UT-Houston Awarded $2.5 Million For Scleroderma Research
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...gressors, and will report important new data from their cohort at the upcoming Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy later this month. "Studies of long-term nonprogressors have contrib...Wonder Thread: UD Scientists Report First Protein With Collagen And Elastin-Like Domains
.... But, he adds, "It's fun to dream about versatile new materials for a whole host of products--from steel...us strong yet flexible might suggest, for example, new strategies for designing more comfortable and pliable artificial skin," Slavkin says. Curious Forms......ys Grandy. "Consequently, the D4 receptor may be a new target for the treatment of drugabuse." Grandy exp... isused to treat schizophrenia. Recently, several new D4-selective drugs that aresimilar to clozapine have been developed and are currently undergoing cli...New Description Of Protein May Be Basis For Regulating Cholesterol
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... week's edition of ScienceOnline willfind a unique new feature, Science's first peer-reviewed article writtenexclusively as a publication for the World Wide Web. Co-authors DouglasDeutschman (San Diego State University), Simon Levin (Princeton University),Catherine Devine (Cornell Theory Center), and Lin...Smoking Mice Lead To Emphysema Breakthrough
... already using the finding to search for potential new drugs. Steven D. Shapiro, M.D., associate...like symptoms in normal mice. "There hasn't been a new drug foremphysema in 20 years, and that was oxygen," Shapiro says. "Blocking this enzymeor related e...New Mechanism To Explain Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Identified
...on monoxide (CO) poisoning that may somedaylead to new clinical approaches for dealing with exposure to this deadly gas. The scientists report their findings, which challenge the textbook definition ofCO toxicity, in the September issue of Chemical Research in Toxicology. Each year, carbon monox...New, Environmentally Friendly Technique For Separating Liquids Invented At UNC-CH
CHAPEL HILL -- An "exciting" new industrial process for separatingliquid chemicals ...e University of California atBerkeley. The new work employs carbon dioxide, or CO2, because it is a common,inexpensive and harmless gas, DeSimone s...NIH Office Of Dietary Supplements Expands Research Support
... of Health (NIH) today announced support for three new research grants to explore the potential role of d...in health promotion and disease prevention. These new projects bring to eight the number of studies now being funded by the ODS in conjunction with select...Pharmaceuticals Manufactured In Insect Larvae
...from bugs to drugs. Thanks to the confluence of a new technology in virology and a recent patent in rearing insects, scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. (BTI), located at Cornell University, have found a better way to produce commercial quantities of recombinant pharmaceut...Imaging Studies Illuminate Brain's Response To Cocaine
...ic brain areas thatmight be targeted in developing new medications to either block individualaspects of cocaine's effects - like the rush versus the craving experience - oras broader treatments for cocaine abuse and addiction." Additional funding forthis study was provided by the National Heart, Lung, an...Bowman Gray Scientists Find Novel Way To Block AIDS Virus
... from ever invading whiteblood cells. This new strategy, described in the Oct. 1 issue of the journal NatureMedicine, points to a fundamental new way to treat patients with HIV-1infection or patients with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS...Scientists Find New Trigger For Nerve Cell Death
..."If our hypothesis proves correct, it will open up new possibilities forprotecting nerve cells in patient...manipulating potassium channels also may provide a new therapeutic strategyfor slowing neuronal degeneration in Alzheimer's disease," Choi says....New Way To Drive Chemical Reactions: Collision Of Liquids At High Speed
...lick said. "So, it'snot very often that we find a new way to drive chemistry, especially oneas simple as fast-moving liquids. Although we can create very-high-energychemistry using these liquid jets, the reaction rates are pretty slow sofar." Suslick and graduate students Millan Mdleleni and Jeff Ries...Brain-Activity Data Clarify Contradictions In Earlier Anxiety Research
...activity arises in the brain,researchers say. The new findings, reported by University of Illinois resea...etween the brain's left andright hemispheres. The new findings, said U. of I. psychologist Wendy Heller,may clear up the confusion. "Worry seems to be as...Further Proof That An Altered Rb-2/p130 Gene Leads To Lung Cancer
...protein correlated with tumor aggressiveness. This new work strengthens that finding. “We lo... who led the work. The research may lead to a new lung cancer tumor-grading test to enable physicians to determine how much Rb-2/p130 protein ...New "Wonder Peanut" Beats Olive Oil In Healthful Benefits
GAINESVILLE -- A new "wonder peanut" being harvested for the first time...oduct," he said. "Longer shelf life also gives the new peanut an edge in taste. In industry meetings, where many varieties of peanuts are handed out and te...Photocatalytic Air Cleaning System Promises To Help Allergy Sufferers
... --- Allergy and asthma sufferers soon may have a new weapon in their fight against airborne enemies: an indoor-air cleaning system that uses light and simple chemicals to destroy the dust mites and mold spores that cause many allergies. Developed at the University of Florida's Solar Energy and ...