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High fidelity keeps human DNA assembly line humming

...the criteria, it gets booted out." In addition to better understanding how errors are prevented, Burton's research team also learned ways errors are corrected during rapid RNA synthesis. To learn about error correction, Burton's team stalled the DNA conveyer belt. They did this using a deadly mushroom toxi...

Survey reveals women and doctors aren't talking about HPV

...ng, now make cervical cancer a disease that can be better prevented, we're encouraging women to discuss with their healthcare provider their HPV risk, get regular screenings with the Pap test and, if they are age 30 or older, ask about HPV testing as well." Other major findings from the report show: # Only...

Researchers reveal secrets of flying snakes

...ng snakes, and found that the smaller animals were better gliders. "Despite their lack of wing-like appendages, flying snakes are skilled aerial locomotors," said lead scientist and author Jake Socha, Ph.D., who has been studying these unique creatures for the past eight years. With the help of colleagues...

Grass makes environmentally friendly biofuel

...ney points out that grass biofuel pellets are much better for the environment because they emit up to 90 percent less greenhouse gases than oil, coal and natural gas do. Furthermore, he says, grass is perennial, does not require fertilization and can be grown on marginal farmland. "Any mixture of grasses c...

New understanding of cell movement may yield ways to brake cancer's spread

... Seeing how this process directs cells can help us better address a host of diseases that result from too little or too much cell movement, or from cells moving in the wrong direction and to the wrong place." Dr. Vuori and her team found a molecule called DOCK180, a key signaling protein that binds to PIP3...

Unique library of plant genes germinates, takes root at UNC

... more successfully, he said. They also can lead to better and cheaper medicines and plant products like cott... with a small genome, like rice, he said. To breed better crops, it's important to be able to leverage the information from the tractable model systems that s...

U of T researchers map role of Epstein-Barr virus in cancer

...en the proteins don't interact with one another. A better understanding of these molecular mechanisms will h...ully lead scientists and researchers to developing better methods of combating viruses like these which cause disease, says Frappier. ...

Discovery of New Dopamine Action May Yield Alternative Psychiatric Drugs

...aluated for potential new inhibitors that might be better at controlling particular psychotic behaviors." Caron is a professor of cell biology at Duke and faculty member at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. Dopamine's prolonged effects might also apply to understanding the impact of sust...

Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management

...and processing. So, while fossil fuels are in fact better for health and better for climate, they are more expensive and a lot harder to get out." Charcoal burns cleaner and produ...

Brain Scan Study of Smokers Reveals Signature of Craving

...er new methods for manipulating those responses to better help smokers quit." While scientists have thought that nicotine is the primary agent responsible for cigarette addiction, recent evidence suggests that conditioned responses to sensory cues also play an important role, McClernon said. Brain imaging ...

Massey Cancer Center researcher helps to identify a piece of the cancer puzzle

...learning how they interact with each other, we can better explore how to turn off the signals that promote cancer growth," said William A. Barton, Ph.D., a VCU alumnus who recently returned to Richmond to continue his research. "Once we understand the shape and characteristics of proteins involved in tumor...

Cancer drug slows poxvirus in mice

...terror. For this reason, scientists are working to better understand the mechanisms of smallpox disease and to develop new and improved smallpox treatments and vaccines. NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIAID supports ...

UN: World in big ecological mess

... the planet, while continuing to use them to bring better living standards to all," the MA board of directors said in a statement, "Living beyond Our Means: Natural Assets and Human Well-being." "Achieving this, however, will require radical changes in the way nature is treated at every level of decision-m...

Critical step traced in anthrax infection

..., which grew out of an ongoing effort to produce a better anthrax therapeutic, shows that the protective antigen component of the bacterial toxin plays an active role in transferring the other two components of the toxin through the cell membrane. The research, led by R. John Collier, professor of microbio...

Genome study of beneficial microbe may help boost plant health

...nts from diseases. The research provides clues to better explain how the helpful microbe, Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5, naturally safeguards roots and seeds from infection by harmful microbes that cause plant diseases. The genome paper will be published in Nature Biotechnology and was scheduled to be poste...

Studies reveal how plague disables immune system, and how to exploit the process to make a vaccine

...emergence of diseases we would like to forget, but better not." ...

Immune system's distress signal tells bacteria when to strike back

... to find a new home. They don't take that news any better than we would." A vulnerable host, like a condemned home, is a liability, a threat to its tenants' survival. Pseudomonas, however, has the tools to engineer its own escape ?by killing off the host. This wily pathogen can evade a host's immune syste...

MIT engineers an anti-cancer smart bomb

...ed angiogenesis and avoided systemic toxicity much better than other treatment and delivery variations. But...tute Professor Robert Langer. The nanocell worked better against melanoma than lung cancer, indicating the need to tweak the design for different cancers. "T...

Program finds lost genes in nematode genome

...cause of the lower redundancy you end up with much better coverage of the genome for the same money." Chess...k at the world of chess. Fundamentally, humans are better than machines at chess, but if you get a team of ten people with enough expertise, money, and equipm...

Certain fish have a special mating preference

...for large genitalia in that environment. Bigger is better for mating, but smaller is better for avoiding predation." Langerhans and colleagues reported their findings in the May 9 on-line iss...

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