Tag: "route" at biology news

Elusive HIV shape change revealed; Key clue to how virus infects cells

...ceptor. "Knowing how gp120 changes shape is a new route to inhibiting HIV ?by using compounds that inhibit...ic properties that differ and that might provide a route to new vaccine or drug strategies," Harrison says. ...

Open microfluidic and nanofluidic systems

...or such microcompartments and, thus, provide a new route towards open microfluidic and nanofluidic systems. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, the Max Planck Institute of Dynamics and Selforganization and the University of California in Santa Barbara have shown that such o...

Marine sponge yields nanoscale secrets

...ent a low temperature, biotechnological, catalytic route to the nanostructural fabrication of valuable materials. Nature produces silica on a scale of gigatons –?thousands of millions of tons –?thousands-fold more than man can produce, said Morse. "This biosynthesis is remarkable because this nanoscale pre...

Study reveals dramatic difference between breast cancers in US and Africa

...n annual mammogram beginning at 50 is not the best route to early detection in African women, who get the disease and die from it in their 40s, and it also needs to be adjusted in African Americans and high-risk women in all racial/ethnic groups." Olopade is one of four principal investigators in a large-...

Prescription Drug Patches Gaining Ground, Tackling New Therapies

Created as an alternate route of drug administration to improve patient compliance and reduce drug side effects, prescription skin patches are rapidly becoming an important healthcare product category. While quietly gaining market share for the treatment of chronic conditions suc...

Comprehensive biodefense text published

...fever, and discuss what is known about the aerosol route of infection and the process of decontamination. Contained in the 25 chapters is an extensive discussion of preparation and military support for possible acts of bioterrorism, medical count ermeasures, emerging threats and future preparation, and d...

TrueBlue Archive Will Store Raw Life Sciences Data for Proteomics and Drug Testing

...fever, and discuss what is known about the aerosol route of infection and the process of decontamination. Contained in the 25 chapters is an extensive discussion of preparation and military support for possible acts of bioterrorism, medical count ermeasures, emerging threats and future preparation, and d...

Function of new cancer genes discovered

...this research is that inhibition of the NF-kappa B route in cylindromatosis patients could be an adequate f...eatment. Aspirin is a well-known inhibitor of this route and a clinical study into the effectiveness of aspirin ointment in the treatment of cylindromatosis ...

Human embryonic stem cells have the potential to develop into eggs and sperm in the laboratory

...ges. For some men and women this would be the only route for producing sperm and eggs. It would not be reproductive cloning as fertilisation would involve only one set of gametes produced in this way and therefore a unique embryo would form. "In addition, if we could produce eggs from HESCs they could als...

Researchers devise new technique for creating human stem cells

...eir colleagues decided to pursue their alternative route after other researchers had shown that genetic reprogramming can occur when mouse somatic cells are fused to mouse embryonic stem cells. The scientists knew that if their studies were successful, it would provide the research community with a new opt...

Nose odors and mouth odors: The brain distinguishes

... or considered the possibility that the effects of route of stimulation depend on the way that odors are ty...y orthonasally. Therefore, it is possible that the route of stimulation may have different effects for food versus nonfood odors." In their experiments, the...

Researcher at UGA College of Veterinary Medicine identifies new way of combating viral diseases

...y, they probably would not be able to find another route out of the cell. This suggests that Rab9 and other components of this exit pathway might be attractive targets for antiviral therapies for a variety of viruses. Blocking Rab9 may have significant side effects, but there are people who live without R...

Bone marrow stem cells may heal hearts even years after heart attacks

...et more research is required to identify the ideal route of implantation, and the type of cell transplantation that is most efficient for regenerating damaged myocardium." Roberto Bolli, M.D., F.A.C.C., from the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, who co-authored an editorial appearing in th...

Displaced songbirds navigate in the high Arctic

...ted by a Canadian icebreaker along a northeasterly route to nine sites on the tundra, among them the magnetic North Pole (located on Ellef Ringnes Island). The researchers then recorded the birds' directional orientation in cage experiments. The scientists found that both adult and juvenile birds abruptl...

University of Delaware researchers develop cancer 'nanobomb'

...ems, Panchapakesan said. Furthermore, the nanobomb route is probably the only way to use nanotubes without any cytotoxicity as the nanotubes are destroyed completely. Current surgical techniques are not precise and cancerous cells are often left behind. In addition, cancers in some part of the body, suc...

Male elephants woo females with precise chemistry

...use the study's results to "tease apart the entire route of how pheromones move" from the source elephant t...y already have been studying the other end of that route - the proteins in the elephants' olfactory systems that receive the signals sent by the source. "W...

Polymer gel can block toxic leakage problem in gene therapy

...s 10 to 90 minutes, long enough to clog the escape route for large numbers of viruses so those will link up with and infect tumor cells instead, Yuan said. The Duke team found the polymer-virus mixture "could reduce virus dissemination by two orders of magnitude (100 times) and significantly increase tran...

Free-energy theory borne out in large-scale protein folding

...ding roadmap of sorts, a plot of the thermodynamic route that the protein follows as it moves toward equili...nd a host of other diseases, so mapping the normal route a protein takes - and finding the off-ramps that might lead to misfolding ?are vitally important," W...

Scientists sequence DNA of woolly mammoth

...rom plant, animal, and man that can illuminate the route evolution took on its way from the past to the present, and that can perhaps clarify the role environmental changes did play in the extinction of an entire species. Initial funding for this study was provided by McMaster University, The Natural Scie...

Olfactory system detects pheromones that control reproduction

...rimary olfactory complex," said Dulac. "This major route was never suspected. In addition, we were quite surprised when we realized we could not identify any connections with the vomeronasal system, which led us to attempt to confirm the experiment on a wide range of mice," she said. As a control, the res...

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