Enzymes Targeted As Key To Understanding Drug Interactions
...expertise of 22 faculty members believed to be the largest group of experts in the world on drug interactions. The UW investigators are seeking systematic knowledge of how various enzymes -- biochemical catalysts produced by the body -- metabolize drugs. Their research is producing an understanding of the p...Houseflies May Transmit Ulcer Bug
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... workgroup is made possible by CAPITA, the world's largest private library of air pollution literature and computerized data, begun at Washington University more than 20 years ago. Many hundreds of gigabytes are stored at and transferred through CAPITA, which has data that span more than 100 years of Americ...Natural Shelters on Leaves House Plant Bodyguards
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...nosis andtreatment for this disease that is single largest killer of American men andwomen," says Jan L. Breslow, M.D., head of The Rockefeller University'sLaboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism and the immediatepast-president of the American Heart Association (AHA). Nearly 57.5 million Am...Largest Tyrannosaur Fossil Unearthed In Montana
A fossilized skeleton believed to be the largest specimen of aTyrannosaur ever unearthed was found ...of the dinosaur. "What we do knowis that it's the largest carnivore on the planet.," he says. Rigby reports that the pubis, one of three main bones in...Pharmaceuticals Manufactured In Insect Larvae
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...Portions of rock retrieved from the cave where the largest bones were found will be sent to laboratories at the University of Georgiafor dating....Oral Vaccine Protects Infants From Severe Rotavirus Diarrhea
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