The American Phytopathological Society announces 2004 awards
...obes, molecular biology of disease development, or defense mechanisms. The Syngenta Award went to Krishna V. Subbarao, University of California-Davis. Syngenta gives this award to an APS member for an outstanding recent contribution to teaching, research, or extension in plant pathology. ...Anti-cancer compound in vegetables found to block late-stage breast-cancer cell growth
...efend against carcinogens," Singletary said. Such defense mechanisms are effective during the early stage of cancer. The Illinois research extends the 1992 discovery at Johns Hopkins and pinpoints how SUL works during later stages of cancer, such that SUL can suppress the orderly division process in human b...Study of flu patients reveals virus outsmarting key drug
MADISON - A drug envisioned as a front-line defense for the next flu pandemic might have a genetic Ach... easily and quickly thwart one of the few lines of defense for a disease that claims many lives each year and that, in a pandemic, is among the world's most fe...Streptococcus infects humans by thwarting blood clotting
... human clotting system, which evolved in part as a defense against such infection," said Ginsburg. "This syst...enough, when the researchers bypassed the clotting defense by injecting the streptococcus directly into the bloodstream of both normal and transgenic mice, the...OHSU-VAMC study sheds light on estrogen's benefit for MS
...ientists attribute this jump to the body's natural defense against its own immune system, whose reaction to self-antigen proteins, or "self-Ags," in fetal tissue can lead to fetal rejection, as well as the chronic inflammation that is the root of autoimmune disease. "It's very well known that pregnant women ...Homeland security initiative takes Memphis' ORNL technologies to the nation
...on technologies for homeland security and national defense applications," Kulesz said. "Because of its geographic location, waterways and position as a national hub for shipping and distribution, Memphis provides a perfect model for deploying SensorNet and other new homeland security applications."...Researchers find clues about how antibodies specialize
...ngs: how the body is able to mount a strong immune defense against foreign attackers, and how cancers, particularly lymphomas, develop and might be prevented. B lymphocytes, or B cells, are the immune-system cells responsible for producing antibodies proteins that recognize, bind to, and neutralize viruses...Managing occupational exposures to potential bioterrorist agents
...e Research Program, playing a key role in national defense and in infectious disease research. In a related article, also published in the August issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Rusnak and her colleagues reviewed the Institute's policies and management guidelines for occupati...New understanding of the machinery of flinching
...otspot for the ethologically important function of defense of the body surface, although PZ may of course have other sensory and motor functions not tested in the present experiment," they wrote....JCI table of contents, 16 August, 2004
... develop the means to avoid being attacked by this defense mechanism. There are several different methods by...stigate how prostate cancers evade this anti-tumor defense strategy. The researchers found that MIC-expressing prostate cancer cell lines were able to activate...MICs shed light on prostate cancer
... develop the means to avoid being attacked by this defense mechanism. There are several different methods by...stigate how prostate cancers evade this anti-tumor defense strategy. The researchers found that MIC-expressing prostate cancer cell lines were able to activate...Body's own defense against H. pylori, cause of stomach ulcers and stomach cancer
...e and Japan's Shinsu University has discovered the defense mechanism that protects the stomach against H. pylori infection. H. pylori is found in mostly in the stomach, where it thrives in the superficial mucin layer lining the stomach. The bacterium is rarely found in the deeper portion of the mucin lay...Transcriptional gene silencing in nucleus shown by UCSD/VA medical researchers
...ally occurring siRNA in the body that may act as a defense against gene sequences that come from viruses or other genetic parasites. The study's senior author, David J. Looney, M.D., associate professor of medicine at UCSD and the VA San Diego Healthcare System, said the new technique provides a new tool fo...Study: Mothers turn fearless when peptide level drops
...at the males sometimes eat pups and that "the best defense for the mom is the offense." For the study, only the mice that received either no dose or a low dose of the peptide displayed the expected behavior. As the levels of CRH increased, the number of attacks and the duration of them dramatically de...Forest managers can fight invasive species that come with roads
...ere is a window of time to do something." The best defense against invasive species is good monitoring by forest managers and quick action against new satellite populations, according to Radeloff and Hawbaker. "It actually pays to be proactive in this case," says Radeloff. And, as the window period gets shor...Free electron laser reaches 10 kW
...tly upgraded laser's new capabilities will enhance defense and manufacturing technologies, and support advanc...mosphere, with an eye to new laser-based shipboard defense strategies. The Navy is also interested in the ultraviolet and terahertz light that the FEL can pro...Study finds anti-HIV protein evolved millions of years before the emergence of AIDS
...es to attack the AIDS virus is actually a stealthy defense mechanism that evolved 32 million years before the...d, "because the host can't evolve a completely new defense in such a short period of time." The discovery of Apobec3G's continual evolution the result of the ...Proteomic research centers target bioterrorism agents, infectious diseases
...nvolved in NIAID's efforts to improve the nation's defense system against bioterrorism and emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases," said Sobral. "VBI's proven computational abilities with the institute's Core Computational Facility and its successful Pathogen Portal technology will further advance rese...HIV reveals evolution of a primate defense against intragenomic infiltrators
... RNA and DNA may represent an ancient form of host defense in primate genomes....Significant strides in small regulatory RNA research in plants
...ilencing, which is believed to represent a natural defense mechanism against viral infection and the activity of transposable elements. siRNAs typically target foreign and potentially pathogenic RNAs for destruction, whereas miRNAs target endogenous messenger RNAs for regulation. miRNAs often show a high deg...