Wild Plant Genes Increase Food Production
...- agricultural practices for the past 100 years -- might be a victim of its own success. While plant breeding techniques have been successful in developing high-yielding rice and tomato species, the process itself threatens the genetic base. New plant varieties are usually derived from crosses between cl...Jefferson Scientists Find Potential Deadly Effects Of Two Missing Cancer-Suppressor Genes
...s perhaps two to three times as quickly as they might die with only one missing gene. They expected that...d females are the extra X or a Y chromosome. It might be that one of the X chromosomes is damaged [beyond repair] or the Y chromosome provides prote...Common Childhood Virus Poses Threat To Adults, Research Shows
...fects of bacterial infection, which indicates they might have acquireda bacterial pneumonia along with or after RSV infection. “Doctors used to think that adults who acquire RSV may get coldsymptoms, not pneumonia,” said Murry. “But in fact, a third ofthe 57 RSV patients in this study had c...Experts: Public Will Accept Irradiation In Wake Of Meat Recall
...ed an outbreak of food-borne illness. It also might have avoided the Hudson Foods recall of 25 million pounds of red meat, including hamburger patties, that may have been contaminated with E. coli, a microorganism that can cause illness and even death in those who consume it. A 1993 E. coli outbreak ...Researchers Discover First Animal Strain Of Hepatitis E Virus
... humans with swine hepatitis E virus might explain the relatively high prevale...uman viruses also suggest that pigs might provide an alternative animal model for studying hepatitis E virus inf...Scientists To Study Effects Of Global Warming On Wetlands
...ies have raised the possibility that globalwarming might result in a lack of physical energy for natural ec...the plant community canopycaused by global warming might significantly affect the energy budget, depending on an ecosystem's resilience to changing condition...Discovery Of Genetic Pathways May Provide New Ways To Combat Candida Infections
...vate or block Candida's filamentation pathways, we might be able to fight the organism's insidious and devastating effects on patients with weak immune systems," says Dr. Fink. "Our study also shows that this genetic pathway is a common theme among fungal pathogens and so may provide important insights on...Molecular Piracy Turns Protein Into Traitor
...would prevent an inflammatory immune response that might clear the virus. "The hope is that by understanding how the virus made this antagonist, we will learn lessons which will help us in the design of our own drugs. The virus has given us a substantial lesson in the rules of drug design", said Dr Tim We...Trojan Horse Virus Controls Hiv Infection
..., "we cannot gaugehow well the potential treatment might work in people." But he regards it as"likely to be safe," and would like to see the concept tested in human clinicaltrials as soon as possible. Such discussions are already under way, but Dr.Rose estimates thepossibility is at least a year away and...Chemists Develop High-Throughput Method To Synthesize And Screen Novel Antibiotics
...ab were effective at the sub-nanogram level. That might make it possible to develop antibiotic skinpatches. The patches have an advantage over pills, because thepatient would not have to remember when to take medicine, anddoctors would not have to worry that the patient did not finishall the medication. T...Wonder Thread: UD Scientists Report First Protein With Collagen And Elastin-Like Domains
...retchy collagen threads produced by marine mussels might someday suggest strategies for developing better a... however, a better understanding of byssal threads might help scientists design biomaterials that take advantage of their remarkable properties, says Harold ...New Description Of Protein May Be Basis For Regulating Cholesterol
... usedcomputer models to describe how the substrate might be folded and shaped intoan active site in the protein, and identified where those sites were located. Terpenes can teach scientists about nature's chemical processes, Cane said.For example, the reactions discovered inside the proteins usually don't...Smoking Mice Lead To Emphysema Breakthrough
...piro says. "Blocking this enzymeor related enzymes might give us a way to halt the disease." Emphysema, almost always caused by smoking, robs lungs of theirelasticity and leaves patients gasping for air. The lungs actually becomeoverinflated, leaving no room for deep breaths. About 2 million Americ...At-Risk Women Want Breast Cancer Gene Test--If 'Pros' Outweigh 'Cons'
...ewdisadvantages from genetic testing. As might be expected, their concerns were related primarily to thepossibility of learning they had inherited a susceptibility to breast cancer. In that event, most said they would worry more than they do now about developingbreast cancer themselves and about ...Plant-Based Therapies Examined For Colon Cancer Prevention
...ive or better thanthe drugs, these plant therapies might be much better tolerated for longerperiods of time than NSAIDs." In the study, Shiff and his colleagues will compare three plant-derivedcompounds, curcumin, rutin and quercetin, to the NSAID sulindac. The study willdetermine whether these ...Notre Dame Paleontologist Finds Damage Done To T. rex Skull
... bones so far unearth, Rigby believes the bone bed might cover 15 acres, making it one of the largest dinosaur graveyards of the Late Cretaceous ever found.......ocorticoids, the researchers hypothesized that Vpr might act through thesame molecular pathway -- binding to the same receptors -- as those drugs.Glucocorticoids are used as chemotherapeutic agents against some cancers andautoimmune disorders, but are also known to inhibit cytokine production and toinduce ...Scientists Find New Trigger For Nerve Cell Death
... If these channels play akey role in apoptosis, it might be possible to use drugs called potassiumchannel blockers to stem potassium loss and prevent nerve cells from dying. Thismight restrict damage to the initially injured area of the brain or spinal cord,allowing patients to recover more fully. ...Further Proof That An Altered Rb-2/p130 Gene Leads To Lung Cancer
...able to anticipate in some patients when cancer might develop." Because he has proven the Rb2 gene is ubiquitous throughout the body’s tissues and organs, he believes that the work may have applications to similar diagnostic tests for other cancers, such as breast, ovarian and en......or a period greater than 10 years."Shorter periods might result in a failure toobserve any beneficial effects of vitamin C on cataract risk," he said. Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, 711Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02111-1524 Phone: (617) 556-3322 Fax: (...