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...tzgerald, C. Hill. 2007. A five-strain probiotic combination reduces pathogen shedding and alleviates disease signs in pigs challenged with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73. 6: 1858-1863.) Protein Found in Chickens May Help Protect Against Food-Borne Path...Researchers use poliovirus to destroy neuroblastoma tumors in mice
...o health problems later in life," Toyoda said. "In combination with conventional therapy, a poliovirus treatment could reduce the exposure of a child to chemotherapy or radiation and lower the risk of harmful side effects." To test the effectiveness of poliovirus against cancer tissue, the researchers first...With an innovative combination of a novel application of synchrotron imaging, high-resolution microtomography, and developmental analysis, the team reconstructed tooth growth and determined the age at death of a fossil juvenile from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. This study represents the...Stability of mRNA/DNA and DNA/DNA duplexes modulates mRNA transcription
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...s attached to the outside are organic species. The combination of the inorganic and organic features resulted in a hybrid structure that proved to be critical to the study. Working with Rice graduate student Bishnu Khanal, Zubarev placed the nanorods in a solution of organic solvent called chloroform. As the ch...Liquidia Technologies announces $16M in Series B venture financing
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...r single diatom-derived silicon sensor possessed a combination of speed, sensitivity, and low voltage operation that exceeded conventional sensors," said Kenneth H. Sandhage, a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. "The unique diatom-derived shape, ...Marine moss reveals clues to anticancer compound
...ven in phase I and II clinical trials alone and in combination with other drugs. But the problem has been getting the bryostatins in the large quantities needed for pharmaceutical development. Culturing the bacteria, for example, is challenging because the organism doesn't adapt well to conditions outside the ...Mine runoff continues to provide clues to microbial diversification
...lopments in human health and bioremediation. The combination of mass spectrometry support from ORNL researchers with extensive reconstruction of genomes from community genomic data at UC Berkeley was key to this work, said Jill Banfield, who led the project. Banfield, a professor in UC Berkeleys Department of ...Too much weight spells double trouble for couples trying to conceive
..., seemed to cause additional pregnancy delays. The combination of an underweight man and obese woman was associated with a risk of sub-fertility nearly four times higher (3.79) compared to a normal weight couple, although we have to treat this figure with caution as there were only 22 couples in this category. ...Largest physics meeting of the year, in Denver
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...ife-threatening crisis, and are characterized by a combination of disassociation from the physical body, euphoria and transcendental or mystical elements. This investigation supports the notion of out-of-body experiences as an expression of arousal in near death experiences and sleep paralysis. Almost all of t...Green tea and COX-2 inhibitors combine to slow growth of prostate cancer
...2 inhibitors may still prove beneficial if used in combination with complementary agents, Mukhtar said. Our stud...l to tumor growth inhibition, mice that received a combination of green tea and celecoxib registered a greater decrease in prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels c...Granthams to fund Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London
...he spectrum of climate change research. Imperial's combination of research expertise in one place means that it is uniquely placed to provide solutions to the healthcare, environmental and engineering problems caused by climate change, and to influence the international policy makers charged with solving these p...Takeda and Tap to promote Sucampo's Amitiza in the United States
...mary care and gastroenterology communities." "The combination of Takeda and TAP adds a new dimension to the U.S. distribution strategy for AMITIZA," said Sucampo Founder and Chief Executive Officer Ryuji Ueno, M.D., Ph.D., Ph.D. "We believe this new arrangement, which now includes TAP's sales force, will enhan...How do marine turtles return to the same beach to lay their eggs?
.... So the movements recorded by the satellite are a combination of deliberate action by the turtles and the effect of currents. So it appears that the turtles navigation system is relatively simple and may cause them to be wander at sea for long periods during adverse ocean conditions. One turtle released 250 k...Non-GMO solution to seafood allergies
...ina. The team revealed that treating prawns with a combination of heat and irradiation significantly reduced the level of reactive proteins called allergens. They took blood from patients with shrimp allergies, added samples of treated and untreated prawn, and measured how antibodies in the blood reacted. They f...Scientists identify specific enzymes that make meningitis hard to fight
...fight. "We have also discovered that this novel combination of enzymes ispresent in a wide variety of bacteria and that it has a direct impact onthe infectivity of human pathogens." Dr Geoff Baldwin from Imperial's Division of Molecular Biosciencesadded: "The wide importance of DNA repair to the viability o...Climate changes, Cod collapse have altered North Atlantic ecosystems
... wind patterns have redirected ocean currents. The combination of these processes has led to a freshening of seawater along most of the Northwest Atlantic shelf. In the past, during summer months, a wind-mixed layer of warmer, less salty water (which is less dense and lighter) floated on the ocean surface. When...