From The Home Front To The River Front, USGS Updates Water-Quality Information
.... Lack of these protective features can enable the entry of bacteria into well water. With annual testing recommended by county extension agents, owners of rural wells should keep an eye on the bacterial quality of their well water. Follow-up to this reconnaissance is needed; it is uncertain whether bact...Purdue Finding May Snuff Out The Sniffles
...ds instead to another part of the receptor to gain entry into the cell, says Jordi Bella, a postdoctoral re...ojections, and interacts with the receptor to gain entry into the cell." These finger-like projections are what sets ICAM-1 apart from other cellular adhesio...US-Cuban Scientific Collaborations Jeopardized By Travel Restrictions
...and/or no explanation for denial, and approval for entry at the "lastminute" or after the date of the reque...n scientists appear to be morelikely to be refused entry in the US due to the suspicion that they willimmigrate. The report states that in the past year, the...Genetic Make-Up May Determine Response To Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs
...y arterydisease. Four to five years after entry into the clinical trial, researchers usedangiography, an X-ray, to determine whether new blockages had developed in thegrafts. Higher doses resulted in fewer new blockages in grafts than lowerdoses. However, not everyone benefited from the drug. ......highlights from this period included the section's entry into the emergingareas of genetic engineering and food irradiation. Early 1980s and beyond Late in its existence, the section devoted much of its energy to chemical,biochemical and fermentation-related projects, but also continued to makestrides in...Scientists Identify A Novel Mitotic Regulatory Mechanism
...ential isomerase that both negatively regulates entry into mitosis and is required for proper progression through mitosis provided new insights with respect to the general design of drugs arresting cell in mitosis. This novel drug target might be important for the development of anti-cancer ...Bowman Gray Scientists Find Novel Way To Block AIDS Virus
...-receptor plays acritical role in HIV-1 fusion and entry into permissive cells, especially forT-cell line t...he intrakine approach is aimed at preventing virus entry into the cell,rather than interfering with virus multiplication. Therefore, the lymphocytesprotecte...Trojan Horse Virus Controls Hiv Infection
...his enables VSV, which easily kills cells, to gain entry into the HIV-infected cell and destroyit. The modified VSV cannot infect normal cells because it lacks its normalsurface protein. Thus, it targets, enters, multiplies in and kills only Tcells that, through the display of HIVgp120, signal that they ...Molecular Piracy Turns Protein Into Traitor
...to block all main co-receptors used by HIV to gain entry to cells (CCR5, CCR3, CXCR4 and US28). Full detail...id Dr Wells. HIV uses CCR5 as a co-receptorto gain entry to macrophages during the initial infection and asymptomatic phase of the disease. Later on, HIV mut...Northwestern Scientists Discover How Herpes Simplex Virus Infects Cells
...ifying other cellsurface proteins that can mediate entry of herpes simplex virus into othercell types, including nerve cells, and defining the relevant mechanisms ofentry into different human cells.......arkBaldwin of AWPI. When the water makes its first entry into the system, itmust be chilled to 34 degrees Fahrenheit. Depending on the outdoor air temperature,the water temperature could initially be from the lower 50s to the 70s,thus requiring a major expenditure of energy to cool the incoming water.Recyc...