Clinical trial will test controlled 'drug holidays' to counter HIV
...tion of treatment. The present trial will test the capacity of these responses to control HIV without medicati...ht coax the immune system to develop an increasing capacity to control HIV infection after each treatment interruption cycle. The hope is that, after a limited ...Spring meeting press conferences
...all press registrants, but space is limited by the capacity of the bus. If you wish to participate, please send an email message to Harvey Leifert ( hleifert@agu.org ) so stating. (Please do not return this entire media advisory.) The firm deadline for signing up is May 24. If you have any special needs, e.g...$1.5 million awarded to marine conservationists
...nited by their problem-solving abilities and their capacity to apply sound science to effect positive change for the sea," said Cynthia Robinson, Associate Director of the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation. "By supporting the ingenuity of these distinguished individuals the Program calls awareness to...Alcohol and thiamine deficiency together: a dangerous combination?
... surplus of thiamine," he explained, "you have the capacity to induce magnesium deficiencies, which have been linked to a number of alcohol's negative effects." He conjectured that thiamine-induced magnesium deficiency could be the root cause of a new sensitization to alcohol's effects. Another way of coun...UC Davis researchers were key to Clinton's order for marine reserves
...y problems, and UC Davis has an enormous amount of capacity and talent to do this and to influence state, national and world policies," Wilen said....DNA games: From computing to espionage
... about how one can harness the information bearing capacity of DNA and other nucleic acids to compute; for example, creating and using a code in RNA to solve mathematical problems from chess. Molecular computing of this kind has the potential to outperform electronic computers by using a billion times less en...Study shows receptor molecule facilitates introduction of corrected genes into cells
... else that can attach to airway cells and have the capacity to penetrate inside," he said. "Dr. Kreda's paper shows there actually are these receptors on the side of cells facing the airways and that if you can dress up viruses with UTP, you can fool the cells into opening their doors long enough for the viru...UCSF finding could lead to long-sought alternative to morphine
...on results in part from an enhancement of a latent capacity for naloxone to produce analgesia itself, though the researchers doubt this is the explanation. "What is the naloxone reversing? That's what we have to get our hands on," says Levine. "We are trying to design the experiment to make that next step."...New research animals earn their stripes
...rdelli. "We have found more genes than we have the capacity to analyse in detail, so we are forced to focus on a few of the most interesting ones, and put the rest aside," he said. "Still, it's better to have too many than too few." The understanding of the genetics of zebrafish is now so advanced, that scien...UCSF research reveals how the embryo brings its heart together
...ound healing, and the researchers suspect that its capacity to draw cells together is crucial there as well. The heart buds join to form the zebrafish heart 22 hours into the embryo's life, and the heart begins beating soon thereafter. In the mouse embryo, the crucial union that will produce the heart occu...Women with low body iron find exercise harder
...iron-depletion in nonanemic women results in lower capacity for physical work and impaired exercise performance. The new study by Haas and three other researchers shows that iron deficiency impairs the ability to increase aerobic endurance after a period of exercise training. "In other words, we now know th...SGX signs agreement to build state-of the-art beamlines at advanced photon source
...ll be the most advanced of its kind, providing the capacity to outstrip the current annual world-wide production of protein structures. The company will use the X-rays focused by the beamline to produce images of thousands of proteins and potential drug targets with atomic-level precision. The Advanced Photon...Sightless cavefish may offer clues to eye growth, Science authors report
..., researchers were able to compare the eye-forming capacity of the transplanted lens with the degenerating lens in the same animal. Within eight days, Jeffery and Yamamoto began to see a larger eye on the transplanted side of the cavefish. After two months, cavefish had grown a large eye with a distinct pupil...TSRI scientists clone gene that regulates circadian rhythms in plants
...eep accurate track of time, an extremely important capacity for organisms that are completely dependent on the daily cycle of light." Further, researchers believe that understanding internal "clocks" in plants might also elucidate how clocks work in other species, including humans. The study, "Cloning of ...Aging alters sleep and hormone levels sooner than expected
...eloping medications that can, in part, restore the capacity for deep sleep. If we could slow down the age-related changes in sleep quality, would that delay some of the many hormonal consequences of growing older?"......ce is important because it involves reasoning, the capacity to solve complex problems, abstract thinking ability, and the ability to learn. Any defect in this area may have far-reaching consequences for individual functioning." A significant association was also found between serum B-12 concentrations and p...Drug treatment interruptions boost immune response to HIV in Patients
... coax the immune system to develop an increasing capacity to control HIV infection. The approach offers the possibility that continuous drug therapy could someday become a thing of the past. Todays means - drugs - might become a mere agent to manage the real hero - the immune system - to effect the en......bstance. If after the test the persons respiratory capacity is too diminished, there is reason to suspect asthma. The specialists meeting at the symposium also reported that sputum tests on the athletes indicated an inflammation of the airways of half of those tested, compared with only one person in three of......, skin, muscle and nerve cells They also have the capacity to divide and proliferate indefinitely in culture....rmed totipotent, meaning that it has the unlimited capacity to develop into all postembryonic tissues. As the cell develops and divides repeatedly, this potent...