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Defenseless plants arm themselves with metals

...of biochemical events that occur in succession and help the plant resist infection. A molecule called salicylic acid - a common plant compound and the active ingredient in pharmaceuticals like aspirin and acne medications - governs this pathway. When faced with a fungus or bacteria, most plants turn up t...

Some Brain Cells 'Change Channels' To Fine-tune The Message

...two proteins, called PICK1 and NSF for short, that help replace channels that let charged calcium ions in ...ells can do the same thing, forcing the swap might help protect them from a calcium overdose that can kill them in Lou Gehrig's disease. "We don't know yet...

Same-Sex Mating Discovered in a Toxic Fungus

... said. Discovery of the same-sex mating might also help elucidate basic principles governing the evolution of sex, they said. "Sex is generally beneficial as a means to produce offspring with different gene combinations that can adapt more rapidly to new environments," said HHMI investigator Joseph Heitm...

Potential Drug Target For Treating Cocaine Abuse Found

...ent for cocaine addiction would be of immeasurable help to these individuals and their families." ...

Test for early detection of prostate cancer shows promise

...w blood test, when coupled with PSA screening, may help reduce the number of both unnecessary biopsies and undetected prostate tumors,?said Getzenberg, In addition to being highly sensitive to prostate cancer, the EPCA test is also very specific to it, meaning that other cancers and benign prostate condit...

UNC launches study of liver injury caused by drugs

...to the study of drug-induced liver injury and will help to develop better ways to prevent, detect and treat this growing problem," Watkins said. DILIN also may provide important insight into medical problems beyond liver injury induced by drugs, he added. "Drug-induced liver injury is an ideal model to ...

PET/CT can identify new cancer lesions at early stage, allowing for prompt treatment

... tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scans may help physicians identify new, unexpected malignant canc...dicine's Journal of Nuclear Medicine. "PET/CT can help find additional lesions in patients known to have cancer," said SNM member Richard L. Wahl, M.D., di...

Cerebral navigation: How do nerve fibers know what direction to grow in?

...xon guidance. "Understanding these pathways could help in understanding the process of nerve regeneration," says Greenberg, who is also Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. "The mechanisms we've uncovered could provide opportunities for the development of therapies for spina...

Global analysis of membrane proteins

...o and out of the cell. Such membrane proteins also help cells recognize each other in the body, and make the nervous system work. Scientists at Stockholm University have now mapped out nearly all of the membrane proteins in the enteric bacterium Escherichia coli. Their study is published this week in Scie...

Brain-injury rehabilitation depends on acetylcholine circuitry

... UCSD have discovered. Their finding in rats could help enhance rehabilitation to recover from such injuries by leading to the development of drugs or other treatments to enhance the "cholinergic system." The researchers said that their finding that the cholinergic system is involved in brain recovery is...

Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication

... Tourism," she recalls. "I was looking for ways to help farmers keep elephants away from their crops. I wanted to see if there was something about elephant behavior, particularly their vocalizations, that we could use as a deterrent." Having just earned a graduate degree in entomology at the University o...

First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched

... starting with the nations hardest hit by vCJD, to help protect the safety of the blood supply and prevent...n developed the Leukotrap Affinity Prion filter to help blood authorities around the world stop the transmission of prions as part of the Company's mission ...

Cooperation is key—a new way of looking at MicroRNA and how it controls gene expression

...ferent proteins. "Most microRNA probably need the help of these other proteins and other molecules to target mRNA," says Han. "[This targeting] not only depends on their complementary sequence but on whether these proteins are around to stabilize them." Han and his Scripps Research colleagues collaborat...

Insight into DNA's 'weakest links' may yield clues to cancer biology

...olecular characteristics of these links that might help to explain them. The findings, published in the M...e observed in yeast. "The findings may ultimately help us better understand what goes wrong in cancer cells, an important step in developing a better plan ...

FDA Works To Speed The Advent Of New, More Effective Personalized Medicines

...l not be used for regulatory decision making, will help FDA and industry gain valuable experience as this new field continues to evolve. FDA believes this approach will save time and resources and eliminate possible delays in the application review process because parties will be able to familiarize them...

Turning viruses into allies against cancer

...peutic radioactive iodine." Future studies should help scientists evaluate the efficacy and optimal delivery system of their radio-virotherapy vector. "We expect this work will take another two years before this technology will be available for testing in patient studies," said Blechacz. ...

Researchers discover underwater volcano

...tween a high school and a research vessel with the help of HiSeasNet, a satellite communications system that provides continuous Internet connectivity for oceanographic research vessels at sea. ...

Maine Researchers Find Exceptions to Old Rules of Genetic Inheritance

Discoveries by a research team from Maine could help to settle a long-standing debate in genetics. Some genes are seemingly inseparable in nature; they form a haplotype-a set of genes inherited as a unit. Some researchers support the notion that mapping haplotypes may be more significant than mapping ...

Researchers find promising cancer-fighting power of synthetic cell-signaling molecule

...golipids, a group of cell-signaling molecules that help cells decide whether to grow or die via a controlled process called apoptosis. Cancer cells are usually defective in these regulatory pathways, so researchers hypothesized that structurally modified sphingolipid analogs might be even better at making...

Roots Engage in Underground Chemical Warfare

...and not another," says Vivanco. "Our findings will help researchers solve the mysteries of plant disease and immunity." In these experiments, however, root exudates did not kill all of the tested strains of bacteria. One particular strain of Pseudomonas syringae, a bacterium that causes disease in both t...

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