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'Protecting virus' offers instant flu protection and converts flu infections into their own vaccines

...industry and in domestic horses. It also has very recently become a problem in domestic dogs in the USA and domestic cats are susceptible to H5N1 virus. The Warwick research team has now filed a patent on the protecting virus and they are exploring ways of taking 'protecting virus' through human clinical t...

Tiny Tampa Bay fish key to evolution of immune system

...sity of South Florida, who reported their findings recently in Nature Immunology. "At a basic level, this sea worm tells us about the evolution of the immune response; specifically, it tells us that primitive organisms have more sophisticated immune systems than we previously thought," said X-ray crystallogr...

A valuable fly for research into disease

...ormation. Heart disease is another topic that has recently been added to the list of diseases studied using Drosophila. Rolf Bodmer, from The Burnham Institute in the US, has begun to use this model to study arrhythmias and heart failure. His presentation "Arrhythmias and cardiac failure: the Drosophila mode...

New bird discovered on unexplored Columbian mountain

A new bird to science was recently discovered on an unexplored mountain range in nort...n government and a large forest nature reserve was recently established in the region by Fundación ProAves, Colombia's bird conservation NGO. "The descripti...

The subtleties of tropical forest demise

...eats to tropical forests: (1) Those that have only recently appeared, such as the virulent chytrid-fungus pathogen that is decimating rainforest amphibians throughout the tropical world. (2) Those that are growing rapidly in importance, such as destructive surface fires in tropical forests. (3) Those that are...

LSD treatment for alcoholism gets new look

... the researchers' published and private papers and recently interviewed some of the patients involved in the o...ers in the U.S., including a team at Harvard, have recently been granted permission to conduct experiments with LSD. "We accept all sorts of drugs, but I thi...

'GreeneChip' -- New diagnostic tool that rapidly and accurately identifies multiple pathogens

...alaria). Chart review showed that the patient had recently arrived in Angola from a country where malaria was...la viral hemorrhagic fever in two children who had recently returned to New York City from West Africa resulted in closing a hospital emergency room. For examp...

Nature's process for nitrogen fixation caught in action

...he enzyme nitrogenase, follows the same pathway as recently reported chemical methods. Their research method resulted in the ability to witness steps in the biological process that enables some microorganisms to convert atmospheric nitrogen to nutrients. The research is reported in the Proceedings of the N...

Study shows antibiotic-resistant bacteria responsible for increase in muscle infections

...A began to strike healthy people who have not been recently hospitalized or undergone invasive medical procedures. These community-acquired strains appear to be readily transmitted from person to person and can cause serious skin and soft tissue infections as well as invasive infections such as bone or joint ...

Researchers to develop active nanoscale surfaces for biological separations

...bjects on a conveyor belt. Kane and his colleagues recently discovered that the mobility of DNA molecules is closely coupled to the movement of the underlying lipid bilayer. "The advantage of these surfaces is that they can be actively modified," Kane said. "Thus by changing the temperature, shining light,...

Archerfish tune their shots to universal properties of prey adhesion

...lution of archerfish behavior in accordance with a recently discovered scaling law: Among animals such as flies and lizards, an animal's adhesive force--its natural tendency to stick to a surface--is closely proportional to the animal's size. The researchers showed that for any given size of prey, the arc...

First major study of mammalian 'disorderly' proteins

...f flexible proteins for many years, they have only recently realized that these molecules play major biological roles in the cell, according to Richard Kriwacki, Ph.D., an associate member of the St. Jude Department of Structural Biology. Moreover, he said, previous work by other researchers suggested that a ...

Sea urchin genome suprisingly similar to man and may hold key to cures

...t of the Sea Urchin Genome Sequencing Group, which recently completed sequencing of the sea urchin genome and published its findings in the November issue of Science. The National Institutes of Health funded most of the nine-month project. The genome of the purple sea urchin is composed by 814 "letters" co...

Rescuing injured hearts by enhancing regeneration

...be released slowly over time. Engel and colleagues recently reported another compound that stimulates cardiomyocyte proliferation (Chemistry and Biology, Sept. 2006), and others are under investigation. "In the end, we'd like a treatment that could be given systemically," Engel says. ...

New sunscreen ingredient to heal sunburn and help prevent skin cancer

...cer each year in the UK. Cancer Research UK has recently launched the SunSmart - the UK's national skin cancer prevention campaign. It is advising people to follow the smart advice: Spend time in the shade between 11am and 3pm Make sure you never burn Aim to cover up with a t-shirt, hat and sunglas...

From hot springs to rice farms, scientists reveal new insights into the secret lives of archaea

...report on the discovery of novel organic compounds recently extracted from the lipids of contemporary archaea....0 feet. In Iceland, Schleper and her colleagues recently identified the first ammonia-oxidizing extremophiles-a group of Crenarchaeota that inhabit several a...

'Best of both worlds' -- Targeting a single gene could inhibit bone decay and stimulate bone growth

...ons of seniors with osteoporosis." Dr. Choi was recently named the 2006 winner of Korea’s prestigious Ho-Am Prize for his work in osteoimmunology. The award recognizes scholars and researchers who make outstanding achievements by international standards while encouraging future activities of even higher le...

End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources

...d Viet Nam. Taken as a whole, the Asian continent recently experienced forest transition, having lost 792,000 hectares of forest between 1990 and 2000 but gaining just over 1 million hectares between 2000 and 2005. The authors foresee still more nations achieving forest transitions within three decades. ...

Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita

...bility occurred over evolutionary time rather than recently owing to human-caused mortality. Instead of those factors, the “smoking gun?in this instance is accidental mortality in fishing gear, something popularly known as “bycatch? Large-, medium- and small-mesh gillnets set for fish and shrimp entangle a...

From managing sugar to managing healing

...rchers at the University of California, Riverside, recently found that applying insulin directly to skin wounds significantly enhanced the healing process. Skin wounds in rats treated topically with insulin healed faster"surface cells in the epidermis covered the wound more quickly and cells in the dermis, t...

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