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Sweetgum tree could help lessen shortage of bird flu drug

...e main antiviral agent in a much-heralded drug for fighting bird flu. Their findings, which could help increas...Claremont, Calif. "They have lots of potential for fighting bird flu." The sweetgum tree grows widely throughout the United States and other parts of the world...

HIV/AIDS rates in Tijuana, Mexico increasing at alarming rate

...f sterile syringes, can make a major difference in fighting this epidemic," said Steffanie Strathdee, Ph.D., Chief of the Division of International Health and Cross-Cultural Medicine at UCSD, where the study was conducted. Other co-authors include Robert S. Hogg, Ph.D., UCSD Division of International Health...

Infant transplant patients resist infections that kill adult AIDS patients

...ells depleted in AIDS patients that are crucial to fighting viruses and cancer tumors. The researchers found t...n estimated 1 billion different T cells capable of fighting various infections and another 1 billion of a different kind of immune system cell, the B cell, whic...

Researchers develop new method to help find deadly malaria parasite's Achilles heel

...ad to the identification of novel drug targets for fighting malaria," said John Whitmarsh, acting director of ...organisms. While this is potentially good news for fighting malaria, we need to know much more before we start talking about which membrane-protein interactions...

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

... YidC2 and the SRP pathway could become targets in fighting tooth decay because they have been shown to enable...growth and has the potential to become a target in fighting infectious diseases, he said. "Really, we started with a very basic question related primarily to S...

Group proves it's possible to grow new lung alveoli by growing new blood vessels

...ng them to spend their early days outside the womb fighting for every breath. And now, with many of these premature babies reaching their adolescent years, clinicians and researchers are also waiting to see whether longer term health problems are going to begin occurring. "Right now we simply don't have any ...

'Creationism is not science' ?making the case for Darwin at UCL

... 1940s. The simple reason is that the bugs you are fighting have evolved." Commenting on whether this turn towards the Intelligent Design world view could hit the UK too, Professor Ruse (whose book The Evolution-Creation Struggle was published in June by Harvard University Press) said: "Well it could do, but...

Federal grant funds research on novel HIV therapy

...tes, researchers hope to achieve a triple benefit: fighting HIV by blocking the virus from immune cells, improving innate immune function and reducing symptoms of depression that are associated with the disease. Steven D. Douglas, M.D., professor of Pediatrics, chief of the Section of Immunology and director...

Natural compound from 'pond scum' shows potential activity against Alzheimer's

...s promise of becoming a natural drug candidate for fighting Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases, ...nd to be a promising source of drug candidates for fighting a variety of human diseases, including cancer and bacterial infections, but their chemistry has been...

Anthrax stops body from fighting back, study shows

... first responders and they never get there, you're fighting a losing battle." And inhalation anthrax works fast, which is one of the reasons why it is usually fatal, according to the CDC. The disease can be treated with antibiotics, but people often don't seek treatment until it is too late,said Philip C. Ha...

Researcher says flu responders can learn from 1918 epidemic

...very old, and the immuno-suppressed, such as those fighting cancer, AIDS, or other devastating illnesses, to say nothing of people suffering from drug addictions and malnourishment. All of those high-risk factors are found in combination in the nation's inner cities, he said. "With the 1918 flu, though, th...

Techniques available to detect soil that inhibits destructive soybean pest

...ly implemented, environmentally friendly weapon in fighting the parasites, which are found worldwide in soybean-producing areas. "Using plants bred to resist pests is not the complete answer, so it's important to find suppressive mechanisms," Westphal said. "Bio-control is much more desirable than using chem...

Gaining ground in the race against antibiotic resistance

...h antibiotic resistance: the bacteria's success in fighting a particular antibiotic can cause it to lose efficiency in inactivating other antibiotics. But that was not the case here. "This evolved enzyme works better against cephalexin and with the same efficiency on other antibiotics, as well," said Vila. I...

South Africa still debating how to tackle HIV/AIDS when 5 million are infected

...e, South African military officials said they were fighting a "human war" against the "formidable enemy" of HIV/AIDS, and said 23% of South Africa's troops are infected with HIV - a similar rate to the adult population at large. The army is taking part in a US-funded programme to see how AIDS is affecting it...

Slipping past the blood brain barrier: Research shows potential treatment for brain cancer

...e brain from foreign substances, to do its work in fighting a particularly invasive brain cancer, according to a new Saint Louis University animal study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition the week of Aug. 22. "The bottom line is, if you can get drugs into th...

Improving the potential of cancer vaccines

...But you may also deplete the good cells needed for fighting cancer," said Wang. He and his group identified particular ligands (a special stretch of guanosine-containing DNA material) that can bind specifically to a particular receptor called human Toll-like receptor 8 and then turn off the suppressive funct...

New tool reveals secrets of migrating cells

...a helper T cell - which aids other immune cells in fighting infections - or a killer T cell that seeks and destroys cells infected with virus. On the other hand, uncommitted or immature T cells, what they call meanderers, wander slowly and apparently randomly around the outer layer, or cortex, of the thymus,...

Purdue scientists may have found key to halting spinal cord damage

...er conditions suggests that it could be the key to fighting a number of diseases, Shi said. "When the brain suffers a stroke, for example, it is deprived of oxygen, which is often thought to be the cause of brain damage. But, in fact, you can starve the nervous tissue of oxygen for up to an hour without harm...

Malaria killing a million a year

... my first public statement helps make the case for fighting a largely preventable and utterly treatable disease," Executive-Director Ann Veneman said in New York. "It is a disease that kills one child in sub-Saharan Africa every 30 seconds. The numbers are astounding -- and unacceptable." Insecticide-treated...

Confirmation of human protein interaction data by human expression data

... space,?Hua said. Hua gave those losing neurons a fighting chance through another molecular twist. She managed to silence some neurons near the green, quietly-firing cells. When she did that, the green cells were able to compete successfully and formed longer, more complex arbors. Although this work specifi...

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