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MUHC investigators search for the root of sexual pain in women

... of Psychology at McGill University. "It opens the door to new therapeutic possibilities including cognitive-behavioral pain management, physical therapy, surgery and alternate pain medication, which will hopefully result in fewer women suffering in silence." The new CIHR grant will allow the team to ini...

Bacteria that cause tooth decay able to survive without important biochemical pathway

..." said Brady. "Asking that question has opened the door much more widely to learning things that are more fundamental about how living organisms insert proteins and how membrane function is determined by proteins. "We now know that things are not always as straightforward as they seem," she said. ...

Yale scientists decipher 'wiring pattern' of cell signaling networks

... the proteome of an organism, this study opens the door to seeing how they are coordinated to work together. "This insight into the regulation and integration of biological networks has broad applications for basic science and clinical research," said Snyder. "Biological networks determine the developmen...

Liver cancer linked to cellular repair pathway

...cer, but not in mature liver cells, also opens the door for development of new diagnostic tests for the disease, Sicklick said. "Signs of excessive Hedgehog activity in cirrhotic patients could alert us to early stages of liver cancer, as well as provide valuable prognostic information for patients," he s...

UW scientists unravel critical genetic puzzle for flu virus replication

...pposed to a random -- method of assembly opens the door to the development of new antiviral drugs and the harnessing of benign influenza viruses as gene vectors to optimize vaccine production, Kawaoka says. "We need to have more antivirals for influenza," according to Kawaoka, "and as these segments get ...

New compound protects against liver cancer

...track in terms of chemoprevention. It may open the door for a new class of compounds that could prevent a number of diseases," said Kensler. ...

Botox could help target resistant tumors for treatment

...s an adjuvant to cancer therapy, providing an open door for chemotherapy and radiation treatments, according to a study published in the Feb. 15 issue of Clinical Cancer Research. The study in mice, led by Bernard Gallez, Ph.D., professor of pharmacy at the Université de Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, fo...

Wisconsin scientists find a way to make human collagen in the lab

...the lab. The work is important because it opens a door to producing a material that can have broad use in medicine and replace the animal products that are now used but that can also harbor pathogens or spark undesirable immune responses. What's more, the new work may also lay the foundation for applicat...

Flu not the only germ threat this time of year

...ng homes. "RSV lives on objects including faucets, door handles, and change from the coffee shop, for quite awhile, for at least a day. If you put your finger in your mouth, or touch your eye, or pick your nose, you're a spreader, to put it bluntly. People share cell phones, they shake hands to be social....

UCSD team unmasks family of immune system invaders

...s into the intestinal epithelial cells, creating a door in the barrier. "As a result, these bacteria proteins are the bad guys that make you sick," said Alto. "Instead of curing the illness by giving a patient antibiotics, it might be possible to target these effectors, turning their virulant actions in...

Research details how a virus hijacks cell signals to cause infection

...ptor, the virus triggers two signals that open the door to infection. One signal causes the virus to move into the tight junction, where it can reach the CAR. A second signal leads the virus to move deeper into cells where it can release its nucleic acid payload and complete the process of infection. "W...

'Genetic network' guards against lethal DNA damage

...rategy for finding interacting genes will open the door to an extraordinarily rich source of new data on DNA damage, repair, and human diseases," Boeke added. ...

Do plants have the potential to vaccinate against HIV?

... recombinant proteins in plants. It could open the door to cheaper biopharmaceuticals. Plant-derived pharmaceuticals are of great interest because of their enormous potential for economy and scale of production. This technology could lead to production of modern medicines that will also be accessible to p...

Bone and cartilage growth to blame for heart valve disease

...replace the damaged valves. Our findings open the door to the idea that medical therapies such as statins may be able to play a role in preventing or slowing the process and curtailing the need for surgery." Valvular heart disease is on the rise with the aging of the United States population, and is sec...

Most human-chimp differences due to gene regulation ?not genes

..., at least in certain tissues. This helps open the door to a functional dissection of the role of gene regulation during the evolution of modern humans." To measure changes in gene expression from different species, White and Gilad developed the first multi-species gene array. This allowed them to compa...

Unraveling the viral mechanism

...that infects bacteria and, in doing so, opened the door to a better understanding of a variety of viruses that infect people and animals. In a report that appears in and on the cover of the current issue of the journal Nature, Dr. Wah Chiu, professor in the BCM department of biochemistry and molecular bi...

Discovery may speed forest biotechnology

...mon with annual crop plants, and this may open the door to important advances in intensive forestry and fruit tree improvement. Information of this type, researchers say, may also help scientists better predict how some types of trees and tree populations will respond to climate change. "Before this we ...

Flick of a protein switches immune response

...jana Rao, said the team's result would "open a big door for people to explain the fundamental mechanism of immune tolerance." In the July 28 issue of Cell, the USC-Harvard group shows that the protein Nuclear Factor of Activated T cells (NFAT), in collaboration with FOXP3, an essential factor in regulat...

Chimpanzees can transmit cultural behavior to multiple 'generations'

...one of two ways Ð either by sliding or lifting the door Ð to reveal fruit inside. Chimpanzees in a third social group, used as the control group, were allowed to explore the testing box but were given no instruction or training to open the testing box. Once each individual animal from the first two social...

In-home sensors spot dementia signs in elderly

...th & Science University study shows motion and door sensors placed in elders' homes can help track activity patterns thought to relate to memory changes that are early signs of dementia. The study results, presented last week at the 10th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Di...

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