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Recent breakthroughs in common adult leukemia highlighted in New England Journal of Medicine

...s Chiorazzi, MD, director and CEO of the Institute for Medical Research at North Shore-LIJ in Manhasset, ...anti R. Rai, MB, BS, investigator at the Institute for Medical Research, chief of hematology-oncology at LIJ Medical Center in New Hyde Park, NY, and the J...

Researchers Uncover Key Step In Manufacture of Memory Protein

...rucial role in the manufacture of a protein needed for long-term memory, according to a team of researche...alth. The protein is known as mBDNF, which stands for mature brain-derived neurotrophic factor. In an earlier study, another team of NICHD researchers had...

Plants respond similarly to signals from friends, enemies

... a partnership. The friend wants to trade nitrogen for food. The foe is a parasite that wants to burrow i...scopy and florescent imaging techniques that allow for real-time, three-dimensional study in living cells over time, the NC State researchers discovered th...

Scientists Replicate Hepatitis C Virus in Laboratory

...tiviral compounds, which may lead to new therapies for the liver disease that results from infection with...n screen compounds with a cell-based assay to look for inhibitors of virus replication,?says Liang. “We can also apply this technique to develop model syst...

Research advances quest for HIV-1 vaccine

...information that may help guide design of vaccines for HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS. A new detailed ...ody is so broadly effective, a rare characteristic for HIV discovered thus far. The research is published in the February issue of Immunity. Vaccination h...

Novel antiviral technology inhibits RSV infection in mice

...ine or widespread antiviral treatment is available for theinfection. Researchersat USF's Joy McCann Culv...encing, to knock out one of the key proteinsneeded for RSV to multiply in the lungs. The virus harnesses thisprotein, known as NS1, to block the body's own...

The secret to longevity in tubeworms

...t nutrient ?in the form of sulfide - to keep going for this long has been a mystery. In a paper just published in the premier open-access online journal PLoS Biology, Erik Cordes and colleagues now provide a solution: by releasing its waste sulfate not up into the ocean but down into the sediments, L. lu...

Male circumcision reduces risk of HIV transmission from women to men

...the first to calculate the probabilityof infection for men who have multiple, concurrent heterosexualpart...ing companies based inMombasa, Kenya were followed for the study. Initially they wereevaluated for circumcision status and HIV-negativity. Over the lengtho...

Another Look Finds Promising Proteomics Test is Not Biologically Plausible

... science of proteomics to devise a diagnostic test for cancer. In the February 16 issue of the Journal o...cs. He adds that this study “illustrates the need for researchers to set standards by which to conduct proteomics research,?meaning that protocols involve...

Affymetrix Unveils Plans to Double Plant and Animal Genome Microarray Offering

...mmunity groups with a single,standardized platform for gene expression research, they can easilycompare r...ve made Affymetrix theindustry-standard technology for gene expression analysis. Over thepast ten years more than 3,000 papers have been published usingGen...

New species from old data

... science of proteomics to devise a diagnostic test for cancer. In the February 16 issue of the Journal o...cs. He adds that this study “illustrates the need for researchers to set standards by which to conduct proteomics research,?meaning that protocols involve...

Cracking the olfactory code in bees

... science of proteomics to devise a diagnostic test for cancer. In the February 16 issue of the Journal o...cs. He adds that this study “illustrates the need for researchers to set standards by which to conduct proteomics research,?meaning that protocols involve...

Study Demonstrates Gene Expression Microarrays are Comparable and Reproducible

...ized protocols are carefully followed". Good news for the scientific community (and the microarrays prod...e, part of the NationalInstitutes of Health, shows for the first time that microarray datagenerated in different laboratories can produce highly comparable...

Signaling protein builds bigger, better bones in mice

... science of proteomics to devise a diagnostic test for cancer. In the February 16 issue of the Journal o...cs. He adds that this study “illustrates the need for researchers to set standards by which to conduct proteomics research,?meaning that protocols involve...

Scientists detect probable genetic cause of some Parkinson's disease cases

...isease. Overall, the mutation could be responsible for up to 5 percentof Parkinson's disease in people wi...th a family history of the disorderand may account for 1½ to 2 percent of cases in individuals who do nothave a family history of the disease. The research...

Computers to be used to find blueprint for new influenza drug

...cated than previous work. “Developing a blueprint for a new way of fighting influenza is a very importan...f flu as just a nasty illness which puts us in bed for a few days. But some outbreaks can cause death on a large scale ?the world-wide outbreak in 1918 kil...

Transplantation Of Monkey Embryonic Stem Cells Reverses Parkinson Disease In Primates

...ment of missing neurons in thebrain as a treatment for Parkinson disease reached the stage of humantrials...t called MPTP, which is considered a primate model for Parkinsondisease. These transplanted cells were able to function as DA neuronsand diminished Parkins...

Ecological destruction fuels emerging diseases

...cs at the 2005 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington D.C. Dr....s coordinated the parasite Taxonomic Working Group for the All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI), an international scientific and economic initiative to h...

A much-needed shot in the arm for HIV vaccine development

...rtunitiestogether, and their plan provides a model for doing just that."A preventive vaccine is the world's best long-term hope for bringingthe HIV/AIDS epidemic under control," said Helene Gayle, Director ofthe Gates Foundation's H...

Newly discovered virus linked to childhood lung disorders and Kawasaki disease

...nce :) A newly discovered virus may be responsible for many respiratory tractillnesses in infants and chi... In humans,coronaviruses have been known primarily for causing colds or, morerecently, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Genetic evidencenow sugges...

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