Triple-vaccine strategy stimulates strong HIV-specific immune response in monkeys
...istar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania report success in monkeys of an innovative triple-vaccine... program leader at Wistar and senior author on the report published in the July issue of the Journal of Virology. "The next best thing may be to develop a vac...Asian bird flu became highly pathogenic through continued circulation and gene swapping
...e initial human outbreak in Hong Kong in 1997. The report traces the origins of the outbreaks of highly path...epending on which gene or genes it acquired. The report in Nature also notes other indications that H5N1 could evolve into a worldwide threat to humans: the...OHSU scientists find gene influencing drug withdrawal
...a mental escape from their current situation. This report focused on withdrawal because it can motivate a person to continue drug use and abuse, and contribute to the downward spiral of addiction." The study focused on a chromosomal region previously shown to affect both alcohol and barbiturate dependence a...UNC research accelerates discovery of novel gene function
...e library to analyze a specific gene function. The report appears in the July issue of Molecular Therapy, the American Society of Gene Therapy's journal. "All the genes in the human genome have now been sequenced, but the problem is that we don't know their function," said Dr. Tal Kafri, principal investiga...National study shows dog and cat allergens are universally present in U.S. homes
... were common even in homes without the pets. This report by Arbes et al., which will appear in the July 2004 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, is one of a series of allergen reports from the National Survey of Lead and Allergens in Housing. In that nationally representative survey of......from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology report an exciting discovery about a plant trait that determines the composition of the herbivore community, which was made by genetically silencing different components of a signaling pathway that mediates induced resistance in a native plant, and planting...As humans alter land, infectious diseases follow
...animal and wildlife populations," according to the report compiled by the Working Group on Land Use Change a...f human activities on the spread of pathogens, the report notes, is limited to only a few diseases. In the northeastern United States, for example, studies ha...Only 21 states offer newborn screening tests recommended by March of Dimes
... according to the non-profit's 2004 state-by-state report card on newborn screening. The March of Dimes is ...ortant tests," Dr. Howse says. "I'm encouraged to report today that since this time last year, the number of states that test for the nine core metabolic dis...Bacterial protein recycling factor possible key to new class of antibiotics
...teins. In this latest chapter, Kaji and colleagues report the three-dimensional image of RRF bound to the E. coli ribosome. In an earlier paper by Kaji and colleagues from Sweden, the crystal structure of RRF showed that RRF mimics the L-shape and dimension of tRNA. Chemical probing by Kaji and colleagues ...Deserts and rainforests are equally productive during drought
...ale and Travis Huxman at the University of Arizona report that, from desert to rainforest, during drought conditions, the maximum rain use efficiency (RUEmax), or effective productivity of plant growth per unit of precipitation converges to a common value. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Intern...Kaposi's sarcoma virus 'reprograms' blood vessel cells into lymphatic cells
...of cells that usually line lymphatic vessels. The report from researchers at the Cutaneous Biology Research...expression. "As far as I know, this is the first report of a switch from one differentiated cell type to another," says Detmar. "Although clinical applicat...National Academies Advisory: June 25 UN public briefing on agriculture in Africa
...ltural productivity and sustainability, says a new report from the InterAcademy Council, an international group of science academies that includes the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The report, REALIZING THE PROMISE AND POTENTIAL OF AFRICAN AGRICULTURE: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING AG...'Search and destroy' protein turns tables on HIV
...y and biophysics, and colleagues at the university report the discovery in a paper to be published online June 24 in the journal Current Biology. In an individual infected with HIV, the virus uses the human cellular machinery to assemble new viral particles. But sometimes those particles contain time bombs:...New York City study shows newborns more susceptible to pollution than their mothers
...ed scientific journal published by NIEHS. The full report is available online at http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/ . Results of the study, the first of its kind in New York City, were released today by the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, part of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia ...Study sheds new light on genetic risk for Parkinson's disease
... not a risk factor in Parkinson's disease. A report of the findings appears this week in the June issu...often viewed as similar age-related disorders, the report said.The new results may be surprising, even paradoxical, Huang said, but she added that the Parkins...Growing replacement teeth and dental tissues
...m and transplanted to an ectopic site. The latter report is pivotal in that it demonstrates that uncommitted mesenchymal stem cells, in association with oral epithelium, can be instructed to mimic developmental events leading to growth of a tooth structure comprised of enamel, dentin, and pulp, with a morp...Stem cells commit to a future of fat with one signal
...al Academy of Sciences , Johns Hopkins researchers report finding a key signal in mice that tells stem cells to commit to becoming fat cells. The Hopkins team discovered that adding a single protein, dubbed BMP4, induced mouse stem cells to become fat cells. A very similar signal is likely to be involved...Newly grown kidneys can sustain life in rats
... drugs. Hammerman and Rogers published their first report on growing kidneys in 1998. They are currently working to perfect pig-to-rat xenotransplantation of kidney primordia. If they can extend life in pig-to-rat transplants, the next steps are pig-to-primate and then pig-to-human transplants. "Therapies b...Stonehenge study tells pagans and historians it's good to talk
...ery, and the ancient guardian of a hidden past. A report from their 'Sacred Sites, Contested Rights/Rites' project, comes at a time when considerable alliances have been formed at a public inquiry in Salisbury by groups fighting redevelopment plans for the Stonehenge area. These include a tunnel to take th...New national research effort needed to secure clean, adequate water supply in coming decades
...f the country, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies' National Research Cou...ee said, can be found in the 2001 Research Council report ENVISIONING THE AGENDA FOR WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH IN THE 21ST CENTURY. However, the research area...