Pouch's newfound role tied to potential new treatment for malaria
...most commonly used drug against malaria. In fact, resistance has been documented in more than 70 countries, mostly in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Docampo and colleagues have found that analogs of pyrophosphate -- chemical compounds already used extensively to fight osteoporosis and other bone-related disea......ch suggests that even if you get diversity-induced resistance on a small scale, it won't necessarily translate to the scale of the whole ecosystem. "Hotspots of native diversity are often going to be hotspots of invader diversity if invader propagules are abundant in a region." Propagules are seeds or p...Memory, forgetfulness help hamsters time breeding
... the National Academy of Sciences. "There was some resistance to calling this phenomena 'memory,' because it doesn't fit into the established categories," lead author Brian Prendergast , now a postdoctoral researcher at The Johns Hopkins University, says. He notes that scientists had previously theorized that...Key DNA enzyme can tolerate more mutations than expected
...ecomes more likely that the organism may develop a resistance mutation. Meanwhile, Loeb's laboratory now has a library of 8,000 Taqs that scientists will now scrutinize for other uses. Some of these variations may have uses in biotechnology, Patel says. Loeb's laboratory has been inserting random sequences...Clinical trial will test controlled 'drug holidays' to counter HIV
...ential side effects such as the emergence of viral resistance or an acceleration of disease progression will be carefully monitored," says Jay Kostman, M.D., principal clinician for the trial and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Presbyterian Medical Center in the University of Pennsylvania Health...Weight training helps to maintain good health, study finds
... has shown, and other research supports this, that resistance training is not a bad thing," said Staron, an asso...g apparent that any activity is good, whether it's resistance training, endurance training or a combination of both. There are some benefits you can get from stre...Targeted Genetics presents clinical data on E1A cancer gene therapy
...osis, increased tumor formation and metastasis and resistance to chemotherapeutic agents....The glycemic index: Rethinking diet and cardiovascular risk
...e risk in individuals with high degrees of insulin resistance and glucose intolerance."...UH lab identifies first gene mutations in blood vessel disease
... interest because it has been associated with drug resistance that occurs when drug compounds are not carried across the cell membrane into the cell. ABC transporters do not typically carry calcium, but miscoding in the gene may cause misdirection of the transporters.The findings by the UH group were reported i...Study seems to show why French suffer less heart disease, cancer
...cted to cancer-killing chemicals. After developing resistance to chemotherapy, cancer cells they studied continued reproducing and showed no ill effects from the treatment. Last year, the scientists used a novel cancer gene therapy strategy to block NF-kappa B in mice with I-kappa B. Human tumors growing in th...Fruit fly model could explain how mosquitoes carry malaria: new drugs and vaccines on the horizon
...istant," Schneider explains. In fact, chloroquine resistance continues to increase in Africa, and with fears of toxicity and decreased efficacy for sulfadoxine/pyrimithamine, the World Health Organization has declared that there is an urgent need for an affordable, effective and safe alternative to chloroquine...New mechanism of drug resistance found in cancer cells
... discovered an entirely new mechanism of drug resistance in cancer cells, and, possibly, a means to overcome the resistance in patients. The study, published in the July 11 issue of the Proceedings of th...Tailoring new cotton genes for industry
...gard, Australia's transgenic cotton, has a natural resistance to a major pest, the cotton bollworm. Growth of Ingard cotton has resulted in a drop of 40-50% in overall pesticide use as measured over three seasons from 1996-99. 90% of Australian cotton is exported to buyers in Indonesia, Korea and Japan and its ...... because it would encourage further development of resistance of variousbacteria to it. "The growing resistance of microbes to this drug is alreadya major infectious disease and public health problem," said Dr. F...U-M scientist finds molecule plants use to control early cell development
...ilar structures also are involved in plant disease resistance and human hormone signaling. Understanding how CLV1 and CLV3 work will help scientists understand how the others work, as well." Like most scientific research, Clark says his discovery raises as many questions as it answers. One big mystery involve...Ozone found to have direct effect on genes linked with plants' aging
...lp other researchers find a way to bolster plants' resistance to ozone, a critical component of smog, which caus...rs have shown, it may be possible to enhance ozone resistance in plants simply by selecting plant varieties with higher levels of anti-oxidants....Genetic 'switch' key to biotech patent royalties
...ld be used to turn on, or turn off, a crop plant's resistance to a herbicide." After finishing his bachelor's degree in chemistry at Ohio State University, Keller went on to complete his doctoral degree in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1976. Three years later, he came to UAF and has bee...Virginia Tech teams with US Army on exercise research
... investigate the effects of 30 weeks of isokinetic resistance exercise on the non-dominant arms and legs of part...ants. The exercises do not employ free weights for resistance but use a special exercise machine, the Biodex, which controls the speed of the working muscles, thu...Zirconate material will improve plutonium storage safety
...team performed a systematic study of the radiation resistance of gadolinium titanate, the ceramic currently proposed for plutonium immobilization, and zirconate compositions. Results indicate that the titanate will be damaged by radiation in less than 1,000 years. The zirconate will not sustain damage for per......ral resistance, but the fungus often overcame that resistance within a short time. And use of chemicals to control blast has become both pervasive and expensive, especially considering that this is a cheap, mass-produced crop for use as a dietary staple. Normally, rice producers in China might choose to produce...