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W.M. Keck Foundation funds study of friendly microbes

...tacles in emerging fields in science so that rapid progress can subsequently be made," Gordon says. "Their support of our studies of the genomic and metabolic foundations of mutually beneficial (symbiotic) relationships between microbes and humans will allow light to be shed on this previously mysterious inte...

Fox Chase Cancer Center scientists identify immune-system mutation

...tions, Kappes said. This understanding can further progress against various immune disorders, allergies and certain cancers, such as those of the blood and bone marrow, that involve a compromised immune system. "As one example, a decrease in the number of CD4 T cells is the primary mechanism by which HIV cau...

A much-needed shot in the arm for HIV vaccine development

...ite the plan'sauthors, but fortunately "scientific progress has created newopportunities that could be harness...i. "By workingtogether, we will greatly accelerate progress toward the critical goalof developing a safe and effective HIV vaccine to help curb the globalHIV/AI...

Mouse brain tumors mimic those in human genetic disorder

...ildren younger than 5 years old and usually do not progress after age10. A similar pattern occurred in the mice: The optic nerve and chiasmwere enlarged and astrocytes along the optic pathway began multiplyingand growing when the animals were around three weeks old, developinginto optic pathway gliomas by two...

Needling Chromosomes Reveals Cell Division Secret

...y, Leocadia Paliulis andBruce Nicklas report their progress in understanding how the pairs ofchromosomes in each cell manage to balance their adhesion to oneanother and their release during cell division. Their work wassponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Chromosomes are thetiny fiber structures in...

Development of portable infectious disease detector

...nd director of VIIBRE. "We are already makingrapid progress on prototyping portable instruments for clinicaldiagnosis and biodefense.""Today the treatment for AIDS is very expensive and there is always aquestion about when to start and stop anti-retroviral therapy," saysPria's Chief Technology Officer Jason P...

Research Gives Hope For Liver Damage

...ave not been wellunderstood, and this has hindered progress in finding ways to preventand repair liver damage. Now that we have shown how the macrophageswork, we aim to find out how to create, activate and de-activate thesecells to make them repair, rather than damage, liver tissue."He added: "Cirrhosis, comm...

NYC's First Rapid HIV Drug-resistant AIDS Case Prompts Call to Step Up HIV Prevention

...ken up to ten years for an untreated individual to progress from HIV infection to an AIDS defining illness and diagnosis. "It appears this individual has contracted a new, particularly virulent strain of HIV that swiftly advanced to AIDS in just a few short months," said Charles Farthing, MD, AIDS Healthcare...

Tiny scaffolding allows stem cells to become working fat cells

...ngineering at Ohio State University, reported this progress in the current issue of the journal Tissue Engineering. "There is a serious shortage of transplantable organs available for thousands of patients nationally," Kniss said. "One ultimate goal of this work might be creating new tissue that could serve ...

RNA project to create language for scientists worldwide

... of RNA scientists. Members will also report their progress at the annual RNA Society meetings and receive feedback from the wider community of researchers. The ontology team will identify all RNA motifs, or repeated patterns, mentioned in the literature or appearing in databases, to agree upon and write a d...

Measuring the impact of post-genomics on Mediterranean populations

...workshop highlighted not only the impact of recent progress in genomics on human health in developing countries, but also identified the ethical, social and legal issues (including intellectual property rights, IPR) underpinning this important scientific development. Samir Brahmachari of India’s Institute of ...

Genrate: a generative model that finds and scores new genes and exons in genomic microarray data

Abstract : Recently, researchers have made some progress in using microarrays to validate predicted exons in genome sequence and find new gene structures. However, current methods rely on separately making threshold-based decisions on intensity of expression, similarity of expression profiles, and arrangem...

NIH Calls on Scientists to Speed Public Release of Research Publications

...provide advice on implementation issues and assess progress in meeting the new policy's stated goals. Additional information on the new policy and related documents, including a "Questions and Answers" fact sheet, can be found at: http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/index.htm. ...

New lab technique identifies high levels of pathogens in therapy pool

...ge and diversity of microbial life. "Public health progress has fallen in recent years, in part because of a shift in the nation's priorities toward bio-weapons research that diverts valuable money and resources away from very basic and important issues." Higher winter levels of airborne pathogens in such en...

Disease diagnosis, biodefense among UH chemical research projects

...tose binding protein." His group's poster presents progress toward better understanding of the chemical and physical driving forces of carbohydrate-protein interactions that are important in biological systems. # Roman S. Czernuszewicz, associate professor of chemistry, will present research on "Resonance Ra...

Infants With Rare Genetic Disease Saved by Cord Blood Stem Cells

...essence in treating these children before symptoms progress and become irreversible," said Kurtzberg, director of Duke's Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program. "Delaying the transplant even a week or two can make a noticeable difference in a child's motor skills, so timely diagnosis and treatment is e...

Study reveals new technique for fingerprinting environmental samples

...reveal environments under stress as well as signal progress in remediating contaminated environments. This may well develop environmental ecology into a fully quantitative science." Dubbed Environmental Genomic Tags, or EGTs, these indicators capture a DNA profile of a particular niche and reflect the presen...

Putting ecology back into river restoration

...ccess in restoration. Standards are needed because progress in the science and practice of river restoration has been hampered by the lack of agreed upon criteria for judging ecological success." The debate is timely given the many waterfront regeneration projects under way worldwide. But, Palmer argues, man...

Infants with Rare Genetic Disease Saved By Cord Blood Stem Cells

...essence in treating these children before symptoms progress and become irreversible," said Kurtzberg, director of Duke's Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program. "Delaying the transplant even a week or two can make a noticeable difference in a child's motor skills, so timely diagnosis and treatment is e...

Two chemicals boost immune cells' ability to fight HIV without gene therapy

...a role. "I'm really excited by our findings. This progress moves us one step closer to drugs that work by switching telomerase on permanently and keeping the immune cells young and strong in their fight against infection," said Effros. "These therapies are also easier to develop than gene-therapy drugs." Th...

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