Restoring seagrass beds: Is it for the birds?
...peller scars in the shoalgrass beds. 'We hope a combination of educational signage, replanting sea oats, and a seemingly endless supply of fertilizer will bring the habitats around Robinson Island back to their peak condition," he concluded. ...Cyclosporine inhibits hepatitis C virus in vitro
...agent Cyclosporine along with interferon-ribavirin combination therapy. Cyclosporine also showed efficacy against...ith hepatitis C often undergo interferon-ribavirin combination therapy after receiving a liver transplant in hopes of a sustained virologic response. At the same t...U-M researchers take new approach to defeating Gram-negative bugs
... treat patients. They hope their research leads to combination therapies, which include compounds that could duplicate the effect caused by the genetic mutation of bacteria together with low-dose antibiotics. "Bugs are very smart," Woodard said. "It's not a matter of if a bug will become antibiotic resistant, b...Males with elevated levels of testosterone lead shorter lives but have more success siring offspring
...ed to relate testosterone to fitness, that is, the combination of lifetime reproductive success and survival, in the wild or experimentally. Over nine breeding seasons, Wendy Reed (North Dakota State University) and her colleagues followed a group of dark-eyed juncos, small mountain songbirds found throughout No...Avian flu transmission to humans may be higher than thought
...re to poultry and flu-like illnesses (defined as a combination of cough and fever). The study was performed from April 1 to June 30, 2004. As background information, the authors explain that in Vietnam, an epidemic of HPAI in poultry, subtype H5N1, has been ongoing since 2003, despite efforts by the gover...New antimicrobial compound adheres to skin to promote healing
...looking at a non-oily gel formulation for use as a combination cleanser and ointment for killing acne-causing bacteria. ...Sex: It's costly but worth it. Just ask a microbe
... microbes (females), Alpha microbes (males), and a combination of the two. When left to re-produce on their own, the first two groups of microbes performed efficiently and prolifically. The microbe couples, however, were slower to reproduce. But Xu also found that a fair bit of fluffing and flirting goes on when...Viral 'fitness' explains different resistance patterns to aids drugs
...iveness in suppressing the HIV virus when taken in combination with other ARVs at high levels of pill-taking as directed. The standard combination therapy usually includes either one NNRTI or protease inhibitor (non-boosted or boosted with a small...Plant-derived vaccines safeguard against deadly plague
...ake high levels of the plague antigens F1, V and a combination of the two, a so-called F1-V fusion antigen. All are known to be important for the plague bacteria to produce its toxic effects. The antigens were purified from the plants and injected into guinea pigs. Testing using an aerosolized form of plague ...'Genetic network' guards against lethal DNA damage
...e current study, 74 genes were tested in pair-wise combination with the 5,000 non-essential genes, a feat approximately equivalent to 370,000 gene-pair tests. The Hopkins team used a technology known as dSLAM (heterozygote diploid-based synthetic lethality analyzed by microarray) to look at the effects of 5,000...St. Jude projects 90 percent cure rate for ALL
...led the TEL-AML1 fusion gene, which is an abnormal combination of two separate genes, confers a relatively favorable outlook for patients with this form of ALL. But patients whose leukemic cells have another genetic abnormality called the Philadelphia chromosome or a very low number of chromosomes--hypodiploidy-...Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases
...r the function of a gene ?often only slightly. The combination of many slightly altered genes may significantly increase the risk of a specific disease, but identifying such a complex set of genetics changes is challenging. Finding these disease-causing variants is one of the highest priorities of current biomed...UCLA scientists uncover mechanism of response to targeted therapy
...779 would probably be most effective when given in combination with other therapies because it "in kidney cancer, it stops the tumor cells from growing, it doesn't kill them." It could be paired with conventional chemotherapy or with another targeted therapy, such as an angiogenesis inhibitor, which cuts off the...Rice University researchers create 'nanorice'
...serotonin and L-DOPA. Dr. Atamna believes that the combination of functional heme deficiency, which harms mitochondria needed to produce energy, together with the increase in oxidative damage caused by the peroxidase, is what eventually kills the cell. "Until now, we didn't understand all the factors that tri...Alzheimer's study first to explain death of brain cells
...serotonin and L-DOPA. Dr. Atamna believes that the combination of functional heme deficiency, which harms mitochondria needed to produce energy, together with the increase in oxidative damage caused by the peroxidase, is what eventually kills the cell. "Until now, we didn't understand all the factors that tri...Scientists develop a way to make the deadliest toxin known even more toxic
... toxin. "We hypothesized that the use of BoNT in combination with a small molecule that could superactivate the action of the toxin would allow for lower doses," Janda said, "and reduce the patient's immune response. As the importance of BoNT in medicine continues to expand, we need to find some way to counter...Advanced genomics and proteomics improve the diagnosis and treatment of a deadly lung disease
...n the lab, Dicer is used in mice to switch off any combination of genes -- either in targeted or in random fashion -- to infer a gene's function, a capability that may be especially useful in understanding cancer and developing improved cancer therapies. Using the enzyme, it may be possible, Doudna explained, to...Molecule does more than slice and dice RNA
...n the lab, Dicer is used in mice to switch off any combination of genes -- either in targeted or in random fashion -- to infer a gene's function, a capability that may be especially useful in understanding cancer and developing improved cancer therapies. Using the enzyme, it may be possible, Doudna explained, to...Multi-million pound UK Biobank underway
...k of getting a particular disease often involves a combination of environment, lifestyle, genes ?and chance ?but all studies to date have had limitations, which mean we still don't have a clear picture of how these different elements interact. By being so large and detailed, UK Biobank will be able to study many...... help us design better simulation, and the overall combination saves time and money." In addition to the computational modeling, Lüttge will contribute his experimental skills in an imaging technique called Vertical Scanning Interferometry. The technique, which he helped create in the 1990s, combines informatio...