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Drug resistant avian influenza viruses more common in Southeast Asia than North America

...dition of Virology. H5 influenza viruses concern world health officials because H5N1 subtype has been spr...ity for sustained human-to-human transmission, the world will face the threat of a serious pandemic," said Robert G. Webster, Ph.D., a member of the Infectio...

A New Era Of Hope For Neglected Diseases

...'s findings are one of several indicators that the world is finally taking action against these diseases. For example, the Gleneagles Communiqué arising out of this year's G8 summit specifically called for increased investment to encourage the development of tools for neglected-disease control. Citation:...

A 'dimmer switch' for genes

...s believed to be only minor players in the protein world ?they become important in turning genes on and off, but in a way that resembles a dimmer switch rather than an on-off switch. Genes carry the code that produces proteins to carry out almost all functions in a living organism. But some of these prote...

Purdue researchers find key to rice blast fungus

...food staple. About two-thirds of the people in the world rely on the grain, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service. Rice supplies 23 percent of the total calories that the world's population consumes, according to the International Rice Research Instit...

'License to kill' enables powerful immune attack cells in mice

...r results include another ironic connection to the world of cinema spies: the molecular details of the process feature a player who is comparable to a double agent. Scientists have known for some time that natural killer cells have inhibitory receptors on their surfaces. The natural killer cells' ability ...

Scientists and engineers apply nature's design to human problems

...ties, for example. These are things the biological world has solved, and if you study them, you have the opportunity to apply that knowledge in the human sector. You can also extend that reasoning to ecological processes. These are guiding principles behind the Georgia Tech Center for Biologically Inspired...

On a wing and a prayer - Alaska researchers seek clues to bird flu

...ears ago, today public health officials around the world are beginning to cast an equally uneasy eye toward migratory birds, especially in Alaska, following recent outbreaks of avian influenza in Southeast Asia and, last week, in Siberia. Alaska is at the intersection of the Asian and North American flywa...

California computer scientists double volume of data in NIH biotech repository

...aply. Enter computational biologists around the world who have been devising ways to infer or extrapolate these haplotypes from the flood of genotype data produced by DNA sequencing efforts. Eskin and Ph.D. candidates Noah Zaitlen and Hyun Min Kang at UCSD, and research scientist Eran Halperin at ICSI, ...

U-M scientists say fused genes trigger the development of prostate cancer

...aply. Enter computational biologists around the world who have been devising ways to infer or extrapolate these haplotypes from the flood of genotype data produced by DNA sequencing efforts. Eskin and Ph.D. candidates Noah Zaitlen and Hyun Min Kang at UCSD, and research scientist Eran Halperin at ICSI, ...

New study to explore cellular circuitry

...n function, and then test predictions against real world experiments. For the purposes of the study, each individual gene, and proteins built according to directions stored in that gene, will represent one basic unit of the wiring diagram. The diagram will also be based on the emerging theory that these ...

Many cats unaffected by catnip, C&EN reports

...r catnip? As it turns out, half of the cats in the world don't respond to it at all, according to the "What's That Stuff" column in the Aug. 1 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine published by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Catnip sensit...

Researchers use brain scans to predict behavior

... also may help us build up predictions of what the world should be like and how certain events go together. When it works well, the world makes sense to you." Sapir noted that the reward systems' predictive abilities may be damaged or m...

UF study first to quantify validity of DNA I.D. tool using marine snails

...able to identify cowries collected from around the world by analyzing tissue samples from the marine organi...listic numbers on it." Because species around the world are disappearing faster than biologists can identify them, the need for a quick and accurate method ...

Researcher says flu responders can learn from 1918 epidemic

... sweeping, deadly outbreaks of killer flu that the world has ever seen. While that prospect would terrify the average person, it also intrigues Jim Higgins, a doctoral candidate at Lehigh University, who has been researching the 1918 flu pandemic that killed an estimated 50 million worldwide. Higgins, wh...

Emerging staph strains found to be increasingly deadly and deceptive

...dical treatments. "Each day physicians around the world are stymied by the inability to effectively treat patients suffering from severe S. aureus infections," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "There is a critical need to develop new treatments against late-stage disease caused by antibiotic-res...

Plant genes identified that can form basis for crops better adapted to environmental conditions

...environment-friendly, sustainable agriculture in a world whose population is growing while the land available for agriculture is diminishing. Tom Beeckman is in charge of the root development group in the VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, which is under the direction of Dirk Inz (for more info, see...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

...e doses received by residents in some parts of the world having high natural background radiation levels. For the majority of the five million people living in the contaminated areas, exposures are within the recommended dose limit for the general public, though about 100,000 residents still receive more....

Anti-cancer Compound In Beer Gaining Interest

.... And many other scientists in programs around the world are also beginning to look at the value of these hops flavonoids for everything from preventing prostate or colon cancer to hormone replacement therapy for women. "Xanthohumol is one of the more significant compounds for cancer chemoprevention that ...

Sudden change in social status triggers genetic response in male fish, study finds

...the male cichlid is obviously interacting with the world around it," says Burmeister, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Fernald lab, now assistant professor of biology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. "The subordinate male is responding to the absence of another individual, so he has to h...

Once-dreaded leprosy 'replaced' by tuberculosis, say researchers

...se, with millions of new cases reported around the world each year. ...

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