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Unusual antibiotics show promise against deadly 'superbugs'

... by loose collagen strands. This linkup opens the door to new medical treatments, Yu says, because it is easy to attach bioactive agents to the peptides. When the peptides bind with collagen, these attached agents can dramatically change the way collagen behaves in the body. For example, collagen normall...

Researchers use 3-D imaging system to unveil swimming behavior of microscopic plankton

...niversity of California, San Diego, has opened the door for a team of researchers to track several hundred thousand individual zooplankton at two coastal sites in the Red Sea. The team includes Genin and his student Ruth Reef from the Hebrew University; Jaffe and Peter Franks from Scripps Institution of O...

Breakthrough: Scientists create world's tiniest organic particles

...lly exciting, for the first time opens the world's door to marrying organic materials to nanotechnology. Biology, after all, is almost exclusively organic materials."We really believe this work will have a profound positive impact down the road on human health care. This includes, but is not limited to, c...

Researchers feed tiny pills of RNA to planarians to identify genes essential for regeneration

...ánchez Alvarado and his colleagues have opened the door to understanding regeneration by identifying key genes in the process, the U researcher predicts, with aid of the planarian, more discoveries are on the way. "Our limitations right now are how many experiments we can do in a day," he said. "The myst...

Study shows how retinoic acid enters a cell's nucleus

...very of this basic transport mechanism opens a new door for future research on related compounds. The finding has important implications for the fight against cancer and other diseases. The research, which appears in a recent issue of the journal Molecular Cell (Vol. 18, No. 3), explains for the first ti...

Logging changed ecological balance for monkeys, damaged health

...eys, leading to behavioral changes and opening the door for multiple parasitic infections. The researchers focused on three primate species, collecting 1,076 fecal samples from the heavily logged area and from an undisturbed, nearby forest from August 1997 to August 2002 as part of a longitudinal study o...

Affymetrix and ParAllele Launch Industry's Most Comprehensive Product Line for Targeted Genotyping

...eys, leading to behavioral changes and opening the door for multiple parasitic infections. The researchers focused on three primate species, collecting 1,076 fecal samples from the heavily logged area and from an undisturbed, nearby forest from August 1997 to August 2002 as part of a longitudinal study o...

President Bush's cut to AIDS prevention in Africa would be devastating

...eys, leading to behavioral changes and opening the door for multiple parasitic infections. The researchers focused on three primate species, collecting 1,076 fecal samples from the heavily logged area and from an undisturbed, nearby forest from August 1997 to August 2002 as part of a longitudinal study o...

One bacteria stops another on contact

...s. "This research is in its infancy, but opens the door for exploration of the roles of contact-dependent growth inhibition in urinary tract infections and possibly other diseases," said Low. "Aoki has discovered an entirely new phenomenon," explained Low, who has studied E. coli for over 20 years. "It i...

Several minute intermediate stage in virus-cell fusion discovered; opportunity for drug development

...tation," said Young. "If you try to open the inner door before the pressures have equalized, you can tease it open a little bit but it keeps closing on you until there's enough pressure in the airlock to allow it to open all the way." Melikyan explained, "The pore is an unstable structure at that moment:...

Breakthrough in micro-device fabrication combines biology and synthetic chemistry

...arting shapes or fine features, we have opened the door for new research and development in the processing and application of many devices that would otherwise be very difficult or expensive to produce." ...

Protein structure key for AIDS, cell function

...es. Knowing the protein's structure also opens the door to understanding CD38's many functions related to key biological processes about which researchers know very little. "For example, the mechanism of how a cell mediates calcium release is largely unknown," said the paper's senior author, Quan Hao, d...

Results of world's first gene therapy trial for arthritis show approach safe, feasible

...ne transfer can target joint inflammation open the door to the development of improved gene-based therapies for both rheumatoid and the more common osteoarthritis, which together affect about 66 million people in the United States. While the Pitt study used the same vector ?an inactivated virus that shutt...

Exercise aside, genes may ultimately dictate seniors' mobility

...nessee and the University of Pittsburgh, opens the door to more research on the interaction of behavior and genes and how that changes with age, Pahor said. "This report is one step," he said. "It is necessary to do more research to determine whether there are other genes that may affect the benefits of ...

OHSU researchers discover potential mechanism to repair brain damage linked to Multiple Sclerosis

... has revealed a target for therapies and opens the door to the exciting possibility that we may, one day, be able to not only stop disease progression but also repair damage that is already there. The future efforts of our three labs will be aimed at exactly that goal. " "The work of these investigators ...

Molecular Partners Required For Appropriate Neuronal Gene Repression

... has revealed a target for therapies and opens the door to the exciting possibility that we may, one day, be able to not only stop disease progression but also repair damage that is already there. The future efforts of our three labs will be aimed at exactly that goal. " "The work of these investigators ...

Scientists characterize proteome of human cornea

...sels. The results from this research may open the door to future therapeutics for a myriad of corneal disorders. "It is essential to know the biochemical composition of normal healthy corneas in the effort to understand the molecular mechanisms behind corneal disorders," emphasizes Dr. Enghild. "By compa...

Building a better mouse model of lung cancer: FHIT counts

...in the August 1 issue of Cancer Research, open the door to the possibility of new, targeted treatments that could be offered at the very first signs of lung cancer, when the possibility of a cure is most likely. Creating the new mouse was basically a matter of FHIT ?the gene that forms the cornerstone of...

New technique multiplies life span in simple organisms

...e-span extensions in any organism and opened a new door for anti-aging research in humans. Scientists have known for several years that an extra copy of the SIR2 gene can promote longevity in yeast, worms and fruit flies. That finding was covered widely and incorporated into anti-aging drug development ...

Scientists map one of biology's critical light-sensing structures

...plants, in particular, react to light, opening the door for a host of manipulations that could have sweeping implications for agriculture. Writing in the Nov. 17, 2005 issue of the journal Nature, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison report that they have obtained the crystal str...

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