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New technique may speed DNA analysis

... understand genetic illnesses such as Alzheimer's, viral illnesses such as AIDS, and certain types of cancer. The ability to mass produce these complex devices would make DNA analysis as common and inexpensive as blood testing, and thus greatly accelerate efforts to discover the origins of disease. The d...

New technique helps identify multiple DNA regulatory sites

... understand genetic illnesses such as Alzheimer's, viral illnesses such as AIDS, and certain types of cancer. The ability to mass produce these complex devices would make DNA analysis as common and inexpensive as blood testing, and thus greatly accelerate efforts to discover the origins of disease. The d...

New tools used to control foodborne hepatitis A outbreaks related to green onions

...standard techniques, the researchers also compared viral RNA sequences from case patients and individuals c...ine), were slightly different from each other. The viral sequence from each outbreak, however, was identical to one or more sequences isolated from northern ...

Use of Antibiotics for Acne May Increase Risk of Common Illness

...standard techniques, the researchers also compared viral RNA sequences from case patients and individuals c...ine), were slightly different from each other. The viral sequence from each outbreak, however, was identical to one or more sequences isolated from northern ...

Large-scale Computer Simulations Reveal New Insights Into Antibiotic Resistance

...standard techniques, the researchers also compared viral RNA sequences from case patients and individuals c...ine), were slightly different from each other. The viral sequence from each outbreak, however, was identical to one or more sequences isolated from northern ...

Disrupting Cocaine-memories To Battle Addiction

...standard techniques, the researchers also compared viral RNA sequences from case patients and individuals c...ine), were slightly different from each other. The viral sequence from each outbreak, however, was identical to one or more sequences isolated from northern ...

No small feat: First ever gene therapy success for muscular dystrophy achieved

...ssible for researchers to get it to squeeze inside viral vectors ?disarmed viruses that are used to shuttle genes into cells. But the team found a good stand-in in a similar protein called agrin that when miniaturized could be inserted inside an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector. Dr. Xiao's laboratory is...

Scientists use gene transfer technology and common virus to block neuropathic pain in animals

...ul use of gene transfer technology, using a herpes viral vector, to treat peripheral neuropathic pain in an...r of the study. “Since the vector lacks essential viral genes for replication, it remains in the nucleus expressing the GAD enzyme, which triggers nerve ter...

New study shows SARS can infect brain tissue

... attracting immunological cells to the site of the viral infection in the brain, where their inflammatory effects may have done more harm than good. There are a few possibilities for curbing Mig's possible role in causing brain damage in SARS patients with central nervous system infection, according to l...

How HIV disables the cells' call for help

...stem cells that are meant to protect the body from viral infection. But how does it prevent these cells fro...e), a segment of the HIV protein gp41 found on the viral envelop. FP was known to play a role in the complex process in which the viral envelop fuses with th...

Virus uses tiny RNA to evade the immune system

...al fellow in Ganem's lab, started their search for viral microRNAs with a small virus, known as SV40, in th... it produces T antigen, which functions to trigger viral DNA replication. Unfortunately for the virus, T antigen also serves as a target for immune (T) cells...

Learning how SARS spikes its quarry

... fragment of the spike protein that is involved in viral attachment. As a result of those studies, resear...'s ability to infect humans. Such mutations enable viral transmission by altering the shape of the spike protein, which affects how well it binds to the ACE2...

UCLA scientists reveal how Nipah virus infects cells

...now can screen for small molecules that will block viral entry via Ephrin B-2 and develop them as therapeutic drugs," said Lee. "Because pigs are particularly susceptible to Nipah infection, public health officials could use these drugs to protect the animals, pig farmers and first-line responders, like pa...

LIAI scientists make major finding on potential smallpox treatment

...f Virology. LIAI scientist Shane Crotty, Ph.D., a viral disease expert, led the team of LIAI scientists which made the finding. Dr. D. Huw Davies and Dr. Phil Felgner of the University of California, Irvine Center for Vaccine Research were also major contributors. Dr. Crotty and his team have discovered...

Scientists use gene transfer technology and common virus to block neuropathic pain

...ul use of gene transfer technology, using a herpes viral vector, to treat peripheral neuropathic pain in an...r of the study. "Since the vector lacks essential viral genes for replication, it remains in the nucleus expressing the GAD enzyme, which triggers nerve ter...

New NIAID grants strengthen national biodefense and emerging infectious diseases research network

...rs have expertise in equine encephalitis and other viral diseases that can be transmitted to people by mosquitoes. The centers also add expertise in hantaviruses, as well as in the development of diagnostics and animal models of disease. Each consortium within the network will * support investigator-...

Researchers develop new testing methods for potential monkeypox or smallpox outbreak

...x vaccinations failed to show any outward signs of viral infection and had no noticeable disease symptoms. The researchers found this particularly interesting because this virulent strain of monkeypox virus resulted in numerous hospitalizations. In one case that has been previously reported, a child remain...

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

Four seemingly unrelated viral diseases may some day be defeated by a single trea...his colleagues hope to identify new ways to combat viral diseases. The researchers identified a cellular protein called Rab9 ?a factor required for viruses ...

UW scientists report a new method to speed bird flu vaccine production

...ng the number of plasmid vectors required to ferry viral genes into the monkey kidney cells used to produce...duces the number of plasmids required to introduce viral genes into the monkey kidney cell lines used to mass produce the deactivated virus for use in vaccin...

Stolen gene allows insect virus to enter cells

...ng baculoviruses also yields insights into general viral behavior. The current study examined how baculovir...nd infect it. Scientists had shown that some other viral genes were probably copied from host cells, but the origin of so-called fusion proteins, like F, has...

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