Did Eli Lilly Turn Wily With Regard to Their Best-selling Schizophrenia Drug?
Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical company, is in a tight spot, defending its position against the law suits from mentally ill patients//, about the company’s best-selling schizophrenia drug, Zyprexa. The company is being blamed for undermining the health risks of the drug, which is being linked to obe...Protein that suppresses androgen receptors could improve prostate cancer diagnosis, treatment
...t, the increased number of androgen receptors may mutate so they can start feeding off other steroids or even growth factors, Dr. Daaka says. These wily skills help explain why cancer returns despite initially promising treatment results. "It is clear that signaling by the androgen receptor is para...A natural approach for HIV vaccine
...investigator. "This should make people think about what an effective vaccine should look like." HIV strains mutate rapidly, making them especially wily adversaries of the immune system. But one element is shared almost universally among the diverging strains a protein on the envelope of the virus cal...August LabBits: A media tip sheet from the MBL in Woods Hole
...r research scientist at MBL and emeritus professor of ophthalmology at the UIC College of Medicine in Chicago, to investigate how zinc may control the wily glutamate. Using the retina of the skate, a cartilaginous fish resembling a manta ray, they record electroretinograms (ERGs) to measure how retinal ne...Fruit flies show how salmonella escapes immune defenses
... Salmonella are wily and obnoxious bacterial invaders--escape artists capable of evading multiple immune responses and causing a harsh and debilitating intestinal infectio...Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? Coyotes
... NEW YORK (September 11, 2007)While the wily coyote reigns as top dog in much of the country, it leads a nervous existence wherever it coexists with its larger relative, the wolf, according to a ...Tassie tiger no match for dingo
... The wily dingo out-competed the much larger marsupial thylacine by being better built anatomically to resist the mechanical stresses associated with killing la...Immune system's distress signal tells bacteria when to strike back
...e, is a liability, a threat to its tenants' survival. Pseudomonas, however, has the tools to engineer its own escape ?by killing off the host. This wily pathogen can evade a host's immune system. It can repel antibiotics, secrete toxins similar to those used by anthrax, latch onto the bowel wall, bore ...