Gliomas are a type of brain tumor that form in the brain or spinal cord tissue and can spread within the nervous system. Low-grade gliomas are malignant and slow growing. Overall, patients’ average survival is five to seven years after diagnosis, even with treatment.

“Mayo Clinic has a long history of expertise in treating patients with brain tumours. This makes our study unique in terms of the large volumes of patients seen here and the extensive length of follow-up,” said Nadia Laack, M.D., a Mayo Clinic radiation oncologist and lead author of this study.

For the study, the researchers examined the records of 314 adult patients with low-grade gliomas who were diagnosed between 1960 and 1992 and had an average of 13 years of follow-up.

They found that almost half of the patients who underwent aggressive surgeries (gross total resection or radical subtotal resection) were free of tumour recurrence 15 years after diagnosis.

While performing aggressive surgery was not a safe option, postoperative radiation therapy nearly doubled average survival. The average survival time was three years in patients who did not receive radiation therapy, while those who had radiation therapy survived an average of six years.

“This study is exciting because it shows how well glioma patients can do after surgery. An average of 15 years tumor-free is better than any previously published results. It is also exciting to discover that patients can benefit from radiation therapy. It not only lengthens the time before the tumor comes back, it actually improves the length of time people live. This builds on previous Mayo Clinic data that suggested similar results from a small study published nearly 20 years ago,” said Laack

Laack also said that the findings may be controversial due to common concerns about possible long-term side effects of radiation therapy.

She added that at Mayo Clinic, these potential side effects are minimized by tightly focusing radiation therapy on the tumour.

The study is available online as an advance publication in Neuro-Oncology.

About 5 million Americans attend meetings of self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous for alcohol and drug abusers, and nearly half of them reported remaining clean, a federal study released on Monday showed.

The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration examined the popularity of meetings like those run in many communities by AA and Narcotics Anonymous.

In these kinds of meetings, people speak to others who also are grappling with drug and alcohol abuse about their experiences and offer emotional support to one another as they try to beat their addiction.

The findings were based on a survey given to 135,672 people age 12 and older in 2006 and 2007, the agency said.

SAMHSA said 5 million people age 12 and older — 2 percent of the U.S. population in that age group — reported attending such a self-help group in the prior year because of alcohol or drugs. About two-thirds of them were male and 80 percent were over age 25.

Of those people, 45 percent reported abstaining from drugs and alcohol during the month before responding to the survey.

About a third of those who attended a self-help group also reported undergoing more formal treatment for addiction in the past year such as entering a formal rehabilitation facility.

Stephen Wing, the agency’s associate administrator for alcohol policy, said about 22 million Americans meet the definition for substance abuse. Wing said the agency did not have data on whether attendance at these types of meetings was increasing over time.

“The data reinforces the fact that participation in self-help groups is associated with abstinence and recovery,” Wing said.

Doing aquarobics during pregnancy reduces the amount of pain-killing medication requested by women during labor, according to a Brazilian study that included 71 expectant mothers.

Half the women were assigned to attend three 50-minute sessions a week of aquarobics during their pregnancy, while the other half acted as a control group.

“We found no statistically significant differences in the duration of labor or they type of delivery between the two groups,” study author Rosa Pereira, of the University of Campinas in Sao Paulo, said in a news release. “However, only 27 percent of women in the aquarobics group requested analgesia, compared to 65 percent in the control group. This represents a 58 percent reduction in requests.”

There’s some debate about the wisdom of women exercising during pregnancy. The main concern is that exercise may interfere with fetal/placental demands and compromise fetal development or growth or increase the risk of abnormalities. Pereira and colleagues concluded that aquarobics had no harmful effect on the cardiovascular health of pregnant women and also confirmed the well-being of infants born to the mothers who did aquarobics.

“We’ve shown that the regular practice of moderate water aerobics during pregnancy is not detrimental to the health of the mother or the child. In fact, the reduction in analgesia requests suggests that it can get women into better psycho-physical condition,” Pereira said.

A 4,600-year-old grave in Germany containing the remains of two adults and their children provides the earliest evidence that even prehistoric tribes attached importance to the family unit, researchers said on Monday.

The researchers used DNA analysis and other techniques to determine that the group buried facing each other — an unusual practice in Neolithic culture — consisted of a mother, father and their two sons aged 8-9 and 4-5 years.

“By establishing the genetic links between the two adults and two children buried together in one grave, we have established the presence of the classic nuclear family in a prehistoric context in Central Europe — to our knowledge the oldest authentic molecular genetic evidence so far,” Wolfgang Haak of the University of Adelaide said in a statement.

“Their unity in death suggests a unity in life.”

The remains were found in graves that held a total of 13 people, all of whom had been interned simultaneously, Haak and colleagues reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Several were buried face-to-face, with arms and hands interlinked in many cases. The remains included children ranging from newborns up to 10 years of age, and adults of around 30 years or older.

Tests showed that many had suffered massive injuries, suggesting they were victims of a violent raid. One female had a stone projectile point embedded in her back and another had skull fractures.

“Our study of the Eulau individuals shows that their deaths were sudden and violent, apparent in lesions caused by stone axes and arrows, with evidence of attempts of some of the individuals to defend themselves from blows,” the researchers wrote.

An analysis of dental remains also offered up insight into Stone Age society and showed that the females came from different regions than the males and their children.

This is evidence that men sought partners from different regions to avoid inbreeding and that it was customary for women to move to the location of the males, the researchers said.

“Such traditions would have been important to avoid inbreeding and to forge kinship networks with other communities,” Alistair Pike, an archaeologist at the University of Bristol, who co-led the study, said in a statement.