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Tiny particles could solve billion-dollar problem

...prevalence and its toxicity. Human exposure to TCE has been linked to liver damage, impaired pregnancies ...is enormous, so any new scheme for TCE remediation has got to clean large volumes of water very quickly for a just a few pennies." Hughes, Wong and their ...

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

..., a non-profitresearch organization. The institute has partnered with IBM and UnitedDevices, an Austin-based company, to create the Human Proteome FoldingProject, a global effort to determine the structures of theapproximately 60 percent of human proteins with no known function. "Howproteins fold determ...

Plants, animals share molecular growth mechanisms

...t apparently switches on plants' growth machinery, has opened a scientific toolbox to learn about both pl...g into how this affects the growth process. "DIS3 has two ends that are common in both plant and animal proteins," he said. "But DIS3 has a very large seg...

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

..., a non-profitresearch organization. The institute has partnered with IBM and UnitedDevices, an Austin-based company, to create the Human Proteome FoldingProject, a global effort to determine the structures of theapproximately 60 percent of human proteins with no known function. "Howproteins fold determ...

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

...n the scientific community's knowledge of CLL that has occurred over the past decade. The review appears in the February 24 issue. Two of the expert authors are with the North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System (www.northshorelij.com): Nicholas Chiorazzi, MD, director and CEO of the Institute ...

Researchers Uncover Key Step In Manufacture of Memory Protein

... form. Dr. Loh explained that the proBDNF molecule has four projections, resembling prongs. These prongs fit into a corresponding indentation on CPE, analogous to the way a plug for an electric appliance fits into an electric wall outlet, Dr. Loh said. The golgi apparatus then encases the lipid rafts ?a...

Scientists Replicate Hepatitis C Virus in Laboratory

...ntil recently, research on this infectious disease has suffered from the lack of a robust in vitro model system,?says T. Jake Liang, M.D., Chief of the Liver Diseases Branch of the NIDDK and co-author of the study. “Our model system produced viral particles that have all the properties of the whole virus...

Research advances quest for HIV-1 vaccine

...ed in the February issue of Immunity. Vaccination has been a successful strategy for protecting humans f...s. However, designing a suitable vaccine for HIV-1 has been a highly challenging and thus far unsuccessful endeavor. HIV-1 is enormously variable and it ha...

The secret to longevity in tubeworms

... 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. luymesi stimulat...

Male circumcision reduces risk of HIV transmission from women to men

...ex among a population withmultiple sexual partners has found that uncircumcised men have morethan twice the risk of acquiring HIV than do circumcised men.In the study, published in the Feb. 15 issue of The Journal ofInfectious Diseases, now available online, Jared Baeten and colleaguesfrom the United Sta...

Another Look Finds Promising Proteomics Test is Not Biologically Plausible

...t the promise of this emerging field of proteomics has not yet been met due to the difficulty in finding complex, reproducible patterns of proteins. According to Baggerly, that now appears to be the case with the experimental ovarian cancer test at issue, which was first proposed in 2002 by researchers ...

New species from old data

...t the promise of this emerging field of proteomics has not yet been met due to the difficulty in finding complex, reproducible patterns of proteins. According to Baggerly, that now appears to be the case with the experimental ovarian cancer test at issue, which was first proposed in 2002 by researchers ...

Cracking the olfactory code in bees

...t the promise of this emerging field of proteomics has not yet been met due to the difficulty in finding complex, reproducible patterns of proteins. According to Baggerly, that now appears to be the case with the experimental ovarian cancer test at issue, which was first proposed in 2002 by researchers ...

Signaling protein builds bigger, better bones in mice

...t the promise of this emerging field of proteomics has not yet been met due to the difficulty in finding complex, reproducible patterns of proteins. According to Baggerly, that now appears to be the case with the experimental ovarian cancer test at issue, which was first proposed in 2002 by researchers ...

Ecological destruction fuels emerging diseases

...ancement of Science in Washington D.C. Dr. Brooks has spent much of the past decade slogging through the...king down and collecting parasites. Since 1996, he has coordinated the parasite Taxonomic Working Group for the All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI), an ...

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

...lan'sauthors, but fortunately "scientific progress has created newopportunities that could be harnessed more effectively through globalcoordination and collaboration.""These new opportunities include an expanded HIV vaccine candidatepipeline, improvements in animal models, a growing database fromclinical...

Newly discovered virus linked to childhood lung disorders and Kawasaki disease

...d with animportant multi-organ disease whose cause has remained a mystery fordecades, according to articles in the Feb. 15 issue of The Journal ofInfectious Diseases, now available online. The virus is one of thenumerous coronaviruses, most of which infect animals. In humans,coronaviruses have been known...

Ancient olfaction protein is shared by many bugs, offering new pest control target

...estored, arguing not only that the gene's sequence has been conserved over 250 million years of evolution but that the gene's function in olfaction has also been conserved. Future designs of pesticides and disease-controlling insect repellents may be a...

Inexpensive, mass-produced genes core of synthetic biology advances at UH

...hnology developed by Dr. Gao and her collaborators has thepotential to make research that many of us could only dream about bothplausible and cost effective,?said Stuart Dryer, chair of thedepartment of biology and biochemistry at UH. “In my own research onneurological diseases, we’ve often wished we cou...

New Technique for Tracking Gene Regulators

...rvival, and the function of nerve cells. But there has been no easyway to screen the entire genome. “We a...t to do a genome-widesurvey,?says Dunn.The problem has been the sheer magnitude of information in the genome:three billion nucleotides, and many tens of th...

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