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New species from old data

... 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...

Cracking the olfactory code in bees

... 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...

Study Demonstrates Gene Expression Microarrays are Comparable and Reproducible

...ation of the potential clinical use of microarrays may requirelarger studies carried out in multiple locations and would necessitatethat microarray data produced in different laboratories be combined foranalysis. Even if all procedures and equipment were the same, smalldifferences between labs, such as i...

Signaling protein builds bigger, better bones in mice

... 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...

Scientists detect probable genetic cause of some Parkinson's disease cases

...in people with a family history of the disorderand may account for 1½ to 2 percent of cases in individuals who do nothave a family history of the disease. The researchers found a mutationin one copy of the gene can lead to the disease. The findings werepublished online by Lancet at 6:30 p.m. ET on Januar...

Computers to be used to find blueprint for new influenza drug

...ed more people than the First World War itself. We may now be facing another flu outbreak, this time orig...different viruses and bacteria, a similar approach may also be useful in fighting other diseases such as the South American sleeping sickness, Chagas Disea...

Transplantation Of Monkey Embryonic Stem Cells Reverses Parkinson Disease In Primates

...al celltransplants (approximately 10%). While this may be a differenceobserved between transplantation in monkeys and humans, Langstonstresses that it may be necessary for far more DA neurons to surviveand for that survival to be long lasting in order to ...

Ecological destruction fuels emerging diseases

...t, while parasites like malaria are well known, we may have identified only a fraction of the total number of the world's parasites, and the prospect of cataloguing them poses a daunting technical challenge. Since the physical characteristics of many parasites are very similar, Dr. Brooks and his colleag...

Newly discovered virus linked to childhood lung disorders and Kawasaki disease

... itsjust a coincidence :) A newly discovered virus may be responsible for many respiratory tractillnesses in infants and children, and may be associated with animportant multi-organ disease whose cause has remained a mystery fordecades, ac...

Ancient olfaction protein is shared by many bugs, offering new pest control target

...ainst insect pests, new research indicates that it may all come down to the sense of smell. A group of Ro...sticides and disease-controlling insect repellents may be able to utilize this commonality to "blind" the insects to the smell of their prey. Walton D. Jo...

Inexpensive, mass-produced genes core of synthetic biology advances at UH

...docrinedisorders such as diabetes. This technology may therefore yieldprofound benefits for human health and quality of life.“The technology developed by Dr. Gao and her collaborators has thepotential to make research that many of us could only dream about bothplausible and cost effective,?said Stuart Dr...

New Technique for Tracking Gene Regulators

...dingHuntington’s disease in humans, and genes that may play an importantrole in certain cancers.“This technique can be applied to any protein that binds to specificsequences in the DNA and promises to be a very useful tool,?says Dunn.This research was funded by the Office of Biological and EnvironmentalR...

Bacteria collection sheds light on urinary tract infections

... team of bacteriologists. “We found out that UTIs may be caused by ingesting food contaminated with E. coli,?said Chobi DebRoy, director of Penn State’s Gastroenteric Disease Center. Previously, this link was not established, she noted. Senior author, Dr. Lee W. Riley, University of California-Berkeley...

HIV Patients May Be at Risk of Heart Problems When Taking Protease Inhibitor Drugs

...p the HIV-virus infection from progressing to AIDS may cause serious and potentially lethal heart rhythm ...dings suggest that as a class, protease inhibitors may predispose individuals to QT interval problems or torsade de pointes," Dr. Badley says. Dr. Ackerman...

Inflammatory molecules released by pollen trigger allergies

...understanding of these molecules and how they work may eventually lead to new approaches to treating allergies. ...

Research on Worms Yields Clues on Aging

...th no mutations.That indicates the anticonvulsants may affect aging partly throughtheir influence on the neural system involved in the insulin signalingpathway and partly through an independent mechanism, according toKornfeld."Our experiments show there is an important connection between neuralfunction a...

“Nano-scissors?laser shows precise surgical capability

...erform extremely precise surgery ontiny roundworms may be the key to understanding nerve regeneration andis an important step toward treatment of human neurological disease,according to research published in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature. Dr.Adela Ben-Yakar, an assistant professor of mechanical engineerin...

Genome-wide mouse study yields link to human leukemia

... but simply knowing that we have a new target that may be meaningful in treating leukemia is a big step in the right direction." Grants from the National Cancer Institute and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society supported the research. Additional co-authors from Ohio State include Li Yu, Chunhui Liu, Jeff...

Iron Deficiency Sparks Dramatic Changes In Gene Expression

...n, meaning that side effects from iron deprivation may gounattributed to their root cause. Other genes af...tsintended functions.Thiele said the same scenario may occur in human cells, as well, to aneven greater degree. His study was conducted in yeast cells beca...

Scientists seek answers on what activates deadly anthrax spores

...laiborne said. Once they know the structures, they may not only be able to provide new details on how anthrax develops, but also pick out structural vulnerabilities that are key to designing new therapeutic agents to prevent anthrax. Interest in determining how to stop anthrax remains high, not only aft...

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