Chlamydia Vaccine Developed At UMass
...nfertility, and which can be sexually transmitted, another form of chlamydia is a major cause of blindness in Third-World nations. Recent research indicates that chlamydia also may be responsible for some cardiac and joint disorders. The vaccine has been tested on mice; Stuart cautions that it will ......sand flows generatedby a heavy July rainstorm. In another case a barn built on a dune slope waspartly filled by a flow. Such "sand slides" in the Gobi Desert could havetrapped the dinosaurs and other animals that were in the path of the debris,entombing them until they were uncovered by the paleontologists......ome of the most productive farmland inthe world is another plus. "We're situated in a region where agricultu...seases associated with plasma purification. On yet another front, researchers are trying to extend genetic engineeringtechniques to specialized yeast strains, ...Fruit Flies May Shed Light On Cocaine Addiction
...4. The cocaine used in this study was supplied by another NIH component,the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This release will be available online at http://www.nih.gov/nigms/news/releases/cocaine.html after the embargo date. Journalists may obtain the journal article from Current Biology at http://biome......lution of thethree-dimensional atomic structure of another drug target, HCV protease,reported by Vertex resea...rted solving the structure of hepatitis Cprotease, another crucial enzyme involved in viral replication, in the journalCell. That discovery propelled forward ......s is where the polymerase was just about to attach another DNAbuilding block (arrow), when it was frozen in action by the crystallizationprocess. Moreover, this work for the first time depicts a so-called replicativepolymerase. Various types of DNA polymerases occur in every cell of every livingthing, but t...Iron Deficiency Increases Likelihood Of Bone Fractures
...verdosingon iron supplements. Medeiros added another word of caution. “I don’t want tosuggest that we’ve proven definitively whether iron deficiency leadsto more bone fractures in humans. That will be our next step. We’lllook at this more in the future, and examine the effects of...UMass Researchers Announce Birth Of Genetically Modified Cloned Calves
...ffspring, all of one sex, will be identical to one another and carry the same genetic information. The first cloned animals were born in the mid-1980s, and included rabbits cloned by Robl and Stice at the University in 1987. Although cattle were also cloned in the mid-1980s, recently cattle have been reporte...Divorce, Insect Style: Termites Swap Mates
...ith a newfound mate, a female termite might invite another male to the nestsite to fight her mate for the rig...e food runsout, termites sprout wings and look for another nitrogen-rich log to colonize. Shellman-Reeve's latest study concentrated on the first 90 minutes o...Research Aims At Nation's First 'Smart' Ground Water Regulations
...rmer's application computer might communicate with another computer to determine what's acceptable and what's...." Beyond the realm of the possible, there will be another hurdle to clear before smart regulations are put into use, however. Those hurdles are all political,...DT104 Advice:How To Slow Salmonella Spread
... Veterinarians were just becoming familiar with another relatively new salmonellaserotype, Salmonella Dublin, a form that was reported in Californiabefore World War II and which finally reached New York and other Eastern statesin 1988, McDonough said. "But Salmonella Typhimurium and DT104 inparticula...Infants, Toddlers Should Not Restrict Fat Intake, Experts Say
...lopment, Hennig says there is a theory that offers another reason infants should have comparatively high-fat diets: These diets may lower their cholesterol when they become adults. "Blood cholesterol can come from diet, or we can produce it in our bodies through internal synthesis," Hennig says. "There may b...Ant Pheromone May Aid Alzheimer's Patients
...mit signalsonly when the appropriate pheromone (or another important chemical for the ant)is detected. Ants can detect just a few parts of their pheromone in a billionparts of air. And when the electrical signal passes through their antennae,only 0.1- to 2-millivolt potential differences are created. No w...Fauci: New Findings Help Explain "Rebound" Of HIV In Patients Who Discontinue Triple-Drug Therapy
... months," says Dr. Fauci. In another in vitro experiment, the researchers sought to determine if they could purge HIV from latently infected CD4+ T cells. They exposed the cells to the inductive cytokine interleukin-2 (IL-2) for six days, both with and without HA...New Sensor Adds Precision To Search For Dangerous Gases
...e for personal use or in the home and another unit that can be controlled by a computer and is suitable for monitoring various locations in office buildings, industrial sites and mines. The handheld version, now in the prototype stage, can also be connected ...B-Vitamins Lower Homocysteine Levels In The Blood; May Reduce Vessel Damage In Stroke Patients
... group showed changes intheir fibrinolytic system, another way in which the body protects againstunhealthy clotting, in this case by cutting up a protein called fibrin thatholds a blood clot together. "One of the things to consider is that homocysteine probably interfereswith a number of different c...Research Finds Alligator Problems Also Evident In Less Polluted Lakes
... Guillette said. "We now have the same problems on another lake." Preliminary tests on Lake Okeechobee, Flo... Guillette had help from Crain; Daniel Pickford, another former student of Guillette's; Franklin Percival of UF's Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Resea...Transposable Elements May Have Had A Major Role In The Evolution Of Higher Organisms
...complex organismslike yeast and invertebrates, and another which smoothed the transition frominvertebrates to vertebrates. "While Bird's hypothesis is compelling, it did not explain theevolutionary driving force behind the establishment of global silencingmechanisms in the first place," said McDonald...Washington University Licenses Its New Antibacterial Technology
... pilus subunits to theouter bacterial membrane and another that extrudes them to the cell surface. Theresearchers also have identified compounds that may inhibit one of theseproteins. With the SIGA funding, they now will develop and test additionalcompounds. Such drugs should prevent Gram-negative pathogenic...... technique could prevent the need for another angioplasty procedure, (50 percent of arteries reclose, sending the patient back to the operating room), and it could prevent some of the need to go to bypass surgery....