New study suggests potential for a broadly-protective HIV vaccine
...ffective vaccine may need to stimulate the body to produce cross-reactive antibodies that will neutralize mul... effective, an HIV vaccine must induce the body to produce cross-reactive antibodies that can neutralize multiple strains. USU Professors CAPT Gerald Quinnan, ...Story ideas from the Journal of Lipid Research
...body stable by either storing fat or burning it to produce energy. The scientists also review the latest research showing how too much fat tissue can lead to chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, and some cancers. They explain that, in overweight or obese people, nutri...Skimmed milk -- Straight from the cow
...ows have genes that give them a natural ability to produce skimmed milk and plan to use this information to b...nd approach could be used to breed cows that still produce full-fat milk but with only the good fats, which could swing things back in favour of full-fat milk....Research center unites biomedical competitors to fund medical technology development
...eed on the emerging technologies they will need to produce future devices. "By collaborating with academia to conduct unbiased research," explains center director Balakrishna Haridas, PhD, "industry stakeholders can share the cost of developing new design methodologies and experimental research tools appli...Adult stem cells from human cord umbilical cord blood successfully engineered to make insulin
...m cells derived from human umbilical cord blood to produce insulin. The researchers announced their laborat...s discovery tells us that we have the potential to produce insulin from adult stem cells to help people with diabetes," said Dr. Randall J. Urban, senior autho...Genome of Clostridium botulinum reveals the background to world's deadliest toxin
... The genome sequence is peppered with genes that produce enzymes to digest proteins and other animal material in the soil. Also found, uniquely in this species, is a range of genes that allow it to attack the many insect and other small creatures that live in the soil. The chitinases produced by these gene...Essential tones of music rooted in human speech
...ounds produced by different speakers and languages produce the same variety of vocal tract resonance ratios, Purves said. The lowest two of these vocal tract resonances, called formants, account for the vowel sounds in speech. "Take away the first two formants and you can't understand what a person is say...Resistance genes in our food supply
...luding seafood, meats, dairy, deli items and fresh produce purchased from several grocery chain stores. With the exception of processed cheese and yogurt, antibiotic-resistance gene-carrying bacteria were found in many food samples examined., "Despite the fact that this study only screened for a limited ......ated mouse parasite and genetically modified it to produce an antigen that the human immune system recognises...ey genetically altered the mouses immune system to produce a human molecule on its white blood cells that recognises the parasite and, together with antibodies...Botulism bug has few genome wrinkles
... The genome sequence is peppered with genes that produce enzymes to digest proteins and other animal material in the soil. Also found, uniquely in this species, is a range of genes that allow it to attack the many insect and other small creatures that live in the soil. The chitinases' produced by these gen...Plants that produce more vitamin C may result from UCLA-Dartmouth discovery
...ible to engineer plants to make more vitamin C and produce better crops," said Steven Clarke, UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry, director of UCLA's Molecular Biology Institute and co-author of the research study, to be published as a 'Paper of the Week' in the Journal of Biological Chemistry and c...Jet lag: It's all about chemical reactions in cells
... circadian clock allows the fungus to regulate and produce carotenoids only when they are needed for protection against the sun's rays. A similar "switch" may be responsible for timing the sleep cycle in humans. "We were interested in trying to understand behavior at the molecular level," said Crane. "This a...Novel sugar-to-hydrogen technology promises transportation fuel independence
... or sugary carbohydrates, from biomass to directly produce low-cost hydrogen for the new hydrogen economy. ... and carry hydrogen energy and a simple process to produce hydrogen, said Y.-H. Percival Zhang, assistant professor of biological systems engineering at Virgin...Tropical birds have slow pace of life compared to northern species, study finds
...e from temperate regions, tend to live longer, and produce fewer offspring which develop slowly and mature relatively late in life. Among other species, this slower pace of life is associated with lower energy expenditures, but there has not been conclusive evidence of this in birds. The next step in the...Immune antibodies penetrate neurons to clear Alzheimer's-linked amyloid
...ellular enzymes -- secretases -- that we know help produce beta amyloid," notes the study's lead author Dr. Davide Tampellini, a researcher in the Weill Cornell Laboratory of Alzheimer's Disease Neurobiology. "In fact, if anything the presence of the antibody appears to boost secretase activity," Dr. Tampell...FSU engineering professor growing bone in a lab
... Each stem cell has the ability to divide so as to produce a perfect copy of itself; the copy then can become a "workhorse" cell, such as a bone or nerve cell. By subjecting the stem cells to very specific conditions that mimic those they would encounter in the human body, he seeks to determine what type of ...Alarming acceleration in CO2 emissions worldwide
...nsity of economic activity (the energy required to produce a unit of gross domestic product) and the carbon intensity of the energy system (the amount of carbon per unit of energy), coupled with increases in population and in per-capita gross domestic product. No region is decarbonising its energy supply, st...BioMed Central announces new interdisciplinary Biofuels Journal
...nmental benefits if techniques can be developed to produce them cost-effectively. Biotechnology for Biofuels is being launched to provide a forum for publication of research focused on advances in the development of clean, efficient biofuels. Biotechnology for Biofuels will publish multi-disciplinary, hig...Caspase-14 protects our skin against UVB and dehydration
...ele, developed knock-out mice that could no longer produce the protein. The shiny and lichenified skin of mice without caspase-14 is a sign that the composition of the skins epidermis has been altered. The lack of caspase-14 causes defects in the processing of a protein that plays a major role in maintaining...Latest strategies for moving research toward a cure for diabetes explored at global scientific forum
...apeutics goal to help restore the bodys ability to produce insulin on its own, reducing the need for insulin injections and lowering the risk for diabetes-related complications including heart disease, kidney disease and blindness. Guest speakers Alex Rabinovitch, M.D., with the University of Alberta, Edmo...