Sandia researchers take new approach to studying how cells respond to pathogens
...immune response to highly pathogenic organisms. He notes the integrated platform, biological reagents and computational models developed under this project have applicability beyond infectious disease research. These technologies can also be used for studying cellular signaling involved in diseases such as...Penn scientists engineer small molecules to probe proteins deep inside cell membrane
...ing two different peptides and, in fact, we can," notes co-senior author Joel Bennett, MD, Professor of Medicine, who works with proteins and cells important in clotting. When the designed peptide is inserted into the platelet membrane it binds to the portion of the integrin within the membrane, and sub...Heart intervention doesn't outweigh medicine in study
...ach to patient care at the University of Kentucky, notes Dr. David Moliterno, UK College of Medicine chief of cardiovascular medicine and co-director of the UK Gill Heart Institute. "UK has been carefully and cautiously approaching patients in the treatment of heart disease as we endeavor to provide the be...Immune response to cancer stem cells may dictate cancer's course
...e seen by any other method," he says. Dhodapkar notes that the study is preliminary and must be confirmed in larger numbers of patients. "This raises more questions than it answers right now," he says, "but these studies provide new targets which we can develop vaccines and drugs against."...'Dipstick' test could reduce risk of food poisoning by rapidly detecting spoilage
...sitivity and accuracy of the new test. But Lavigne notes that no freshness test will substitute for the importance of proper food safety, including optimal storage, cleaning and cooking. Funding for the study was provided by the University of South Carolina and Research Corporation, a private foundation th...NIH announces phase III clinical trial of creatine for Parkinson's disease
...usually hasn't been included in clinical studies," notes Dr. Kieburtz. The study is designed to include a broad range of people, with special efforts to recruit a diverse population that is similar to the makeup of the population with PD in the United States. The investigators will measure disease progr...Scientists unlock mystery of embryonic stem cell signaling pathway
... Japan) using mouse embryonic stem cells, but Kahn notes that subsequent pilot studies using human embryonic stem cells, in collaboration with Dr. Qilong Ying at the Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine, have confirmed that IQ-1 plays a similar role in that system a...Agriculture, biology and conservation
... the future demands on agro-ecosystem services. He notes that global food aid is projected to double in the next 25 years with the U.S. fulfilling the bulk of the demand. This challenge will need to be met while the U.S. is losing its agricultural land to urbanization. The research conducted by all three...Study: Chest compressions without mouth-to-mouth better for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
...," published in the same issue of the journal, Ewy notes that eliminating the need for mouth-to-mouth ventilation not only is more effective, but also should dramatically increase the incidence of bystander-initiated resuscitation efforts. Ewy and the Resuscitation Research Group at the UA Sarver Heart ...These legs were made for fighting
...n trees male gorillas and orangutans." He also notes that short legs must have made it harder for austr...ter legs for their body size," Carrier says. He notes there are exceptions to that rule. Bonobos have shorter legs than chimps, yet they are less aggressi......ht is an unstudied phenomenon in the marine world, notes Hanlon. "From the perspective of a behavioral ecologist, we are ignorant of perhaps half of what goes on each daily cycle. There is a large ocean frontier out there yet to be studied." ...Novel salamander robot crawls its way up the evolutionary ladder
...cord and then controlling the muscles from there," notes Ijspeert. "Its a fantastic solution for coordinating multiple degrees of freedom in a simple distributed way." Robots that could change their speed, direction, and gait based on simple remote signals, like living organisms, would be extremely useful ...Penn researchers discover new molecular path to fight autoimmune diseases
...ved for other purposes, but work on these enzymes" notes co-author Sandra Saouaf, PhD, a research associate at Penn. Li, Greene, Saouaf and Penn colleagues Wayne Hancock and Youhai Chen are now extending this research directly to several mouse models of autoimmune diseases....Study advances evidence for receptor's role in alcohol pleasure and problems
...risk for developing alcohol abuse and dependence," notes Markus Heilig, M.D., Ph.D., NIAAA Clinical Directo...genetic variants of the human mu-opioid receptor," notes first author Christina Barr, V.M.D., Ph.D., a lead investigator in NIAAAs Laboratory of Clinical and...UBC researcher finds new way to treat devastating fungal infections
...g countries would have access to the medicine. He notes that Amphotericin B is also used to treat Leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that affects an estimated two million people worldwide according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) in the U.S. This research was triggered by clinic...MIT engineer works toward clean water, more
...amination from the available water supply. Murcott notes that some 150 million people worldwide are affected by arsenic-tainted water, while an estimated 1 to 5 billion people worldwide lack access to microbially safe water. As of December 2006, more than 5,000 such filters are operating across Nepal, s...African carnage -- 1 year's seized ivory likely came from 23,000 elephants
...s, of contraband ivory, Wasser said. But the paper notes it is commonly assumed that customs agents typically detect only about 10 percent of contraband, so the actual amount of poached ivory probably is closer to 234,000 kilograms. That means more than 23,000 elephants, or about 5 percent of Africa's tota......ry processing, as seen in schizophrenia." Kayser notes that the findings also could be used to reveal the role of audio-visual integration in communication or to help pin down where sounds are coming from. "Clearly, our acoustical understanding often improves if we can see the lips of the speakerfor exam...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- February 14, 2007
...efore cooking inactivates the enzyme. Their report notes that allowing crushed garlic to stand for 10 minutes before cooking may further enhance formation of those compounds before heat inactivates alliinase. ARTICLE #3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Effect of Cooking on Garlic (Allium sativum L.) Antiplatelet A...... of Calgary archaeology conference began comparing notes about an unidentified starch they had recovered from sites around Latin America. Dr. Linda Perry, the lead author of the paper and a researcher with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, subsequently identified the starch as Capsicum. ...