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Major breakthrough in the treatment of cancers and infectious diseases

...significantly advance the treatment of cancers and infectious diseases. Current treatments frequently achieve only limited results with these types of diseases, which affect hundreds of thousands of Canadians. Dr. Veillette's team identified one of the basic mechanisms controlling NK ("natural killer") cell ...

Inhaling large amounts of salt can cause hypertension

...rate of progression from latent to infectious, and infectious to recovered, is constant, irrespective of the tim...models, for example, many people have a very short infectious period while a few have a very long infectious period. In reality, most people are infectious for an...

Field of beams - Novel system uses polarized light pulses to reveal crop health

...rate of progression from latent to infectious, and infectious to recovered, is constant, irrespective of the tim...models, for example, many people have a very short infectious period while a few have a very long infectious period. In reality, most people are infectious for an...

Novel plague virulence factor identified

...rized and has a lower biosafety ranking than other infectious or toxic agents, Aballay believes that it will much easier for research laboratories to conduct research on virulence and innate immunity. Other members of the research team were Duke's Katie Styer, Gregory Hopkins, and Richard Frothingham, as well ...

New Look at DNA Hints at Origin of UV Damage

...rized and has a lower biosafety ranking than other infectious or toxic agents, Aballay believes that it will much easier for research laboratories to conduct research on virulence and innate immunity. Other members of the research team were Duke's Katie Styer, Gregory Hopkins, and Richard Frothingham, as well ...

Improving the potential of cancer vaccines

...lls to suppress immune response to tumors and even infectious diseases. "Since 1995, many groups have tried to ...ve a huge impact on cancer therapy or treatment of infectious disease," said Wang. "It could boost response to cancer vaccine as well." ...

Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month

...elped design and will oversee the study. She is an infectious disease expert who retired after a long career with Abbott Laboratories. "We're trying to improve the lives of these patients by treating the disease early on in the local villages before it progresses to the terminal brain stage," the physician sai...

A molecule impedes the destruction of the 'Brucella' bacteria

...truction within the cells charged with eliminating infectious agents (macrophages). This research has been published in Nature Immunology scientific magazine. Brucella is a model of an intracellular parasite, a category that includes other important bacteria, such as those of tuberculosis or legionelosis. Bruc...

New lead reported in tumor angiogenesis

... evidence that inflammatory factors, and even some infectious agents, can induce jagged1 expression," said Wang. "That's what we plan to study next." The article is titled, "Crosstalk between tumor and endothelial cells promotes tumor angiogenesis by MAPK activation of Notch signaling." The article was publish...

Engineered molecule amplifies body's immune response

...des a benefit to people by protecting them against infectious diseases and cancer. Unfortunately, administration of interferon is costly and short-lived and has significant side effects. We simply reasoned that it might be possible to improve the benefits of interferon by enhancing the way it produces its benef...

Secrets to antibody's success against West Nile Virus surprise scientists

...ost cells. Instead, the antibody somehow stops the infectious process at a later point. "This was a complete surprise to us, but it gives us some very useful insights," says senior author Daved Fremont, Ph.D., associate professor of pathology & immunology and of biochemistry & molecular biophysics at ...

Mass production of human papillomavirus could lead to gains against cervical cancer

...ientists can quickly produce a thousand times more infectious virus per culture dish than they could using conve...al particles, called virions. Thus, said Ahlquist, infectious HPV virus particles could only be obtained by laboriously differentiating cultured cells into artifi...

Logging changed ecological balance for monkeys, damaged health

... interests focus on the interface between emerging infectious diseases, anthropogenic environmental change and conservation. The researchers have monitored the three species, gathering data immediately after logging, 12 years later and again 28 years after the logging ended. "We know land-use change is affect...

Affymetrix and ParAllele Launch Industry's Most Comprehensive Product Line for Targeted Genotyping

... interests focus on the interface between emerging infectious diseases, anthropogenic environmental change and conservation. The researchers have monitored the three species, gathering data immediately after logging, 12 years later and again 28 years after the logging ended. "We know land-use change is affect...

Hide and seek: Researchers discover a new way for infectious bacteria to enter cells

... the body's immune system. They believe that other infectious organisms may use the same mechanism. The Listeria bacterium, found in soil and water, can be transmitted to humans via undercooked and unpasteurized food, causing flu-like symptoms or gastrointestinal distress. For individuals with weakened immu...

Gene discovery sheds light on causes of rare disease, cancer

... the body's immune system. They believe that other infectious organisms may use the same mechanism. The Listeria bacterium, found in soil and water, can be transmitted to humans via undercooked and unpasteurized food, causing flu-like symptoms or gastrointestinal distress. For individuals with weakened immu...

President Bush's cut to AIDS prevention in Africa would be devastating

... interests focus on the interface between emerging infectious diseases, anthropogenic environmental change and conservation. The researchers have monitored the three species, gathering data immediately after logging, 12 years later and again 28 years after the logging ended. "We know land-use change is affect...

HIV Therapy Greatly Extends Life of Key T Cells, Scientists Find

... naïve cells, those that have never encountered an infectious agent; and central memory cells, those that have encountered an infectious agent before and are primed to respond quickly if they encounter the same agent again. The new data...

Discovery of T-cell 'traffic control' boosts new drug promise

...ere they encounter antigens for microbes and other infectious agents -- they sense S1P in the outflowing blood a... normal immune response against bacteria and other infectious agents," he says. Similarly, such a drug should slow the autoimmune response that occurs in MS, a hy...

AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat feminization of HIV/AIDS

...tion" of the AIDS pandemic. Quinn, a professor of infectious diseases at Hopkins and a senior investigator at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, reports that women have in the last 20 years moved from being those least affected by HIV to those in whom the disease is spreading fastest. A...

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