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Highly adaptable genome in gut bacterium key to intestinal health

...g different people may be an important factor that influences predisposition to obesity and obesity-related disorders such as diabetes and heart disease The bacterium of the study, called Bacteriodes thetaiotaomicron or B. theta, is among the most abundant species in the human gut microbial community. B. theta...

Researchers identify target for cancer drugs

...mponent, a molecule called mTOR, is a protein that influences a cell's ability to expand in size. mTOR has been widely studied as the target for the immunosuppressant drug rapamycin (in fact, mTOR is an acronym for "mammalian target of rapamycin"). In July of 2004, Dos Sarbassov, a scientist in Sabatini's lab, ...

Research on Worms Yields Clues on Aging

...chers' observationssuggest that the nervous system influences aging processes. Thefindings are reported in the January 14 issue of the journal Science. Theanti-aging effect was revealed in a random screening of 19 drugsapproved for treating a variety of disorders in humans. "We didn'tstart with a hypothesis ab...

Research advances quest for HIV-1 vaccine

... and determining how interaction of 4E10 with gp41 influences the virus. X-ray crystallography was used to determine the structure of the complex formed by association of 4E10 with a peptide fragment that is identical to the section of gp41 that the antibody recognizes. The researchers identified the specific ...

W.M. Keck Foundation funds study of friendly microbes

...g different people may be an important factor that influences predisposition to obesity and obesity-related disorders such as diabetes and heart disease. Unfortunately, comprehensive analysis of the composition and functions of these microbial communities, in health and in disease, has been hampered because th...

UAB scientists discover the origin of a mysterious physical force

...nce the form these proteins take on when they fold influences how effectively they are able to act. Fully understanding the properties of this force that occurs when molecules surrounded by water adhere to each other is also useful in the chemical industry, particularly when involving mechanisms in which collo...

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