Wood preservation: stopping termite destruction and making safer wood preservatives
...onmentally friendly preservatives whose ability to fight fungi (wood rot) and insects is enhanced by the addition of antioxidants and metal chelators. (The paper on this research, CELL 123, will be presented at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, April 5, in the San Diego Convention Center, Room 11A.) • Li...Tipsheet: April journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...mmunity began to decline retained their ability to fight tuberculosis infection better than the mice who did not or received a mix of tuberculosis proteins instead. "While there is a desperate need to develop new tuberculosis vaccines to deal with the global emergency in general, in more developed coun...New study could lead to better treatment of septic shock
... to maintain blood pressure and use antibiotics to fight the infection. But antibiotics can backfire, Klabunde noted. As the bacteria that cause septic shock die, they may release a toxin into the bloodstream, making the situation worse. No single drug exists to combat septic shock, and it's not clear ......lead to the development of a new class of drugs to fight HIV infection-an entirely new approach in the anti-HIV arsenal, Greene said. Current drugs, such as reverse transcriptase and protease inhibitors, stop key viral protein enzymes from catalyzing reactions necessary to maintain the HIV viral life cycle...Decoy molecule that fights food poisoning might help defeat other toxins
...he United States. The same method might be used to fight similar toxins, including those associated with an... block the spread of them all. A decoy modified to fight HIV, for example, would battle the gp120 protein that allows the virus' expansion, but should not be...Potential new anthrax therapy discovered
...n Collier and colleagues may offer a better way to fight back before or after infection. The researchers tested whether they could prevent infection using forms of the anthrax bacterium with a mutation in a toxin subunit dubbed "protective antigen." When protective-antigen mutants were injected together wi...... Monoclonal antibodies are powerful agents in the fight against cancer, and Campath is the first humanized monoclonal antibody indicated for the treatment of B-CLL and will provide a new option for patients who have failed standard therapies....Novel, even unlikely drugs may curb childhood leukemia
...2 may kick-start the bodys immune system to better fight leukemia. Taming cancer cells Some experimental new treatments rely on methods that neutralize or disrupt cancer cells rather than killing them outright in a frontal attack. "Most conventional cancer drugs rely on lysis, in which a direct attack b......allow the design of stronger or different drugs to fight infection or cancer. There are, in fact, hundreds of species of Streptomyces, and more than two dozen are currently being used to improve human and animal health. The drugs must be created directly from the soil-borne organisms, though, and...Tea fights cavities, reduces plaque
Drinking tea may help fight cavities. A group of researchers from the University of Illinois College of Dentistry believe that black tea and its components benefit oral healh by interfering with the harmful plaque bacteria in the mouth that cause gum disease and cavities. The...NIH launches online AIDS oral history project
..., especially in terms of remaining vigilant in our fight against HIV/AIDS in the United States and in bringing the benefits of AIDS research to poorer countries around the world," comments Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "Dr. Harden's office has done a great service to the public and to medical historians in docum...Resistance training complements aerobic exercise for women
... as important as aerobic exercise for women in the fight against fat, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins and Arizona State universities. The study found that after women did a series of resistance exercises involving weights, their bodies' energy expenditure was raised for up to two hours after the ...... production, increasing the supply of Th1 cells to fight against some parasite-caused illnesses or intracellular bacterial infections such as tuberculosis, or pumping up the supply of Th2 cells to combat autoimmune diseases and extracellular microbes such as intestinal worms. In their work, Reiner and his...Biotechnology promises major advances for U.S. Army
... historically promoted the development of drugs to fight diseases, such as malaria, prevalent in the world's poorest regions. "By 2020, an estimated 7 billion to 8 billion people will live in less affluent areas of the world," states the report. "Because it must be prepared to deploy forces in these areas,......all the proteins in the body, including those that fight disease, metabolize drugs and perform a host of other critical functions. Many gene families, like the important cytochrome P450 family responsible for metabolizing drugs and toxic compounds, generate nearly identical RNA sequences that produce prot...Science, engineering and technology news tips
...bodies are proteins made by the immune system that fight disease by sticking to bacteria, viruses and cancerous cells. They are highly specific to one target. In theory, an antibody directed against a tumor cell could carry a toxin or a dose of radiation straight to the tumor. Some clinical trials of thes...Global consortium announces plans to sequence banana genome
... of years and lack the genetic diversity needed to fight off disease. A coordinated effort by scientists worldwide is needed to unlock the diversity found in bananas that still grow and reproduce in the wild." The International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP), a program of the...Plants vs. disease: 'Trench warfare at the molecular level'
...r destructive agents to plants, and how the plants fight back. "It's like radar detecting an incoming missile" says Gregory B. Martin, senior scientist at BTI and a Cornell plant pathologist. "Consider it trench warfare at the molecular level." While Cornell and BTI are both located in Ithaca, N.Y., Mar...Researchers gain better understanding of deadly autoimmune heart ailment that affects young adults
...the adaptive immune system to mount a response and fight off the infection. It is during this learning phase, the researchers believe, that complement plays a critical role in the development of autoimmune myocarditis. For the study, Dr. Rose and his colleagues examined mice infected with a coxsackie virus...Tenth edition of Hopkins guide to AIDS care marks historic milestone in battle against AIDS
...nce in changing AIDS care from a desperate, losing fight into a life-saving assault on one of the greatest pandemics in human history. The new edition has 300 references to publications in 2000-2001 indicating the velocity of new information in the field. But the 10th edition also shows that AIDS still pos...