Symptoms of foodborne botulism may help predict fatality
... also indicate a stroke, he said, "doctors need to recognize when patients have botulism, not a stroke, and then institute treatment quickly." Co-author Dr. Jeremy Sobel of the CDC emphasized that the study's findings were specific to the type of botulism found in the Republic of Georgia's soil, and reiterated...8 environmental stewards win $900,000 in biodiversity awards
...ship Award and receive US$60,000 each. The awards recognize previous and potential excellence. Winners may use their awards in any way they like, though all winners so far have plowed their funds back into biodiversity projects. There is no application process for the awards; nominations and selections are ma...Casanova or caveman: Scientists isolate nerve cells that choreograph male fly's courtship behavior
...ics of fly behavior, you find an innate ability to recognize somebody who is the right species and is the right sex," Baker said. "You tap them and get their attention, you play them a love song and so on. So the basic rudiments are pretty similar to what people do to get successful mating and produce an offsp...Cutting-edge cancer researchers sought for international recognition
...AACR Prizes. These two major international prizes recognize seminal basic and translational cancer research di...-AACR Prizes offer an unprecedented opportunity to recognize the best work of the top cancer research scientists today," said Margaret Foti, Ph.D., M.D. (h.c.), ...Colleagues to recognize research leadership in cancer detection, prevention and treatment
...ion of potential anti-tumor drugs. The award will recognize outstanding contributions in the fields and encompass anticancer, antiviral and antifungal agents. Nutrition, cancer and cancer prevention:AACRDeWitt S. Goodman Memorial Lectureship. Supported by anonymous contributions from two AACR members, the a...Good bacteria trigger proteins to protect the gut
... a major paradox that our immune system evolved to recognize pathogenic microorganisms and to react to them wit...only the bacterial surface molecules by which TLRs recognize the pathogens, they found these molecules alone were enough to completely protect the mice from dama...The blind really do hear better
...life). The groups were tested for their ability to recognize changes in pitch. The subject listened to a pair of tones and had to decide whether the second tone was higher or lower than the first. 'Early blind' subjects outperformed the other groups in every task, continuing to make correct distinctions as ...New view of leukemia cells identifies best treatment options, Stanford researchers say
...ignals triggered by chemotherapy. Learning to recognize the pathways most commonly disrupted in aggressive cancers could help researchers predict which patients won't respond to standard chemotherapy. Doctors could immediately propose that the person consider less common therapies. "This is the first...HIV reveals evolution of a primate defense against intragenomic infiltrators
... for advantage, with Vif maximizing its ability to recognize APOBEC3G and APOBEC3G doing its best to evade Vif. Such battles are thought to result in frequent mutations that alter the amino acids involved in the interaction; the perpetuation of such advantageous mutations is called positive selection. As predi...UGA named recipient of $5.6 million grant from NSF for corn improvement
...ticists at UGA. "We feel that people don't recognize the percentage of grants coming here from plants," said Dawe. "It's a substantial fraction of the overall amount. We have one of the world's strongest plant genomics groups." He praised former Vice President for Research Joe Key and outgoing dean of ...Researchers discuss revised Food Guide Pyramid and what it will mean for the food industry
... He noted that although over 80 percent of people recognize the pyramid, two-thirds are overweight or obese. According to Hentges, people should be prepared for the revised guidelines to be based on a more individualized model than we have seen in the past, allowing people to make choices within the food gui...Patients' cells from tumors, the immune system merged for customized cancer therapy
...resenting immune cells that train T cells to hunt, recognize and destroy the patients' tumor cells. "We aimed t... develops T cells, which are white blood cells, to recognize foreign proteins, cells, and other matter that causes disease or infection. Tumor cells produce prot...Findings suggest need for new view of p53 cancer protein's interaction with DNA
...and would therefore explain how these two proteins recognize the same DNA sequence. "This would have important implications for the development of anti-cancer drugs targeting the activity of p53, because these drug development efforts will require a very detailed understanding of how p53 binds DNA," Halazoneti...New study in moths shows insects not entirely ruled by instinct
...h between odors, we could 'train' these animals to recognize any detectable odor of interest," he said. The findings currently appear online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The electrodes placed in the moths' brains registered the activity of neurons. Electrodes were also placed on feed...UCSD biologists discover cell's defense mechanism against class of disease-causing bacterial toxins
... Cry5B can't hurt humans because the toxin doesn't recognize human cells, it hurts worms in a manner similar to the pore-forming toxins that affect humans. Aroian and his student discovered that when C. elegans is exposed to either a low dose of Cry5B toxin for a long period of time or a high dose of the toxi...Crystal structure for anthrax-cell binding complex
...ctor (EF). To gain entry into host cells, PA must recognize a receptor on the surface of the target cell. Once PA has bound to the cell, it then enables EF and LF to bind and form a pore through which PA forces EF and LF into the cell in a syringe-like action. Liddington's laboratory, together with Stephen L...JCI table of contents, 1 July 2004
...tivated memory T cell subsets from cancer patients recognize and reject xenotransplanted autologous tumors AUTHOR CONTACT: Viktor Umansky German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. Phone: 49-621-383-3773; Fax: 49-621-383-2163; Email: v.umansky@dkfzheidelberg.de View the PDF of this article at: htt...How DNA repair machinery is a 'Two-Way Street'
...w the mismatch repair system is flexible enough to recognize such a triggering strand break on either side of the mismatch along the DNA strand, said Modrich. In the Molecular Cell paper, he and his colleagues have defined the protein components of the machinery that allows such bidirectionality and figured ou......h needs of swimming pools, offering tips on how to recognize risky swimming facilities and how to promote cleaner, healthier pools. What's at stake, according to noted Michigan State University microbiologist Dr. Joan Rose, is your personal health and the health of your family. "Improperly treated public swim...