Bedsores and bald hides: Novel roles revealed for a 'scaffolding' protein
A protein long thought to provide only mechanical support for keeping cells and tissues from literally falling apart turns out to have much wider utility. In a pair of reports, the protein K17 has been found to also influence wound healing and maintain the structural integrity of hair follicles, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. The wound-healing work, published in the May 18 issue o...Resistant HIV quickly hides in infants' cells
New evidence shows that drug-resistant virus passed from mother-to-child can quickly establish itself in infants?CD4+ T cells where it can hide for years, likely limiting their options for future treatment. The study is published in the May 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. Mother-to-child transmission of HIV is an important factor in the AIDS pandemic,...Staphylococcus aureus hides out in cells
A team of 12 researchers from University Ho...Researchers chides parents for overdosing their kids
Australian parents seem to be pretty good at assuming the role of a doctor but pretty bad at administering medicine doses. Infact, a survey at the Queensland University// of Technology has revealed that nearly half of all Australian parents give their children an incorrect dose of medication, almost always higher than it should be. Over medication can have very serious repercussions es...Malarial Parasite Hides In Placenta
A study by Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Makerere University in Uganda finds that the malarial parasite hides in the placenta of pregnant women// and this is the reason for pregnant women and children to suffer severe malaria. Plasmodium falciparium is the worst of the four malaria parasites that infect man. It is particularly dangerous in that it also infects the placenta of pr...