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ConocoPhillips establishes $22.5M biofuels research program at Iowa State

...e research program will involve 10 faculty members plus graduate students in the first year with additional researchers added in subsequent years. He noted that ConocoPhillips turned to Iowa State as a research partner, in part, because of Iowa State's expertise in a wide range of biorenewable technologie...

Study finds antibiotic resistance in poultry even when antibiotics were not used

...an in the United States, but Lee said her research plus the evidence from the Baytril ban suggests that approach won't help. "They banned Baytril in 2005, and if you look at Baytril resistance in campylobacter now it's essentially unchanged," Lee said. In previous studies, Lee has tried to recreate...

Leeches ferry infection among newts

...on prevalence and numbers of bloodsucking leeches, plus the finding that the infection is more likely to appear on commonly bitten body parts, suggested that leeches were the most likely vehicle transferring the disease. Further work showed that new infections generally begin at sites recently bitten by ...

Cow protein aids in treatment of gastrointestinal disorder

...more patients treated with the traditional therapy plus lactoferrin than with the existing treatments and may be used without risk of resistance. “Various studies are under way to evaluate new antibiotics and different therapeutic methods to increase the efficacy of H. pylori therapy,?says lead author ...

Dealing deadly cancers a knockout punch

...ors examined the tumor-killing ability of reovirus plus cisplatin, a standard chemotherapy agent, in a mou...Arizona conference reported on the use of Reolysin plus the cancer drug cyclophosphamide in an animal model of melanoma. When treated with both agents, test...

Surprising origin of cell's internal highways

...y found that proteins normally associated with the plus ends of microtubules, called CLASPs, localize to a specific compartment of the Golgi (the Trans Golgi Network) and stabilize the microtubule "seeds" at the Golgi. Golgi-originating microtubules could also be an important factor influencing how ca...

Clot-dissolving agent may be beneficial in treatment of severe frostbite

...treated from 1995 to 2006 who did not receive tPA, plus one who received tPA more than 24 hours after injury. Among the six patients who received tPA within 24 hours of injury, six of 59 (10 percent) affected fingers or toes were amputated, compared with 97 of 234 (41 percent) among those who did not r...

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