Whisky fans can drink to crop research
...ng 50 per cent towards the cost and the industrial partners include: Advanta Seeds, Coors Brewers UK Ltd, CPB Twyford, Syngenta Seeds Ltd., Nickerson (UK) Ltd., RAGT Seeds, Secobra UK, Svalholf Weibull AB, The Maltsters Association of Great Britain, Scotch Whisky Research Institute and Home Grown Cereals Auth...WCS says avian flu prevention should focus on farms, markets
...We're working with our Mongolian and international partners to confirm and track the movements of Avian flu in the region," said Dr. Billy Karesh, head of the WCS team currently in Mongolia. "The best hope for successfully containing the spread of avian flu is focusing our limited resources on the hubs where ...Scientists discover gene that controls speed of tuberculosis development
...uberculosis. "HIV and tuberculosis are synergistic partners in crime for example," says Dr. Schurr. "They appear to accelerate disease progression when they occur together." "Understanding the basic pathways of pathogenesis offers new targets and policies for disease prevention," notes Dr. Emil Skamene, Scie...Secret sex life of killer fungus?
...that some key genes involved with detecting mating partners were active in the fungus. Taken as a whole, the study's results indicate that the fungus has a recent evolutionary history of sexual activity and might still be having sex, if thus far unseen by human eyes. These results are important because if th...Hunt for human genes involved in cell division under way
... synthesized siRNAs in academic research and these partners have provided us with the tools to carry out this search," says Ellenberg. "Thousands of genes have been tested in the initial phase of the project and the results are very promising." The systematic search and analysis of the screen is set to be co...Discovery of T-cell 'traffic control' boosts new drug promise
...en occupied by chemokines -- their natural binding partners -- prompt the T cells to rush into lymph nodes. But S1P, they found, can act through its own G-coupled receptors to prevent chemokines from triggering T cell movement. In ways not yet fully understood, this process is reversible, providing the body w...Leptin-signaling Protein Maintains Normal Body Weight And Energy Balance In Mice
...ca's Development (NEPAD), the WorldFish Center and partners are making an urgent appeal to boost the continent's fish production and strengthen the contribution of fisheries to economic growth and food security. Experts and political leaders from 26 African countries are convening for the NEPAD-Fish for All ...Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders
...ca's Development (NEPAD), the WorldFish Center and partners are making an urgent appeal to boost the continent's fish production and strengthen the contribution of fisheries to economic growth and food security. Experts and political leaders from 26 African countries are convening for the NEPAD-Fish for All ...Scientists show that tick-borne flaviviruses use a novel mechanism to evade host defenses
...thway, and then identifies some of the interacting partners in the cell and virus." Prior to this work, Dr. Bloom says, scientists knew only that NS5 helped tick-borne flaviviruses replicate. RML's Sonja Best, Ph.D., who spearheaded the Langat virus work, says the group will continue to study tick-borne flav...Redesigned protein accelerates blood clotting
...ors, activating the next in the chain. Factor VIII partners with factor IX to activate factor X, which creates a burst of thrombin, which in turn generates fibrin, the sticky protein strands that form a web-like clot over damaged tissue. Calcium, a metallic element, must be present for factor VIII to work. Fa...Scientists turn tobacco against cancer
...ce. The Jefferson scientists are seeking industry partners to begin mass production of the antibody. The next step in the work, Dr. Koprowski notes, would be to conduct a phase 1 clinical trial of the monoclonal antibody in colorectal cancer patients. In the meantime, they are studying the effectiveness of m...Researchers develop new method for facile identification of proteins in bacterial cells
...d Dr. Halden. Johns Hopkins University is seeking partners who would like to license this patent-pending methodology. Inquiries may be directed to Deborah Alper at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health at dalper@jhsph.edu or 443-287-0402. "Identification and Phenotypic Characterization of Sphi......will investigate the role of Wnt and its signaling partners in arthritic joint destruction. Further delineation of the Wnt signaling pathway in arthritic progression may provide future therapies for the growing number of arthritis suffers. According to The National Center for Health Statistics, over 42 milli...Fungus-farming termites descend from an African rain forest Eve
...i in a mutualistic symbiosis has thus allowed both partners to conquer the savannah: agricultural termites and their mutualistic fungi are both more successful in this habitat than each of their non-agricultural sister groups, which thrive in the rain forest. Interestingly, those results have some parallels ...New Finding May Aid Adult Stem Cell Collection
...d diseases (STDs) requires treatment of the sexual partners of infected patients. A new study shows that providing infected men with antibiotics to give their partners is more effective than traditional means of contacting and treating the partners, according to an ar...Measurement Challenges In Detecting Cancer Biomarkers
...d diseases (STDs) requires treatment of the sexual partners of infected patients. A new study shows that providing infected men with antibiotics to give their partners is more effective than traditional means of contacting and treating the partners, according to an ar...New study: Sexually transmitted disease treatment can be effectively administered by sex partners
...d diseases (STDs) requires treatment of the sexual partners of infected patients. A new study shows that providing infected men with antibiotics to give their partners is more effective than traditional means of contacting and treating the partners, according to an ar...Cancer related gene p53 not regulated as indicated by previous tissue culture research
...Kurt Krummel. "You have to look at all interacting partners because after all, modifications of p53 itself might not be so important as modifications of negative regulators and co-activators." Many chemotherapeutical drugs used to treat cancer exert their biological effects on tumor cells through activation ...Evidence of 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiosis discovered in marine fossils
...ao found three specimens that have evidence of two partners in a familiar relationship. "Enlargements of thin-section photomicrographs of the tiny specimens -- each of which was less than a millimeter in size -- show fossils of coccoidal or spherical cells surrounded by a net of fine filaments," Yuan said, de......the past several years by IRD scientists and their partners (1) to shed light on the virus's propagation paths...ng. Since 2001, IRD research scientists and their partners (1) have been working to unravel the virus's biological cycle, in other words the whole range of way...