biochemistry

Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

...author on the study and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Maryland came forward with the explanation that the combination of these plant nutrients, called phytonutrients, including lycopene, which is highly concentrated in tomato products is responsible for the protective effects agains...

Drugs disrupt formation of blood vessels

...Senior researcher Dr Douglas Hanahan, professor of biochemistry at the University of California in San Francisco, USA, said: " We've shown that these drugs have beneficial effects when used to treat mice developing organ-specific cancer ". The work on mice is significant because scientists believe it closely mirr...

The cancer-fighting gene

...ancer.Using ultra-sensitive x-ray crystallography, biochemistry assistant professor Mark Glover has uncovered the three dimensional structure of an important part of the breast cancer-associated protein, BRCA1. Mutations in BRCA1 cause about half of all hereditary breat cancers. The structure may give clinicians...

DNA biochip for genetic screening

...r, for example,” says Xiaolian Gao, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Houston. “This highly parallel technology allows us to do thousands or tens of thousands of experiments all at once.” She says the quality, suitability and cost of biochip products need to be significantly improved before most ...

Honey curbs bacteria in the oral cavity

...ding to Dr. Peter C. Molan, associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Research results from University of Waikato show that honey can stop the growth of dental plaque bacteria as well as the production of dextran, which the bacteria excrete in order to adhere to tooth surfac...

Anti-fungal drug - Griseofulvin may help treat cancer

...al team of scientists. Leslie Wilson, professor of biochemistry and pharmacology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, The results are published in online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Griseofulvin can be applied as an ointment to treat skin fungal infection like rin...

A Component In Milk May Help Control Inflammatory Diseases

...ogy and toxicology department; James Ntambi of the biochemistry department; and Dale Schoeller of the nutritional sciences department. Source: UW-Madison; Food Research Institute...

Lung Cancer: Nutritional Intervention Comes To The Rescue

...ccording to the study, Ron Pardini, a professor of biochemistry and associate director of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Nevada, successfully treated his 78-year-old neighbour ‘D.H.’, who was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. The cancerous tumors found in D.H.'s lungs have shr...

Another Benefit For Human Health Attributed To Omega-3-Fats

...sity of Nevada reported on Nov.8 that Ron Pardini, biochemistry professor of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, helped save his neighbor known as “D.H.” with terminal lung cancer, who was bound to die of the disease five years ago. When the 78 year-old D.H. was diagnosed with lung cancer, his doctor tol...

Kalam To Lay Foundation Of Vellore Research Center

...try, as it has world-class clinical hematology and biochemistry departments. Care will be taken to ensure that these cells will be processed according to international guidelines before human use. CMC will be creating appropriate facilities for this purpose....

Severe Gum Disease Triples Heart Disease Risk

...ik van Antwerpen, Ph.D., an assistant professor of biochemistry at VCU said that the study was a pointer towards the risk of these patients to develop heart disease in the future, “Previous research has shown that people who have predominantly small-dense LDL in their blood are at a three- to six-fold increased r...

Cancer Cells Trigger Supporting Cells to Turn Cancerous

...said Dr. Terry Van Dyke, professor of genetics and biochemistry and biophysics in the School of Medicine, member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and lead author of the study. "Now the whole organ is evolving as a cancer, not just a single population of cells." Van Dyke added that the interaction...

US Academy honors 15 for major contributions to science

...e, research professor, department of chemistry and biochemistry and division of biology, University of California,...essor of biochemistry, department of chemistry and biochemistry and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles. Merchant was chosen "for her...

Study Would Pave Way for the Development of New Drugs That Targets TB Proteasome

A new study was conducted to understand the biochemistry and structure of a protein-cleaving complex (prote...nalyze the difference present in the structure and biochemistry of the TB bacterial proteasome from those found in human cells. This would greatly improve prospects...

Controversial Theory Says DNA Can Be Pushed To "Dark States"

...l living things. One of the most basic premises of biochemistry is that these nucleic acid bases are very stable, as they would have to be to prevent rampant mutations and make an organized genetic structure possible. But studies at OSU, which were done with highly sophisticated electron spectroscopy, showed th...

A protein in the brain paves way for Alzheimer's treatment

...utioned that the disease has an enormously complex biochemistry and that this newly revealed protein represents just one step in the development of the disease....

Inventor of DNA fingerprinting Wins Accolades

...edom of the City of Leicester. Sir Alec studied biochemistry and received his PhD in 1975 at Oxford University. He then joined the laboratory of Piet Borst for a post-doctoral research at the Department of Medical Enzymology and Molecular Biology at the University of Amsterdam. In 1977, he joined the Departmen...

Researchers Purify Protein That Could Regulate Male Hormones

...us," said senior author Dr. Yi Zhang, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UNC's School of Medicine and the university's first Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Zhang also is a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Because histones are so intimately associated with DNA, ...

Tiniest Nanoscale Test Tubes Corked; Holds Promise In Cancer Treatment

...et, warned Sang Bok Lee, an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Maryland. Edite IANS...

The new face of vaccine development

...ead author of the study and associate professor of biochemistry at the UGA Complex Carbohydrate Research Center. "Or you could take a strain that's not easy to vaccinate against and induce an immune response using a synthetically modified sugar." Woods and his colleagues chose to examine Group B Streptococcus a...

Quality Of Dietary Carbohydrates May Determine Quality Of Eye Sight

...Taylor, who is also a nutrition, ophthalmology and biochemistry professor on the Tufts health sciences campus in Boston. "The likelihood of having abnormalities characteristic of AMD on eye exam more than doubled for women who consumed diets with the highest glycemic index, regardless of other factors already kno...

Low Carbohydrate Diet Still the First Choice for Diabetics

...lycemic control.” Dr. Feinman is also professor of biochemistry at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. Source: Newswie...

Scientists Uncover The Secret Behind The Speed In Nerve cells Conduction

...es, one of which was conducted by an undergraduate biochemistry student at the Rice University, researchers have e...pal researcher James McNew, assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology. SNAREs are a key player in membrane fusion. They oversee the merger of the cell'...

DNA-bound p53 Tumor Suppressor Protein Structure Determined

...ite having learned a good deal about the protein’s biochemistry over the years, scientists have been unable to "see" the protein – using the tools of structural biology – bound to DNA in its naturally occurring form. This naturally occurring form contains a pairing of two p53 proteins, called a dimer, that then b...

Scientist Recognized for Drug Addiction Research

... fields of organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry, biochemistry and drug abuse research. In addition to the Eddy Award, the National Institute on Drug Abuse awarded Carroll the Pacesetter Award in 1993 and the MERIT Award in 1996 for his research on the biochemical mechanisms of the action of cocaine. Carroll a...

Researchers from Emory University Undertake A New Genetic Mapping

...n. Scott Devine, an Emory assistant professor of biochemistry and the co-author the paper said, “We're entering an exciting new era of predictive health,” he also added that the work by Emory should also contribute towards that. It was reported that in the year 2000 scientists had announced to finish considerab...

Processed foods – "the" cause of obesity!

...a "poisoned" food supply that is changing people's biochemistry and driving them to eat more and move less. He proposed this hypothesis that was published on Aug. 11 in Nature Clinical Practice: Endocrinology and Metabolism, after gathering results from thousands of studies on obesity. He says that it is unjust a...

Brain Regulation Present Even In Spineless Creatures

...etely altered during metamorphosis," he said. "The biochemistry is altered. The translators that they use are altered. The shapes of the cells are altered, and their physiology is altered. The dogma is that most cells don't change their characteristics, but here's a case of nerve cells changing not only one chara...

Alternative therapies for ADHD

...atments recommended like this really normalize the biochemistry of the affected organs, and in some cases, it's getting at the root of the problem," said Deth. "It's obvious that Ritalin is effective, but there's the downside that we don't really know about its long-term effects. My personal belief is that (these...

A New drug Developed To Fight The Bio-Terrorism Threat Of VEE Virus

...journal Structure. The UTMB associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology added, "Now that we know what this protease looks like, we can begin a systematic computer-based search for compounds that will inhibit its activity, stop the virus from multiplying in infected individuals, and prevent VEE outbr...

Scientists Say Mineral Water Kills Cancer

...iseased ones.// Researchers from the department of biochemistry at the University of Maribor in Slovenia said that they placed diseased cells in this water for 10 days and compared them to those placed in normal lab water. They found that the mineral water stopped the growth of colon cancer cells 62.5 percent mo...

Virus Can Mutate lethally With Help Of Carbohydrates

...Agbandje-McKenna, Ph.D., an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the UF College of Medicin...am, Ph.D., an assistant scientist in department of biochemistry and molecular biology and the paper's first author, stated that in term of medical treatments, the f...

Allen Brain Atlas – a 3-D gene map of brai

...cept human genes, which allows mice to exhibit the biochemistry of Alzheimer's in humans. The Brain Atlas will allow us to do research faster and to get some answers we may not have had before." David Anderson, a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology, added, "The amount of information p...

Antibiotic Inhibits Cancer Gene Activity

...rticipation of the late Robert Costa, professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at UIC and a leader in research on FoxM1, was critical for the success of the project thus far. Senthil Radhakrishnan, a visiting bioinformatics expert at UIC, is first author of the paper. Uppoor Bhat, Douglas Hughes and I-C...

Low-Carb Dieters Eat More Vegetables

... Feinman, PhD, principal author and a professor of biochemistry at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, notes that 54% of forum dieters increased salad greens and 34% increased green vegetables by “at least double their usual consumption” in response to removing starches and sugars from their diets. Few of the 3,000 ...

Cell-Wall Carbohydrate in Anthrax Bacterium Holds Promise for New Vaccines

...ne additive. Russell Carlson of the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Georgia and faculty member at UGA’s Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC), was corresponding author on a paper reporting the research, which was just published in the online version of the Journal of B...

India Finds New Use for an Old Bug

...iochemist Gursaran "Pran" Talwar, then head of the biochemistry division at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. "Because we have not sequenced any genome so far, we decided to sequence Mw that was discovered in India," says Syed Hasnain, formerly director of the Centre for DNA Fin...

Dartmouth researchers zero-in on a gene that heightens muscle performance

...es," he says, "is a shift in the conception of the biochemistry of muscle metabolism, since many enzyme genes are thought to only be active in just one tissue." Other authors on the paper include Laura Barré, Christine Richardson, and Steven Fiering, all at Dartmouth; Michael Hirshman and Laurie Goodyear of Jos...

Heavenly Notes from a Life Etched With Disability: The Strangest Song

...narrative, author Teri Sforza follows the quest of biochemistry professor Howard Lenhoff to help his mentally handicapped daughter, Gloria. From his discovery of Gloria's outstanding vocal talent and innate musical gifts, Lenhoff becomes convinced that people with her disorder have an unusual capacity for learnin...

Researchers Make Progress in Studying Genetic Traits of India-born Populations

...searchers, including Pragna I. Patel, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), and Noah Rosenberg, assistant professor in the department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan, have conducted genetic analysis of India-b...

Indians Make One Major Human Race: US Study

...na I. Patel. The study led by Patel, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), represents the largest study of Indian genetic variation performed to date, in terms of the total number of sites in the human genome that were surve...

VBI Provides Potential Targets to Diabetes Therapeutics

... the research. Case and Boswell were Virginia Tech biochemistry undergraduates who worked in Mukhopadhyay's resear...a postdoctoral researcher. Concar now works in the biochemistry department of Genencor Inc. Boswell is currently a biochemistry graduate student at the University o...

TEMPE Spray Delays Ejaculation

...hysical findings, electrocardiograms, haematology, biochemistry and urine analysis. "At the moment, only a small number of men with premature ejaculation seek or receive treatment from a healthcare professional and the lack of effective pharmacological treatment is a contributory factor" concludes co-author Dr ...

Estrogen Linked to Immune Surveillance in Breast Cancer

...ipal investigator David J. Shapiro, a professor of biochemistry in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology. “The amounts of estrogen required to do this are quite small.” U. of I. graduate student Xinguo Jiang also found that when breast cancer cells that contain very high levels of estrogen receptor prot...

Molecular Link Between Inflammation and Cancer Discovered

... Hoffmann, an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at U.C. San Diego, who led the study. “We have identified a basic cellular mechanism that we think may be linking chronic inflammation and cancer.” Cellular defense is a rapid process compared to cellular development, just as a state’s response to ...

Sea Creature's Toxin Could Lead to Promising Cancer Treatment

...e imagined,” said Dr. Patrick Harran, professor of biochemistry and a senior author on both studies. “This is a ...tor. Dr. Noelle Williams, assistant professor of biochemistry and internal medicine, led the second phase of the research, which tested the effect of a variant of...

Indian American's Research Could Lead to Improved MRI

...nesses. Naresh Dalal, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the Florida State University (FSU) and a graduate of Panjab University, conducted experiments with other researchers from the University of Colorado and the National Institute of Standards and Technology that uncovered unique properties in a molec...

New Gene Linked to Autism Discovered

... to Dr. Robert Hegele, a professor of medicine and biochemistry at the University of Western Ontario the research suggests there are many different forms of genetic susceptibility in autism. Isolating those areas could one day allow for a test that would confirm the autism diagnosis in children exhibiting sympt...

Yale Researchers Named Ellison Foundation Senior Scholars in Aging

...completing his undergraduate work in microbiology, biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Cape T...Yale faculty in 1991. After undergraduate work in biochemistry at Princeton University, she received both an M.D. degree and a Ph.D. in molecular biophysics and bi...

Unique Models Help Teach Nanoscience to the Blind

...chnology, Greenberg and Mohammed Farhoud, a senior biochemistry student working with UW-Madison Center for Biology Education (CBE) Director Dave Evans, are building three-dimensional models of nano-surfaces that are large enough to be explored with the hands. Their first attempt replicates "NanoBucky," a nanoscal...

Taiwan Skincare Empire Built on 'Natural Beauty'

...n products she has developed through self-study of biochemistry and skin care needs, provide education and employment for thousands of women. Last year, according to a company spokesperson, NB's revenues totalled 1.6 billion Taiwan dollars (48 million US), 62 percent from China and 37 percent from Taiwan. A t...

Scientists Discover How HIV Escapes Cells

... highlights the importance of studying their basic biochemistry and cell biology, which can yield a better understanding of normal human biology as well as identify new avenues in the fight against human disease, Gould says....

Study on Bioactive Paper That can Detect Life Threatening Bacteria and Viruses

...paper products is the ability to merge advances in biochemistry with current paper-production processes. As of now, the research team is investigating the development of a bioactive ink which would allow biologically active chemicals to be printed, coated or impregnated onto or into paper using current paper-ma...

The Forgotten Indian Medical Genius

...vernment should institute an award in his name for biochemistry research," Bhatnagar told IANS. The Films Division of India is making a film on the researcher, who was born in 1895, and Nehru Memorial Museum is launching a website on him. It would include SubbaRow's research papers and 10,000 letters and severa...

Study Revises Dynamin's Role in Nerve Cell Function

...ns co-senior author Dr. Timothy Ryan, professor of biochemistry at Weill Cornell Medical College. The discovery is a potentially important new piece of the puzzle for scientists investigating neurological injury and disease. 'In the long run, what we're trying to achieve here is a kind of biochemical repair m...

Protein Targets for Carcinogenesis

...rof. Ivan Dikic and his team from the institute of biochemistry II at the University of Frankfurt now describe a n...s Prof. Mller-Esterl, director of the institute of biochemistry and vice president of the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University. Virtually every process within an euk...

Genetic Factors Behind Mosquitoes Resistance to Malaria Identified

...r Dr. Richard Baxter, a postdoctoral researcher in biochemistry at UT Southwestern. He said that the understanding as to how some mosquitoes are able to fend off malaria might someday lead to reducing or even eliminating the insects capacity to transmit the devastating disease. We have been trying to cure peo...

Translating Structure into Function

...lts confirmed the prediction. Almo, a professor of biochemistry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, further confirmed the finding by determining the substrates atomic level structure through x-ray crystallography. To tell the truth, we were very surprised that the docking approach worked to determine the su...

Structure of TB Enzyme Points the Way to New Drugs: Study

...ular functions," said Jean Pieters, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Basle in Switzerland and lead author of the paper. So Pieters and colleagues decided to examine the chemical structure of the PknG molecule and the compound that inhibits it in atomic resolution, using a technique called X-ray ...