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Bee mites suppress bee immunity, open door for viruses and bacteria

...earchers report their findings in today's (May 17) online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Yang and Cox-Foster looked at how bee mites affect the bee immune system. They injected heat-killed E. coli bacteria into virus-infected bees that were either infested with bee mites or ...

Purdue researchers use enzyme to clip 'DNA wires'

...uters. Findings are detailed in a paper published online in February in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The paper was written by Purdue graduate student Joseph M. Kinsella and Albena Ivanisevic, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry at Purdue. DNA, or deoxyribonuclei...

Rabies spread speeds up

...d. In a new study reported in the freely-available online journal PLoS Biology, Real and colleagues apply a mathematical model to predict the likely spread of rabies across Ohio - a potential gateway for spread throughout the Midwest - and find that raccoon rabies could spread throughout the state in just t...

Scientists identify genes responsible for 'black rot' disease in vegetables

...or animal bacterial pathogen to date, is published online today in the journal Genome Research. "Black rot" is caused by the pathogenic bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pathovar campestris (or Xcc). Under favorable conditions (high humidity and temperature), Xcc infects vegetable crops by spreading through...

Natural Killers Could Lead to New Hepatitis Treatments

...(NYU) School of Medicine, published their findings online on April 5, 2005, in the Public Library of Science Biology. Lead authors on the paper were Frederick Geissman in Littman's laboratory and Thomas Cameron in the laboratory of co-author Michael L. Dustin, also of NYU. Other co-authors were from the La ...

Engineers improve plastic's potential for use in implants by linking it to biological material

...chusetts Institute of Technology. It was published online May 15 by the journal Nature Materials. Polypyrrole is of interest for tissue engineering and other purposes because it is a non-toxic plastic that conducts electricity. As a result, it could be used to extend previous experiments in Schmidt's labor...

Innovative coating could give medical implants a longer life

...fouling demonstration. The findings are published online today (May 13) by the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a peer-reviewed publication of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. While the coating has not been tested in humans, it holds promise for use on a vari...

Atmosphere may cleanse itself better than previously thought

...t Jamie Matthews, appears in this week's (May 9?3) online early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It will appear in the print edition on May 24 (vol. 102, issue 21). Much air pollution consists of chemicals called hydrocarbons, which are produced when we burn organic m...

Active Vaccine Prevents Mice From Developing Prion Disease

...ar to mad cow disease. The new findings, published online this week in the journal Neuroscience, could provide a platform for the development of a vaccine to prevent a group of fatal brain diseases caused by unusual infectious particles called prions. Although no cure for these diseases -- which include sc...

Researchers pioneer new gene therapy technique using natural repair process

...disease-causing genes. The findings are available online in Nature. By artificially initiating a DNA repair process known as homologous recombination, Dr. Matthew Porteus of UT Southwestern, working with scientists from Richmond, Calif.-based Sangamo Biosciences, was able to replace a mutated version of t...

New book explains antibiotic resistance for a broad audience

...obes has a list price of $29.95 and can be ordered online at: http://www.asmpress.org. ...

Researchers Closer To Helping Hearing-Impaired Using Stem Cells

.../p> The research was published March 18 in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and is scheduled to appear in the print edition of the journal March 29. ...

Whole genome promoter mapping - Human Genome Project v2.0?

... colleagues have made the data freely available on online public databases. Dr. Robert Strausberg, Vice-President of Human Genomic Medicine at the J. Craig Venter Institute, says that this understanding is vital for determining the genetic causes of, and possible genomic solutions for, diseases such as can...

New vaccine means bye-bye to bacteria in the lung

...develop a vaccine against this pathogen. Appearing online on 1 April 2005 in advance of print publication of the May issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Ronald Crystal and colleagues from Cornell University use a novel strategy to create a genetic vaccine against P. aeruginosa. The researchers ...

Chronic Sinus Infection Thought To Be Tissue Issue, Mayo Clinic Scientists Show It's Snot

...Allergy and Clinical Immunology and are available online . "This strikingly teaches against what has been thought worldwide about the origin of chronic sinus infection: that inflammatory cells break down, releasing toxic proteins into the diseased airway tissue," says lead researcher and Mayo Clinic ear, ...

Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies

...appearing in the American Journal of Public Health online June 28, infectious disease specialist Jonathan Zenilman, M.D., a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, reports that poorer people have been left out in the past due to insufficient local planning, and that donors and developi...

Unique library of plant genes germinates, takes root at UNC

...user-friendly package like Phytome." Phytome went online at www.phytome.org in the fall after two years work and already is being used by basic and applied scientists worldwide. The first version of the database contains information on more than 730,000 unique protein sequences in more than 25,000 protein ...

Gene silencing technique offers new strategy for treating, curing disease

...most any disease." In two papers appearing in the online edition of the journal Nature Chemical Biology, Dr. Corey and his colleagues describe how they efficiently shut down gene expression in cultured cells by blocking the ability of chromosomal DNA to be copied into RNA and made into proteins. The studie...

Brain Scan Study of Smokers Reveals Signature of Craving

...in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology that is now online and which will be published in print in a forthcoming issue. The research was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "Our results suggest that not all smokers are the same; they don't all respond to drug cues in the same way," said Joe M...

Cancer drug slows poxvirus in mice

...i, M.D. The senior author of the paper, published online this week in the journal Nature Medicine, is Daniel Kalman, Ph.D., of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Like all viruses, poxviruses co-opt various cellular molecules and processes to enter a cell, replicate and then spread to uninfect...

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