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Recent breakthroughs in common adult leukemia highlighted in New England Journal of Medicine

...rthshorelij.com): Nicholas Chiorazzi, MD, director and CEO of the Institute for Medical Research at North...edicine at New York University School of Medicine, and Kanti R. Rai, MB, BS, investigator at the Institute for Medical Research, chief of hematology-oncolo...

Researchers Uncover Key Step In Manufacture of Memory Protein

...ientists at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of He...ing to better treatments for disorders of learning and memory,?said Duane Alexander, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Dev...

Plants respond similarly to signals from friends, enemies

Two soil-dwelling strangers ?a friend and a foe ?approach a plant and communicate with it in order to enter a partnership. The friend wants to trade nitrogen for food. Th...

Scientists Replicate Hepatitis C Virus in Laboratory

...l allow researchers to better study the life cycle and biology of this virus and to test potential antiviral compounds, which may lead to new therapies for the liver disease that re...

Research advances quest for HIV-1 vaccine

...complex formed by an anti-HIV antibody called 4E10 and its specific target provides insight into why this...le vaccine for HIV-1 has been a highly challenging and thus far unsuccessful endeavor. HIV-1 is enormously variable and it has been difficult to isolate an...

Novel antiviral technology inhibits RSV infection in mice

A novel antiviral treatment combiningnanoparticle and gene silencing technologies thwarts attacks ofresp... (RSV) -- a virus associated with severebronchitis and asthma, an animal study by University of South Floridaresearchers found. The study was reported in t...

The secret to longevity in tubeworms

...en-access online journal PLoS Biology, Erik Cordes and colleagues now provide a solution: by releasing it...imulates the growth of sulfide-producing microbes, and ensures its own long-term survival. The sulfide this worm needs is created by a consortium of bacte...

Male circumcision reduces risk of HIV transmission from women to men

...tious Diseases, now available online, Jared Baeten and colleaguesfrom the United States and Kenya collected detailed sexual data from agroup of male Kenyan truckers and, using statistical mode...

Another Look Finds Promising Proteomics Test is Not Biologically Plausible

...ty of proteomic diagnostic tests is getting better and we are getting more reproducible results.? Researc...idual cancers before symptoms appear, but Baggerly and others maintain that the promise of this emerging field of proteomics has not yet been met due to th...

Affymetrix Unveils Plans to Double Plant and Animal Genome Microarray Offering

...nnounced plans to make eight new GeneChip(R) plant and animal genomearrays available in 2005 as part of i...ancatula (legume), Brassica, tomato,citrus, poplar and sugar cane. More than 20 research presentations atthis week's Plant and Animal Genome Conference XII...

New species from old data

...ty of proteomic diagnostic tests is getting better and we are getting more reproducible results.? Researc...idual cancers before symptoms appear, but Baggerly and others maintain that the promise of this emerging field of proteomics has not yet been met due to th...

Cracking the olfactory code in bees

...ty of proteomic diagnostic tests is getting better and we are getting more reproducible results.? Researc...idual cancers before symptoms appear, but Baggerly and others maintain that the promise of this emerging field of proteomics has not yet been met due to th...

Study Demonstrates Gene Expression Microarrays are Comparable and Reproducible

...tions ofindividual samples were highly comparable, and the experimentalcorrelation between separate labs ...ssociated with certain cancers,classifying tumors, and predicting patient outcome. So far, though,microarray studies have been performed by individual inst...

Signaling protein builds bigger, better bones in mice

...ty of proteomic diagnostic tests is getting better and we are getting more reproducible results.? Researc...idual cancers before symptoms appear, but Baggerly and others maintain that the promise of this emerging field of proteomics has not yet been met due to th...

Scientists detect probable genetic cause of some Parkinson's disease cases

...stigators at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and scientistssupported by the National Institute of N...., of the Institute of Neurology in London. TheNIA and the NINDS are part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)at the U.S. Department of Health and Hu...

Computers to be used to find blueprint for new influenza drug

...print of a designer drug that could stop influenza and some other diseases from replicating in humans. T...f atoms of the influenza virus which attack cells, and atoms of the throat cells that are attacked. By using advanced software to model the way these atoms...

Transplantation Of Monkey Embryonic Stem Cells Reverses Parkinson Disease In Primates

...neurons) generated from monkey embryonicstem cells and transplanted into areas of the brain where these n...e the symptoms this disease. However the technical and ethicaldifficulties in obtaining sufficient and appropriate donor fetal braintissue have limited the...

Ecological destruction fuels emerging diseases

The destruction of habitat by human activity and the extinction of species around the world is more...odiversity is linked to the emergence of new human and wildlife diseases such as West Nile Virus and avian flu. "The biodiversity crisis is not just about...

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

...s an international alliance ofindependent agencies and organizations conducting or supporting HIVvaccine ...auci, Director of the NationalInstitute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutesof Health; Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS; a...

Newly discovered virus linked to childhood lung disorders and Kawasaki disease

Late updatetonight; my girlfriend is sick and I took care of her. First headline :a newly discov...ble for many respiratory tractillnesses in infants and children, and may be associated with animportant multi-organ disease whose cause has remained a myst...

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