Drug That 'Tags' Decision-making Areas Of The Brain May Aid
...e drug’seffectiveness, Mukherjee believes the drug will have implications forother conditions, as well. Studyresults appear in the January issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.“Nifrolidine is suited to provide reliable, quantitative information ofthese receptors and may therefore be very useful for f...Elusive HIV shape change revealed; Key clue to how virus infects cells
.... 24 issue of the journal Nature, offer clues that will help guide vaccine and treatment approaches. Rese...n their development into drugs. "The findings also will help us understand why it's so hard to make an HIV vaccine, and will help us start strategizing abou...Mouse brain cells rapidly recover after Alzheimer's plaques are cleared
...e but also somehow actively maintain it.The study, will appear in the Feb. 5 issue of the Journal of Clini...research is needed to determine if similar effects will occur inhumans. Abeta antibodies are currently being considered for use inAlzheimer's patients in cl...Genome of deadly amoeba shows surprising complexity, evidence of lateral gene transfer
...l-like genes through lateral transfer. "This study will provoke interest in what secrets may lie undiscove...medical scientists say the E. histolytica sequence will help researchers develop new tools to predict which of the millions of people who ingest amoeba cyst...Key molecule in plant photo-protection identified
...e but also somehow actively maintain it.The study, will appear in the Feb. 5 issue of the Journal of Clini...research is needed to determine if similar effects will occur inhumans. Abeta antibodies are currently being considered for use inAlzheimer's patients in cl...Timing is everything: First step in protein building revealed
... in the right place along a gene's instructions,it will make the wrong protein, which can kill the cell or lead todisease."The ribosome is the end stage of gene expression, and gene expressionkeeps us alive and causes disease," says Lorsch. "If we can betterunderstand how the ribosome works, perhaps we ca...Tiny particles could solve billion-dollar problem
...s at Rice and the Georgia Institute of Technology, will appear next month in the journal Environmental Sci...CE, and the next step is engineering a system that will allow us to get at the polluted groundwater," said Joe Hughes, professor of civil and environmental ...UW's Rosetta software to unlock secrets of many human proteins
...ington TechTransferrecently licensed software that will give scientists a huge advantagein the fight again...s of volunteers aroundthe world, he said, the task will be completed in less than a year.IBM's World Community Grid, which was built using grid technologyde...Plants, animals share molecular growth mechanisms
...olecular tools Szymanski's research team developed will help scientists learn more about these functions in both plants and animals. The other researchers on this study were Dipanwita Basu and Salah El-Din El-Essal, research assistants; postdoctoral students Jie Le, Chunhua Zhang and Gregore Koliantz; Ei...Researchers find how protein allows insects to detect and respond to pheromones
...ington TechTransferrecently licensed software that will give scientists a huge advantagein the fight again...s of volunteers aroundthe world, he said, the task will be completed in less than a year.IBM's World Community Grid, which was built using grid technologyde...Recent breakthroughs in common adult leukemia highlighted in New England Journal of Medicine
...ein markers that can predict whether a CLL patient will follow the benign or aggressive course. Some markers are not yet available for clinical use, however according to the review, measurement of one protein marker called ZAP-70 is becoming more widely available. The authors note that ZAP-70 may actually...Scientists Replicate Hepatitis C Virus in Laboratory
...tory. The ability to replicate HCV in cell culture will allow researchers to better study the life cycle and biology of this virus and to test potential antiviral compounds, which may lead to new therapies for the liver disease that results from infection with HCV. Scientists at the National Institute of ...Research advances quest for HIV-1 vaccine
...d it has been difficult to isolate antibodies that will recognize the many different strains of the virus. The antibody 4E10 was derived from HIV-1 infected patients by Dr. Hermann Katinger in Vienna and is the broadest acting neutralizing antibody against HIV-1 that is currently known. This antibody reco...Another Look Finds Promising Proteomics Test is Not Biologically Plausible
...own). The goal is to find a pattern of peaks that will distinguish between patients with cancer and those... in technology and a lack of standards, I think it will be a few years before we can know what works.?/p> The study was funded by the National Cancer In......own). The goal is to find a pattern of peaks that will distinguish between patients with cancer and those... in technology and a lack of standards, I think it will be a few years before we can know what works.?/p> The study was funded by the National Cancer In...Cracking the olfactory code in bees
...own). The goal is to find a pattern of peaks that will distinguish between patients with cancer and those... in technology and a lack of standards, I think it will be a few years before we can know what works.?/p> The study was funded by the National Cancer In...Study Demonstrates Gene Expression Microarrays are Comparable and Reproducible
...sults? If I redo the same experiment in one month, will I beable to compare both? The NIH recently demonst...lyfollowed,?said Jacobson. These promising results will allow this sameresearch group to proceed with a larger gene expression analysis of 600stage I lung a...Signaling protein builds bigger, better bones in mice
...own). The goal is to find a pattern of peaks that will distinguish between patients with cancer and those... in technology and a lack of standards, I think it will be a few years before we can know what works.?/p> The study was funded by the National Cancer In...Scientists detect probable genetic cause of some Parkinson's disease cases
... p.m. ET on January 17, 2004. Copiesof the studies will be made available to the media on January 17. Tore...history, it's possible thatdetecting this mutation will help identify people at increased risk forParkinson's disease."About 50,000 Americans are diagnosed ...Computers to be used to find blueprint for new influenza drug
...ssor Ian Williams, of the Department of Chemistry, will begin work in April on a project that could help p...tor, instead of the cells. The three-year project will be largely carried out by examining the behaviour of atoms of the influenza virus which attack cells...