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

...fcomputer downtime.The information will be entered into a publicly accessible database,which scientists can then use to conduct research into new drugs andtreatments.Rosetta works by virtually folding protein sequences into thousands ofpossib...

Researchers Uncover Key Step In Manufacture of Memory Protein

...n the compartment, proBDNF is chemically converted into active mBDNF. After mBDNF is formed, it is release...r projections, resembling prongs. These prongs fit into a corresponding indentation on CPE, analogous to the way a plug for an electric appliance fits into ...

Plants respond similarly to signals from friends, enemies

...round the good bacteria. The rhizobia then migrate into the root and form special structures called nodules, where they turn atmospheric nitrogen into usable nitrogen for the plant and, in return, take some of the plant's energy to survive. A similar ...

Scientists Replicate Hepatitis C Virus in Laboratory

...ormed HCV. The naked HCV construct was then placed into human liver cells in a cell culture medium. The N...of the virus and releasing them from the host cell into the culture medium. Further testing is needed before the researchers can determine if the viral part...

Research advances quest for HIV-1 vaccine

...lled 4E10 and its specific target provides insight into why this particular antibody is so broadly effecti...ght to play a key role in mediating entry of HIV-1 into human cells. A research group led by Drs. Dennis R. Burton and Ian A. Wilson from The Scripps Resea...

The secret to longevity in tubeworms

... a solution: by releasing its waste sulfate not up into the ocean but down into the sediments, L. luymesi stimulates the growth of sulfide-producing microbes, and ensures its own l...

Male circumcision reduces risk of HIV transmission from women to men

...s, however, the presentstudy was also able to take into account cultural characteristics thatmight be responsible for differences in sexual behavior. Thesedifferences could, in turn, account for differences in the risk ofinfection. But the researchers found that cultural differences insexual behavior did ...

Study Demonstrates Gene Expression Microarrays are Comparable and Reproducible

...gene expression data fromsmall-scale bench science into large-scale clinical evaluation,?saidJames Jacobson, Ph.D., chief of NCI’s Diagnostic Biomarkers andTechnology Branch.Gene expression microarrays have been used in numerous applications,including identifying novel genes associated with certain cancer...

Computers to be used to find blueprint for new influenza drug

... becomes infected. The flu virus would be deceived into attacking the drug, called an inhibitor, instead o...utical companies to take our blueprint and turn it into a drug.?/p> Professor Williams said that his work is a more sophisticated development from simil...

Transplantation Of Monkey Embryonic Stem Cells Reverses Parkinson Disease In Primates

...d from monkey embryonicstem cells and transplanted into areas of the brain where these neuronshave degener...d that mouse embryonic stemcells can differentiate into neurons when cultured under specificconditions. These same culture conditions, technically simple an...

Ecological destruction fuels emerging diseases

...e also endangers human health by turning parasites into "evolutionary land mines." Dr. Daniel (Dan) Brook...nd species have moved out of their areas of origin into other areas, there have been emerging diseases. Parasites have moved into new areas and they've jump...

New Technique for Tracking Gene Regulators

...celland let it bind. Then they fragment the genome into smaller pieces, 500to 1,500 nucleotide bases long.... bases. The scientists then“glue?together the tags into chains and sequence them.While small in length, the tags are large enough to allow computersearches ...

Bound for destruction: Ubiquitination protects against improper Notch signaling

...tracellular region of the Notch protein,loosing it into the cytoplasm and triggering the activation oftranscription factors within the cell’s nucleus. In addition to itseffects on wing structure in flies, Notch signaling is known to beimportant in a number of neural cell fate determination anddevelopmenta...

Combination therapy boosts effectiveness of telomere-directed cancer cell death

...ated cancer celldeath."This study provides insight into strategies for telomere-basedmolecular cancer therapeutics. We expect that inhibition of tankyrase 1will compensate for incomplete inhibition of telomerase. Consequently,this strategy would shorten the time period of drug treatment that isrequired fo...

GATA: a graphic alignment tool for comparative sequence analysis

...ated cancer celldeath."This study provides insight into strategies for telomere-basedmolecular cancer therapeutics. We expect that inhibition of tankyrase 1will compensate for incomplete inhibition of telomerase. Consequently,this strategy would shorten the time period of drug treatment that isrequired fo...

Whole genome fine map of rice completed

...differences among strains of rice and shed insight into mechanisms of hybrid advantages at a new level, according to BIG researchers. The efficiency and data quality of the fine maps of two strains of rice, Indica and Japonica, are better than the draft sequence published in 2002. The fine maps were asse...

Imaging Lymph Nodes with Nanoparticles

...s localize to lymphoid tissue, and areinternalized into macrophages. There is then a decrease in signalintensity on T2- and T2*-weighted images, and when metastases arepresent there is a recognizably abnormal pattern on MRI scans. Ina previous paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine,Ralph ...

U-M scientist to talk about tissue engineering at AAAS

...ting them in the lab, then reintroducing the cells into a damaged area, like a jaw bone damaged too badly ...ne morphogenetic proteins help cells differentiate into specific kinds of bone, and encouraging cells to make more BMPs during tissue engineering also can r...

Breakthrough Microarray-based Technology for the Study of Cancer

...tute. "Agilent has now taken array-CGH experiments into a newrealm of resolution, sensitivity, and reproducibility that allowsreliable detection of alterations at the scale of individual genes andeven introns and exons. This advancement, along with the possibility itprovides to correlate genomic copy alte...

The transparent organism: EMBLEM and Carl Zeiss give labs a unique look at life

...g laboratories everywhere fascinating new insights into living organisms. EMBLEM Technology Transfer GmbH ...light which prevented scientists from looking deep into tissues in the past. The entire procedure is very fast and in a computer supported post-processing s...

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