Discovery Of Genetic Pathways May Provide New Ways To Combat Candida Infections
... and few anti-fungal agents can kill fungi without harming normal human cells. The drug fluconazole is one of the few antibiotics that works without severe side effects, but increasingly, physicians are encountering fungal strains that are resistant to fluconazole. Scientists had suspected that one key to...Research Indicates Molecule Sabotage May Slow Brain Cancer
... block the glioma cells'ability to travel, without harming healthy cells." BEHAB, also known asbrevican, appears to be a prime candidate for this type of therapy because itexists in glioma tumors, but not in other kinds of brain tumors or tissue in thebody, according to the scientists. In the new st......g, may feed microorganisms or create freeradicals, harming the patient whose clotted blood is unable to produce theanti-free-radical components normally found in flowing blood, says Heng. Lower Oressures, Lightweight Equipment Researchers of the Sandia-Numotech venture make use of much lower pressures,int...USGS Scientists Find New Invasive Fish Species In Florida
...s spreading and has the capability of invading and harming freshwater ecosystems throughout the Southeast, including the already-besieged Everglades system, according to the U.S. Geological Survey scientists who found the species in Florida. The exotic creature is a highly adaptable predator, able to breathe......itors can stop a parasite from replicating without harming the host cell,2says McKerrow. This proof of the concept could pave the way for new treatmentsfor other kinds of infections, and perhaps for diseases such as cancer andarthritis which also involve the action of cysteine proteases, he says. Chagas1 di...Researchers Grow Healthy Human Placental Cells For Drug Research
... that a woman can take during pregnancy without harming her fetus. The cells provide scientists with the means to observe what happens to drugs that pass through a healthy placenta, not excised placental tumors or aborted placental tissue which are normally used in the laboratory. Dougl...Study: Microgravity May Enhance Gene Transfer In Plants
...it. Normally, the bacteria simply die off without harming the plant. But the rate ofinfection was so high in microgravity that it blocked the vascular system of theplants. On future missions, Bula says the problem can be corrected in part byusing less bacteria than is needed on earth. Why are genes behavi...University Of Toronto team discovers salt tolerance gene in plants
...+antiport, prevents the sodium ions from salt from harming the cell and creates abalance of ions in the cell that draws water into the plant cell by osmosis. "By successfully genetically engineering a plant to have this salt managementsystem, we've opened up the possibility of modifying economically importa...Searching for biochemical markers in children of alcoholics
...ive behaviors such as driving while intoxicated or harming others while in an alcohol-induced rage. "Yes, these people are wired to a susceptibility," he said. "This doesn't mean that the person has no options, no control over it, that they're a victim completely." Wand said that alcoholism is like diab...Researchers find key to growing, differentiating human cells
... take during pregnancy without harming her fetus. A forest of microscopic polyester fibers anchor living cells in the bioreactor. This allows cells to grow and reproduce as they do in the body, clinging to the fibers as they wou...An alternative form of chemotherapy? A means for reusable spacecraft?
...which are resistant to common antibiotics) without harming human red blood cells. This peptide and related compounds may represent a new type of chemotherapy treatment for bacterial infections in humans. Matthew Dickerson and Raymond Unocic -- Ohio State University Matthew Dickerson and Raymond Unocic have...Suspect list shortens for maternal aggression's brain origins
...gins in humans. To prevent strange male mice from harming their offspring, female mice with pups normally attack any such mouse who comes into their area. A few mouse moms, however, fail to show this response. Gammie divided mice into groups based on this distinction, compared the two groups for presence o...Preserving Moroccan forests need not endanger Barbary macaques
...lessly: there is a way to help the cedars without harming the macaques, according to new research in the February issue of Conservation Biology. "This is a battle for conservation -- if the macaques are moved, they are destined to complete extinction," says Andrea Camperio Ciani of the University of P...Scientists find new supressor gene involved in breast, prostate and other cancers
...le to come up with a way to kill the tumor without harming the patient." Zenklusen, Conti and Green, are co-authors of the paper, "Mutational and functional analyses reveal that ST7 is a highly conserved tumor suppressor gene on human chromosome 7q31," which appears in the April issue of the journal Nature G...Researcher finds that important fungal "scaffolding" genes belong to one of four classes
...ble to disrupt that division in crop pests without harming the crops. While medical and agricultural uses of the knowledge about septins is still some years away, the basic science aspects of these scaffold proteins is growing rapidly. Momany and her team, for example, have used a recently developed genomic...Household ant invasions are determined by weather, not pesticide use, new study finds
...nt killers when there`s no infestation, we`re only harming ourselves.`` Gordon advocates using alternative methods to eliminate marauding ants during cycles of rain and drought. ``Try plugging up holes in walls where ants might enter or using Windex to wipe up ant trails once they arrive,`` she suggests. ``...University of Georgia unveils technique to improve success rate of cattle cloning
...nt so there is more product to meet demand without harming the environment and to allow us to produce more on a smaller quantity of land. This research is certainly a step in that direction."...University of Georgia unveils technique to improve success rate of cattle cloning
...nt so there is more product to meet demand without harming the environment and to allow us to produce more on a smaller quantity of land. This research is certainly a step in that direction."...Rutgers researchers find black tea 'bullet' that targets colorectal cancer
...to target and kill colorectal cancer cells without harming surrounding healthy cells. The research at the de...t killed virtually all of the cancer cells without harming the normal ones. "The TF-2 compound apparently caused the cancer cells to commit suicide," says Che...Yale researchers develop new molecule that eradicates cancer by destroying tumor blood vessels
...umors for destruction by the immune system without harming vessels in normal tissues. "Our study resulted in...hat in order to target tumor blood vessels without harming the normal blood vessels, a molecule that is expressed specifically on the inner surface of the tumo...