Landmark gene agreement announced by Samoan government and UC Berkeley for anti-AIDS drug Prostratin
...olate the Prostratin genes." Despite Prostratin's promise as an anti-AIDS drug, its supply is limited by the fact that the drug has to be extracted from the mamala tree bark and stemwood. Researchers in the laboratory of Jay Keasling, UC Berkeley professor of chemical engineering, plan to clone the genes fr...Landmark agreement between Samoa and UC Berkeley could help search for AIDS cure
...olate the Prostratin genes." Despite Prostratin's promise as an anti-AIDS drug, its supply is limited by the fact that the drug has to be extracted from the bark and stemwood of the mamala tree. Researchers in the laboratory of Jay Keasling, UC Berkeley professor of chemical engineering, plan to clone the g...New study shows hope for treating inhalant abuse
...monly used as inhalants. These results broaden the promise of GVG as a potential treatment for a variety of a...led the study. "More importantly, our results show promise in treating inhalant abuse as it continues to grow as a problem among adolescents." There are curren...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...fferent 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 and Associat...Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
... using defanged listeria bacteria is showing great promise in animal studies, successfully treating new cancers that have spread into the lungs of mice. The mouse study, reported in the Sept. 21 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at Cerus Corp. in Concord, Ca...Gene clusters predict atherosclerosis severity, susceptibility
...rther research we will be able to help fulfill the promise of personalized medicine," Goldschmidt. "This would not have been possible without the collaborations across this institution, as well as the support of the National Institutes of Health." For their experiments, the research collected more than 6...Rice finds 'on-off switch' for buckyball toxicity
...eld of nanotechnology. While buckyballs show great promise in applications as diverse as fuel cells, batteries, pharmaceuticals and coatings, some scientists and activists have raised concerns about their potential toxicity to humans and animals. CBEN's study is the first cytotoxicity study of human cells ex...Anthrax enzyme images reveal secrets of antibiotic resistance, suggest new drug design
... 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 investm...Grant advances biochemical engineering laboratory
...aboratory. 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, bringing valued-added b...Northeastern University receives $12.4 million NSF grant for creation of nanomanufacturing institute
...ss to mass-produce devices aimed at fulfilling the promise of nanotechnology on a larger scale, a key compone...ufacturing. " While shrinking dimensions hold the promise of exponential increases in data storage densities and other electronic, medical and energy applicat...Peering inside the body, with a new spinliterally
...y 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 magnet used in NMR gen...Genetically modified bacterium as remedy for intestinal diseases
...atory agent IL-10. The IL-10 bacterium shows great promise in the battle against chronic inflammations and is now being tested on patients. Klaas Vandenbroucke and his VIB colleagues, under the direction of Pieter Rottiers and Erik Remaut, took the earlier research further and placed the mouse gene with the...Researchers identify distinctive signature for metastatic prostate cancer
...y'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 important," he said...Images of 'tail' of protein needed for cell multiplication suggest anticancer drug targets
...of the tail and its role in cell replication holds promise that researchers can develop new types of drugs targeting the tail or the workshop itself, turning off the unrestrained multiplication of cancer cells. The study also shows that a slight change in a structure common among many enzymes performing simi...New treatment for fibromyalgia
...er 2004 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism, offer the promise of relief for women with fibromyalgia. "Our results suggest that duloxetine improves pain and tenderness, the hallmark characteristics of fibromyalgia," states Lesley M. Arnold, M.D., who coordinated the research at 18 centers, including the Univers...Single isolated mouse skin cell can generate into variety of epidermal tissues
...tipotent power of these stem cells, but also holds promise for possible future application of these techniques for the treatment of human skin and hair conditions, says the study's lead investigator, Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., professor and head of the Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at Rockef...Genuine stem cells found in skin might treat hair loss, wounds
...mice, the presence of such cells in the skin holds promise for regenerative medicine with regard to hair loss and wound healing, the researchers added. Once the essential genetic differences that distinguish embryonic and adult stem cells come to light, they said, the more accessible stem cells in skin might...Skin stem cells give hairless mice hair
...ther in culture." The findings also emphasize the promise that such studies hold for the treatment of such skin disorders as ulcers or injury, as well as the generation of hair follicles from stem cells, she said....Pacific Northwest National Laboratory gets $10 million from NIH to build virtual lung
...s to devise imaging and simulation techniques that promise a better understanding of the fate of airborne contaminants in the respiratory system, to help improve treatments for asthma and other respiratory ailments. The research will culminate in a "pulmonary physiome," a web-based model for researchers and ...Scientists fear new Ebola outbreak may explain sudden gorilla disappearance
...oven successful in monkeys and are showing greater promise in humans. If Ebola outbreak is confirmed, immediately warn all people living in the area to avoid handling dead animals. Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a severe, often-fatal disease that affects humans and non-human primates, such as monkeys, gor...