Cranberry juice inactivates intestinal viruses
...rus infections account for significant illness and billions of dollars in medical expenses each year in the United States and throughout the world. On the international level, especially in developing nations, hundreds of thousands of infant deaths occur annually due to intestinal virus infections. "Within ...Shampoo detergent added to paint makes surfaces self-sterilizing
...espiratory diseases that cost the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars annually in lost productivity. While it has long been known that our coinage possesses the quality of being self-sterilizing, little previous thought has been given to making frequently handled surfaces such as railings, doorknobs, push-pl...Microbes found to produce miniature electrical wires
...fficult and expensive. However, it is easy to grow billions of Geobacter cells in the laboratory and harvest the microbial nanowires that they produce. Furthermore, by altering the DNA sequence of the genes that encode for microbial nanowires, it may be possible to produce nanowires with different properties ...ASU's Curtiss awarded $14.8M from Gates Foundation to develop new pneumonia vaccine for newborns
...t health problems of the developing world. Of the billions spent each year on research into life-saving medicines, only a small fraction is focused on discovering and developing new tools to fight the diseases that cause millions of deaths each year in developing countries. "It's shocking how little research...Dirk Inz receives the Francqui Prize for Biological and Medical Sciences 2005
...on cell division in plants. Plants are composed of billions of cells and, during their course of life, plants continuously form new cells in the growing points that organize themselves into new leaves, stems, flowers, seeds and other structures. This cell propagation is thus the most important factor contribu...Trees, vines and nets microbial evolution changes its face
...nstructed a map of microbial evolution, going back billions of years to the last universal common ancestor, that includes these horizontal lines. "Reassuringly, evolutionary trees constructed by many independent methods and different research groups are remarkably consistent with each other, projecting the sa...Controlling wildlife trade key to preventing health crises, study says
...man and animal populations has reached hundreds of billions of dollars globally. "Few threats to global health...impacts of disease spread have totaled hundreds of billions of dollars, disrupting human livelihoods and destabilizing trade. Even in a relatively managed tradi...Scientists find evidence of catastrophic sand avalanches, sea level changes in Gulf of Mexico
...eters beneath the Gulf of Mexico seafloor and host billions of barrels of oil and gas. Sediment records we acquire from the young basin off Texan shores will boost our understanding of how deeply buried reservoirs are formed, and how oil and gas can be drained from them more effectively." Jan Behrmann,...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute researcher receives USDA functional genomics grant
...hthora species and related pathogens cause tens of billions of dollars of damage every year to a wide range of both agriculturally and ornamentally important plants and also cause severe damage to forests and threaten entire natural ecosystems. More specifically, P. sojae causes serious damage to soybean crop......ils to decompose for dozens of years. As a result, billions of tons of wastepaper cram the planet's landfills, creating an enormous environmental problem worldwide. Prof. Edward Bayer of the Weizmann Institute's Biological Chemistry Department has developed a process that one day may yield a solution to the g...Bacterial cooperation as a target for anti-infectious therapy
...ot the bacteria. In consequence, instead of facing billions of microscopic individuals the drug is only facing a reduced number of larger organisms (infections) with slower evolutionary rate....Researchers at UGA provide first look at protein expression in Chagas disease-causing parasites
...associated with control and treatment run into the billions of dollars each year. While the disease is rare in the United States, conditions in the far southeastern and southwestern parts of the country make it as least potentially susceptible to the disorder....Drawing with DNA: 'Bioart' illuminates genomics
...etters" of genetic code, to be matched against the billions of letters for known genes. Searching for similarities that can shed light on functional or evolutionary relationships, scientists routinely use BLAST to churn through and produce vast amounts of data. Everyday applications include genetic medicine a...Study yields insights into pathogenic fungiand beer
...ys Fink, "that these microbes have been around for billions of years. They haven't come this far without learning how to fight off predators." Verstrepen and his colleagues took this research a step further, focusing on a gene called FLO1, a cell-surface gene common to both baker's yeast and pathogenic fungi...Ships bring alien jellyfish invaders to our shores
...ocal marine species, threaten ecosystems and cause billions of dollars in damage and preventive control," says Dawson who tracked the invading jellyfish in Japan, California, western Europe and the east and west Australian coastlines. Introduced species are believed to cost the United States $122 billion per ...Mouse model of Rett Syndrome displays reduced cortical activity
.... There is no cure. The nervous system consists of billions of neurons that communicate with each other. Neurons don't touch and the gap between them is called a synapse. This gap is bridged by neurotransmitters that are released by the generation of electrical signals. Some neurotransmitters are excitatory ...New role for gene that counteracts formation of tumors
...al, controlled process in our body Every day, the billions of cells that compose our body are being replaced: old cells die and new ones are produced. In the course of this process, each cell goes through a well-organized series of phases. First of all, the hereditary material, or DNA, in the cell nucleus is...New techniques study the brain's chemistry, neuron by neuron
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The human brain is composed of billions of cells, each a separate entity that communicates with others. The chemical interaction of those cells determines personality, controls behavior and encodes memory; but much remains to be understood. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urba...Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident
...s placed the costs over two decades at hundreds of billions of dollars. These costs included direct damage, expenditures related to recovery and mitigation, resettlement of people, social protection and health care for the affected population, research on environment, health and the production of clean food, ...... the United States. It's a failure that would cost billions of dollars in lost timber and ornamental trees, and dramatically change the forest and neighbourhood landscape in eastern North America with even more impact than Dutch elm disease. The soon-to-be published study is the first to document the invasiv...