Obesity Gene: Possible Link To Heart Disease Risk
...ptin elevations in the blood withso-called insulin resistance syndrome. The syndrome -- characterized by highblood pressure, low levels of the "good" high-density lipoprotein cholesteroland elevations in insulin -- sets the stage for heart disease. Insulin is ahormone that helps the body use glucose, its main...A New Molecular Marker For Prostate Cancer
...levels of p27 expression could play arole in tumor resistance to hormone treatment and chemotherapy....Excess Thiamine May Help Tumor Growth, Research Shows
...oliferation and to the development of chemotherapy resistance by tumors. “Cancer patients should be evaluated for their thiamine status,and supplementation should be administered only to meet the patient’sneeds,” said Laszlo Boros, a research scientist in the Department ofSurgery at Ohio State U...Edible Lily Plant Yields A Natural Pesticide
...to theoutermost scales, which suggested a "dynamic resistance of the plant to theinvading pathogens." Meticulously piecing together the series of chemicalevents, the Hokkaido group found that the plant made these new pesticides bychlorination of a compound called orcinol, which occurs naturally in theplant. S...DFG To Set Up 14 New Collaborative Research Centres
...d efficient competition withneighbouring plants or resistance to parasites. In the collaborative research centre "Growth orresistance to parasites? Competition for resources in agricultural and forestry cropplants " to be established at Munich's Ludwig Maximilian University scientists, includingworking groups o...Gene Variant Found That Can Help Protect Against Nicotine Addiction
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...ticides has taken on newurgency in recent years as resistance to Bt has been reported in somepopulations of insect pests. "Potential resistance to Bt is now a big issue," said ffrench-Constant."Developing new biological agents for the control o...Discovery Of Plant-Like Metabolic Pathway In Common Parasites Supplies New Targets For Therapy
... others arecaused by parasites that have developed resistance to available medicine. "Thesestudies provide new, ...mice were allowed to eat diets with folate. "Since resistance to antimicrobialagents is a major problem in the treatment of malaria, we were pleased to findthat c...Third Annual Awards For Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Recognize Innovations
... The insecticides' new mode of action alsocounters resistance to older pesticides. For example, Confirm insecticidecontrolled an outbreak of organophosphate-resistant leafrollers on apples in1996. It has been classified as a reduced-risk pesticide by the EPA; a relatedproduct called Intrepid is expected to foll...Fauci To Present New Insights Into HIV Latency At 12th World AIDS Conference
...ting HIV from a person's body,particularly if drug resistance develops. New data show that latent pools of infected cells are established very early inthe course of HIV infection, even if a patient is treated expeditiously withhighly active antiretroviral therapy ("HAART" - generally a three- or four-drugcombin...Summer Science: Where Have All The Honeybees Gone? UD 'Bee Guy' Asks Why--From America To The Amazon
...nited States in 1987. "Our bees had little natural resistance to this imported mite," he says, "andlosses started showing up immediately, particularly over the winters, when beesare clustered together with their honey." Killer Bees Chill Out When he isn't worrying about mites, Caron has been known to visit Bo...Researchers Document Transmission Of Protease-Resistant HIV
...quire strains with multi-drug resistance,including resistance to protease inhibitor treatment." The subject of t...drugs themselves." To examine the sensitivity and resistance of the patient's virus to the 11approved HIV anti-retrovirals, the researchers used a novel phenotyp...Ecological Consequences Of Jasmonate-Induced Responses For Plants In Native Populations
...ring their defensive phenotype adaptively. The resistance traits elicted by jasmonates are costly in terms of seed production, but these costs are offset by their benefit when the probability of fitness reductions due to herbivore attack is high. The advances in understanding the signal transduc......m crispum) as a system for studying the nonhost resistance responses to Phytophthora sojae and Phytophthora ...oncerning the signaling involved in the nonhost resistance response of parsley to P. sojae or P. infestans , these results lead to the following conclusi...Creatine Works, But Long-Term Effects Are Still Unknown
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... DSM-IIIR criteria for schizophrenia and showing a resistance totypical neuroleptics were analyzed for TREs using the Repeat ExpansionDetection (RED) method. An increased incidence of large CAG/CTG repeats wasfound in this population confirming previous findings which identified anassociation between adult onse...Antisense Therapy Prevents Burkitt's Lymphoma In Mice
...atological Research. The cancercells often develop resistance to chemotherapy and the cancer returns. In the study, normal mice were injected with Burkitt's lymphoma mousetumor cells. The mice were given complementary DNA therapy for seven consecutivedays. The scientists found that not only did the anti...Russian Queens Bee-Little Mites' Impact
...eny of Asian-hatched honeybees, renowned for their resistance to mites. That goal moved a step closer last we...2). Moreover, mites in four states have developed resistance to the one pesticide approved for use against them, notes Thomas E. Rinderer of the U.S. Department...Genetically-Altered Crops Can Produce Tough, Hard-To-Kill Weeds
...ALTIMORE -- Weeds that acquire genes for herbicide resistance fromgenetically-altered crops reap little backlash...eengineered with specialized traits like herbicide resistance -- can pass theirtraits on to nearby weeds via hybridization. These hybrid, transgenic weedsresist ......ugs for the treatment of viral diseases, multidrug resistance in cancer,autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases. There can be no assurance that compounds that are discovered on the basis ofthis research will be successfully developed into compounds for clinicaltesting, that clinical...