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U of S Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization team discovers key step in flu virus replication

...er team have discovered how a crucial pathway that supports the influenza A virus's ability to reproduce itself is activated, a finding that could pave the way for new drugs and vaccines. The paper will appear in the January 2007 issue of the Journal of General Virology and recently has been given advance...

For Pacific white shrimp, gender matters when competing for food

...le, gender becomes more important." Moss says this supports the theory that female shrimp aren’t larger because they eat more food, but because they are more efficient at using what they get. Currently, over 50% of the world’s shrimp supply comes from farming. As the industry tries to meet the growing dem...

The first tree genome is published: Poplar holds promise as renewable bioenergy resource

...lly river in Washington State. The poplar project supports a broader DOE drive to accelerate research into biofuels production, under the Bush Administration's Advanced Energy Initiative. In August, the department announced it would spend $250 million over five years to establish and operate two new Bioener...

Microbe fixes nitrogen at a blistering 92 C

... analysis reported in the Dec. 15 issue of Science supports the notion that the gene needed to produce nitrogenase ?an enzyme capable of converting nitrogen gas, that's unusable by life, to a form like ammonia that is useable ?arose before the three main branches of life ?bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes ?div...

New dwarf buffalo discovered by chance in the Philippines

...l Southeast Asia." The discovery of B. cebuensis supports the hypothesis that the tamaraw evolved to a small...w and evolved into a smaller size than the tamaraw supports the hypothesis that the size of an island plays a role in island dwarfing: the smaller the island, t...

Proteins anchor memories in our brain

...an lead to an autoimmune disease." "The finding supports the promise of treatments targeting individual body proteins or antigens since we have shown that a single self-antigen can trigger disease," he added. A similar mechanism may be at play involving other autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, ...

Autoimmune disease triggered if T cells miss a single protein early on

...an lead to an autoimmune disease." "The finding supports the promise of treatments targeting individual body proteins or antigens since we have shown that a single self-antigen can trigger disease," he added. A similar mechanism may be at play involving other autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, ...

Study offers window into human behavior, brain disease

...e particularly abundant in humans, and the finding supports the concept that evolution has rendered the human brain vulnerable to disease, including frontotemporal dementia, and, possibly, disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, the researchers say. In addition, because the disease erodes aspects of so...

Protowings may have helped bird ancestors cover rough terrain

...nstrated in living juvenile birds. Their work thus supports a new theory about the evolution of flight in birds. WAIR, which the authors believe to be widespread in birds, appears to offer an answer to the question first posed by St. George Jackson Mivart in 1871: "What use is half a wing?" ...

Americans support free access to research

...research publicly available via the Internet. ATA supports this measure and provides information and materials related to the legislation at http://www.taxpayeraccess.org . ...

Control measures fail to stop spread of new H5N1 virus

...ransmissions from birds to humans in the past year supports this opinion, said Robert G. Webster, Ph.D., a co-author of the PNAS paper. Webster is a member of the Infectious Diseases department and holder of the Rose Marie Thomas Chair at St. Jude. Based on their study of vaccinated poultry the Hong Kong/S...

Clot-busting drug helps revive cardiac arrest patients

... eight doses of standard medications. "The study supports the use of fibrinolytic drugs in select cases of cardiac arrest where patients don't respond to standard therapy, and it reinforces the need for additional studies of this therapy," said Bozeman. Tenecteplase is approved by the Food and Drug Adminis...

A cleaner, greener rice industry

...ation of actions on environmental conservation. It supports ASEAN's commitment to achieve the goals of sustainable development envisaged in ASEAN Vision 2020 on the establishment of a "clean and green ASEAN." ASEAN Environment Year is celebrated every three years with the aim of promoting environmental aware...

Links between DNA damage and breast cancer studied

...ma. Genetic changes in this connective tissue that supports the breast's network of glands and ducts have been reported to precede the malignant conversion of tumor cells, but the actual role of stromal cells in the early stages of breast cancer initiation and progression is not well understood. In two rece...

Harmful Algal Blooms monitored from space in Chile

...edures. Also, historical environmental information supports our strategic decisions for farm site location. "To obtain the amount of information covered with the EO data, alternative methods will be of considerable higher cost. With in situ measurements you cannot produce a gradient map as obtained with EO ...

Ecosystem services and invasive species

...onvention Center The southern Cumberland Plateau supports some of the most biologically diverse ecosystems in North America, but much of the land is privately owned and not under any zoning growth restrictions. Deborah McGrath and Ken Smith (Sewanee - University of the South) and their students are studyi...

Microbes transform 'safest' PBDEs into more harmful compounds

..., including penta- and tetra-BDEs. This new study supports the notion that this process also could occur in the real world, raising concerns about the continued manufacture and use of deca-BDEs, Alvarez-Cohen says. In their study, Alvarez-Cohen and her colleagues exposed octa-BDE and deca-BDE to five types o...

Researchers find cause of frontotemporal dementia

...s to tumors. What it does in the brain, and how it supports brain cells, is not yet known. An unexpected turn The biological role of progranulin in the formation of FTD provides a totally new insight into how brain cells die off. Van Broeckhoven's team's research indicates that the quantity of progranuli...

Encoded metallic nanowires reveal bioweapons

...y are using silver and gold "striped" nanowires as supports for simultaneous immunological tests for various p...ticular advantage of nanowires over other antibody supports is that the tests do not take place at a surface but instead in a suspension, which makes them run m...

HIV infection requires an accomplice: B cells with special protein direct HIV to T cells

...ional AIDS Conference (AIDS 2006). "The research supports a new role for B cells in the development and spread of HIV between cells, with important implications for future studies and drug development efforts that focus on reservoirs of HIV in cells other than T cells," said Charles R. Rinaldo, Jr., Ph.D., ...

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