Cannabis may help combat cancer-causing herpes viruses
...ished Sept. 15 in the online journal BMC Medicine, could lead to the creation of antiviral drugs based on n...to suppress the immune system so smoking marijuana could "do more harm than good" to patients whose immune systems are often already weakened....'Smart antibiotics' may result from UCLA research
... function as 'dynamic' anti-microbial agents. This could provide us with a renewable resource of smart antibiotics for treating bacterial diseases," said Miller, a member of both UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and the UCLA College. "It's a bit ironic that viruses can be used to cure bacterial di...Scientists find nanowires capable of detecting individual viruses
...ith great precision, suggesting that the technique could be scaled up to create miniature arrays easily cap...rus. The capabilities of nanowire detectors, which could be fashioned into arrays capable of detecting literally thousands of different viruses, could usher ...Scientists discover potential new way to control drug-resistant bacteria
... an unrelated project, believe that this discovery could lead to the use of genetically engineered phages t... function as 'dynamic' anti-microbial agents. This could provide us with a renewable resource of smart antibiotics for treating bacterial diseases." Dr...Secretary of Energy announces seven E.O. Lawrence Award Winners
...e research for which they are given, show that DOE could easily be called the Department of Science and Energy." The winners are: Nathaniel Fisch, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL); Bette Korber, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, N....A novel, safer strategy for regulating gene expression
... a drug. Potentially, with this technique, a gene could even be activated by natural conditions in the bod...se to a rise in glucose. Such 'biological sensing' could have a wide range of applications." Current methods of gene regulation usually involve a complicated...Study explores gene transfer to modify underlying course of Alzheimer's disease
...lmarks of Alzheimer's disease. If successful, this could be a major step toward modifying the course of the disease. Rush is the only center in this study. The new technique uses CERE-110 as the gene therapy agent. CERE-110 carries the Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) gene encased in a harmless viral coating, wh...AAAS expert panel calls for voter-system research and reform
...indings and recommendationsproduced by this effort could contribute to animproved understanding of the comparativeadvantages and disadvantages of various votingsystems and to knowledge that can inform criticalpersonal and policy decisions about voting in theUnited States," said conference organizer Mark S....The book opens on the first tree genome
...nagement issues are overwhelming, but poplar trees could play a significant role in the solution," said Gerald Tuskan, whose team at the ORNL leads the poplar research effort. "Trees have a built-in mechanism for storing captured carbon dioxide in their leaves, branches, stems, and roots. This natural pr...Termites could hold the key to self-sufficient buildings
Mounds built by highly-evolved African termites could inspire new types of building that are self-suffic...ologists* is looking at whether similar principles could be used to design buildings that need few or no mechanical services (e.g. heating and ventilation) a...Northeastern University receives $12.4 million NSF grant for creation of nanomanufacturing institute
...-billionth of a meter. If developed, these systems could catapult the field into a $1 trillion industry by 2015. The NSF grant establishes the Center for High Rate Nanomanufacturing, which will be headquartered at Northeastern under the leadership of Ahmed Busnaina, the William Lincoln Smith Professor and......at UC Davis and Johns Hopkins University. The work could provide insights on two devastating inherited dise...unctions. Scientists wondered how two mitochondria could join without mixing up the distinct membranes. Nunnari's team devised ways to get stop-action views ...Environmental decontamination, greenhouse gases, and the genome of a methane-loving bacterium
... methane as a sole source of carbon and energy and could dramatically reduce biologically generated methane emissions. They've also been the focus of bioremediation efforts aimed at environmental decontamination. And now, with the publication of the first complete genome sequence of a methanotroph, such ef......t closed the case on the mysteries of movement, it could help explain why we settle for a particular, non-silly walk. ...Wastewater could treat itself, power city
...he energy stored in Toronto's municipal wastewater could be harnessed to run water treatment facilities and... into electricity, the wastewater treatment plants could produce enough electricity for their own operation," says civil engineering professor David Bagley, ...Scientists explore genome of methane-breathing microbe
...e of methane as a sole source of carbon and energy could possibly be harnessed to play an important role in...) that have made a home in the genome. Such phages could be exploited to genetically manipulate M. capsulatus to more efficiently produce microbial protein f...Martin Saunders to receive the James Flack Norris Award
...ese normally highly reactive species, so that they could be studied by NMR. This allowed him to discover the detailed mechanisms and rates of very rapid rearrangement reactions of the cation intermediates. Saunders received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, came to Yale as a member of the chemistry facul...Research suggests new avenue for stopping, preventing colon cancer
...nal Cancer Cell, the scientists reported that they could inhibit polyp development in mice by "knocking out...omponents of the downstream pathway." The research could lead to more specific and safer -- ways to prevent colorectal cancer. In addition to generating PGE...Prion propagation: Avoiding the toxic oligomer
...ers, Weissman and colleagues explain, this finding could not be explained by a simple model of nucleation polymerization, in which growth occurs monomer by monomer, emerging from a monomer "nucleus." Instead, Weissman and colleagues' findings support a model in which nucleated monomers initially......tion of the Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling pathway could interfere with the development and progression of ...hat such precise, targeted molecular interventions could spare children from the devastating effects of surgery, toxic chemotherapy, and exposure to high dos...