Common asthma drug saves patients money, trips to hospital
...opionate) as the first line of defense in controlling symptoms, many doctors don't consider it as a first treatment option. But Pathak said they should. "These findings confirm what clinical trials have already shown," ...Treating metastatic disease with a modified herpesvirus
...is gene allows the virus to circumvent a host cell defense mechanism that would otherwise shut down protein synthesis in infected cells. In Myb34.5, g134.5 is expressed under control of the Myb promoter, which is active in cycling cells, leaving the virus with extremely limited ability to proliferate in heal...Some animals can recognize degree of kinship by scent
... of nepotism in a squirrel world where territorial defense and predator-avoidance often spell the difference ...hat have yet to leave). o Cooperative territorial defense is important to preserve nest sites and to keep infanticidal adults away from vulnerable young, but ...Definitive analysis of President's FY2003 R&D budget available
...go to development costs of new weapons and missile defense systems; DOD basic and applied research would both... DOD budget as a whole. Department of Energy (DOE) defense R&D would rise 2.8 percent to $3.9 billion. The federal investment in basic research would grow b...Rush opens tissue and cell lab to produce cellular products
...e because they are not "checked" by the body's own defense mechanism. EBV and certain other viruses can cause certain types of cancer. "The only effective treatment for EBV is the infusion of re-educated and stimulated T-cells from the blood of the patient or a tissue-matched sibling," said Klingemann. "So...Researchers identify immune response to tuberculosis infection
...lls, function as the immune system's first line of defense against foreign microbes, kicking in within hours of infection and temporarily stunning the microbes into submission, according to Letvin. T cells that are part of the acquired immune response then take center stage, playing a crucial role in elimina...New protein plays espionage role in bacterial attack on plants
... It is logical from an evolutionary perspective of defense that you put the putative receptor, in this case R...en growth would be facilitated by slowing the host defense response, Dangl said. But the resistance protein RPM1 appears to serve as a guard for cellular pr...Gene duplication adapts to changing environment
...A and to degrade double stranded RNA, perhaps as a defense against double-stranded RNA viruses," says Zhang. In the douc langur, RNASE1B has become super-efficient at the first job, but has lost the ability to do the second, his research shows. RNASE1, though upstaged in the first role, still carries out t...Researchers discover mechanism of plant resistance to pathogens
...d sophisticated immune system. Their first line of defense is a thick cell wall covered with cuticle layers t...lot more downstream genes directly involved in the defense mechanism of the plant, Sheen explains. The whole process is a complicated cascade of events th...Researchers discover mechanism of plant resistance to pathogens
...d sophisticated immune system. Their first line of defense is a thick cell wall covered with cuticle layers t... on more downstream genes directly involved in the defense mechanism of the plant, Sheen explains. The whole process is a complicated cascade of events that ...Electrodes and nanoprobes signal new DNA detection method
...cal gene chips, and portable field sensors for the defense of biological warfare and terrorism. The technology has been licensed to Nanosphere of Northbrook, Ill., for commercialization.......re born without the ability to mount an interferon defense are unable to survive even mild infections and they quickly die. Until now, scientists have generally believed that the body produces most of its interferon through a sort of feedback loop: special proteins called receptors, on the surface of the cel...Stanford researchers uncover possible approach to attack HIV-infected cells
... helper T cells. These cells coordinate the body's defense against foreign invaders. Without the normal array of T cells, HIV patients have weakened immune systems, leaving them susceptible to infections. Stanford researchers have now found that low doses of the drug called motexafin gadolinium (or ...Study shows plants inherit traits from more than gene sequence alone
...-gene is more active, and consequently the plant's defense system becomes hyperactivated, constantly fighting off disease even when no pathogens are present to pose a threat. The resulting dwarfed plant is more resistant to bacterial infection. So why should a plant so well prepared against infection appea...Mating molds provide new insights into speciation and human reproduction
...some stage," Metzenberg explained. "It`s a meiotic defense system that defends the fungus against invasion at a time when chromosomes are especially vulnerable to the spread of viruses and insertion sequences," Shiu added. Humans and speciation In addition to eliminating deleterious genes in mold, Metzenberg...'Flap' on protein suggests new therapies for autoimmune diseases
...ure and produce antibodies, one of the bodys major defense mechanisms. Mice engineered to make too much Tall-1 develop lupus-like symptoms. People with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis have been shown to have high levels of Tall-1 in their blood. Lupus and rheumatoid arthritis are autoimmune diseases in which...Stanford researchers home in on Huntington's disease treatment
... "It seems the brain under attack has a number of defense mechanisms turned on to sop up toxic brain proteins, lead them away to digestive compartments, and out of the neuron," Steinman said. "This allows the neuron to survive, which is important since mammalian brains are bad at regenerating neurons." ...DNA arrays give clues to better vaccines
...us with unprecedented details about our own immune defense cells as they orchestrate a response to attacking bacterial pathogens that are responsible for some of the major diseases of mankind," says Young. "This information should lead to new therapeutic strategies against these diseases."...Antimicrobial peptides: new weapons to fight infection
... and animals has provided insights into the innate defense systems that permit multicellular organisms, inclu...xample, rely heavily on antimicrobial peptides for defense against deadly microbes, and do so quite effectively without the help of lymphocytes, a thymus or an......these interactions. The importance of CD18 in host defense is evident because patients with leukocyte adhesion deficiency type I (LAD I), who carry mutations in the corresponding human gene, are prone to bacterial infection. Grabbe et al. now report that in a mouse knockout model lacking CD18 entirely, anima...