Scientists unmask genetic markers associated with psoriasis
Ann Arbor, Mich. Scientists at the University of Michigan Department of Dermatology, the U-M School of Public Health and their collaborators have found DNA "hotspots" that may reveal how genetic differences among individuals result in psoriasis, an autoimmune disease of the skin. Published in Na...Stanford researchers unmask proteins in telomerase, a substance that enables cancer
STANFORD, Calif. - One of the more intriguing workhorses of the cell, a protein conglomerate called telomerase, has in its short history been implicated in some critical areas of medicine including cancer, aging and keeping stem cells healthy. With such a resume, telomerase has been the subject of...Impotency Drugs Help to Unmask Cancer Cells
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center has come up with a remarkable discovery. Scientists there, have found out that certain drugs that are helpful //to overcome impotence have added benefits. Sildenafil and other drugs that help to dilate blood vessels by increasing the production of a chemical mes...Herpes: Scientists find cellular process that fights virus
...h team has indentified a combative cellular mechanism in this game of hide-and-seek." "We've found that the nuclear membrane of an infected cell can unmask Type 1 herpes simplex and stimulate the immune system to disintegrate the virus," says English. The team made its discovery while conducting various ...Beijing pollution may trigger heart attacks, strokes
... of medicine at the Northwestern's Feinberg School and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. "Being exposed to higher levels of pollution may unmask heart disease even if you've never had any symptoms." WHY POLLUTION CAUSES HEART ATTACKS, STROKES AND BLOOD CLOTS Mutlu published research in...October 31 is National Interstitial Cystitis (IC) Awareness Day
...s Susan Wysocki, President and CEO, National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health. "It is our hope that National IC Awareness Day will unmask the many faces of IC by elevating awareness about this little-known condition and helping reduce the emotional as well as physical toll that IC can ha...Scientists Unmask Genetic Markers Associated With Psoriasis
University of Michigan scientists reveal DNA 'hotspots' linked to psoriasis ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scientists at the University of Michigan Department of Dermatology , the U-M School of Public Health and their collaborators have found DNA "hotspots" that ma...Overweight Siblings of Children With Type 2 Diabetes Likely to Have Abnormal Blood Sugar Levels
...lin resistance. In obese adolescents already at risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the increase in insulin resistance during puberty may be enough to unmask disease. Family history is also important; 74-100 percent of children with type 2 diabetes have a first- or second-degree relative who also has the co...Shire to Present New Scientific Data on ADHD Treatment Portfolio at APA Annual Meeting
...areful supervision is required during withdrawal from abusive use, since severe depression may occur. Withdrawal following chronic therapeutic use may unmask symptoms of the underlying disorder. Common adverse events reported by patients who received DAYTRANA in clinical trials were decreased appetite, in...Software 'agents' could help unmask reality of disease clusters
Concerns over the privacy of patients could be hampering efforts to spot disease clusters and monitor the health effects of environmental pollution, according to researchers in the latest edition of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics . Data made available to research groups investigating ever...Dirty snow causes early runoff in Cascades, Rockies
... color. The other half came indirectly from reducing the size of the snowpack, exposing the underlying darker earth. Studies like this one start to unmask pollution's role in the changing climate. While greenhouse gases work unseen, soot bares its dark nature, with a cloak that slowly steals summertime's...Photosynthesizing bacteria with a day-night cycle contain rare chromosome
...es a gene sequence with which to pair up protein shards for identification. On the other hand, DNA sequencing can't always identify potential genes or unmask which of those really function, and could benefit from knowing which proteins the cell actually makes. Instead of waiting on one analysis to do the...Lung cancer cells' survival gene seen as drug target
...yond lung cancer, in that 14-3-3zeta is also activated in other forms of cancer such as breast and oral, he notes. "Dr. Fu and his team's findings unmask the role of 14-3-3 zeta in the survival advantage of lung cancer cells and their dependence on it," Dr. Khuri says. "Targeting this critical molecule...UD leads $5.3-million research project on rice epigenetics
...woop decode 50 million sequences representing well over a billion bases of DNA, a research team led by University of Delaware scientists is working to unmask where, why and how certain genes are switched on or off in rice--a crop vital to the world's food supply. The goal of the four-year project, which ...UD leads $5.3-million research project on rice epigenetics
...woop decode 50 million sequences representing well over a billion bases of DNA, a research team led by University of Delaware scientists is working to unmask where, why and how certain genes are switched on or off in rice--a crop vital to the world's food supply. The goal of the four-year project, which ...Concentrated Epitope Retrieval Buffer-Reduced pH from Bethyl Laboratories
Description:... Bethyl Laboratories Epitope Retrieval Buffer-Reduced pH will unmask antigenic sites from formaldehyde fixation and allow for subsequent immunostaining. Shelf-Life: 1 year from date of receipt...