Plant-Based Therapies Examined For Colon Cancer Prevention
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...m. Chen's advance is based on the recent discovery of the critical role ofchemokine receptors on the surface of the lymphocyte, as the doorway B orco-receptor B for the HIV invasion into lymphocytes. After virus invasion, the now familiar steps in the development of AIDSfollow: multiplicat...Oral Vaccine Protects Infants From Severe Rotavirus Diarrhea
...rt of his career to working on rotavirussince its discovery almost 25 years ago by Australianinvestigators. He and his colleagues in NIAID's LID developed and patented thevaccine, which, with assistance from many outsidecollaborators, has been tested in nearly 18,000 people in the United States andabroad. "...NIDR Supports Total Genome Studies Of Major Oral Pathogens
...sequencingstrategy is a large-scale method of gene discovery that will quickly andeconomically provide key research tools to the entire Candida albicans researchcommunity. The project uses a shotgun sequencing approach in which the genomic DNA,consisting of about 16 million nucleotide base-pairs and 6,000 gen...Jefferson Scientists Develop Botulism Vaccine
... cough and tetanus. Eventually, they say, their discovery may lead to a range of oral vaccines that could be inserted into common foods. Lance Simpson, Ph.D., professor of medicine, Jefferson Medical College, and director of the Jefferson Clinical Center for Occupational and Environmental Medi...Gene Locus Found For Essential Tremor Disorder
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... fat cells and the placenta in the body. Since its discovery in the early 1990s, researchers have been racing to learn more about the protein. The reason is simple: Obese mice that are injected with leptin soon lose their excess weight. Scientists are hoping that by learning more about leptin, they can control...MIT Biologists Identify Aging Mechanism
...ast and, perhaps, in higherorganisms." The discovery of the simple role of ERCs in cell aging and death has aprofound appeal well beyond the laboratory. Indeed, William Shakespeare, a manof powerful intuition and observation, would be pleased to learn how closelyHamlet's phrase denoting mortality -- th......end themselves against other typesof bacteria. The discovery could ultimately lead to the development ofgenetically-engineered crops that resist a wide range of diseases. The study centered on bacteria that causes ring rot in potatoes, adisease that spawns millions of dollars in prevention and treatmen...Chlamydia Vaccine Developed At UMass
...hich is present in all types of chlamydia. But the discovery presented a problem: most vaccines, such as flu vaccines, are easy-to-handle proteins, or an inactive virus. These can be mass-produced. GLXA, on the other hand, is a glycolipid: a fat and carbohydrate molecule that is difficult to test for stability......n moreabout the nature of these debris flows. The discovery indicates that the dinosaurs whose bones are found at Ukhaa Tolgoddid not live in a howling, sterile desert, but rather in a stabilized dune fieldwhere plant life and rainfall were relatively abundantAuthors of the paper are: David Loope, professor ...Mystery Of Vital Cell Protein Solved After 30 Years
...understand theprotein's atomic structure since its discovery in the 1950s. Interest in tubulin structure heated up intensely in recent years whentaxol, a natural substance found in the bark of the Pacific yew tree (the name"taxol" has been trademarked by Bristol-Myers-Squibb), was shown in clinicalt...... I7 protein responds to the chemical. The discovery will help answer many questions about smell, the leastunderstood of the human senses. Do receptors that are coded by similar genesdetect odors of the same chemical class, or is genetic sequence unrelated toodor chemistry? Do individual receptors re...Doublecortin : A Novel Gene Involved In Cortical Development
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