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UCSD Discovery Shows How Embryonic Stem Cells Perform 'Quality Control' Inspections

...es and other jumping genes work also holds cluesto fighting bacterial infections, improving gene therapies and tacklingdisease-carrying insects, Craig notes. Bacterial jumping genes canprotect bacteria from certain antibiotics. Scientists also are studyingjumping genes as vectors to carry gene therapies and a...

Jumping gene helps explain immune system's abilities

...es and other jumping genes work also holds cluesto fighting bacterial infections, improving gene therapies and tacklingdisease-carrying insects, Craig notes. Bacterial jumping genes canprotect bacteria from certain antibiotics. Scientists also are studyingjumping genes as vectors to carry gene therapies and a...

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

...gmatic and comprehensive public health approach to fighting HIV, including addressing many of the underlying reasons people put themselves at risk-including undiagnosed depression and poor access to mental health services -- if we are to truly break the chain of infection through effective prevention, testing...

Spider Venom Could Yield Eco-Friendly Insecticides

...search. The spider "cooperates" by rearing up in a fighting stance when provoked, making it relatively easy for researchers to aspirate venom directly from its fangs. Since Australian funnel-web spiders can live for more than five years in captivity, a small group of these spiders yields plenty of toxins for ...

NYU Study Reveals How Brain's Immune System Fights Viral Encephalitis

... cells in the brain. "There is no magic bullet in fighting viral infections in neurons," said NYU Biology Professor Carol Shoshkes Reiss, the study's senior author. "However, these findings show the redundancy of the immune system--when one response fails to fight infection, others step in." The study was a...

Computers to be used to find blueprint for new influenza drug

...us work. “Developing a blueprint for a new way of fighting influenza is a very important task," said Professo...have taken important steps in finding a new way of fighting influenza and other diseases. It will then be for the pharmaceutical companies to take our blueprint...

New push for public health, AIDS spending at African Union summit

...illa Mohamed said. "Governments are learning that fighting AIDS is not just a health issue but a development issue," she said. "Now they have to deliver on the existing protocols and develop a serious and practical strategy." Mozambique is the only country that has, thus far, committed to allocating 15 pe...

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