Hultgren Receives Prestigious Eli Lilly Award
...nd host. In the third program, Hultgren's team is studying the structure,function and assembly of...ereit can be isolated. FimH purified by Hultgren's team recently underwentsuccessful vaccine trials in mice at MedImmune Inc., a biotechnology company inGai...Study Shows: Just Say NO To Bone Loss
...llin-Osdoby, Ph.D.,added a monoclonal antibody the team isolated and developed to osteoclast cellsbelieving that the antibody would hone in on a target molecule it recognizes inthe osteoclast cells. This target molecule is called an antigen. The antibody(Mab 121F) binds to the antigen, interfering with ...Wistar Scientists Identify New Tumor Suppressor Gene For Breast And Lung Cancer
...for drugs that combat breast and lung cancers. The team of Wistar scientists who conducted the research on BAP1 includes Drs.Frank J. Rauscher III, David E. Jensen, Alexander M. Ishov, David C. Schultz,Gerd G. Maul, Nickolai Barlev, Shelley L. Berger and George C. Prendergast. Collaborating scientists are...PEBBLEs Help U-M Scientists Open A Window On Cell Chemistry
...uate student in chemistry. Clark is part of a U-M team currently developing and testing the biosensing devices in a research project funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Clark will present results from her research this week in a presentation at PITTCON '98, the ...Insights Into The Proteasome - A Fascinating Macromolecular Machine For Protein Degradation
...e, apoptosis or the immune response. A research team at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in ...issect the assembly pathway of the complex. The team of Wolfgang Baumeister isolated and characterized the first bacterial proteasome, and managed to ...Measurement Technique Provides Snapshot Of Cell Physiology
...unds found in a single cell has beendeveloped by a team of chemists and physiologists at the University of Illinois. The method -- which uses nanoliter sampling, capillary electrophoresisand fluorescence spectroscopy -- is direct, convenient and highly sensitive. "By combining a nanoliter-volume separati...3-D Structure of Human Tumor-Suppressor Protein Produced
... biochemistry. The study, conducted by Tsai and a team of Ohio State researchers, waspublished in a Febru...ablish the structure.” Tsai and his research team are continuing their research on the p16 protein. “We now know the structure of the p16 protei...USC Study On Soy's Anti-Cancer Effects
...icine atthe School of Medicine. In that study, the team found that Asian-American womenwho ate the most to... thattumors require for continued growth.) Another team gave genistein to female ratsas newborns and later exposed the rats to a tumor-inducing carcinogen. ...Condom Use In Thailand Dramatically Cuts HIV Infection
...grounds and sexual histories. The Hopkins team found the HIV rate among 1991 draftees studied during1991 to 1993 was five times higher than the rate among 1993 draftees studiedduring 1993 to 1995. The rate of STD among draftees decreased 10 times duringthe same two periods studied. The H...Intake Of Acetaminophen Increases Risk Of Excessive Anticoagulation In Patients Taking Warfarin
...o measure their levels of anticoagulation. The MGH team surveyed 289 patients from the hospital's anticoagulation unitwithin 24 hours of a regular outpatient INR test. Among these patients, 93 hadbeen found to have an INR greater than 6 -- a level associated with increasedhemorrhage risk -- and 196 were ...Study Of Microbes May Hone Predictions Of Mining Impact
...ting this week (March 6) in the journal Science, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists pres...vast network of underground tunnels. The Wisconsin team explored two important environments at Iron Mountain where mining occurred both in above ground pits...User-Friendly Brace Helps Paraplegics To Walk
...t to bend his knees. The device was developed by a team fromTwente University of Technology and the R&D Institute at 'Het Roessinghrehabilitation centre' in Enschede. Funding was provided by the NetherlandsTechnology Foundation (STW), which is part of the Netherlands Organization forScientific Research (N...Virginia Tech Researchers Assess Watershed Management For EPA, NSF
... (CE) Associate Professor Panos Diplas isleading a team of 13 Virginia Tech researchers in a unique interdisciplinaryassessment of the hydrologic, ecological and economic effects of urbandevelopment. "The deterioration of the Chesapeake Bay is a classic example ofunmanaged urban and agricultural e...New Dating Technique May Revise Geologic Time Scale
...a study in the March 6 issue of Science. A team of researchers at the University of Toronto and the Universit P.et M. Curie in Paris has developed a method to directly date individual grainsof a group of clay minerals, called glaucony, that commonly form withinsediments while they are being deposi...... development of new pharmaceuticals. A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gttingen, Germany, headed by the Nobel laureate Manfred Eigen, published two articles in PNAS (Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences) introducing dual-color fluorescence ...A team of scientists working on two continents has discovered that aseries of five craters on Europe and North America form a chain, indicating thebreakup and subsequent impact of a comet or asteroid that collided with Earthapproximately 214 million years a...Change In HIV May Precipitate AIDS
...mmunologically responsive, tonsilblocks, the NICHD team has started to answer some of the basic questions aboutAIDS and HIV infection. HIV is transmitted by a form of the virus that caninfect macrophages, scavenger cells that live in the body's tissues, and otherimmune cells known as CD4+ T lymphocytes. ...Allergies To Rubber Affect 12.5 Percent Of Health Care Workers
...e extract Hamilton used in the skin test, whichhis team developed, are undergoing review by the Food and Drug Administration.Approval for nationwide distribution is possible within a few months, whichwould make the extract the basis of the first characterized latex skin testreagent in the United States. ...Dog Blindness Gene May Help Humans
...uirre, Acland and Ray form the core of the Cornell team that has been responsible for most of the research to date on theunderlying causes of canine progressive retinal atrophy (PRA), a group of at least seven clinically similar but separatelyinherited retinal diseases that Aguirre has studied since 1972....New Sickle-Clawed Fossil From Madagascar Links Birds And Dinosaurs
...ion(NSF) grant. This discovery was announced by a team of researchers -- led bypaleontologist/anatomist C...od. It was discovered in 1995 by an international team ofpaleontologists led by researcher David Krause, also of SUNY-Stony Brook. Thescientists have name...