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Anthrax inhibitor counteracts toxin, may lead to new therapeutics

...zyme components, thereby blocking the formation of fully assembled anthrax toxin and neutralizing its activity. The inhibitor protected rats from anthrax toxin in the study. "Our eventual goal is to use the inhibitor as a human therapeutic for anthrax exposure, one that can stop the toxin from functionin...

The Amazon in 2050: Implementing the law could save a million square kilometers of rainforest

... by the Brazilian government), protected areas are fully enforced, and only 50 percent of the forests outside of protected areas are subject to deforestation. Furthermore, the deforestation rate, although rising initially due to road paving, declines over time, simulating the effects of emerging markets fo...

Testes to incubate stem cells

...riods, up to three months, although they failed to fully develop into sperm, said de Rooij. "Our plan is to develop a culture system for spermatogonial stem cells" de Rooij told conference attendees. Although admitting the leap to humans is considerable, the colonised mouse testes are already providing us...

Scientists design potent anthrax toxin inhibitor

... process that anthrax toxin must undergo to become fully active. In test-tube experiments, the inhibitor, which is covered with multiple short proteins (peptides), was 10,000 times more potent than unattached peptides. "If the effectiveness of anthrax inhibitors designed in this fashion is confirmed by ad...

Malaria parasites develop in lymph nodes

...ce they could develop, Ménard said. Once they have fully developed, the parasites burst out of the liver ce... can't develop completely there, Ménard said. Only fully developed parasites can infect red blood cells and cause malaria, so the lymph-node parasites probab...

Clues to breast cancer hidden inside stem cells

...' breast, before pregnancy, is very different to a fully functioning, milk-producing breast. With lactation, the breast becomes fully differentiated, and once this stage is over, it involutes. This cycle of proliferation, differentiat...

Boosting newborns' immune responses

...ts, but that one portion of the immune response is fully functional and can be harnessed to boost immunity in these tiny infants, possibly making infections like respiratory syncytial virus, pneumococcus, pertussis, HIV and rotavirus much less of a threat. For about a decade it's been known that people's ...

Climate change: The rice genome to the rescue

...wever, scientists are calling for more research to fully understand the impact of climate change ?especially the extreme weather it may cause ?on international efforts to reduce poverty and ensure food security. A "Climate Change and Rice" planning workshop this month at the International Rice Research ...

Guiding principles for facial transplantation unveiled

...ial transplant patients). "As plastic surgeons we fully recognize the revolutionary prospects of facial transplantation," said William C. Pederson, MD and president of ASRM. "We just need to make sure that we approach this challenge having reflected on all the possibilities for both the patient and the su...

UC Berkeley researchers create a biologically-inspired artificial compound eye

...or of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley. The eyes are fully described for the first time in the April 28 issue of the journal Science. "I've always wanted to create an advanced, three-dimensional optical system," Lee said, "but conventional microfabrication technology is two-dimensional. So, I started thinki...

Hormonal male contraception reversible after few months for all men

...ormone treatment in women, sperm production can be fully inhibited by androgen or androgen-progestagen treatment combinations in men. With such hormone treatment, azoospermia (no sperm in ejaculate) or severe oligozoospermia (less than 3 million sperm per mL of semen), which is sufficient for contraceptive...

Frog’s ear canal may provide insights for understanding human hearing loss

...to hear and communicate with one another, the more fully we can understand the hearing process in humans, and the more inspired we can be in developing new treatments for hearing loss," said James F. Battey, director of the NIDCD. Ultrasounds are high-pitched sounds more than 20 kilohertz (kHz) in frequen...

Portable cocaine sensor developed at UC Santa Barbara

... bioterrorism. It is beautiful work; the sensor is fully portable." Heeger is a professor of physics and of materials and is affiliated with the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids at UCSB. He won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 2000. "For me the most exciting thing is that this is a generic, inexpensi...

Stem cells from muscles can repair cartilage

...mited results, but currently there is no method to fully restore this type of injured cartilage. Tissue engineering involving the delivery of therapeutic proteins to the injured site is a promising new approach to repairing articular cartilage. Previous studies have suggested that muscles contain stem cel...

Feeling old?

...scle protein, and that leucine supplementation can fully restore correct function. "Preventing muscle wasting is a major socio-economic and public health issue, that we may be able to combat with a leucine-rich diet," says senior co-author Didier Attaix. Commenting on the work Michael Rennie from the Uni...

Have a taste for fat? Yes! A sensor in the mouth promotes preference for fatty foods

... and digestive physiology. CD36 gene inactivation fully abolishes both the spontaneous preference for fat and the changes in gastrointenstinal secretions mediated by oral delivery of lipids. These findings unveil one potential pathway mediating fat taste. The data suggest that an alteration in the fat p...

Sooner is better with cochlear implants, Stanford scientist shows

...between lip movement and sound. The only kids who fully merged the visual and auditory effects of speech w...er the implant is done, the better the chances for fully integrated speech perception in the brain. Kids who received implants later showed little evidence o...

Superconducting magnet attracts molecular research

...ery six weeks or so. Once the magnet has been fully tested, Brandeis researchers, as well as other Boston-area universities engaged in NIH-funded biomedical research, will use it around the clock. Experiments usually run in weeklong blocks, though some may run for several weeks at a time, according to...

Largest computational biology simulation mimics life’s most essential nanomachine

...parable results to those in the developed world. A fully supported health care delivery system and infrastructure help ensure this success, according to data published in November 2005 issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS). More than 95 percent of HIV-infected people live in...

New Therapeutic Target Identified In Inherited Brain Tumor Disorder

...parable results to those in the developed world. A fully supported health care delivery system and infrastructure help ensure this success, according to data published in November 2005 issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS). More than 95 percent of HIV-infected people live in...

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