Divorce, Insect Style: Termites Swap Mates
...rmite might invite another male to the nestsite to fight her mate for the right to father and raise her you...in search of a better female. -- Nest mates might fight each other when a potential suitor is near. Bitingoff the tip of a mate's antenna might squelch tho...Virginia Tech Engineers Help Mother Nature Clean Up
...e rapid demise of pollutants. "Engineers try to fight nature,"says Simone Grace, an environmental engineer with Ecolotree, theIowa firm promoting the use of poplar trees. She adds, "Now,the engineers are using nature." One reason Ecolotree selected the poplaris because they can capitalize on the volu...Researchers Take Major Step Toward Cracking Ebola Code
...atory response that is used at a cellular level to fight off thevirus. Another form of this glycoprotein stays bound to the Ebola virus andattaches itself to endothelial cells which line blood vessels, likely causingthe hemorrhaging characteristic of Ebola. This particular glycoprotein was found in Ebola ...Wistar Scientists Identify New Tumor Suppressor Gene For Breast And Lung Cancer
...nterleukin-12, which are helping the immune system fight bacteria, parasites,viruses and cancer; and location of genes that contribute to the development ofdiseases like breast, lung and prostate cancer. Wistar is a National CancerInstitute Cancer Center....Researchers From Rockefeller University Develop Novel Method To Fight Cancer
...ity in New York City have developed anew method to fight cancer by using dendritic cells to activate T cell...o the body's T cells, directingresponses to either fight or tolerate these molecules. (Tolerance is essentialin order to prevent attack against one's own tis...Late Blight Battle Goes Online, Marking 150 Year Struggle Since Irish Potato Famine
... a limited time. Login to www.scisoc.org and help fight the battle. The American PhytopathologicalSociety is a professional scientific organization dedicated to the study andcontrol of plant disease with more than 5,000 members worldwide....UNC-CH Researchers Discover Key Cancer Control Mechanism
... from degrading P53. Then there's notenough P53 to fight tumors." On a one-to-10 scale, Yarbrough said he thought the new finding rated a10. He is interested in the research because he performs surgery on head- andneck-cancer patients. "The fact that one gene makes two products that contr...Predictions For The 21st Century
...next century, scientists will report. New ways to fight disease, the impact of gene mapping and sequencing on chemistry and medicine, and how chemistry can be used to improve the world's standard of living are also among topics that will be discussed by a panel of leading research chemists at the Dallas-b...RNA-Dendritic Cell Combo Shows Promise As A Universal Cancer Vaccine
...n immune system may be the best weapon they haveto fight cancer. The concoction they are testing is an unusual form of gene therapy. Itsultimate goal is to wipe out cancer cells and then keep the body protected fromnew cancer growth but much work remains to be completed before such an agentcould b...Scientists Discover A Secret Of Bacterial Communication
...tive antibioticsor novel therapeutic approaches to fight bacterial infections....Eviction From Scum Home Makes Disease-Causing Microbe Vulnerable
...ignal, checking to see how effectively antibiotics fight themutant Pseudomonas, and hoping to find genes that control theformation of biofilms formed by other bacteria as well.Physicians aren't the only ones who'd like to wipe out biofilms;in industry such bacterial colonies clog pipes in all kinds ofsetti...Scientists Seek Early Warning Of Drinking Water Threats
...e rely exclusively on theirbody's immune system to fight them off. Mortality rates can be high among thosewith undeveloped or weakened immune systems, such as the very young, theelderly, chemotherapy patients, AIDS patients and transplant recipients. In this project, the team will be studying viruses 100 t...Florida Or Bust? Older Lab Rats Seek Heat To Fight Infection, UD Researchers Report
...y suggest drug-freestrategies to help older people fight infections, University of Delawareresearchers repo...ff says, it may ultimately help doctors moreeasily fight infections among older patients. Although Satinoff emphasizes thatthe UD work is still preliminary, ...Weary Tibetan People Find Supporting Hand In ASU Graduate Student
...an plateau in China is helping nomadic yak herders fight two years of savage winters. Biology student Marc Foggin went to the Qinghai Province of China to learn how best to sustain development and ecology on the grasslands of Tibet, one of the harshest environments in the world. His job is to help nomads...Jefferson Scientists Devise Way To Treat Animals Chronically Infected With Hepatitis B
...Medical College may have helped devise a new wayto fight the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Timothy Block, Ph.D., professor ofbiochemistry and molecular pharmacology and medicine at Thomas JeffersonUniversity in Philadelphia, and his colleagues at several institutions havefound that by interfering with a specifi...A Cup Of Tea May Protect Against Skin Cancer
... in the diet have an important role to play in the fight against diseases including cancer. The important new CSIRO study examined the effect of providing tea with 10% milk, (compared to just 10% milk or just water) as the sole drinking fluid on UVA+B induced skin cancer in mice. The key finding was...Wistar Research Yields Information About Colorectal Cancer Cell Invasion
...nterleukin-12, which are helping the immune system fight bacteria, parasites,viruses and cancer; and location of genes that contribute to the development ofdiseases like breast, lung and prostate cancer. Wistar is a National CancerInstitute Cancer Center....Wistar Scientist Awarded American Cancer Society Grant For Research On Gene Therapy
...nterleukin-12, which are helping the immune system fight bacteria, parasites,viruses and cancer; and location of genes that contribute to the development ofdiseases like breast, lung and prostate cancer. Wistar is a National CancerInstitute Cancer Center....Antibodies Know Right From Left
...roteins produced by the immunesystem. Antibodies fight disease-causing intruders, such as viruses, bybinding with the intruders' molecules and thus neutralizing them. Ina study reported in the April 8 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the scientists found that in seeking out appropri...Wistar Scientist Awarded US Army Prostate Cancer Research Program Grant
...nterleukin-12, which are helping the immune system fight bacteria, parasites,viruses and cancer; and location of genes that contribute to the development ofdiseases like breast, lung and prostate cancer. Wistar is a National CancerInstitute Cancer Center....