Research suggests new avenue for stopping, preventing colon cancer
... colon polyps in mice. The research suggests a new avenue for stopping or preventing colon cancer, which kills more than 50,000 Americans each year, said the paper's senior author, Raymond N. DuBois, M.D., Ph.D., Hortense B. Ingram Professor of Molecular Oncology and the VICC's associate director for Cancer...Scientists discover key step in the development of nerve cells controlling autonomic functions
...cell development and importantly it provides a new avenue of research into the mechanisms that control brain development", said Dr. Freda Miller, Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. "We believe that Runx1 plays very important roles in promoting the development and survival of those spec...Bacterial protein recycling factor possible key to new class of antibiotics
...ibiotic-resistant pathogens, this will be the best avenue of devising new antibiotics." Thirty Years of Searching The ribosome is the structure within cells on which amino acids are strung together to make proteins with the aid of transfer RNA (tRNA) and messenger RNA (mRNA). Kaji has spent the past 30 y...Mosquitoes vs. malaria: How we can win the fight
...ch proteins to protect the parasite is a promising avenue to decrease the prevalence of malaria." Prof. Kafatos agrees. "These studies are the first to show the power of the mosquito's immune system and give us some very real options for fighting the disease in the insect before it even has a chance to be p...Researchers show chronic sinusitis is immune disorder; antifungal medicine effective treatment
...order caused by fungus, opening up a promising new avenue for treating this ubiquitous and debilitating condition, for which there is no FDA-approved therapy. Results of their research suggest that common airborne fungi lodge in the mucus lining of the sinuses in most people, but initiate an immune respons...Researchers identify the pattern of gene-expression changes for tuberculosis in a living host
...example of how the high-throughput system is a new avenue to study a variety of pathogens and how they affect living hosts," said Dr. Stephen Albert Johnston, director of the CBI and one of the senior authors of the study. "We see it as a tool for vaccine and drug development against disease and the threat ...Researchers discover novel form of the Rett Syndrome protein
...more important form in RTT. This opens a whole new avenue of RTT research. One day, this and other similar paths will lead us to a full understanding, and hopefully a treatment for this devastating disorder." RTT is a severe neurological disorder diagnosed almost exclusively in girls. Children with RTT ap...JCI table of contents, 15 March 2004
...en bone and fat development, and may provide a new avenue for osteoporosis therapies. In an accompanying commentary, Peter Tontonoz and Liming Pei, from the University of California in Los Angeles, discuss the findings of this study in the broader context PPAR-gamma's role in fat development as well as the ...The bare bones of cutting the fat
...en bone and fat development, and may provide a new avenue for osteoporosis therapies. In an accompanying commentary, Peter Tontonoz and Liming Pei, from the University of California in Los Angeles, discuss the findings of this study in the broader context PPAR-gamma's role in fat development as well as the ...UT Southwestern research halts narcolepsy symptoms
...Center at Dallas have discovered a potentially new avenue for treating human narcolepsy, and the work may also lead to more effective ways for insomniacs to boost their wakefulness during the daytime. Artificially reintroducing a brain chemical called orexin into mice that lack the ability to produce the ch...Protein inhibits cell growth, may contribute to breast cancer
...lls. "These findings suggest a new and promising avenue of breast-cancer research," said Lucas, Associate Professor in the Pediatrics Department, Division of Cell Biology, at National Jewish. "Many researchers have thought that the cdk proteins only promote cell growth. But our findings support an emergin...UCSF finding advances insight into adult stem cells in human brain
...s true," says Sanai, "it would open up a whole new avenue in brain tumor research." Building on previous research The study builds upon previous research by Alvarez-Buylla, who reported in 1999 that astrocytes function as adult stem cells in the subventricular zone of mice, churning out fresh, youn...Molecular level discovery could play role in development of new antibiotics
...logs that nature cannot make. This really opens an avenue to engineer antibiotics and look for active compounds that we can access using the machinery we've found."...Progress in probing the mosquito's sense of smell
...rd understanding the mosquito's sense of smell, an avenue of research that may lead to better ways to repel the deadly insect. In a joint effort reported in the Jan. 15 issue of the journal Nature , researchers at Vanderbilt and Yale universities have verified that the antennae of female Anopheles mosquito...Researchers uncover pathway that could lead to plant generation of human-like protein
...that the pathway exists, he explained, opens up an avenue that can be used to make the correct glycoproteins for humans by plants. However, the researchers need to enhance other aspects of the process. "We are seeing about 2 to 3 percent of sialic acids on proteins made in plants. We would like to see 95 p......ts that addressing these ecological impacts is one avenue towards achieving this goal," state the researchers....Stem cell gene therapy: selecting only the best
...ematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) remains a promising avenue for development. In the November 14 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, two independent studies the first by Stanton Gerson and colleagues at Case Western University and the second by Hans-Peter Kiem and colleagues at the Fred Hutchinson...Cellular problem discovered behind syndrome of obesity, learning disabilities
...rning disabilities, but the finding provides a new avenue to studying these genetically murky traits. "It is... the research finding opens a never-before-pursued avenue to understanding these attributes in the general population. Katsanis says the next step is to figur...Countries find common ground to protect world's rarest gorilla
... delegate at the World Parks Congress. "This is an avenue to diffuse tensions and bring the two countries closer together. This is a major political success." The agreement marked the conclusion of a workshop hosted by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Cameroon Ministry of Environment and Forestry i...New prospects for treating muscular dystrophy: Stem cells restore muscle in MD mice
...tility they do early in life, they may offer a new avenue for treating the disease. The approach Cossu and his colleagues are envisioning would involve collecting mesoangioblasts from a patient's blood vessels, genetically "correcting" the cells in the laboratory, allowing them to multiply, and then injecti...