Studies reveal how plague disables immune system, and how to exploit the process to make a vaccine
Two studies by researchers at the University of Chicago show how the bacteria that cause the plague manage to outsmart the immune system and how, by slightly altering one of the microbe's tools, the researchers produced what may be the first safe and effective vaccine. Both papers -- one published online July 28 in Science Express and one in the August issue of Infection and Immunity -- fo...Researchers attack tumor cells by exploiting dependency on sugar metabolism
Although scientists have known for nearly 90 years that cancer cells commonly display altered sugar metabolism, the molecular significance of this phenomenon is not completely understood. Now, a new study published in the June issue of Cancer Cell reveals a functional connection between carbohydrate-driven energy production and tumor maintenance. Importantly, the results suggest that inhibition o...Protect patients from exploitation by alternative medicines industry
It is time to protect patients from “vile and cynical exploitation?by the alternative medicines industry, argues a cancer expert in this week’s BMJ. Yet the rat...HIV exploits competition among T-cells
A new HIV study shows how competition among the human immune system's T cells allows the virus to escape destruction and eventually develop into full-blown AIDS. The study, which employs a computer model of simultaneous virus and immune system evolution, also suggests a new strategy for vaccinating against the virus ?a strategy that the computer simulations suggest may prevent the final onset of...Exploiting the Life Science Data Explosion to Speed New Drug Discovery
This paper discusses key problems and opportunities created by the explosion in both the degree (volume) and complexity of life science data available today, and presents a strategic and technological approach to data integration that enables r...Windows exploit worsens as stop-gap measures fill in for official patch
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CHICAGO Lots of wireless Internet routers at homes and businesses are still as secure as the Titanic was unsinkable, writes adjunct Northwestern professor James Carlini in an update about hackers who are targeting and exploiting your wireless service with more ease than ever before. is an old hacking term used to describe dialing down a sequence of many phone numbers...Sex exploitation connected to Schizophrenia
According to researchers linking childhood sexual abuse and schizophrenia will further confuse patients of the mental illness. According to a research in the American Journal, half of the women admitted for psychiatric care in the study// were victims of sexual abuse. The principal researcher, John Fred from Arizona University, says the figures do not prove that abuse causes schizophrenia...Multinationals Exploit Groundwater Sources, and People Suffer
Privatizing water supplies is only a pretext for multinational corporations to take control of the precious resources of the people at large, activists in US charge. With sales of over $35 billion worldwide in the bottled water market, corporations are doing whatever it takes to buy up pristine springs in some of the country's most beautiful places. Especially notorious is Nestl, w...Stop Exploiting Children ! Anti Obesity Charter On Junk Food Ads
An anti obesity charter which will be adopted later this month at the World Health Organization conference in Turkey, calls for curbs on food advertisements targetting// children. The draft WHO charter says: "Special attention needs to be focussed on vulnerable groups such as children and adolescents, whose credulity should not be exploited by commercial activities." It calls for mark...Protect Patients from Exploitation by Alternative Medicines Industry, Says Expert
It is time to protect patients from “vile and cynical exploitation” by the alternative medicines industry, argues a cancer expert in this week’s BMJ.// It is estimated that up to 80% of all patients with cancer take a complementary treatment or follow a dietary programme to help treat their cancer, writes Jonathan Waxman, Professor of Oncology at Imperial College London. Y...