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Weill Cornell Research Reveals Secrets Of Trafficking Within Cells

...gradually. "The knock-out mouse model was just too blunt an instrument," he said. Instead, they came up with a whole new method of inquiry. It combined two pre-existing technologies -- RNA interference (RNAi), where scientists cut down on protein expression by jamming the responsible gene with bits of RNA...

Researchers add new tool to tumor-treatment arsenal

...of the under-dosing of patients and the failure to blunt the disease. When cancer cells are treated with a DNA-damaging agent, a cancer-suppressing gene known as the "guardian of the cell" (a protein called p53) responds by either killing the cell, if the damage is too severe, or allowing the cancer cell ...

UW scientists report a new method to speed bird flu vaccine production

...strains for the production of vaccines required to blunt the spread of influenza. In the event of an outbreak of especially virulent strains of influenza, such as the H5N1 or "bird flu" viruses now being monitored by scientists, any efficiency in the manufacture of vaccines will be important. The method d...

Mayo Clinic researchers challenge sepsis theory

...rway to discover new therapies that could prevent, blunt or reverse the release of the constrained receptor. ...

Cincinnati surgeons report new treatment for often-fatal injury

...t of the patients who suffer this injury--known as blunt thoracic aortic trauma--die before ever reaching a...t to be distributed throughout the body. A severe blunt thoracic accident, usually a non-penetrating "deceleration" injury, can jerk the aorta forward and b...

A new target for painkillers

...uch pressure could be applied to a hind paw with a blunt Teflon tip before the rat pulled away the paw. Normal rats could withstand 4.7 times more pressure before withdrawing their paws, compared with rats with sciatica. When cone snail toxin RgIA was injected, the rats with sciatica were able to tolera...

Researchers show that veins stiffen as we age

..., it's possible that regular exercise training may blunt age-related increases in vein stiffness," Farquhar notes. In the second phase of the UD study, now under way, the research team wants to find out if the veins of people with high pressure are stiffer than the veins of people with normal blood press...

Elderly spinal cord injuries increase five-fold in 30 years, Jefferson neurosurgeons find

...atabase of 3,481 consecutive acute penetrating and blunt spinal cord and spine-injured patients treated at Jefferson Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center over a 28-year period (1978-2006). Overall annual admissions for SCI at Jefferson's Spinal Cord Injury Center have increased 60 percent since the ear...