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Duke Chemists Isolating Individual Molecules Of Toxic Protein In Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease

...mic force microscope (AFM) to capture, isolate and study single molecules, called monomers, that are the bu... and by Duke University. It has been difficult to study the chemistry of formation of these fibrils within the brains of humans and other animals, said Akhr...

MetaChip provides quick, efficient toxicity screening of potential drugs

...tute of Mental Health. More information about this study (HPTN 035) is available at www.hptn.org/index.htm. The protocol chair of the study is Salim Abdool Karim, MBChB, Ph.D., of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. ...

Plants defy Mendel's inheritance laws, may prompt textbook changes

...or cure diseases in both plants and animals." The study is published in the March 24 issue of the journal ...hinking. The other researchers involved with this study were Jennifer Victor, a former Purdue graduate student now at Butler University; and Jessica Young, ...

Scientists identify new model Of NK cell development

...pe in enhancing immune responses to cancer. "This study is fundamentally about understanding the immune sy... working with Aharon Freud, the lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate in Caligiuri's laboratory, had noted other work showing that mice lacking l...

The very unexpected life and death of a leukemic cell

...of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. This new study shows that leukemia cells are born at a fast rate and do indeed die. The slow rise in the cell count over time can be attributed to the difference between the birth and death rates of the cells, according to the study. The researchers at the Institu...

Study of genomic DNA leads to new advances in cancer diagnostics

...cterize melanomas of varying invasiveness. Further study will be required to determine the specificity and ...matrix chip (patent pending) that is being used to study drug-resistance mechanisms to develop new protocols and methods to treat cancer. Ultimately, the ce...

White blood cell waste disposal system plays critical regulatory role

A new research study identifies a critical inhibitory step that is a key component of the feedback circuit regulating the balance between neutrophil production and destruction. The research, published in the March issue of Immunity, suggests that the process for disposal...

Research Using Mouse Models Reveals A Novel Key Player In The Initiation Of Colon Cancer

...ty of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has headed a study that identifies another molecular player influencing the initiation of colon cancers. This study will be published in the February 1 issue of the journal Genes and Development. An animal model wit...

Agilent Technologies releases automated literature search tool for biology researchers

...d literature search tool for the multidisciplinary study of biological systems. The tool is available as a free plug-in to Cytoscape 2.1, an open-source bioinformatics platform that enables researchers to form a visual map of complex biological networks, increasing their understanding of molecular pathways...

New methods of gene delivery using lasers

...ly applicable the method proves to be.?/p> The study is part of a new interdisciplinary initiative fund...uorescent proteins produced by the ‘new?gene. The study is published today by Optics Express: http://www.opticsexpress.org ...

The Bacteria's guide to survival

... longer - through tiny tugs on cell membranes. The study examined gene activity in human epithelial cells infected with Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacteria responsible for the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea. By comparing cells infected with normal N. gonorrhoeae to those infected with a mutant str...

Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective

...V screening in the United States. The Yale/Harvard study used different data and methods than another study by VA, Duke and Stanford researchers, yet both teams reached roughly the same conclusions. "The pub...

RNA project to create language for scientists worldwide

...us on the sequences of RNA molecules, while others study their 3-dimensional structures. A major focus of the project will be to integrate the databases of RNA sequences and 3D structure. Leontis has experience in both areas. An affiliate of the BGSU Center for Biomolecular Sciences and the Northwest Ohio...

TEL2 gene cooperates with MYC gene to provoke B-cell lymphomas

...e the disease. It will also be very interesting to study the effect of drugs that block TEL2 activity, since such an approach might one day represent an effective treatment for leukemia patients." Other authors of the report include Ayten Kandilci, Cintia Carella, Jonas A. Nilsson, Jennifer A. Brennan, Ke...

Falling ants glide back to trunk to avoid dangers of forest floor

... UC Berkeley's Dudley to arrange a more scientific study of the ants' gliding behavior. They met up with Kaspari last summer in Panama for a week to videotape the same species of ant in freefall, with a white sheet standing in for the tree trunk. Yanoviak's earlier observations combined with the videotape...

UF Researchers Map Bacterial Proteins That Cause Tooth Loss

...r of oral biology at UF’s College of Dentistry and study investigator. The National Institute of Dental an...-weight, preterm babies. Proteins are important to study because they are the foundation of the cellular structure of every living organism, Lamont said. The...

UCSD team discovers specialized, rare heart stem cells in newborns

...l be cellular transplantation in living animals to study their role in endogenous repair after cardiac injury. ...

Love at first smell

... chemical responsible. The researchers found in a study of sticklebacks, that males with body odour that is particularly attractive to females produce small protein fragments (known as "peptides"). To prove this, the researchers produced a synthetic "perfume" containing a mixture of protein fragments. By...

Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

...based clinical materials and data, that we want to study in order to understand the importance of genetic factors for emergence and treatment of various diseases. The agreement enables us to perform these studies at an acceptable cost and we will also get access to new technology at an early stage. Our exp...

New Treatment Rivals Chemotherapy For Lymphoma, Study Finds

... tumors to shrink in 95 percent of patients, a new study by researchers at the University of Michigan Compr...ere disease-free after five years. Results of the study appear in the Feb. 3 New England Journal of Medicine. "The results of this treatment, which essenti...

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