New study shows hope for treating inhalant abuse
...reclinical and early clinical trials show that GVG holds promise as a treatment for addiction to a variety of abused drugs (see: http://www.bnl.gov/pet/GVG/default.asp ). In October 2002, Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners of Coral Gables, Florida (http://www.catalystpharma.com), received an exclusive...Chemical derived from vitamin-E shows early promise as cancer drug
...seven of untreated counterparts. Kline, who holds the Julian C. Barton Professorship in Nutrition, also investigated how alpha-TEA impacts breast cancer cells, using cells grown in plastic containers. When exposed to alpha-TEA, the cancer cells showed only 20 percent of their normal ability to multi...Researchers find color sensitive atomic switch in bacteria
...ll function and disease states," said Spudich, who holds the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry and is a professor in the UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. "Ask virtually any investigator and you'll find his or her research program bumps up against a membrane." Cell membrane surfac...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...grating different disciplines in entirely new ways holds the promise of opening up currently unimagined avenues of scientific inquiry and, in the process, forming whole new disciplines." In addition to Dartt, and Gilmore, Institute experts involved in the project are Patricia D'Amore, PhD, Co-Investigator ...Gladstone investigator Mike McCune wins prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...n 2000, and a MERIT Award from the NIH in 2001. He holds 20 patents and inventions, and has published over 120 journal articles. ...UT Southwestern biochemist honored with NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...he sheer joy of adventure," said Dr. McKnight, who holds the Sam G. Winstead and F. Andrew Bell Distinguished Chair in Biochemistry and the Distinguished Chair in Basic Biomedical Research. "To be judged by my peers as a pioneer is the highest accolade I could possibly imagine receiving. I'm on cloud nine ...Bush nominates NJIT space explorer Louis Lanzerotti to NSF governing board
... technologies, and those in space. Lanzerotti holds a B.S. in engineering physics from the University of Illinois and masters and doctoral degrees in physics from Harvard University. He has authored more than 500-refereed publications and co-authored or co-edited three books. The Board overse...Researchers devise potent new tools to curb ivory poaching
...ing slaughtered wholesale, said Samuel Wasser, who holds the UW's endowed chair of conservation biology and is director of the Center for Conservation Biology. "My colleagues working in the forests are saying, 'There are no elephants left here,'" he said. "That's the problem in the forest you don't notic...Researchers create nanotubes that change colors, form 'nanocarpet' and kill bacteria
...cking, also self-assembled from the same material, holds it all together. The nanocarpet measures about one micrometer in height, approximately the same height as the free-form nanotubes. "This alignment of nanotubes in the absence of a template is an accomplishment that has eluded researchers," said Dr. R......localities in the Monument. WHY: The specimen holds a wealth of information about dinosaurs prior to their extinction. The find is extremely rare since dinosaurs of this genus are not typically found in this southern region (similar specimens have been located in Montana and Canada). The find may also...Anthrax enzyme images reveal secrets of antibiotic resistance, suggest new drug design
...cteria use DHPS to make folate, the St. Jude study holds promise for solving the growing problem of antibiotic resistance among microorganisms causing tuberculosis, pneumonia and a variety of other diseases, according to Kerim Babaoglu, the paper's first author. "The pharmaceutical industry is reducing its...'Smart antibiotics' may result from UCLA research
...gy, immunology and molecular genetics at UCLA, who holds UCLA's M. Philip Davis Chair in Microbiology and Immunology, and who led the research team. "Bacteriophages ("phages") are nature's anti-microbials, and they are amazingly dynamic. If the bacterium mutates in an effort to evade, the bacteriophage can...Grant advances biochemical engineering laboratory
...al engineering laboratory. Biochemical engineering holds excellent promise to generate and sustain economic development in South Dakota. In fact, it already has, through ethanol plants that have popped up in eastern South Dakota. Several chemical engineering graduates from Tech work in these plants, bring...Yale digital diagnostic technology is basis of new company, HistoRx Inc.
... the Department of Pathology at Yale. HistoRx also holds exclusive license to databases from Yale's tissue ... of human cancer. The School of Medicine's archive holds more than three million tissue samples collected over the past 70 years. Robert Curtis,...Peering inside the body, with a new spinliterally
...en in stationary NMR. But it's living tissue that holds the most promise for this method, Wind said, because there is no good way to see what is happening in many areas of the body, especially at the boundaries of organs and tissues and bone or air cavities such as lungs and sinuses. Here, the large magne...Researchers identify distinctive signature for metastatic prostate cancer
...d that Beachy's "study is very thoroughly done and holds great promise in the search for new treatments for human disease. Quite possibly only some of the cells in a tumor "tumor stem cells" have the especially dangerous property of unlimited growth, so the search for ways to identify such cells is impor...Sugar-coated sea urchin eggs could have sweet implications for human fertility
...esn't activate the purple urchin's sperm. The same holds true for purple urchin eggs and green urchin sperm. That means that just a small chemical change in a sugar molecule can limit fertilization. The discovery, Biermann said, tells evolutionary biologists that sibling species have found different means...Images of 'tail' of protein needed for cell multiplication suggest anticancer drug targets
...cture of the tail and its role in cell replication holds promise that researchers can develop new types of ...of the E2 that binds to NEDD8 and the way the tail holds E2 onto E1 give this workshop a different shape than the ones in the ubiquitin pathway. The slight m...Bacteria use 'molecular lasso' to cop copper
... a tiny, pyramid-shaped compound with a cleft that holds a single atom of copper in place. The bacteria churn out methanobactin molecules in large numbers and send them into the environment to fetch copper. When the compound returns with its booty, it is thought that the copper is incorporated into molecul...Disruption of protein-folding causes neurodegeneration, mental retardation
... specifically remedy this problem. If this finding holds true for other lysosomal storage diseases, the impact could be especially fruitful." d'Azzo is senior author of the Molecular Cell report. GM1, a type of fatty molecule called a lipid, is a critical component of normal neurons. But when the cell lack...