Growing new breed of vaccine-producing plants to fight human diseases worldwide
...Norwalk Virus and hepatitis B. Norwalk Virus is a major cause of gastrointestinal infection and diarrhea. Diarrheal diseases kill at least two million people in the world each year, most of them children, Arntzen noted. Ongoing research is focused on development of minimal processing technolog...Cutting-edge cancer researchers sought for international recognition
...rothy P. Landon Foundation-AACR Prizes. These two major international prizes recognize seminal basic and translational cancer research discoveries at the cutting edge of scientific novelty and significance. Eligible candidates are active, recently published scientists who have made extraordinary advances ...Children's Hospital Boston receives more than $10 million to help make smallpox vaccine safer
...in the smallpox vaccine. The risk of EV has been a major barrier to reintroducing widespread smallpox immunization. Routine vaccination ended in the U.S. in 1972, so many Americans lack immunity to smallpox, which is now seen as a potential weapon of bioterrorism. Most susceptible to EV are the millions o...Yale scientists visualize details of how hepatitis C unwinds RNA
...ndings are particularly important because NS3 is a major drug target against HCV and understanding the helicase function will aid in the development of HCV inhibitors. Pyle's results contradict the idea that helicases move smoothly with the continuous action of a snow plow. Instead, NS3 moves with a discon...First International Scientific Conference on Childhood Leukaemia
...other potentially serious health problems. Another major worry is that the incidence of leukaemia in the under 5s is rising and we don't know why. These concerns are bringing together international experts from Europe, Australia, Asia and the USA to present new data and to exchange information on every as...Good bacteria trigger proteins to protect the gut
...nnate immune system to attack. "It's always been a major paradox that our immune system evolved to recogniz... Medzhitov said that his team's findings have two major clinical implications. First, he said, they will likely affect the clinical practice of treating can...Geologists discover water cuts through rock at surprising speed
... to see how similar their histories are to the two major rivers sampled so far, the Susquehanna and Potomac." ...New view of leukemia cells identifies best treatment options, Stanford researchers say
...r number of notes to the wrong counterpart. A major difference between people who did and did not respond to chemotherapy was the way in which their cells responded to environmental signals. The cells that handed messages down the wrong set of pathways were able to avert the normal cell-death signals ...Scientists discover new intricacies in how ulcer bugs stick to stomach
...dition, resistance to standard drug therapies is a major problem in these countries. H. pylori can survive in human stomachs for decades, employing many tricks to do so. To avoid being flushed out by digestive processes, the bacteria stick to cells lining the stomach wall, from which they also steal nu...Microarrays, key genome expression trackers, work better when probes are sequence-verified
...hat removing unverified probe sets allowed for the major component of change to be related to the underlying biology (in this data set, breast cancer) as opposed to the source of the experiments. "As combining data from multiple microarray platforms/technologies is certain to prove a common method, our re...Healthy fats and oils essential to satisfy calorie-conscious consumers
...texture of regular cream cheese. Since spreads are major sources of dietary fat and extremely popular among consumers, researchers are taking active steps to reduce their fat content by replacing sweeteners with corn syrup. Corn syrup spreads are low in fat and calories and they do not compromise on the fl...Joslin Diabetes Center releases new low impact exercise video
...xercises on the Keep Moving! video, improved their major blood vessel function by approximately 80 percent, regardless of whether or not they had type 2 diabetes. "Physical limitations often prevent many people who want to improve their fitness from doing so, but these limitations do not ...From orchards and fields to townhouses and offices
...ber of other states. "California has experienced major problems with the encroachment of cities and urban development on farmland," said George Leavitt, farm advisor with the University of California Cooperative Extension, Madera, Calif. "L.A. used to be a huge farming area at one time and the best apric...Why some neonates need caffeine
... -- not to stay awake, but to assist in treating a major sleep disorder found in some neonates. Background Apnea, the absence of breathing, is the most frequently reported disorder of breathing control in premature infants, and neonatal care units habitually use methylxanthine derivatives such as caffei...Researchers identify gene for a primary form of sudden infant death sydrome (SIDS)
.... While many of these infants underwent testing at major medical centers, no abnormalities were found. Males with SIDDT may also have underdeveloped testes. Females appear to be normal and have normal female hormones in blood and urine. Despite these differences, male and female infants with SIDDT died sud......otein diet markedly reduces adipose tissue without major side-effects in Wistar male rats," are Magali Lacr...h the idea that long-term dietary management is of major importance to preventing obesity. This study will not settle the long-standing debate regarding......ns involved in inflammation. "NF-kB is a major cell survival signaling molecule, but it needs to be induced," said Verma. "It normally is found in an inactive form in nearly all cells, but in response to external signals, encourages inflammatory responses and only triggers those responses when it......ides being a summer nuisance, mosquitoes pose some major public health problems, carrying such deadly agents as malaria, yellow fever and West Nile virus. While conventional pesticide application is often effective in controlling mosquito larvae before they hatch, repeated use of these agents has raised se...Significant strides in small regulatory RNA research in plants
...th growing evidence that microRNAs (miRNAs) play a major role in the control of eukaryotic gene expression ...nd there is growing evidence that they represent a major class of regulatory molecule having broad significance in a wide range of developmental processes in...Impact of Earth's rising atmospheric carbon dioxide found in world oceans
...ed data gathered during the 1990s as part of three major research programs: the National Science Foundation... years, he said. Feely and colleagues describe two major impacts of the oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO 2 : They demonstrate that a substantial amount of ...