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A much-needed shot in the arm for HIV vaccine development

...ony S. Fauci. "By workingtogether, we will greatly accelerate progress toward the critical goalof developing a s...e that thisscientific strategic plan will not only accelerate the development of alifesaving HIV vaccine but also boost African capacity in healthresearch to addr...

Enzyme shown to help protect genomic stability

...er DNA segments. In the telomeres, such events may accelerate aging or trigger cancer in humans." "We have identified a molecular mechanism to explain how this enzyme helps keep telomeric DNA silenced and potentially protects the genome from destabilizing activity," says N.C. Tolga Emre, a graduate student in ...

First 'atlas' of key brain genes could speed research on cancer, neurological diseases

...lly or malfunction.The scientists say the map will accelerate research on brain tumors andneurological diseases that result from mutations in these switch genes?called “transcription factors.?When these genes are altered, thegenes they control can go awry, causing abnormalities in thedevelopment or function of ...

Gene Therapy For Parkinson's Disease Moves Forward In Animals

... any particular combination of proteins prevent or accelerate degeneration of the neurons?'?said Nicholas Muzyczka, Ph.D., an eminent scholar and professor of molecular genetics and microbiology at UF's College of Medicine who participated in the research. “For some time Dr. Mandel has been working on the idea ...

Deficiency of growth hormone and IGF-1 reduces cancer and kidney disease, but creates other problems

...rmone and IGF-1 may impair learning and memory and accelerate some degenerative diseases. ...

World's largest rainforest drying experiment completes first phase

...l years of worldwide carbon emissions -- and could accelerate climate change processes already in place. But beyond these global effects, drought and fire, which is a tool of choice among the Amazon's farmers and ranchers, pose a serious threat to a forest that is home to more plant and animal species, and more...

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

... any particular combination of proteins prevent or accelerate degeneration of the neurons?'" said Nicholas Muzyczka, Ph.D., an eminent scholar and professor of molecular genetics and microbiology at UF's College of Medicine who participated in the research. "For some time Dr. Mandel has been working on the idea...

Affymetrix and Stratagene Announce Strategic Software Alliance

...sts, and the result will be better quality data to accelerate biological discovery and validation." "We are very pleased to announce this expansion of our longstanding relationship with Stratagene," said Steve Lincoln, Vice-President of Informatics at Affymetrix. "The combination of our GeneChip platform and t...

International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort

...variation than originally envisioned. The map will accelerate the discovery of genes related to common diseases,...ll. "Researchers are already using HapMap data to accelerate the search for genes involved in common diseases, as well as genes involved in drug responsiveness,"...

Expression Project for Oncology (expO) completes first phase of standardized gene expression analyses

...inical database of patient specimens will fuel and accelerate clinically meaningful and scientifically valid res...e collection, analysis, and vocabularies will help accelerate future development of new, targeted cancer treatments. Standardization, which will take place at eve...

NIH Calls on Scientists to Speed Public Release of Research Publications

...lth (NIH) announced today a new policy designed to accelerate the public's access to published articles resulting from NIH-funded research. The policy ?the first of its kind for NIH ?calls on scientists to release to the public manuscripts from research supported by NIH as soon as possible, and within 12 months...

Affymetrix Licenses Microfluidics Technology From Caliper Life Sciences

...microfluidics adoption strategy and to broaden and accelerate the availability of new technologies and products for life science and diagnostics applications. "The potential for merging two technologies on the forefront of life science innovation represents an important option for us," said Alan Sherr, Directo...

Strongest proof yet found for prion hypothesis

... misfolding cyclic amplification" (PMCA) to vastly accelerate the activity of a small number of prions taken from infected hamsters and placed in test tubes containing healthy brain proteins. When the healthy proteins had been largely transformed into prions, the samples were diluted over and over again and the...

Researchers report new pro-inflammatory role for anti-inflammatory enzyme

...eNOS can also act in a pro-inflammatory manner and accelerate host-defense in response to pathogenic stimuli." This discovery may eventually lead to new treatments for septic shock and other inflammatory diseases. "Pharmaceutical companies have been developing iNOS inhibitors to treat sepsis," explains Dr. Hob...

Study reveals new technique for fingerprinting environmental samples

...Science positions large-scale genome sequencing to accelerate advances in environmental sciences akin to the contributions DNA sequencing has made to biomedical sciences. "These DNA sequence fingerprints can be used to provide highly accurate assessments of the vitality of extremely diverse environments," said...

OneWorld Health drug receives 'Orphan' designation from U.S. and European regulatory agencies

...standards of either agency, we will be prepared to accelerate approvals in countries that have a critical need to treat VL." Paromomycin is an off-patent aminoglycoside antibiotic first used in the 1960s and is still marketed in the U.S. as an oral formulation to treat intestinal parasites. The largest-ever Ph...

Secret of smallpox's success may lead to bioterror cure

...oshield, which gives federal agencies new tools to accelerate research on medical countermeasures to safeguard Americans against chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear attack. The idea for the vaccine comes from Jacobs and his team's discovery of a gene that gives pox viruses uncanny ability to camoufla...

Analysis Of Human Genome To Predict The Development Of Illnesses

...will help in predicting the evolution of diseases, accelerate their diagnosis and identify new therapeutic targets (lines of action) for ailments such as cancer, depression and hepatitis. This bioinformatics tool, designed in collaboration with the Centre for Applied Research in Medicine (CIMA) at Navarre Univ...

'EuroVacc 02' HIV Vaccine Trial Begins

...nds for fundamental and clinical research so as to accelerate the development of a safe and effective vaccine against HIV infection. The Foundation also promotes educational and training programmes relevant to vaccine development worldwide. ### Notes: Contrary to classical vaccine boosters, one strategy be...

Novel plague virulence factor identified

...s system using the Caenorhabditis elegans worm can accelerate the process of better understanding Y. pestis pathogenesis. The shorter time and increased ease of experimentation can be especially important, the researchers continued, given potential use of Y. pestis as a biological weapon, they said. The result...

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