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Reason Behind Sleepy Feeling During Sickness Found

Researchers have found that the immune protein - tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) is the... University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland. The protein was known to set off inflammation in response to infection and some chronic diseases like rheumatoid...

Human Trial for Universal Influenza Vaccine Underway

...alter Fiers, invented a universal flu vaccine. One protein on the surface of the influenza virus, the so-called M2 protein, remains unchanged in all human flu viruses known, including the strains that caused the pandemics in the last century. On the basis of the M2-protein they developed a vaccine and suc...

Chemical Compound in Turmeric Helps to Fight Alzheimers

...boosted immune cells called macrophages to clear a protein called amyloid beta, which clogs the brains of Alzheimer's patients and kills brain cells....

Kerala Institute to Hold International Seminar on Drug Discovery

...ortance of ligand (a molecule in biochemistry) and protein preparation in computational studies, docking in v...ucture based drug design, novel methods to predict protein conformational changes during ligand binding are included for deliberations. Jorg Weiser, vice pre...

China Vows to Improve Food Safety in Wake of Health Scares

...amed for adding the dangerous chemical melamine to protein products later used in pet food for US and Canadian markets. The companies used administrative loopholes to dodge inspections, Li said. Also shut down was a factory in eastern China that produced diethylene glycol, an ingredient normally used in ...

Studies Identify Interactions Between Heart Disease, Kidney Disease

...gh levels (20 milligrams per liter or more) of the protein albumin in the urine. Of the participants who were followed for a maximum of 47.5 months, 5,504 (14.8 percent) had eGFR values of less than 60 milliliters per minute per 1.73 square meters, which were considered abnormal and signs of declining kid...

UK Suggestion for Restricted Use of Anti-AMD Drugs Draws Flak

...eting VEGF (Vascular endothelial growth factor), a protein that helps the formation of new blood vessels. In the case of AMD these new blood vessels are unstable and tend to leak fluid and blood under the retina. The resulting scarring then causes irreversible sight loss. The anti-VEGF drugs inhibit the g...

Scientists Have Discovered Blood Protein That Could Spot Colon Cancer

...lleagues at the University of Pittsburgh through a protein scan. As part of the study, to find whether the ...dentifying the 28 existing cancers, using the same protein markers. "These proteins seem very good at separating normal samples from cancerous ones and ident...

Genome Annotation by Mutation

...the same chromosome and also has the Cre gene. The protein made by Cre acts like a knife, cutting the DNA whe...the same chromosome and also has the Cre gene. The protein made by Cre acts like a knife, cutting the DNA wherever loxP is found. The offspring mouse, in tur...

Alzheimers Disease Enzyme may Interfere With Brain Function

...zyme involved in the formation of the amyloid-beta protein associated with Alzheimers disease can also alter ...d-beta is formed when the larger amyloid precursor protein (APP) is clipped by two enzymes BACE and gamma-secretase which releases the amyloid-beta fragment....

Alzheimer's-associated Enzyme Linked to Seizures

...ACE, involved in the formation of the amyloid-beta protein linked with Alzheimer's disease can also alter neu...lzheimer's disease is marked by toxic amyloid-beta protein plaques in the brain which are formed when the larger amyloid precursor protein (APP) is clipped by ...

Studies Identify Interactions Between Heart Disease, Kidney Disease

...gh levels (20 milligrams per liter or more) of the protein albumin in the urine. Of the participants who were followed for a maximum of 47.5 months, 5,504 (14.8 percent) had eGFR values of less than 60 milliliters per minute per 1.73 square meters, which were considered abnormal and signs of declining kid...

Animal Research Uncovers Another Mechanism of Cholesterol Lowering Drug

...he liver. In both locations, the drugs target is a protein known as NPC1L1 that moves cholesterol into the bo...ackaging it for the bodys use. We know that this protein that the drug targets is expressed not only in the intestine, but is abundant in the human liver, sa...

Parkinsons Disease Protein Pathway Identified

...The Emory researchers found that the mitochondrial protein PINK1 normally protects cells from oxidative stres...omotes cell survival by regulating function of the protein TRAP1. When PINK1 is mutated, however, the protective TRAP1 pathway is disrupted, leading to mitocho...

Weizmann Researchers Developed Control Switch for Protein Activity

...ctioning proteins can cause disease , the study of protein structure and function can lead to the development...which affects the activity level of the engineered protein by increasing or reducing it. When the drug is no longer applied, or when it is removed from the sys...

Genetic Tests Could Help Decide the Right Anti-depressants

...uman gene for brain-derived neurotrophic factor, a protein that is increased in the brain with SSRI treatment and is critical to the health of neurons. Then he subjected these humanized mice to stress and found that they did not respond to Prozac with decreased anxiety. The clear implication is that people w...

Protein Pathway Involved in Parkinson Disease Development Identified

Boffins at Emory University have identified a protein pathway in cells that is altered by genetic mutati...e to mutations in both copies of the mitochondrial protein PINK1 gene (one from each parent) that normally protects cells from oxidative stress and promotes ce...

Protein That may Prevent Eye Damage in Premature Babies Identified

Researchers have discovered that a specific protein plays a vital role in healthy eyesight, and may pr...s are brittle and permeable. "We've identified a protein that is part of the body's natural defenses in oxygen-deprived conditions," said Maria B. Grant, M.D...

Researchers Have Found the Role of Protein in Accelerating Breast Cancer Progression

...e found in animal models just how great a role the protein pleiotrophin (PTN) plays in accelerating breast cancer . Until this study, the significance of pleiotrophin (PTN) expression in breast cancer had not been clearly established, and boffins are hopeful that the new findings could lead to a better unde...

Ancient Viral Defense may Explain Susceptibility to HIV: Study

...uman cells, matched it up with the human antiviral protein TRIM5a. The TRIM5a neutralized the partial virus but when the investigators re-engineered the protein to make it more effective against HIV, a modern-day retrovirus, the changes inhibited the protein's ...

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