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Growth in the sea comes down to a struggle for iron

...ity of Maine oceanographer Mark Wells. And diatoms may not always come out on top. In collaboration with...iron inputs to the oceans during the geologic past may have removed enough carbon from the atmosphere to affect global climate, perhaps even contributing t...

New binding target for oncogenic viral protein

...he cellular machinery that regulates cell division may lead to new insights into the pathways that cause cancer. This is an important step to designing new cancer treatment strategies that target these pathways," concluded Dr. Clurman. ...

Controversial drug shown to act on brain protein to cut alcohol use

...ons and GDNF."If we can alter the GDNF pathway, we may well have a new treatmentagainst alcohol and drug addiction without the unwanted side effects ofIbogaine," Ron said.Colleagues in the research and coauthors on the paper are postdoctoralfellows Dao-Yao He, PhD, Nancy N.H. McGough, PhHD; Ajay Ravindra...

Neuronal 'traffic jam' marks early Alzheimer's disease

Early Alzheimer's disease may be precipitated by a "traffic jam" within neurons ...mulate further production of A-beta peptide, which may further poison the machinery." Goldstein theorized that Alzheimer's disease might develop spontaneo...

Termites feed through good vibrations

...ermites use vibrations to choose the wood they eat may provide opportunities to new methods of reducing infestations in homes and also may provide insights into the "cocktail party effect" of signal processing ?how to ignore most noise but...

Current human embryonic stem cell lines contaminated UCSD/Salk team finds

...ceive the therapy, thescientists said. However, it may still prove difficult to completelyeliminate the N...thway is an unusual and previously unknown onethat may also be relevant to the entry of other small molecules intocells. In addition, the JBC study showed ...

UCLA Study Shows One-Third of Drug Ads in Medical Journals Do Not Contain References Supporting Medical Claims

...ms and how accessible these were to physicians who may want to verify the research findings," said lead a...ing and access to references in pharmaceutical ads may be helpful to physicians and policy makers in making more informed prescribing decisions. According...

Drug That 'Tags' Decision-making Areas Of The Brain May Aid

...in that havebeen implicated in nicotine addiction may help studies of people battling other disorders su...le, quantitative information ofthese receptors and may therefore be very useful for future human brainimaging studies of nicotine addiction and other clini...

Elusive HIV shape change revealed; Key clue to how virus infects cells

...seem to inhibit the shape change; the new findings may help pin down how these compounds work and hasten their development into drugs. "The findings also will help us understand why it's so hard to make an HIV vaccine, and will help us start strategizing about new approaches to vaccine development." The...

Genome of deadly amoeba shows surprising complexity, evidence of lateral gene transfer

...rts list we identified implies that E. histolytica may have re-engineered aspects of its metabolism," say... "This study will provoke interest in what secrets may lie undiscovered in the sequences of other supposedly 'simple' amoeba genomes." Named for its effec...

Antarctic ice shelf retreats happened before

...ke Larsen B, the new study suggests that the ocean may play a more significant role in destroying them th...suspicion for some time that the role of the ocean may have been underestimated. This is some of the first evidence that a shift in ocean currents can actu...

Newly-discovered class of genes determines ?and restricts ?stem cell fate

...actor or complex of factors to have this dual role may represent a new general paradigm for developmental...er growing old." Epstein thinks that this concept may also be important for understanding the cell of origin for a number of tumors. Pax3 is known to be i...

Plants, animals share molecular growth mechanisms

...ical reactions involved in this process eventually may allow researchers to design plants better able to protect themselves from insects and disease. "These genes and their proteins are required for normal development and for normal cell-to-cell adhesion," Szymanski said. "They affect the growth of the ...

Recent breakthroughs in common adult leukemia highlighted in New England Journal of Medicine

... patients with features that portend poor outcomes may soon be treated earlier and more effectively," sai...ion are completed, the 'watchful waiting' practice may be abandoned in many cases," said Dr. Rai, who treats many CLL patients. "New and upcoming discoveri...

Researchers Uncover Key Step In Manufacture of Memory Protein

...onger than a day. “Understanding how BDNF is made may help us to better understand the learning process,...and her colleagues deciphered in the current study may provide insight into long-term memory deficits. She explained that other researchers have learned th...

Plants respond similarly to signals from friends, enemies

...odes have not only found a weak link in plants but may be using the very same bacterial machinery against...Nematode factor, but it appears that the nematodes may have actually acquired genes from rhizobia to exploit this signal pathway," Bird says. ### The res...

Scientists Replicate Hepatitis C Virus in Laboratory

...s and to test potential antiviral compounds, which may lead to new therapies for the liver disease that results from infection with HCV. Scientists at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), conducted the study, which a...

Research advances quest for HIV-1 vaccine

Scientists have uncovered new information that may help guide design of vaccines for HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS. A new detailed structural analysis of the complex formed by an anti-HIV antibody called 4E10 and its specific target provides insight into why this particular antibody is so broadly...

Male circumcision reduces risk of HIV transmission from women to men

...t from studies of monogamous couples. Theirresults may help explain the rapid spread of HIV in settings w...thors'evidence that female-to-male infection rates may be more than two-foldgreater for uncircumcised men, this new information may help usunderstand why t...

Another Look Finds Promising Proteomics Test is Not Biologically Plausible

... researchers present a “cautionary tale?about what may go wrong when using the fledgling science of prote... don’t fully understand, you can find results that may be due to something other than biology,?says the study’s lead author, Keith Baggerly, Ph.D., an asso...

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