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Smokers invite to test vaccine against nicotine addiction

...Northern California smokers over 18 are invited to join a national study to determine whether NicVax can help people abstain from smoking and help them avoid relapsing within the next 12 months. Participation is free and requires a one-year commitment to come to San Francisco for injections and follow-up...

University of Minnesota researchers take new look at cellular suicide

... repair severed DNA molecules will, in some cases, join forces with another protein to do the opposite and chop the DNA to bits, according to new research at the University of Minnesota. The chopping up of a cell's DNA occurs in response to damage, for example, from ultraviolet light, and appears to be a ...

Scientists aim to thwart use of flu as bioweapon

...atistics, immunology, and infectious diseases will join with colleagues from around the nation to discuss exactly how flu invades the body, how the body responds, and how mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists are working to help understand the pathogenesis of flu infection. The group will...

Indonesia - disaster relief aid in action

... Task Force acted rapidly by sending two scouts to join a team from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The two Task Force members Dr. Arjan van der Tol, Nephrologist, (who also participated in the Kashmir-Pakistan intervention in November 2005), and Mr. Stefaan Claus, Renal Nurse (who has participated in m...

'Shuttling' protein possibly key to resilience of cancer cells

...that make up AP-1, including ATF2 and c-Jun, often join together in the nucleus, forming either "homodimers," when two of the same proteins join, or "heterodimers," when two different proteins come together. "Current thinking is that all of these AP-1 proteins in healthy cells are localized, or confined,...

Georgia Tech accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster

...attract some of the nation's brightest students to join our research team to advance medicines that will improve the well-being of people everywhere." BellSouth worked closely with Georgia Tech and IBM to design a unique, reliable hosting environment to support the high power density supercomputing clu...

Utah researchers confirm chromosome may harbor autism gene

... finding more families with a history of autism to join the study. The just-published research confirms Finnish studies of families that linked autism to the same region on chromosome 3, according to principal author Hilary Coon, Ph.D., research associate professor of psychiatry. In fact, the results of ...

Infection 'alarm' yields clues to immune system behavior

... to neighboring blood vessel cells, asking them to join in the fight. To send this message, a TNF molecule latches onto the surface of a neighboring cell and accesses a biological information highway called the NF-kappaB pathway. Via a series of chemical reactions that act like signals traveling over a te...

'Dating agency' boosts hunt for disease genes

...ationwide will today for the first time be able to join together over the internet to start the search for genes that underlie a range of chronic diseases. Patients across Britain with cancer, heart and other common diseases have been providing blood samples for research since 2000. They are part of a p...

Yale participates in global human genome initiative

...h institutions from North America, Europe and Asia join in the coming months. Its first meeting will take place in Boston on October 17-18, 2005. ...

Grid bridges 4,800 miles for molecular repositories

...he first institution outside the United Kingdom to join the Biological Simulation Grid Consortium of Great Britain. The BioSimGrid was organized to support research at the universities of Oxford, Southampton, Bristol, Birkbeck, Nottingham and York. Researchers are seeking to learn more about some of the ...

Neurons generated in the adult brain learn to respond to novel stimuli

...m cells. Our experiments show that new neurons can join brain circuits and function in complex ways ?contributing to learning, memory and potentially to motor function ?and that we may need to retrain the brain to use the new neurons effectively." ...

New study to explore cellular circuitry

...om the University of Rochester Medical Center will join a team seeking to create the first complete wiring diagram of a living cell. By wiring diagram, researchers mean a detailed model, not only of the cell's genes and their function, but also of the interplay between them. When complete, the diagram has...

Scientists unpick genetics of first 15 minutes of life

...it arrives in the egg cell so that it can properly join with the female pronucleus to form a new genetically complete the beginning of a new life. "A slight mutation in the HIRA gene means that life does not even get started. "Amazingly we still know relatively little about the structure of sperm DNA an...

US/African project deciphers deadly parasite genome

... former ILRI scientist who came to TIGR in 2001 to join the T. parva project, says the genome sequence provides useful information that will help scientists better understand how the parasite malignantly transforms cattle white blood cells into cancer-like cells that multiply rapidly, eventually leading t...

Drugs from the deep blue

... the seawater as pheromones to encourage larvae to join an existing colony, or to attract a mate. Molinski's group is collaborating with Jay Stachowicz, assistant professor in the UC Davis Section of Evolution and Ecology and his graduate student, Amy Larson, at the Bodega Marine Laboratory, and with Joe...

Molecular mechanism of feather formation found

...ferate at the growing base of the feather germ, to join the base of that barb ridge," Harris says. "The variations in the initial number of barb ridges will directly affect the shape, and consequent function, of the feather." To test the activator-inhibitor model, Harris injected retroviruses to force th...

Unweaving amyloid fibers to solve prion puzzles

...l cascade." When such a cascade occurs, the prions join and form amyloid fibers. (While not all amyloids a...rm. "We now have an overall picture of how prions join together to form the amyloid's molecular structure," says Lindquist, who also is a professor of biol...

Why do aneurysms form? New studies suggest leading role for white blood cells

...sounding the alarm to summon other immune cells to join the fight. They are key to the process of inflammation by which the body fights off insults from bacteria, viruses and injuries. The two new papers show for the first time that neutrophils are important in the very early stages of AAA formation, whe...

Team of international scientists departs today to discover the unknown in China's Himalayan region

...Disney and filmmakers from Discovery Networks will join renowned biologists, botanists and other technical experts from Conservation International's (CI) Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) as they search for new plant and animal species not yet known to science. "There is still so much that we don't know abo...

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