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Experimental vaccine protects mice against deadly 1918 flu virus

...s." To evaluate the vaccine's antibody-inducing capabilities while minimizing exposure of lab personnel to the 1918 flu virus, Dr. Nabel and his VRC colleagues also created artificial viruses, or pseudoviruses, featuring the HA of the 1918 flu virus but stripped of the ability to cause infection. The pseudovir...

Genomic comparison of lactic acid bacteria published

...nhabit and reflect a limited range of biosynthetic capabilities promising broad industrial applications. Lactic acid-producing bacteria play a key role in the production of fermented foods and beverages, accounting for tens of billions of dollars in sales annually. Products constituting a fine repast, such as ...

Brains can recover from alcoholic damage but patients should stop drinking as soon as possible

...cularly its white matter, seems to possess genuine capabilities for re-growth. Our findings show the ways that the brain can recover from the toxic insults of chronic alcoholism and substantiate the early measurable benefits of therapeutic sobriety. However, they also suggest that prolonged dependence on alcohol ...

Humpback whales have brain cells also found in humans

...these mammals is thought to be related to acoustic capabilities and the current study shows that it is organized into a system of core and belt regions. However, substantial variability was found between the cell structure of the cortex in humpbacks compared to toothed whales. The authors suggest that these diffe...

UWM brain research supports drug development from jellyfish protein

...ich is responsible for forming new memories. These capabilities not only deteriorate in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, but they also become impaired simply by aging. Aging increases the number of "doors" that allow calcium ions to enter the cells, he said. Moyer, who came to UW-Mil...

Quick -- what’s that smell?

...nt of electronic olfactory systems that would have capabilities such as identification of odors for medical diagnosis or detection of land mines." ...

NYU researchers decorate virus particles, showing potential to enhance MRI capabilities

...er researchers have recently sought to enhance MRI capabilities through the use of similar large molecular assemblies by increasing the size, and therefore signal, of MRI contrast agents. They have also tried to use this terrain to facilitate "multi-modality," in which a set of imaging probes, such as those for b...

Mapping the protein world

...y over 2,000 researchers throughout the world. The capabilities of this software will now expand even further - thanks to a grant of over 800,000 US Dollars from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant, which will run over four years, comes at a perfect time. "More than 1,000 research laboratori...

PTEN: the Treg's handbrake

... of PTEN by Tregs only affects their proliferative capabilities in response to IL-2 and not their other functions. These results identify PTEN as a key protein that regulates the lack of responsiveness of Tregs to IL-2 and could provide researchers with a way to overcome one of the biggest obstacles to harnessing...

UF scientists restore sight to chickens with blinding disease

...d William L. McKnight Brain Institute. "The vision capabilities of the treated animals far exceeded our expectations." The bird -- a type of Rhode Island Red chicken -- carries a genetic defect that prevents it from producing an enzyme essential for sight. The condition closely models a genetic disease in humans...

Radiation-armed robot rapidly destroys human lung tumors

...As a result of the unique real-time tumor tracking capabilities of their upgraded CyberKnife, the researchers have established detailed methods for the safe treatment of lung tumors which otherwise couldn't be treated with a high dose of radiation due to lack of sufficient real-time tracking accuracy in other, mo...

Mitochondrial DNA sequencing tool updated

...rs, are often updated publicly as their analytical capabilities expand. In the September issue of the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, NIH grantees report they have developed a second generation "lab on a silicon chip" called the MitoChip v2.0 that for the first time rapidly and reliably sequences all mitochond...

DOE JGI releases IMG 1.5 with curated archaeal genomes

...ensions include such enhanced comparative analysis capabilities as gene profiles across genomes. For more details on the user interface, see What's New ( http://img.jgi.doe.gov/pub/doc/releaseNotes.html ). ...

Technique speeds up detecting, treating wound bacteria

...se critical areas helps establish and maintain the capabilities required by the Army to fight and win on the battlefield. ...

Unraveling the viral mechanism

...coil the threads of double-stranded DNA. Using the capabilities of his program, Chiu and colleagues identified 12 protein copies that make up this viral motor. Chiu anticipates using the same technique to study other spherical viruses as soon as he can obtain the computer power to study larger structures. Soon, ...

Brittlestar provides new model for stem cell research

...s than previous models with extensive regeneration capabilities such as Hydra. ...

Nano-particles effective in killing cancer with one-two punch of chemotherapeutics

...ab is further studying the drug- and gene-delivery capabilities of polymersomes, tailoring their shapes, sizes, loading and degradability to each application. Discher theorizes that polymersomes could be made capable of traveling to places in the body that are difficult for most drug-carrier systems to access. ...

Georgia Tech accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster

...ch expertise with IBM's high-performance computing capabilities to create a brand new supercomputer. The new supercomputing cluster running Linux will be among the fastest in the world, and one of the most powerful among research universities in the Southeastern United States. The cluster is hosted by BellSouth's...

UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build marine microbial genomics cyberinfrastructure

...e Calit2 and SDSC middleware, compute, and storage capabilities with the NSF's TeraGrid distributed, high- performance computing facility in a unified Service Oriented Architecture. SDSC's Philip Papadopoulos noted that, "the CAMERA complex will have a thousand processors of dedicated local cluster computing and ...

Anthrax inhibitor counteracts toxin, may lead to new therapeutics

...owing inhibitors with statistical pattern-matching capabilities is less difficult than designing inhibitors with fixed structures. "The pattern matching-based approach used by our research team to neutralize anthrax toxin should be broadly applicable in designing potent therapeutics for a variety of pathogens an...

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