Missing Receptor Molecule Causes Tumor Growth
...mmed cell death. Image and text will be available online from Wednesday, 15th June 2005, 09.00 a.m. MEZ onwards: http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/press/receptor.html ...Nanoparticles carry cancer-killing drugs into tumor cells
...mmed cell death. Image and text will be available online from Wednesday, 15th June 2005, 09.00 a.m. MEZ onwards: http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/press/receptor.html ...Micro-molecule plays big role in birth defects
...e finding, which will be reported this week in the online Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, deals with tiny strands of genetic material called microRNAs. Once thought to be little more than cellular debris, these short strands of RNA may perform a vital role in healthy development by strateg...Gambling monkeys give insight into neural machinery of risk
...on McCoy, published their findings in the advanced online version of Nature Neuroscience, posted August 14, 2005. The research was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the EJLB Foundation, and the Klingenstein Foundation. In their experiments, the researchers gave two male rhesus macaque monkeys...NIH renews network focused on how genes influence drug responses
... NHGRI, NHLBI, and NLM to develop and operate this online resource, which serves as a shared information library for pharmacogenetics research. To protect the privacy of research study participants, names and other identifying information are not stored in this knowledge base. (Russ B. Altman, M.D., Ph.D., ...Gene Bridges And Covalys To Develop Restriction-Enzyme-Free SNAP-tag Gene Fusion Kits
...s are the new treasures of molecular biology. Most online genomes are annotated with readily available BACs, so that it is easy to identify and obtain a BAC encoding a gene of interest. The new SNAP-tag kits will combine the inherent advantages of BACs with the power of SNAP-tag for protein expression studi...Scientists show that tick-borne flaviviruses use a novel mechanism to evade host defenses
...r in various organs. The study released this week online in the Journal of Virology describes how a single virus protein--NS5--from the tick-borne Langat flavivirus counteracts the natural ability of interferon to combat the virus. Langat virus was originally isolated in the 1950s in Malaysia and Thailand....Bitter or sweet? The same taste bud can tell the difference
...e researchers report their findings in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. CK may send opposite signals to the brain, depending on what kind of substance is on the tongue. Given the current findings, Herness thinks that CCK tells the brain that something bitte...Virologist finds contagious equine flu in dogs
...ssue of Science Express (Vol. 309, No. 5743), the online version of Science magazine, this is the first time an equine flu virus has been found to jump species. The equine influenza virus, H3N8, was isolated at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine after University of Florida researchers sent fluid an...Mass production of human papillomavirus could lead to gains against cervical cancer
...their new technique on June 13, 2005, in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Ahlquist and co-authors Dohun Pyeon and Paul Lambert are at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The primary obstacle to producing HPV in the laboratory has been that in the early stage...Logging changed ecological balance for monkeys, damaged health
...e of worms and protozoan cysts. The study appears online ahead of publication in the Journal of Applied Ecology. While the three primate species were subject to a higher risk of infections, only the guenons (pronounced GWINN-ins) suffered from an increased number of parasites, including three parasites no...Malfunctioning bone marrow cells sabotage nerve cells in diabetes
...ce in Japan, and the University of Chicago appears online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The finding not only provides a basis for understanding the dangerous nerve condition in diabetics, but could eventually lead to a treatment for this problem, said Dr. Lawrence Chan, chie...Affymetrix and ParAllele Launch Industry's Most Comprehensive Product Line for Targeted Genotyping
...e of worms and protozoan cysts. The study appears online ahead of publication in the Journal of Applied Ecology. While the three primate species were subject to a higher risk of infections, only the guenons (pronounced GWINN-ins) suffered from an increased number of parasites, including three parasites no...Gene therapy to lower blood pressure just enough
...at Baylor College of Medicine in a report released online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "High blood pressure is one of the leading causes of death and disability in adults worldwide," said Dr. Bert O'Malley, chair of the BCM department of molecular and cellular biology. "A therapy...President Bush's cut to AIDS prevention in Africa would be devastating
...e of worms and protozoan cysts. The study appears online ahead of publication in the Journal of Applied Ecology. While the three primate species were subject to a higher risk of infections, only the guenons (pronounced GWINN-ins) suffered from an increased number of parasites, including three parasites no...Cultural norms not unique to human societies
...nd the United Kingdom, is published in the current online edition of Nature. Unlike previous studies that used human models for cultural-learning experiments with chimpanzees, researchers Victoria Horner, PhD, and Frans B. M. de Waal, PhD, of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes Research Center, and Andr...Gene controlling circadian rhythms linked to drug addiction
...Findings from the multi-center study are available online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We found that the Clock gene is not only involved in regulating sleep/wake cycles, but is also very involved in regulating the rewarding responses to drugs of abuse," said Dr. Colleen A. McClu...HIV Therapy Greatly Extends Life of Key T Cells, Scientists Find
... Clinical Center’s Joseph A. Kovacs, M.D., appears online today in The Journal of Clinical Investigation. A hallmark of HIV infection is the progressive loss of CD4+ T cells (a key type of white blood cell) and the subsequent decline in the infected person’s ability to fend off disease. NIH clinical invest...Chemical 'band-aid' prevents heart failure in mice with muscular dystrophy
... will be published July 17 in Nature as an advance online publication. The study is important because it is the first to show what happens to heart muscle cells called myocytes in the absence of dystrophin, and the first study to demonstrate a new, promising approach to repair the damage. The study's autho......e Biotechnology and available after June 12 in the online version of the journal. The idea is one of several applications the researchers have found for what they call "dendimer-like DNA," consisting of many short Y-shaped strands of DNA linked together in a treelike structure. The DNA that carries the gen...