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Warts vaccine -- 1 of many in pipeline

... "The new treatment has so far proven safe, and we want to know if it improves the outcome after conventional therapy, which all patients also receive," Dr Jardine said. Trial researchers aim to use a tweaked version of Professor Frazer’s cervical cancer vaccine to treat genital warts. Professor Fr...

Toxoplasmosis infection trick revealed by scientists

...invade host cells in the human body is vital if we want to fight these diseases effectively. "Now that we understand that it’s a key interaction between a protein on the parasite’s surface and sugars on the human cell which lead to the cell’s invasion, there is potential to develop therapeutics that a...

Sleepless for science: Flies show link between sleep, immune system in Stanford study

...two to four times as long as the sick ones. "We want to know how the internal clock knows the animal is infected, and how does the immune system know that you are not sleeping properly"" said Schneider. "How do those messages get sent back and forth"" Their findings also raise the question of why th...

Thymus transplants gives hope to babies with fatal immune disease

... are candidates for thymus transplantation. "We want people to know that when the diagnosis of complete DiGeorge anomaly is made, it is no longer a death sentence," said pediatric immunologist Louise Markert, M.D., Ph.D., who developed the procedure. "There is a treatment available -- thymus transplant...

Research says boiling broccoli ruins its anti-cancer properties

...r shredding. Professor Thornalley said: "If you want to get the maximum benefit from your five portions-a-day vegetable consumption, if you are cooking your vegetables boiling is out. You need to consider stir frying steaming or micro-waving them." ...

Herpes infection may be symbiotic, help beat back some bacteria

...ir results, researchers stressed that they did not want to minimize or in any way disregard the human suff...at has public health implications because we would want to very carefully weigh the risks and benefits of eliminating a virus that our bodies have establish...

Decoding protein structures helps illuminate cause of diabetes

...r, sometimes the motion is exactly what scientists want to see - for example, to understand the pathological protein mis-folding and assembly that seem to underlie a host of human disorders, including diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Now, chemists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed...

Growing nerve cells in 3-D dramatically affects gene expression

... new study, "so culture method is critical. If you want to better understand how the human body behaves or how new drugs might fight disease, 3-D may be a better bet." For more than 100 years, scientists have grown human cells in flat dishes. In these 2-D glass incubators, better known as petri dishes,...

Discovery of 'master switch' for the communication process between chloroplast and nuclei of plants

...etabolisms when faced with a lot of stress. If you want to generate a plant that is more tolerant, you need to deal with these two things." Added Koussevitzky: "We’re trying to put the signaling pathways in the context of the plant’s stress response. It will take a little more tweaking, but at least kno...

Deconstructing brain wiring, one neuron at a time

...at operates the computer." Neuroscientists also want to deconstruct the flow of electrical signals in the extraordinarily complex architecture of the brain and then correlate these neural circuits with such brain functions as perception and behavior. But these circuits are difficult to unravel because ...

Sandia researchers take new approach to studying how cells respond to pathogens

...state. This can only be done cell by cell. We also want to study populations, but one cell at a time." The research is possible because of advances in several Sandia-developed tools, including: Microfluidics that allows researchers to do single-cell experiments Advanced imaging that al...

Researchers learn what sparks plant growth

...o follow have much broader implications. "If we want to feed over nine billion people by the year 2050, then understanding the basic mechanics of plant growth is required," said Chory. "This knowledge will ultimately lead to our ability to increase yield, while decreasing the need for fertilizer and pe...

UCSD researchers discover variants of natural tumor suppressor

...en 'off' allows the driver to move. In cancer, we want the driver to brake, to prevent cell proliferation... diabetes, heart or neurological disease, where we want to promote cell growth and survival, we don't want to slow the driver down." The researchers have...

Bypassing eggs, flu vaccine grown in insect cells shows promise

...ays an easy matter to get the virus to grow as you want in eggs.? The use of cell culture systems to grow vaccines ?using viruses as tiny factories to churn out mass amounts of vaccines ?is a growing business. A similar technology using human cell lines is used to produce the hepatitis B vaccine, while ...

Study finds surfing safer than soccer

...or the insurance industry and for schools that may want to start a surfing team. "The information could also help to predict the needs of medical staff support at contests and aid in the design of safer surfboards and protective equipment such as helmets," Nathanson adds. To reduce the risk of inju...

Fighting influenza & co. with 40,000 blood samples

...light on this. Among other things, the researchers want to get a step closer to solving this riddle by exa...e a sufficient amount of effective antibodies. 'We want to know in particular whether this is the case with infectious diseases where the viruses were disco...

Nanotechnology meets biology and DNA finds its groove

...s, of "positioning the DNA molecule right where we want it to be. It is important that we can manipulate it with such fidelity." The system, says Schwartz, promises bench scientists a convenient and easy way to make large numbers of individual DNA molecules accessible for study. The ability to quickly ...

Protein fragments sequenced in 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex

...that when people make new discoveries now, if they want to get maximum information out, they have to immediately handle material in a way that first of all will avoid contamination and, second, ensure that whatever is there gets well preserved because it can be interrogated." The scraps of dinosaur pro...

New study sheds light on 'dark states' in DNA

...eedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We want to know, what makes DNA resist damage by UV light?" said Kohler. "In 2000, we showed that single DNA bases can dissipate UV energy in less than one picosecond. But now we know that there are other energy states that have relatively long lifetimes." ...

Vasectomy may put men at risk for type of dementia

... be confirmed in a larger population. "I don't want to scare anyone away from getting a vasectomy," Weintraub stressed. "It's obviously a major birth control alternative. This is just a correlational observation," she said of the dementia connection. "We need to do more research to find out." ...

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