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Antibiotic Resistant Bacterium Uses Sonar-like Strategy to “See?Enemies or Prey

... of vision,?says Gilmore.“Secondly, this discovery will help us to develop new ways to treatinfections that are resistant to antibiotics, making them less severe.Based on an understanding of how this toxin system works, we hope todevelop toxin inhibitors,?says Gilmore.The third area of interest is current...

Researchers reveal the infectious impact of salmon farms on wild salmon

... of lice increases, we are now realizing that lice will attack other species, not only salmon, but other fish such as herring which are the spark plugs of the entire ecosystems ?everything depends on them ?from salmon to whales to seabirds. Every commercially important fish is either directly or indirectl...

Molecular machine may lead to new drugs to combat human diseases

...We can design introns and re-engineer them so they will do this to RNA in which we're interested." Once t... The crystal structure of this Group I intron also will allow scientists to form models of hundreds of other introns in the same family and provide possibil...

Clam embryo study shows pollutant mixture adversely affects nerve cell development

...yos is the same alteration thatcauses autism. That will require future research."In fact, Reinisch and Kreiling have already begun the next phase oftheir work. They are currently examining the origins of BCE toxicity atthe single-neuron level to learn what genes are turned on and off bythe exposure to the...

Female sex hormones play a vital role in defense against sexually transmitted diseases

...as early as the next few months. Additionally they will be looking at issues of co-infection with both HIV...e on the Journal of Virology website this week and will be published in the Journal in the March issue. ...

Yale Scientists Find MicroRNA Regulates Ras Cancer Gene

...a well-known gene involved with cancer progression will have profound implications as we continue to focus on the causes of tumor development," said Richard L. Edelson, M.D., director of Yale Cancer Center. Other Yale researchers were Steven M. Johnson, Helge Grosshans and Kristy L. Reinert; collaborator...

Study identifies predictors of HIV drug resistance in patients beginning triple therapy

...yos is the same alteration thatcauses autism. That will require future research."In fact, Reinisch and Kreiling have already begun the next phase oftheir work. They are currently examining the origins of BCE toxicity atthe single-neuron level to learn what genes are turned on and off bythe exposure to the...

Mouse brain tumors mimic those in human genetic disorder

...rofessor of Neurology.The study appears online and will be published in the January 2005issue of the journal Annals of Neurology.NF1 is one of the most common neurological disorders caused by a singlegene mutation. The disorder can lead to a variety of complicationsincluding brain cancer.To supplement the...

Enzyme allows B cells to resist death, leading to leukemia

...resents an attractive target for therapy.The study will appear online on January 13 in advance of publication inthe February 1 print edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation....

Spider Venom Could Yield Eco-Friendly Insecticides

...red chemicals that behave like spider toxins, they will most likely lack resistance to bioinsecticides derived from funnel-web venom. Another strategy is to insert a gene for encoding a spider toxin into viruses that are specific to a particular insect genus, or even a small number of species within a ge...

New imaging method gives early indication if brain cancer therapy is effective, U-M study shows

...ourse of brain cancer regimen if a patient's tumor will shrink, a new study shows. Researchers at the Uni...f the treatment is not having an effect, the tumor will continue to grow without any change to water diffusion," Ross said. The researchers found that for ...

Gene variations explain drug dose required to control seizures

...s that might determine, in advance, which patients will need the higher dose." Before any such pharmacoge...ssist physicians in prescribing the drug dose that will balance short-term control of tremors with long-term drug side effects that eventually render the di...

Solution to Pollution: New Bacteria Eats Toxic Waste

...to clean up contaminated sites, but these microbes will provide a natural solution, said Sims. Bioremediat...State Biology professor. The Department of Energy will sequence the genetic material of the microbes, and the researchers will then participate in the anno...

Scientists collaborate to assess health of global environment

... 2001, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment program will issue its primary report on March 30 during press ...ly enough, that's never been done before." Mooney will participate in the March 30 press conference in Washington, D.C., which will focus on the implicatio...

Muscle-targeted gene therapy reverses rare muscular dystrophy in mice

...ither the muscle- or liver-targeted gene therapies will likely take several years to launch, Koeberl said. Collaborators on the gene therapy studies include Baodong Sun, Haoyue Zhang, Luis Franco, Andrew Bird, Ayn Schneider, Sarah Young, Y.T. Chen, and Andy Amalfitano, all of Duke Medical Center, and Tal...

BRCA1 causes ovarian cancer through indirect, biochemical route

... messenger that's affected has been identified, it will be much easier to diagnose a predisposition to ovarian cancer or pinpoint just who is at risk, simply by measuring the chemical's levels. "The consequence of this finding," Dubeau says, "is that ovarian cancer is the result of some biochemical probl...

Scientists decipher genome of fungus that can cause life-threatening infections

...IGR's Fraser says the Cryptococcus genome sequence will benefit a widerange of biomedical research into th... major impact on basic research ofCryptococcus and will continue to be an enormous factor in the pace ofdiscovery and in the scope of questions that can be ...

Poplar trees redirect resources in response to simulated attack

...le by putting aside more carbon into storage so it will be available to help the plant spring back to life... chemical form it takes there," Ferrieri said. "We will have to do more tests to see what compounds are formed." Ferrieri believes there may be an increase...

Purdue proves concept of using nano-materials for drug discovery

... proteins to readily pass through the membrane but will allow smaller molecules to pass. "This allows us ...ortant because many future drugs to treat diseases will likely work by controlling proteins in cell membranes." Researchers tested the devices with an enzy...

First 'atlas' of key brain genes could speed research on cancer, neurological diseases

...normally or malfunction.The scientists say the map will accelerate research on brain tumors andneurological diseases that result from mutations in these switch genes?called “transcription factors.?When these genes are altered, thegenes they control can go awry, causing abnormalities in thedevelopment or f...

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