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US control strategies may make flu epidemics worse, UCLA study shows

...e in a vaccination program. The model Blower's team developed is inspired by game theory, used in economics to predict how non-communicating, selfish individuals reach a collective behavior with respect to a common dilemma by adapting to what they think are other people's decisions. The group modeled ...

Master regulatory gene of epithelial stem cells identified

...maintenance of stem cells, McKeon and his research team then used the epithelial stem cell cloning methods developed by Howard Green, MD, the George Higginson professor of cell biology at HMS, to show that p63’s key function was to provide the enhanced potential of stem cells to divide. "The fact tha...

Maggots rid patients of MRSA

...rs with maggots. Professor Andrew Boulton and his team used green bottle fly larvae to treat 13 diabetic ... application. In their second study, he and his team will compare larval treatment with antibacterial silver dressings and the biogun treatment, which us...

First clinical trial of gene therapy for childhood blindness

...tion of gene therapy vectors to human retinas, the team have carried out extensive pre-clinical testing. T...ffective the new intervention is in humans. The team conducting the trial, from UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital, is led by Pro...

8 plants from South Africa may hold potential for treating high blood pressure

...urported benefits of many plants is still scant. A team of researchers has now examined the effectiveness of 16 plants growing in the country's Kwa-Zulu Natal region and concluded that eight plant extracts may hold value for treating high blood pressure (hypertension). The study, entitled ACE Inhibitor...

Brain's white matter -- More 'talkative' than once thought

...ous way in this area of the brain, Bergles and his team studied nearby nerve cells to figure out where the...les speculates that this white matter activity his team discovered may help “naked?nerve cells signal nearby OPCs and say “cover me with myelin because we n...

Anthrax paralyzes immune cells with lethal toxin, UF research shows

...s. The finding almost escaped Southwick's research team as well, which was looking for proteins that inter...ng a needle in a haystack," Southwick said. The team compared before and after snapshots of neutrophils exposed to a purified form of the toxin, as well ...

Students invent protective pouch to enhance cell therapy

...n-producing cells inside a major blood vessel. A team of five seniors and two freshmen, working with Joh...be injected and withdrawn. Link said he and his team members appreciated the chance to solve a real-world engineering challenge while drawing on the expe...

Fat screen delivers plant-derived chemical with antidiabetic effects

...l and medicinal preparations around the world, the team reports in the May issue of the journal Cell Metab...nd improves glucose tolerance in vivo," Tontonoz's team concluded. The biological activities of harmine and TZDs underscore the fact that links between fat ...

Egyptians, not Greeks were true fathers of medicine

...not with Hippocrates and the Greeks. The research team from the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology at T...esins and metals known to be antimicrobial. The team also discovered prescriptions for laxatives of castor oil and colocynth and bulk laxatives of figs a...

Diminishing dinosaur steps saved by laser and laptop

...ed for the first time." It took four days for a team from the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environm...fic interest. Dr Manning was part of the UNESCO team who initially evaluated the trackway localities in Northern Spain, as part of a pending Iberian Peni...

DNA repair proteins monitored at double-strand break

...ng ATM and NBS1 blocks this important process. The team also showed that both NBS1 and ATM are needed to e...me moves into the nucleus and cleaves the DNA. The team then used a biochemical technique called chromatin immunoprecipitation to collect and identify repai...

LIAI scientists make important finding on cytomegalovirus transmission

...e said. In the study, Croft said the research team used an antibody to block the action of the IL-10 ...the animals. The findings of the Ware and Croft team parallel those of LIAI researcher Matthias von Herrath, M.D., who last year announced that he had su...

Toxoplasmosis infection trick revealed by scientists

...ell. Using a novel carbohydrate microarray the team were able to identify the precise sugars to which the parasite protein binds. Following this the team used a combination of NMR spectroscopy and cellular studies to characterise the behaviour and intera...

The longest carbon nanotubes you've ever seen

...rd. More important for manufacturing, the research team grew a 12-millimeters-thick, uniform carpet of aligned carbon nanotubes on a roughly 10-centimeter silicon substrate, opening the door for scaling-up the process. The inventions were presented in April 2007 at the Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Nucle...

Researchers publish first marsupial genome sequence

...hed in the May 10 issue of the journal Nature, the team found that most innovations leading to the human genome sequence lie not in protein-coding genes, but in areas that until recently were referred to as "junk" DNA. The effort to generate the high-quality genome sequence of the gray short-tailed, Sou...

Confirmed -- deforestation plays critical climate change role

...y of its kind, Dr Canadell joined an international team of experts from the US, UK, Brazil and France to compare data from 11 climate-carbon computer models. The results show that tropical forests continue to accumulate carbon through to the end of the century, although they may become less efficient at h...

Researchers attach genes to minichromosomes in maize

A team of scientists at the University of Missouri-Columbia has discovered a way to create engineered minichromosomes in maize and attach genes to those minichromosomes. This discovery opens new possibilities for the development of crops that are multiply r...

Palau's coral reefs show differential habitat recovery following the 1998 bleaching event

...e local management, according to new research by a team of scientists recording the long-term recovery of ...derwater digital video cameras, van Woesik and his team examined the rate of coral recovery at 13 different sites, and found that recovery rates increased o...

Thymus transplants gives hope to babies with fatal immune disease

...tems rebuild," Markert said. "We have a remarkable team that takes care of these children in tightly controlled conditions during this important early period." Typically, children remain in the hospital for two to three months after transplantation as physicians work to keep infections at bay as the ch...

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