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Potential treatments for neurofibromatosis

...ding of cell to cell interactions that lead to the development of tumors and are poised to answer some of the mos...iven at full speed," said Dr. Clapp. To encourage development of the blood vessels they need, the tumors emit chemical signals that cause the mast cells to congre...

How the environment could be damaging men's reproductive health

...vironmental factors are affecting the reproductive development of male foetuses. Babies born with undescended te...productive disorders, possibly caused by errors in development of the foetal testes. The Lithuanian study investigated 1,204 boys born in one hospital in Lithuani...

Surprising findings reported about iron overload

...the role of iron overload and HFE mutations in the development of type 2 diabetes in persons of various racial/ethnic groups. ...

Use of PET can reduce, may eliminate more strenuous drug development trials with animals

...period of time, allowing researchers to follow the development of disease in one subject and to monitor the effec...to normal physiology and disease processes to drug development and early response to anticancer and gene therapy. In addition, small animal imaging significantly r...

Drug-resistant bacteria on poultry products differ by brand

...Future. "Companies that use antibiotics foster the development of drug-resistant bacteria which can spread to the human population. Claims have been made that using antibiotics increases food safety by reducing pathogens on the meat. Interestingly, in addition to the results regarding fluoroquinolone-resistant C...

Hirsute Or Hairless? Two Proteins May Spell The Difference

...ment, a mechanistic understanding of hair follicle development promises to shed light on how skin cancer develops as well. ...

UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders

... whose laboratory research laid the groundwork for development of the targeted leukemia therapy Gleevec, is direc...ent, we can harness this knowledge to study tissue development and regeneration and potentially come up with new ways to fight many life-threatening diseases." Re...

DuPont's first biologically derived polymer receives global recognition

...y Award" for the company's research leading to the development of Bio-PDOTM. DuPont is a science company. Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere. Operating in more than 70 countries, DuPont offers a wide r...

Substance protects resilient staph bacteria

... a promising new approach that could result in the development of better ways to prevent the spread of many diffe...athogens. "This could be very important to vaccine development because the PGA is present in every strain of the organism," Dr. Otto says. "If a vaccine can be dev...

Epstein-Barr virus protein crucial to its role in blood cancers

...une system into cancerous cells, which can lead to development of B-cell lymphomas. Erle S. Robertson, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Director of Tumor Virology, with Penn's Abramson Cancer Center and MD/PhD student Jason Knight, published their results in the early March issue of Molecular and Ce...

Defensins neutralize anthrax toxin

...une system into cancerous cells, which can lead to development of B-cell lymphomas. Erle S. Robertson, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Director of Tumor Virology, with Penn's Abramson Cancer Center and MD/PhD student Jason Knight, published their results in the early March issue of Molecular and Ce...

Liposome finding implies electrical effect on cell development

...eveal a previously unknown process involved in the development of structures like axons and dendrites in nerve cells. Hayes will present the results of the experiments at a 2 p.m. March 15 session entitled "Colloids in Complex Fluids" at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Diego. In the experiments, t...

PGA on a tour under the skin

... paper presents PGA as a promising target for drug development aimed at combating these hospital-acquired infections and other illnesses caused by related bacteria. ...

Robot-based system developed at Carnegie Mellon detects life in Chile's Atacama desert

... Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, leads rover development and field investigation aspects of the project. Nathalie Cabrol, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute, leads the science investigation. Life is barely discernable over most areas of the Atacama, but the rover's...

Reducing malarial transmission in Africa

...ing drug combinations that will hopefully slow the development of resistance and minimize transmission of resistant parasites. In this month's premier open-access journal PLoS Medicine Colin Sutherland and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine report the results of a randomized, con...

Molecule that usually protects infection-fighting cells may cause plaque deposits inside arteries

...ramatically decreased early atherosclerotic lesion development in mice," Dr. Miyazaki said. "These results may imply a novel therapeutic application of AIM regulation for prevention of atherosclerosis in the future. Most importantly and attractively for patients, this approach may not need dietary restriction." ...

Iron exporter revealed that may explain common human disorder

...imals completely lacking ferroportin died early in development due to a failure of iron transfer from mother to embryo. Mice deficient for ferroportin in all tissues except those critical for maternal nutrient transfer survived but quickly became anemic after birth due to iron deficiency in the blood. Examinatio...

Insight into natural cholesterol control suggests novel cholesterol-lowering therapy

...esis. The finding suggests a novel approach to the development of cholesterol-lowering drugs that may boost the effect of statins, one of the most prescribed cholesterol inhibitors, according to researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Cells obtain cholesterol, an important component ...

50-year-old Mystery Solved: Protein Tags Regulate Key Ion Channel

...inds of proteins, providing a novel target for the development of new drugs. The discovery, published in the 8 April 2005 issue of the journal Cell, answers a question dating back to the 1950s: How do cells control the background movement of potassium ions across the cell membrane? This process is important bec...

Stopping smallpox in its tracks: A new anti-viral approach

...d by infectious agents represents a new avenue for development of anti-viral therapeutics. These inhibitors, whic...gs reveal a new approach to the identification and development of antiviral compounds. This is especially critical at a time when the threat of smallpox as a biolo...

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