Scientists at Galileo Pharmaceuticals confirm inflammatory response linked to glucose levels
...tors Galileo's proprietary drug discovery platform exploits the similarities between the genomes of plants and humans to rapidly identify drug-like compounds, which can then be modified and optimized into small molecule drug compounds. Several pathways regulating inflammation are found in both plants and ani...UCLA scientists reveal how Nipah virus infects cells
...the National Biodefense Research Agenda, the virus exploits a protein essential to embryonic development to enter cells and launch its attack. The online edition of Nature reports the findings July 6. "In its natural state, the Nipah virus can be used as a potential bioterrorism agent capable of devastatin...Study in Royal Society journal on holly as an indicator of climate change
...l where initially an unspecialised species equally exploits two different habitats. During the formation of two new species specialised on and preferring different habitats, usually a learned preference evolves instead of a genetic one. Thus, early learning is likely to play an important role in forming new s...Study in Royal Society journal on heritability of female orgasm
... The bottlenose dolphin is a social species that exploits local resources in habitat-specific ways, such as the population that pursues fish against mud banks in the western North Atlantic. Here we use genetic markers to identify patterns of gene flow for a contiguous distribution of dolphins from the Blac......" said Fleming. "What we're seeing is that Nature exploits quantum mechanical effects by de-localizing excitation energy over two or more molecules in a system." Photosynthesis should make any short-list of Nature's spectacular accomplishments. Through the photosynthetic process, green plants and cyanobacter...Rapid, new test develped for inherited immune deficiency
...good approach." The newly developed screening tool exploits a detailed understanding of the maturation of T cells, one of the essential types of white blood cells that make up the immune system. Without a sufficient number of normal T cells, the immune system doesn't work, just as when the AIDS virus wipes ou...Teams build robots that walk like humans
...design. The MIT robot uses a learning program that exploits this design, allowing the robot to teach itself to walk in less than 20 minutes, or about 600 steps. Dubbed "Toddler" because it learns to walk and because it toddles when it does so, the robot "is one of the first walking robots to use a learning p......is ongoing chess match, the virulent mycobacterium exploits the host's defense--granuloma formation--by providing additional macrophages for the bacteria to infect. The end game of the chess match remains unclear. While granulomas are required for protection against mycobacteria, they are not completely effe...