Scientists Identify Retrovirus-Like Components In Corn Genome
...may be able to apply it to help animals and humans fight retroviruses, which cause a number of devastating illnesses such as some forms of cancer and AIDS," Bennetzen says. The group also is trying to answer other questions raised by the findings, such as where the mobile DNA segments come from and how the...Proteins Interacting With RNA And DNA Are Surprisingly Similar
... RNA,making itpossible for a certain antibiotic to fight bacterial infection,is remarkablysimilar to a class of proteins that bind to DNA. The proteins have the same general shape, and they use a similarmethod tobind to RNA and DNA. Those similarities came as a surprisebecause theproteins have completely d...Scientists Determine 3-D Crystal Structure Of Cancer-Causing Protein
...ersnew information for designing drug therapies to fight cancers. "These findings help to explain how tinkering with just one protein produceschanges in cell behavior," said senior author John Kuriyan, Ph.D., Rockefellerprofessor and HHMI investigator. "This gives us a better understanding of theb...Eating After Exertion May Be A Key To Speeding Body's Recovery
...at eating oat-based cerealbefore exercise can help fight fatigue and feelings of hunger. The pre-exercisefindings, based on human studies, were published in the American Journalof Clinical Nutrition and in the Journal of Nutrition. The post-exercise findings, involving rats, will be presented April 6-9by ...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
...ther cytokine now used clinically to help the body fight cancer. Then they measured the rats' resistance to cancer cells. Doctors found that inserting into cells a gene to boost the cytokine interleukin-2 (IL2) along with the gamma-interferon treatment was a very effective combination, completely preventin...Duke researchers find existing drugs can stop fungus that attacks AIDS patients
... to treat organ transplant recipientsmay also help fight a type of fungus that infects and often kills AIDS patientsand other people with weakened immune systems. The researchers said the compounds effectively stopped growth of thefungus in test tube studies. They are now testing the most promising ...Fighting Wheat Scab In New York State
...al for using naturally occurring microorganisms to fight fungal infections of wheat and corn plants in both the United States and Brazil. Wilmar da Luz, Cornell Ph.D. '86, directs the project in Brazil and is working with Bergstrom. Brazilian scientists have isolated thousands of strains of bacteria and y...First Salmonella Vaccine For Poultry To Be On The Market Soon
...rulent bacteria are introduced into an organism, a fight ensues between the bacteria and the host's immune ...inary organs; the blood, which sends antibodies to fight toxins; and specialized killer cells. Most vaccines are injected and trigger only the second and th...Where Fossils Fear To Tread: Scientists Follow Genes To An Ancient Ancestor
...h animals that could swim faster, grab tighter and fight with greater effect dominating the ocean environment and conquering new ones like the land. During the Cambrian, animals got bigger and more diverse, but those changes did not require new genes. The techniques being pioneered by Carroll and ......lready has triggered a shift in developingdrugs to fight TB, an infectious disease that spawns 8 million new cases andcauses 3 million deaths annually, mostly in developing countries. Antibioticscurrently used to treat TB manage to prevent growth of the bacteria, but thelong-term drug treatments needed to ...A New Biochemical Link Established Between Stress, Sex And Dominance
...imal a sudden burst of strength or speed so it can fight off an attacker or zip away from a predator. Other scientists have shown that cortisol levels remain high in the body if an animal or a human is constantly under stress. The hormone appears to be a trigger for many of the physiological ...Common Childhood Virus Poses Threat To Adults, Research Shows
... patients’white blood cell counts increase to fight the infection. Patients with RSVdemonstrate a normal or only slightly elevated white blood cell count. Murry said that once doctors and hospitals begin wider testing for RSV,they can begin to prevent the disease from spreading to their immunocomprom...Discovery Of Genetic Pathways May Provide New Ways To Combat Candida Infections
...dida's filamentation pathways, we might be able to fight the organism's insidious and devastating effects o...ntinels of the immune system. But soon, the fungi fight back, switching to a filamentous form and tearing through the macrophage walls, destroying them. Fo...Mutant Gene Not Sole Explanation For Hiv Non-Progression
...iduals have made to science and the fight against AIDS is immeasurable." Dr. Cohen's and Fauci's collaborators include Mauro Vaccarezza, M.D., Gordon K. Lam, Barbara F. Baird, Kathryn Wildt, Philip M. Murphy, M.D....Wonder Thread: UD Scientists Report First Protein With Collagen And Elastin-Like Domains
...ecific antibodies--proteins designed to detect and fight off foreign molecules by binding with them--helped Coyne target preCol-P. First, messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid) containing the genetic code for the protein was extracted from mussel foot tissue. Next, RNA was converted to the more stable DNA (deoxy...Photocatalytic Air Cleaning System Promises To Help Allergy Sufferers
...thma sufferers soon may have a new weapon in their fight against airborne enemies: an indoor-air cleaning system that uses light and simple chemicals to destroy the dust mites and mold spores that cause many allergies. Developed at the University of Florida's Solar Energy and Energy Conversion Labo...Oral Vaccine Protects Infants From Severe Rotavirus Diarrhea
...ly recognize it and then tailor-make antibodies to fight that viral strain. When making the rhesus rotavirus-tetravalent (RRV-TV) vaccine, the NIAIDresearchers used this substitution strategy to create weakened forms of three ofthe four clinically important human rotaviruses. The fourth human strain wasre......za and have antibodies that can fight off infection for those types. The H5 virus is frightening because people have no antibody protection against this type. Any time a new influenza type is introduced in people, it raises the p......cognize specificantivirulence genes, or genes that fight infection, made by the bacteria. Inplants that aren't hosts for bacteria--like the tobacco plants used in theColorado State study--the same defense reaction is triggered but it is not clearwhat activates the response. The next phase of resear...