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Emory Study Tests Bone Marrow Stem Cells to Improve Circulation in Legs

...or placebo (sterile salt water) three times a week for twoweeks. The level of EPCs in the volunteers' blo...'symptoms.Currently, GM-CSF is approved by the FDA for several uses, including incancer patients to increase the number of white blood cells to fightinfect...

Fox Chase Cancer Center scientists identify immune-system mutation

...ficient" or HD mice, they are proving to be useful for exploring the pathways of lymphocyte development, ...se they arise from the thymus gland, are essential for combating intracellular viral and bacterial infections (cell-mediated immunity) and also for helping...

Controversial drug shown to act on brain protein to cut alcohol use

... help fix aproblem that we've been struggling with for ages. A naturally occurring hallucinogen advocated...nt anti-addiction drug has been rigorously studied for the firsttime, confirming its ability to block alcohol craving in rodents, andclarifying how it work...

Neuronal 'traffic jam' marks early Alzheimer's disease

...sease that could be used in early diagnostic tests for the disorder, they said. The research team led by...thers had observed that overexpression of the gene for a key protein that underlies Alzheimer's pathology, called beta amyloid precursor protein (beta-APP)...

Termites feed through good vibrations

...ientists found that the termites had no preference for either large or small blocks. Broadcasting static into small blocks did not affect termite choice, showing that the termites were not interested in random noise. These results show two responses by the termites: one to block size and a second to sig...

Current human embryonic stem cell lines contaminated UCSD/Salk team finds

...onic stem cells,including those currently approved for study under federal funding inthe U.S., contain a ...arch isneeded to understand the optimal conditions for preparing human cellsfor therapeutic application.""We considered that one partial solution to the pr...

UCLA Study Shows One-Third of Drug Ads in Medical Journals Do Not Contain References Supporting Medical Claims

...ound that nearly one-third contained no references for medical claims; while the majority of references t...ces in journal articles from the same publications for comparison. Researchers found that out of 438 pharmaceutical ads, 126 (29 percent) offered no refer...

Drug That 'Tags' Decision-making Areas Of The Brain May Aid

...ofthese receptors and may therefore be very useful for future human brainimaging studies of nicotine addi...ral and frontal cortex, areas that are responsible for learningand memory as well as reasoning, planning, problem solving and emotion.According to Mukherje...

Elusive HIV shape change revealed; Key clue to how virus infects cells

... simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) as a stand-in for HIV. By aiming an X-ray beam through a crystallize...'s shape change is an important "escape mechanism" for HIV, allowing the virus to bind to and enter a cell before the immune system can "see" it, notes Har...

Mouse brain cells rapidly recover after Alzheimer's plaques are cleared

...edicine in St. Louisinjected mice with an antibody for a key component of brain plaques,the amyloid beta ...ith an Alzheimer's-like condition.The mice he used for the study had two mutations. One, utilized byscientists at Eli Lilly, causes amyloid plaques to buil...

Genome of deadly amoeba shows surprising complexity, evidence of lateral gene transfer

...ca was a collaborative effort led by The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, MD, and by t... other supposedly 'simple' amoeba genomes." Named for its effectiveness in killing other cells, E. histolytica was long considered to be a 'primitive' org...

Key molecule in plant photo-protection identified

...edicine in St. Louisinjected mice with an antibody for a key component of brain plaques,the amyloid beta ...ith an Alzheimer's-like condition.The mice he used for the study had two mutations. One, utilized byscientists at Eli Lilly, causes amyloid plaques to buil...

Antarctic ice shelf retreats happened before

...reak up ice shelves but there has been a suspicion for some time that the role of the ocean may have been...ver since. The findings are particularly relevant for other studies on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet where scientists have found that a relatively warm cur...

Anti-bacterial additive widespread in U.S. waterways

...crutinized despite large scaleproduction and usage for almost half a century, according to ananalysis con...d other cleaning products, but rarely wasmonitored for or detected in the environment. The new findings suggestthat triclocarban contamination is greatly u...

Newly-discovered class of genes determines ?and restricts ?stem cell fate

... molecular control of these genes has implications for therapies that involve tissue regeneration. The r...his dual role may represent a new general paradigm for developmental and stem-cell biology. "My idea is that this is a new family of genes--they can both d...

Timing is everything: First step in protein building revealed

...in-building machinery recognizes the starting line for a gene'sinstructions, it first alters its structur... one of the departments in Johns Hopkins'Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. "We see disease largely as anincorrect timing event -- the wrong thing ha...

Tiny particles could solve billion-dollar problem

New research from Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology finds ...um are the most effective catalysts yet identified for remediation of one of the nation's most pervasive and troublesome groundwater pollutants, trichloroe...

UW's Rosetta software to unlock secrets of many human proteins

...ed Rosetta software withoutcharge to the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), a non-profitresearch organi...s an astronomical number of possible conformations for agiven protein, collecting the data would take many thousands oflifetimes to complete with conventio...

Plants, animals share molecular growth mechanisms

...trings, called actin filaments, that are necessary for cellular growth, said Dan Szymanski, agronomy asso...ase. "These genes and their proteins are required for normal development and for normal cell-to-cell adhesion," Szymanski said. "They affect the growth of...

Researchers find how protein allows insects to detect and respond to pheromones

...ed Rosetta software withoutcharge to the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), a non-profitresearch organi...s an astronomical number of possible conformations for agiven protein, collecting the data would take many thousands oflifetimes to complete with conventio...

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(Date:3/21/2010)... (BRONX, NY) ─ Researchers at Albert Einstein College of ... of killing the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB), a ... year. The findings, published in the March 21 online ... to a potent TB therapy that would also prevent ... totally different from the way any other anti-TB drug ...
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(Date:3/18/2010)... only beginning to understand how individual variation in gene regulation ... to certain diseases. Now, an ambitious survey of the human ... called transcription factors to DNA that affect how genes are ... published in the March 18, 2010, issue of Science ...
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