Lion's share of the best of Asia's progressive minds in science and medicine convene
...icians shall know even more about aging and how to combat aging-related diseases, disabilities, and dependencies. Keep apprised of program and registration details for the Third Asia Pacific Anti-Aging Conference by visiting http://www.antiageing2004.org . You are invited to review the full-version of the ...UCLA study uses genetic profiling to distinguish types of leprosy
...press the ability of the immune system to directly combat microbial pathogens. Researchers found that LIR-7 blocked the antimicrobial activity of another cell-surface receptor, called TLR or toll-like receptor. LIR-7 reduced TLR's immune response activity from 60 percent to 20 percent. "The immune suppre...Purdue biologists receive nearly $18 million to study infectious diseases
...As part of a major U.S. presidential initiative to combat bioterrorism, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a pair of grants to Purdue University researchers to help the group study viruses thought to have potential as biological weapons. While the two grants are to support research projects...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute central to Regional Center of Excellence
...entists that will launch a multi-pronged attack to combat infectious diseases including potential bioterrori...erapies, vaccines, diagnostics, and other tools to combat the threat of bioterrorism and other emerging and re-emerging diseases. Additional information on t...Dual action anthrax vaccine more effective
...e antibacterial antibodies in those individuals to combat bacilli that multiply in victims long after antibiotic treatment has ended. To make the vaccine, the scientists chemically joined two anthrax molecules that are the bacterium's major virulence factors in disease, but in a vaccine act as antigens, sti...Scientists find key to ocean bacterium that helps control greenhouse gas
...of artificially increasing ocean levels of iron to combat global warming."...UC Santa Barbara discovers cell survival gene may lead to treatments for degenerative diseases
...cientists with new means for identifying drugsthat combat degenerative diseases such as Lou Gehrig's disease...." Physicians currently have very limited tools to combat such degenerativediseases. Discovering the genes that keep cells from committing suicide islikely t...Forest preservation work turns to Carolina hemlock
...NC State entomologists are already finding ways to combat the destructive insect using such natural predators as the Japanese ladybird beetle, which feeds on the adelgid. The foresters' weapons are preservation of hemlock genetic diversity, and the development of improved forest varieties that are resistant...Scientists celebrate a sea turtles homecoming
...e Nicaragua government has made recent attempts to combat these threats, however, stronger measures are needed, as they have not yet been successful at protecting this invaluable sea turtle nesting habitat....SARS information for antiviral drug design released by Protein Data Bank
... target for new antiviral drugs being developed to combat the virus. "The PDB was able to process and release this information so quickly because of the leading-edge technology it employs," said Rutgers Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Helen M. Berman, director of the Protein ...On tap: Genomic sequence of an enemy of beer and bread
...iology. "Now we can begin to unravel mechanisms to combat this fungus which is a devastating problem in Michigan, the Midwest and all over the world." This fungus is a serious pathogen of wheat and barley in Michigan and throughout the Midwest. It causes Fusarium head blight, which reduces grain yields, and...Plant pathologists to discuss strategies for global crop protection at the APS Annual Meeting
...oxins in maize. Introduced biocontrol agents to combat exotic pests of cassava in West and Central Africa. Cardwell noted that there is an ongoing need to create and maintain partnerships in order to keep international programs effective. "There are many opportunities for people and organizations to b...Rutgers receives $22.6 million to investigate genetics of mental disorders
...elief that much more can be done to understand and combat these disorders that affect so many individuals and their families." Principal investigator for the center project is Jay Tischfield, Duncan and Nancy MacMillan Professor of Genetics and chair of the department of genetics at Rutgers, and professor o...Structure of HIV-neutralizing antibody solved
...ive individuals whose body is able to successfully combat the virus. Scientists at the Scripps Research Inst...imulate the immune system to produce antibodies to combat invading microbes. The scientists believe that it might be possible to design an antigen to entice t...Satellites to focus on UNESCO World Heritage sites
...s multinational environmental agreements set up to combat the various threats that our global environment faces. Romero added: "The advantages of Earth Observation are that it has global coverage, is scalable from big to small areas with time periodicity, and above all it is cost effective."...Artificial organ research findings presented by University of Pittsburgh researchers
...Center in San Antonio, a major training center for combat physicians. "The development of artificial organ systems is a vital part of what the McGowan Institute does," said Alan J. Russell, Ph.D., director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. "Advances in research that are made in Pittsburgh...UT Southwestern researchers find immune system stages for eliminating viral infections, cancer cells
... us to manipulate the immune system in new ways to combat infections and cancer," Dr. Schatzle said. "Our discovery that these cells regulate their ability to release the toxins that kill their targets in very different ways was surprising and has now led us to the point where we can begin to define the mol...July 31 deadline approaching to apply for $500,000 in research grants from GlaxoSmithKline
...aking work toward new pharmaceutical strategies to combat the HIV virus. Research grant recipients will be announced in September 2003 at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in Chicago. The grants will be paid Nov. 1, 2003. GlaxoSmithKline is a pharmaceutical i...Researchers discover possible diagnosis, treatment, vaccine for mad cow, prion diseases
...veloping vaccines and a new generation of drugs to combat this condition." The immediate commercial applications of the discoveries are diagnostics, as global health authorities urgently seek to ensure that beef and transfused blood are safe from Mad Cow-related infections. "Neil's discovery represents the......a vaccine will be available in time to effectively combat such as strain," says Turner. T-cells respond to proteins originally found inside the flu virus. These proteins rarely mutate, unlike those that antibodies respond to on the surface of the virus. Turner and his colleague's discovery of how the T-cel...