Stolen gene allows insect virus to enter cells
... would require tweaking to be effective since they kill insects more slowly than chemical insecticides. Studying baculoviruses also yields insights into general viral behavior. The current study examined how baculoviruses took the evolutionary leap needed to become the nasty bugs they are today. In the st...Fighting malaria by manipulating mosquitoes' sense of smell
...eve scientific breakthroughs against diseases that kill millions of people each year in the world's poorest countries. It is funded with a $450 million commitment from Gates Foundation, $27.1 from the Wellcome Trust, and $4.5 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The initiative i...Rockefeller University vaccine researchers selected for a grant offer from Foundation for NIH
...eve scientific breakthroughs against diseases that kill millions of people each year in the world's poorest countries. It is funded with a $450 million commitment from Gates Foundation, $27.1 million from the Wellcome Trust and $4.5 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The initi...UCSD researchers boost white blood cells' ability to kill bacteria
...lood cells to release antimicrobial compounds that kill bacteria. The team also found that treating white... HIF-1 levels could enhance the cells' capacity to kill bacteria. "These findings suggest a potential novel approach to treatment of difficult infections ...North & South American researchers find architectural abnormalities in T. cruzi ribosome
... drug for the disease, whose cardiac complications kill up to 30 percent of those infected. The unusual structure of the ribosome, published online the week of July 4, 2005, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also suggests that the parasite has a unique scanning mechanism for translat...UCLA scientists reveal how Nipah virus infects cells
...atening respiratory and neurological diseases that kill up to 70 percent of patients a danger level equiv...e outbreak, the government ordered its military to kill more than 1 million pigs, resulting in economic devastation to the country. In Bangladesh, death r...Molecular trigger for Huntington's disease found
...s protective "suicide program" that would normally kill them. The researchers theorize that the lower incidence of cancer in HD patients could be caused by the protective effect of overactive p53. In the July 7, 2005, issue of Neuron, Akira Sawa and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicin...Melbourne scientists part of Gates Foundation US $21 million hunt for malaria therapy
...eve scientific breakthroughs against diseases that kill millions of people each year in the world's poorest countries. The funding offered to WEHI and other groups internationally will be focused on developing vaccines to prevent malaria, one of the world's most devastating infectious diseases. Malaria k...Children who stop breathing during sleep show brain damage
...live past adolescence, when they often unwittingly kill themselves by falling asleep after drinking alcohol. With proper care, CCHS children are now living into their 30s, marrying and having children of their own....Primate virus jumps species barrier to humans for first time in Asia
...nstance, can cause disease in monkeys and can even kill them. Other primate species have already seen significant population losses because of infection by human illnesses.......iles-microbes that thrive in conditions that would kill most life forms. This summer, in hopes of aiding the search for life on other planets and moons, scientists in the MBL's Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution are analyzing acid- and metal-loving extremophiles collected fro...Trypanosome genomes may reveal new drug, vaccine targets
...of parasites responsible for causing diseases that kill or cripple millions, primarily in tropical and sub-tropical countries. Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists who participated in the project say the sequencing of the genomes of the parasitic protozoa that cause Chagas disease, African sl...Fundamental discovery -- bone fracture
...ife for the elderly. "Cancer and heart disease can kill you but bone fracture and arthritis make you miserable," he said. "Once a serious bone fracture occurs, then quality of life goes down. Less than one-third of elderly women who have a hip fracture return to previous function. More women die within a ...Scientists discover more about how cancer cells form and grow
...gressive growth---and hope that knowledge can help kill the cells. In the July issue of Cancer Cell, the s...acks the protein secretion and the cell contact to kill cancer cells. The next question Wang wants to explore is how these connections lead to metastasis, t...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...he Human Stomach Treatment with visible light may kill the bacteria that commonly cause ulcers in humans say researchers from Massachusetts and Minnesota. Their findings appear in the July 2005 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Helicobacter pylori, often referred to as the worl...Gene's mutations found to cause life-threatening aortic disease
...on that ruptured. Aortic aneurysms and dissections kill some 18,000 Americans every year. Research shows that 20 percent of those victims have close relatives who've had the disease. Inherited aortic disease takes an unpredictable path, with some family members dying of a dissection in their 20s, others ...Identification of a protein important for Hepatitis B replication
...irrhosis of the liver and liver cancer, which both kill about 1 million people each year. Current antiviral therapies include lamivudine and alpha-interferon which also suppress viral replication by attacking the virus itself, but the identification of the action of this protein offers new therapeutic opp...Carbon monoxide: Poison gas or anti-inflammatory drug?
...s. "Small amounts are good, but a little more will kill you. So dosage will always be a serious issue in any future therapies."...Parasites trigger healthy eating in caterpillars
...duce chemicals that are toxic to the parasites and kill them. The chemicals, known as pyrrolizidine alkalo...ape its impending doom because the plant chemicals kill off its parasites. Bernays and her co-worker have not yet figured out by what mechanism the parasite...Immune system's distress signal tells bacteria when to strike back
...e infection before it starts rather than trying to kill all the germs." Many harmful bacteria have already learned how to resist the drugs developed to treat them. Scientists are now looking at alternatives, such as ways to block or scramble the chemical messages that allow microbes to eavesdrop on th...