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Highly adaptable genome in gut bacterium key to intestinal health

...tability of the gut ecosystem, they may be able to develop ways to manipulate the gut's bacterial community to promote health or treat diseases. For example, the group is assessing how the bacterial capacity for processing dietary carbohydrates varies among individuals and what influence that may have on wei...

A comprehensive response to HIV could prevent 10 million AIDS deaths in Africa by 2020

...eered toover-express HER2/neu. These mice normally develop breast cancer in allten of their mammary glands by the time there are 120 days old. In thisexperiment, they vaccinated the mice three times with VRP-neu, and “nota single mouse developed a tumor,?says Lachman.Lachman suggests the vaccine might prove ...

Potential Cure for Lymphoma in HIV patients

... with HIV, HIV-positivepatients are more likely to develop lymphoma than HIV-negativeindividuals, and the treatment for their cancer is far less likely tobe successful. SonaliSmith, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University ofChicago notes, "The treatment of malignant lymphomas in HIV-infected...

Research Gives Hope For Liver Damage

...rimary liver cancer. There is a huge imperative to develop newapproaches to the treatment of liver scarring. Exciting insights suchas these will inform the design of future therapies."Further research into macrophages is set to follow and scientists willexplore the role of these immune-system cells in damage...

New SARS Protein Linked To Important Cell Doorway

...ll already have much of the knowledge they need to develop ways to disable or weaken it. "The key to studying novel viruses used to be the ability to isolate the virus and grow it in a culture," notes lead author Daved Fremont, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics and of patho...

MSI releases 'moleculizer' - a new approach to simulation of intracellular biochemical networks

...-investigator, interdisciplinary research teams to develop noveland innovative genomic research projects."Moleculizer is exactly the sort of development that one wants to seefrom multidisciplinary work," explained Dr. Brent. "The mathematicaland algorithmic skills that Dr. Lok brought to the problem could on...

NYC's First Rapid HIV Drug-resistant AIDS Case Prompts Call to Step Up HIV Prevention

...medical providers and AIDS groups to fine tune and develop aggressive, ongoing and innovative HIV prevention ...ar individuals or groups, we need to work together develop a more pragmatic and comprehensive public health approach to fighting HIV, including addressing many...

NIAID Initiates Trial of Experimental Avian Flu Vaccine

... health community is concerned that the virus will develop the capability of efficiently spreading from human to human and thus create a risk for a worldwide pandemic,?says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. “NIAID has supported research on H5N1, the strain responsible for this deadly form of avian influ...

Zebrafish may hold key to understanding human nerve cell development

...arch increases ourunderstanding of how nerve cells develop and whether it may be possibleto regenerate these types of cells in humans one day," said TatjanaPiotrowski, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy atthe University of Utah School of Medicine. Scientistslong have known that glial cel...

Harmful Bacterium Commonly Found in Poultry May Survive Refrigeration and Frozen Storage Combined

...arch increases ourunderstanding of how nerve cells develop and whether it may be possibleto regenerate these types of cells in humans one day," said TatjanaPiotrowski, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy atthe University of Utah School of Medicine. Scientistslong have known that glial cel...

GenMAPP 2.0 released

...arch increases ourunderstanding of how nerve cells develop and whether it may be possibleto regenerate these types of cells in humans one day," said TatjanaPiotrowski, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy atthe University of Utah School of Medicine. Scientistslong have known that glial cel...

UCLA scientists transform HIV into cancer-seeking missile

...itute. "Our approach proves that it is possible to develop an effective carrier and reprogram it to target specific cells in the body." The UCLA team employed a two-step approach to transform HIV into a cancer-seeking machine. First, the scientists used a version of HIV from which the viral pieces that caus...

The Shapes Of Life: NIGMS Project Yields More Than 1,000 Protein Structures

... more complex and harder to solve ?we will need to develop additional tools and methods.?/p> As part of the PSI effort, all the structures determined by the centers are collected, stored, and made publicly available by the Protein Data Bank (PDB), http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/, a repository of three-dimension...

Study Models Impact Of Anthrax Vaccine

...ould be animportant tool for policymakers who must develop effective strategiesfor containing an anthrax outbreak. The study is published in theDecember 16, 2004, edition of Nature. TheHopkins researchers developed a probability model to predict how manycases of anthrax could be prevented under varying cond...

Estrogen-like Component of Plastic Stimulates Growth of Certain Prostate Cancer Cells

...BPA.“The results may have implications for men who develop BPA-susceptiblemutations in their androgen receptor genes during the course ofprostate cancer treatment, although these concepts will need to beverified in animal systems,?according to Karen Knudsen, Ph.D., anassistant professor in the University of ...

Beyond lithium for bipolar disorder

...s not without its downside. People on the drug may develop hypothyroidism, tremors, cognitive impairment, and excessive thirst and urination and gain weight. However, better treatments for bipolar disorder depend on a better understanding of the still-mysterious mechanism by which lithium damps the highs an...

Duke Chemists Isolating Individual Molecules Of Toxic Protein In Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease

...ing their knowledge of protein chemistry, they can develop hypotheses about how those particular monomers mig...nvolved in the evolution of fibrils, They can thus develop a better understanding of amyloid aggregation. The scientists are also seeking the precise point du...

Tiny scaffolding allows stem cells to become working fat cells

...-dependent, and lowering the likelihood they would develop type II diabetes," Kniss said. He also suggested that the new approach might have commercial applications as a way of testing new drugs. "Small, three-dimensional cell colonies could be grown on multi-well assay plates and be used to test dozens of ...

Antibodies from plants protect against anthrax

... unpredictable nature of such events compels us to develop cost-effective, highly stable medical countermeasures to enable authorities to treat individuals exposed to bioterror agents such as anthrax," says Les Baillie of the Naval Medical Research Center. Dr. Baillie, who is also associated with the Univers...

UCSD discovery may help extend life of natural pesticide

...ieve that their discovery will make it possible to develop better pesticides and lead to new treatments for parasitic infections that affect close to two billion people worldwide. "Our previous findings with the roundworm C. elegans strongly suggested that specific sugar structures are likely critical for B...

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