Researchers identify immune response to tuberculosis infection
BOSTON A new discovery by a scientific team headed by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has found that a group of white blood cells demonstrates previously unrecognized memory characteristics that enable them to launch a sustained immune response against tuberculosis bacteri...Researchers develop first oral drug to treat smallpox infection
...ork was done in collaboration with research groups headed by John Huggins, Ph.D., USAMRIID, Fort Detrick, Maryland and Earl Kern, Ph.D., University of Alabama, Birmingham. The effort was initiated in 1999 when the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) asked the VASDHS/UCSD team to d...Multimillion dollar immunology research directed at edible or nasally delivered vaccines
... ongoing NIH-funded collaborative project with UVa headed by Tracy Wilkins, director of the Fralin Biotechnology Center at Virginia Tech, and Carole Cramer, professor of PPWS. "The idea is to deliver inexpensive vaccines in a form that doesn't require sophisticated medical facilities and equipment," Nessler...Cancer killing gene found by Dartmouth researchers
...essor and chair of pharmacology and toxicology. He headed the research team that included Sutisak Kitareewan, Ian Pitha-Rowe, Sarah Freemantle and David Sekula. Retinoids are natural or synthetic compounds derived from vitamin A. The retinoid all-trans retinoic acid (RA) causes remissions in acute promyelo...Putting microRNAs in their place
...erative disease. An international research group, headed by Dr. Gideon Dreyfuss at UPENN School of Medicine, has successfully identified 31 novel very small RNAs, called microRNAs (miRNAs), and the protein complex that houses them. By identifying the protein components of this complex, the scientists were ...Medicines, caffeine and antibacterial soap among contaminants found in American streams
... USGS research hydrologist Dana Kolpin, Ph.D., who headed the national study. In addition to medications, caffeine and cotinine, a nicotine breakdown product, also were among the most frequently detected compounds. So too were cholesterol and coprostanol, steroids that can be indicative of fecal contaminati...Worm neuron research may lead to powerful model for Parkinson's study
...VUMC that became a program project grant, which is headed by Kevin Strange, Ph.D., professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, and includes Blakely, Miller, and Dr. Al George, professor of Pharmacology and Medicine and director of the Division of Genetic Medicine. "We were very pleased at the generosit...Common microbes survive pressures equal to those found at 50 kilometers inside the Earths crust
...ot about their resilience. The scientific team is headed by Sharma and James Scott at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. They adapted the tools of high-pressure physics to microbiology by using diamond anvil cells to subject two bacteria species-E. coli commonly found in ......are now invertebrates. We are fishing for bait and headed for jellyfish. says Pauly. Ironically, no ocean in the world has had more research dollars and government subsidies for fisheries than the North Atlantic. This is where modern fisheries science started. Yet today, the large fish we find in our local ...Next-generation biomaterials to help body heal itself
...roup at Imperial College Tissue Engineering Centre headed by Professor Polak has analysed how human cells behave when they are attached to scaffolds of a specific bioactive material. They demonstrated that key genes of bone cells involved in bone formation are activated when a bioactive material designed a......nis, a professor in UCSD's Division of Biology who headed the study. "How can evolution possibly introduce big changes into an animal's body shape and still generate a living animal? Creationists have argued that any big jump would result in a dead animal that wouldn't be able to perpetuate itself. And unti......ian, an assistant professor of biology at UCSD who headed the investigation. "What evolution has done is taken a complex process for progression through the cell cycle and used it again to divide the one-celled embryo into its two basic fates, the inside and outside of organisms." The UCSD research team-wh...Hebrew University and Ben-Gurion researchers find that stress causes shift in gene products
...electrical response, says Prof. Hermona Soreq, who headed the research team. Patients who receive drugs that affect their nervous systems may eventually benefit from the recognition that stress renders them more sensitive to these drugs. Furthermore, the findings direct attention to altered mRNAs as targets......ays Ethan Bier, a professor of biology at UCSD who headed the research. This process assures that fingernails grow only on the tips of fingers and two eyes become positioned symmetrically on either side of the nose. Turing suggested that the chemicals responsible for the developmental changes in the embryo,...Introducing the biology of the future
...e and analyze them. But two years ago an EMBL team headed by Bertrand Sraphin developed a new method of teasing proteins attached to entire, intact machines out of living cells. Peer Bork and colleagues at EMBL identified proteins that could be used as bait to fish for the complexes using this technique. Co...White sharks migrate thousands of miles across the sea, new study finds
...r when four sharks tracked for longer durationsall headed offshore into the central and eastern Pacific," noted Block. One male - named Tipfin by PRBO researchers - migrated from the Farallonesto the Hawaiian island of Kahoolawe some 2,280 miles (3,800 kilometers) tothe west, traveling at a minimum velocity......efects, said Beate Ritz, a UCLA epidemiologist who headed the study. More research needs to be done, but these results present the first compelling evidence that air pollution may play a role in causing some birth defects. Researchers conducted the study by matching extensive air pollution monitoring inform...Protein discovery tied to DNA master switch
...ans. The discovery of the new molecule, SET7, was headed by Dr. Yi Zhang, assistant professor of biochemistry at UNC-CH School of Medicine and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. A report of the research is published in the December 21 issue of the journal Molecular Cell. All gene ...Prizes awarded in the 2002 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme
...arch Centre at Kiel University. Since 1999, he has headed the research centre as its director. Wolf-Christian Dullo is interested in palaeoclimatology and palaeo-oceanography, particularly in the examination of reef limestone. He has developed a method of analysis for the examination of quarternary reefs, s......omplex systems. Each chapter of Genes & Signals is headed by an illustrative, philosophical, or whimsical quote. For the final chapter heading, Ptashne and Gann echo the unifying theme of Genes & Signals with the words of Oscar Wilde: "We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces."...