Reduced diet thwarts aging, disease in monkeys

MADISON The bottom-line message from a decades-long study of monkeys on a restricted diet is simple: Consuming fewer calories leads to a longer, healthier life. Writing today (July 10) in the journal Science , a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Wisconsin Nationa...

BEEP BEEP!! Strategic Communications Firm DW Turner Thwarts Hunger in Partnership With Roadrunner Food Bank

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- When Wiley Coyote goes hungry in cartoon land, it's because Roadrunner has won again. But in the real world, Roadrunner Food Bank wins when nobody goes hungry. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080417/LATH545-a ) (Photo: http://www....

Turned-off cannabinoid receptor turns on colorectal tumor growth

...endocannabinoid agonist resulted in a decline in polyps ranging from 16.7 percent to 50 percent. The reduction was greater for larger polyps. CB1 thwarts survivin, a protein that protects cancer Cannabinoids previously had been shown to kill cancer cells in lab experiments by inducing apoptosis - pr...

Gene therapy improves survival and quality of life of dogs with cancer

...ric fieldsin the area of the injection. It opens the cell membrane pores and traps the DNA inside the cells, which allows the production of GHRH. This thwarts the body's natural process of eliminating a foreign body, in this case the DNA molecule, Draghia-Akli explained. The researchers tested the gene th...

USW Lawsuit Results in Continental Tire Agreeing to Provide Retiree Health Care

... Union thwarts Attempt to Short-Change Workers PITTSBURGH, April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Steelworkers said today that Continental Tire North Ame...

Bacteria beware: MIT student invents knock-out punch for antibiotic resistance

...nate nearly 30,000 times more bacteria than antibiotics alone, including cells that survive antibiotic-only treatment. This combination treatment also thwarts development of stronger antibiotic resistance, which can extend the lifetime of existing and future antibiotic drugs. While working at a hospital ...

Stigma attached to HIV/Aids hampers efforts to fight the disease

...Human Rights Watch, an organization that keenly champions the battle against HIV /AIDS has come out hard against the abuses hurled at activists, which thwarts the efforts// put in by such organizations. Joe Amon, director of the HIV/AIDS program at Human Rights Watch said “Twenty-five years into the ep...

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Neural bottleneck found that thwarts multi-tasking

Many people think they can safely drive while talking on their cell phones. Vanderbilt neuroscientists Paul E. Dux and René Marois have found that when it comes to handling two things at once, your brain, while fast, isn't that fast. "Why is it that with our incredibly complex and sophisticated...

Gene thwarts some pathogens, gives access to others, could save crops

A single gene apparently thwarts a disease-causing invader that creates a fuzzy gray coating on flowers, fruits and vegetables. But the same gene provides access to a different type of pathogen. A Purdue University plant molecular biologist and his collaborators in Austria and North Carolina iden...

Biologists discover link between CGG repeats in DNA and neurological disorders

...oken during cell divisions. Scientists at Tufts University have found that one such DNA repeat not only stalls the cell's replication process but also thwarts the cell's capacity to repair and restart it. The researchers focused on this CGG repeat because it is associated with hereditary neurological disorde...

Tiny protein provokes healthy bonding between cells

...at if scientists could figure out a way to repair or replace the alpha-catenin dysfunction found in some cancer cells, it could lead to a therapy that thwarts the spread of cancer. ...

St. Jude study gives new insights into how cells accessorize their proteins

..., once NEDD8 attaches to cullin-RING, it activates the enzyme to attach ubiquitin to its target protein. In this activation process NEDD8 also somehow thwarts the action of another molecule called CAND1, which normally inhibits cullin-RING. "It is important to solve these lingering mysteries to give grea...

NASA data link pollution to rainy summer days in the southeast

...ticulate matter. Water and ice in clouds grab hold around the particles, forming additional water droplets. Some researchers think increased pollution thwarts rainfall by dispersing the same amount of water over more seeds, preventing them from growing large enough to fall as rain. Still, other studies sugge...

Certain diseases, birth defects may be linked to failure of protein recycling system

...ins from Trans Golgi to their intended tissue-building sites. If the Retromer Complex fails to recycle Wls back to the Trans Golgi to do their job, it thwarts stable delivery of Wnt signaling proteins. We know secreted Wnt proteins play essential roles in many biological processes, including the developme...

Ancient immune defense mechanism is no match for HIV-1

... a primitive defense mechanism that was previously observed only in plants and invertebrates. The research also reveals exactly how HIV-1 successfully thwarts this rare form of immunity in vertebrate cells. However, elucidation of the mechanism HIV-1 uses to protect itself provides some critical insight into...

Taking Aim With Nanoparticle PEBBLEs

... shoot reactive oxygen species into it, setting off "an avalanche of damage," said Kopelman. By staying outside the cell, PEBBLEs avoid a problem that thwarts many chemotherapy drugs. "The really bad cancer cells get immune to chemotherapy drugs ?they pump the drugs back out," Kopelman said. Cancer cells ...

Novel antiviral technology inhibits RSV infection in mice

... A novel antiviral treatment combining nanoparticle and gene silencing technologies thwarts attacks of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) -- a virus associated with severe bronchitis and asthma, an animal study by University of South Florida r...