Discovery may lead to better Candidiasis drug
Oral biologists at the University at Buffalo have shown for the first time how histatin, the naturally occurring antifungal agent in saliva, kills the oral pathogen Candida albicans, the fungus responsible for most HIV-related oral infections. Researchers led by Mira Edgerton, D.D.S., Ph.D., discovered that histatin binds to a specific membrane protein called TRK1p, which regulates potass...Study reveals candidate targets for anti-retroviral therapeutics
The increased frequency of drug resistance in isolates of the AIDS virus, HIV, makes identification of new antiviral targets an urgent necessity. Host genes required to support the replication of HIV are a potential source of such novel targets, but relatively few appropriate target genes have been identified in animal cells thus far. A new study, conducted by Dr. Suzanne Sandmeyer and colleagues...New HIV drug candidate developed in Sweden
Which is more likely to happen - you being in a car wreck or being bitten by a shark? Those who answered that cars are greater killers win a free trip to the beach. It's really no contest, says a Texas A&M University professor. Your chances of being in a wreck are far greater than being a shark's lunch, says John McEachran, a professor of wildlife and fishery sciences who has studied...Candida albicans Genome Fully Annotated
Circulating stem cells play a minor role in repairing lung damage, according to a team of scientists who used male and female chromosomal differences to analyze the repair process in lung transplant patients. Reporting in today's edition of the journal Transplantation, lead author Dani Zander, M.D., of The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, and colleagues at the University of F...Candida-directed IgA EIA Kit from Alpco Diagnostics
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While theyre all true stories and authentic trends, wed hate to leave readers with the notion that its only managers who behave outrageously. So you know were not biased in our doling out of criticism, heres a story about a technology...HIV did not arise from polio vaccine
Researchers in four countries have unanimously opined that the deadly Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) Epidemic did not arise from an oral polio vaccine used in Africa in the 1950s and say rumours suggesting the contrary have no scientific evidence to back them up. The studies, from researchers in the US, UK, France and Germany, should help free the polio vaccine manufactured by the W...Playing Didgeridoo can cure sleep apnoea
Didgeridoo sales may be about to boom following a Swiss study, which found that the instrument can cure the dangerous condition of sleep apnoea.// Swiss researchers have discovered that playing the Aboriginal instrument reduces snoring and daytime sleepiness for those with obstructive sleep apnoea, reports the British Medical Journal. The condition occurs when the airway is o...Candidate vaccine to reduce hepatitis C viral load.
Hepatitis C virus is the leading cause of death and liver transplant in the western world. This disease is also very common that it is incidence is five times more when compared to HIV/ AIDS. // Hence researchers at the University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) have developed a vaccine candidate to treat hepatitis C infection. This vaccine techniqu...New Test Identifies Candidates For Cardiac Defibrillator
Several lives were saved in the US in 2005 from the fatal arrhythmias through devices which were surgically implanted in them. // As many as 1,70,000 people in North America received this treatment. Quite a few of the patients also found this to be uncomfortable, unnecessary, and even dangerous. A noninvasive test has been developed recently to find out which of the patients are likely to...HIV-Positive Woman To Be Congress Candidate In Assam
A 29-year-old HIV-positive woman in Assam is all set for a plunge into politics by becoming the ruling Congress party candidate for next month's assembly elections.// Jahnabi Goswami is expected to be the party's candidate from the Barhampur assembly constituency in eastern Assam's Nagaon district, about 140 km from here. Former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta i...Candida Immunodiffusion System
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 28, 2007 - CombinatoRx,Incorporated (NASDAQ: CRXX) today announced preliminary results ofits randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial ofCRx-150 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The trialcompared CRx-150 plus a disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug(DMARD) to placebo plus DMARD (control) in subjects with active RA.In the prelimin...Additional Data on CombinatoRx Drug Candidates CRx-102 and CRx-139 Presented at EULAR
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 14, 2007 - CombinatoRx,Incorporated (NASDAQ: CRXX) today announced the presentation ofadditional data related to its immuno-inflammatory productcandidates, CRx-102 and CRx-139, at the European League AgainstRheumatism (EULAR) Annual Congress of Rheumatology meeting, June13-16, 2007 in Barcelona, Spain. In a poster entitled "Inhibition...