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For Stanford scientists, RNAi gene therapy takes two steps forward, one step back

...effect. "Just like any other new drug, it is just going to mean that we need to proceed cautiously," Kay s...d to receive repeat doses of the RNAi. If RNAi is going to be viable as a therapy for organ-wide diseases such as hepatitis B or C, it will have to stick ar...

Pest control research leads to pain control discovery

...ith a combination therapy," Schmelzer said. "We're going after a new enzyme target, not going after the Cox-2 inhibitors." Their research is reported in a paper entitled "Enhancement of Antino...

A more powerful and efficient engine for rice: the C3-C4 challenge

...photosynthetic efficiency, of the rice plant. It's going to be an enormously complex and difficult challenge, but we think that with all the new knowledge we have about the rice plant it can be done." Many of the world's leading experts on photosynthesis attended the five-day workshop. They were warned t...

Human behavior changes the number of strains of infectious diseases

...rent environments for a pathogen. There are always going to be plenty of factors that determine which strains emerge, but human mixing behavior has a big part to play." ...

Chocolate, wine, spicy foods may be OK for heartburn, Stanford study finds

...e medicine will decrease the amount of acid that's going into their esophagus," she said. "Since I don't h... evidence that changing their diet dramatically is going to take the heartburn away, it makes more sense just to take the medicine," she added. That said, G...

UF scientists test improved gene therapy method for hereditary heart conditions

...ries a ZIP code that determines where the truck is going to take its payload to." "Laboratories are engin...d. "We don't know who Neil Armstrong is yet, who's going to be the one to make this work, but we know we're going to the moon. Everybody engineering things i...

NASA study solves ocean plant mystery

...ll become more knowledgeable about where carbon is going and the impact of recreational, industrial or commercial processes that use or produce carbon. Researchers better understand the Earth as an ecosystem, and can incorporate these findings in future modeling, analysis and predictions. While satellite...

Value of services performed by insects tops $57 billion in US

...lated the losses if predators or parasites weren't going after their prey. For pollination, they looked at the value of the crops known to be insect pollinated and subtracted the value of those pollinated by domesticated honeybees. For dung burial, they estimated the losses if dung beetles did not clean n...

APS lecturer shows rare video of 'teacher-student' immune cell interactions in live animal

...ls they identified as harboring a pathogen without going on a rampage and annihilating everything in sight. "There must be a control mechanism that can keep these cytotoxic cells in check," von Andrian noted. The immune system does this by creating regulatory T cells to control the effector cells, he said...

Avian flu modeled on supercomputer, explores vaccine and isolation options for thwarting a pandemic

... Disease Agent Study) program. "It's probably not going to be practical to contain a potential pandemic by merely trying to limit contact between people (such as by travel restrictions, quarantine or even closing schools), but we find that these measures are useful in buying time to produce and distribute...

Anti-inflammatory drug's potentially deadly side effect found to be rare

... icebergs in the ocean we're navigating, and we're going to bump up against those icebergs and have to work out ways to navigate around them." ...

Thinner and younger

...ing in healthy young people," Holloszy says. "It's going to be many years before we know whether calorie restriction really lengthens life, but if we can demonstrate that it changes these markers of aging, such as DNA damage and inflammation, we'll have a pretty good idea that it's somehow influencing the ...

'Scent of a woman' tells male redback spiders to find a mate

...male density and the amount of competition they're going to be facing," says Michael Kasumovic, a PhD candidate in the UTSC laboratory of Professor Maydianne Andrade. "It's the first time that it's been shown that males are actually changing their development in response to both sexual and natural selectio...

Weighting cancer drugs to make them hit tumors harder

...ug gives us a means to increase the amount of drug going to the tumor while reducing toxicity to the rest of the body," said Fan Yuan, Ph.D., co-author on the paper and an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke. "We can adjust the weight higher or lower depending upon where we want the drug ...

Study fishes out new role for prostaglandins

...at a particular time, if you are too slow, you are going to miss the train. If you don't get on that part of the trip, that disturbs the whole agenda." "Development synchronizes or orchestrates a myriad of events in the proper sequence (lots of trains)," said Solnica-Krezel, "and sometimes one train wreck...

Is the brain wired for faces?

...rs. "The findings are exciting because we are now going to apply this technique to probe the neural bases ...s, but we did not know what kind of processing was going on inside that 'black box'," he said. "By using a computational model to quantitatively link neurona...

Study finds 60 new genes controlled by DNA snippet

...eir work and that of several other labs, they knew going in all the CArG box variations and how close they typically lie to the genes they regulate (within 4,000 base pairs). The data-screening tool also employed comparative genomics, the study of relationships between the DNA of different species. When a...

Genes affecting blood pressure change as children become adults

...her continues taking a bus or even that they start going to different schools.Environmental factors are wide-ranging ?including diet, physical activity, socioeconomic issues and stress ?and difficult to accurately measure, Dr. Snieder says. However, if factors negatively influencing blood pressure in blac...

Stem cell transplants improve recovery in animal models for stroke, cerebral palsy

...tically to reduce that disability. "These are not going to be cures, but this level of recovery is signifi...this into the clinic but, at the same time, we are going to be very cautious and thorough in monitoring for any safety issues." Researchers also are working...

Man's best friend: Study shows lonely seniors prefer playtime with pooch over human interaction

...e residents. We expected the group dog visits were going to work better, but they didn't. "The residents found a little quiet time with the pooch is a lot nicer than spending time with a dog and other people," he said. Thirty-seven nursing home residents who scored high on a loneliness scale said they w...

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