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Joint Center for Molecular Modeling Instituted by Burnham Institute for Medical Research & UC San Diego

... in mice or bacteria. "Protein structures can be solved experimentally in a couple of months, sometimes we... Godzik. "Scientists around the world have already solved tens of thousands of them. Structures of many proteins can also be predicted on a computer in a matt...

Lower Birth Rate and Fewer Girls under China’s one Child Polic

... would probably be less common. This can only be solved by a change in attitudes towards female offspring. The finding that many younger women in urban areas now express a preference for girls provides evidence that attitudes may be changing. These findings have clear implications for decisions about fu...

Solution to Bacterial Mystery Promises New Drugs

... to make phospholipid,” Rock said. “That discovery solved a mystery that has puzzled researchers for 25 year...growth. “Our discovery of PlsX and PlsY not only solved a troublesome mystery,” Rock said. “It’s also important because identifying the essential components...

AMD Risk Lowered By Silencing Two Genes

...ars in Nature Genetics. "I am very pleased to have solved a complex and difficult genetic puzzle. This helps us to identify more accurately those at risk of developing AMD. There is hope for development of a preventative treatment based, perhaps, on gene silencing," said Hughes. "It is important to state ...

Mathematics And Beauty? You Bet!

... their interactions. Generally such PDEs cannot be solved exactly in closed form, so mathematics enters the picture once again to provide numerical techniques for producing approximate solutions. With the "virtual patient" data as input, one can use the approximate solutions to generate an individualized m...

ABCB6 Is Key to Production of Heme in Hemoglobin

...he discovery of the location and function of ABCB6 solved the long-standing riddle of how porphyrins get into mitchondria so they can be used to make heme, said John Schuetz, PhD, a member of St. Jude Pharmaceutical Sciences. 'Porphyrins are negatively charged and so is the inside of mitochondria,' Schuet...

Red Cross and Red Crescent Go the Extra Mile to Fight HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa

...gone from bad to worse. And this problem cannot be solved by just sitting in coordination meetings and conference calls. You need to address in towns and villages, in communities, in families face to face…we have our volunteers present in every community in the region. We don’t have to come in from outside....

Cuban Deaf-blind Children Regain Hearing

... profoundly deaf children, whose problems were not solved through the conventional prosthesis, a technique usually applied in patients under 14 years old. Experts believe this technology has revolutionized the treatment and become an essential aid for treating deafness. Source-IANS...

Permanent Jobs Elude Qualified Nurses

... now - not sometime in the future when trusts have solved their financial problems."...

Prioritise Doctor Training in Election Health Promises: AMSA

...in emergency departments. These problems cannot be solved overnight, but require adequate funding of undergraduate and postgraduate training so that doctors are well placed to alleviate the workforce shortages.’ Ms Cosgriff sees the lack of funding of clinical training as a significant challenge facing th...

Tackling obesity needs something more than mere laws; self-discipline, need of the hour!

...oesn't see obesity as a problem that can simply be solved by government regulation,'' Mr Howard said....

Does Aspirin Crystallize?

...sts from Denmark, Germany, and India seems to have solved this controversial puzzle: yes, there is a second structure—but it does not exist as a pure form. “The two crystalline forms of aspirin are so closely related,” explains the research team of Andrew D. Bond, Roland Boese and Gautam R. Desiraju in A...

‘Sweet Revenge’ on Inflammatory Bowel Diseae

...ll provide that control.” Carding claims to have solved this by linking the human gene for producing cytokines with one of the bacteria’s gene for breaking down a kind of sugar called xylan. Xylan is a sugar that is mainly found in tree bark, and naturally present in food in only low concentrations and n...

A Spoonful Of Sugar to 'Switch' the Bacteria on and Off

...liver drugs in this way, but Professor Carding has solved the major problem with this kind of treatment: he uses a sugar to 'switch' the bacteria on and off. By eating the sugar, a patient will set the medicine to work and then can end the treatment simply by stopping consumption of the sugar. "Current ba...

Scientists Discover New Gene

...chers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have solved a decades-old cancer mystery. "We not only found a critical tumor suppressor gene, but have revealed// a master switch for a tumor suppressive network that means more targeted and effective cancer therapy in the future," said CSHL Associate Professor...

Biochemical Chip Solves Cell-mating Puzzle

...udy yeast cells merging together. The research has solved a long-standing mystery of how a specific kinase protein, Kss1, helps cells send and receive signals from one another and the environment. When this process is impaired, it can lead to diseases such as cancer. As cancer is characterised by the unco...

Scientists Re-grow Dental Enamel from Cultured Cells

...like and tooth-like tissues, problems remain to be solved before the technology comes close to being tested in humans. One of the issues has been how to produce, in culture, sufficient numbers of enamel-forming cells. On the occasion of the 85th General Session of the International Association for Dental ...

Earth Day Celebrated With Hopes of a Greener Tomorrow

...oundwater recharge. 'It's a problem which can be solved only when people themselves become conscious about it,' said Nanni Singh, executive director of Trees for Delhi, a coalition of experts, environmentalists, NGOs and citizens who want to protect the green cover of the city. Although disappointed aft...

New Platform for Regulating Expression of Therapeutic Genes Unveiled

...nsgenes better, when it hit us, nature had already solved the problem for us, says Dr. Brian Brown, one of the studies authors. Now, we can utilize a cells own regulatory network to control a gene we introduce. Dr. Naldinis group has already begun to successfully exploit microRNA regulation for achieving ...

Students Devise Oral Quick-dissolve Strips for Rotavirus Vaccine

...rough extensive research and testing, the students solved these problems. They refined a room-temperature production and drying process to make the strips and identified an FDA-approved biocompatible polymer coating that would protect the vaccine from stomach acid but release the medicine in the small intes...

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