deCODE discovers cause of major subtype of glaucoma
...ptic nerve. However, exfoliation glaucoma is often resistant to drug treatment. Little has been understood to date about the pathophysiology of the disease and there are no treatments targeting the underlying causes of the condition....Genetic analysis finds greater threat in frog-killing fungus
...ake this pathogen a harder problem to defeat. As a resistant spore, the fungus could be transported by animals,... region, the animals in the area would normally be resistant to its destructive effects because they would have co-evolved together. However, biologists theorize...Einstein researchers' prototype vaccine could provide improved protection against tuberculosis
...B vaccine now available. In this era of multi-drug resistant TB and growing numbers of people with active TB due to coinfection with HIV, the advance could herald a needed breakthrough against one of the worlds leading killers. Their study appears in the August issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. ...Pets could be source of multiresistant bacteria infections in humans, MU researchers investigate
...f multi-resistant bacteria in humans. Antibiotic resistant bacteria are a growing problem in the medical profession as doctors are prescribing second and third choice medicines when common antibiotics dont work. In many cases, these other medicines might be less effective or cause more side effects. One part...Investigating antibiotic use in acute care patients
...s could be the key to understanding how antibiotic resistant bacteria persist in Intensive Care Units in hospit... "It is important to identify the antimicrobial resistant gene pool in entire microbial communities before antibiotic treatment. Dr Chin said this has been ...Discovery in plant virus may help prevent HIV and similar viruses
...we knock out one of these genes, the plants become resistant to CaMV and the plant is still growing." The discovery of these two genes suggests that the mustard plant Arabidopsis is a better organism than others for studying how the proteins regulate gene function and transcription, he said. However, block...Reading ability protects brain from lead exposure
...tain well-ingrained brain functions, however, seem resistant to the effects of lead exposure. One of these is reading ability, which is also an indicator of cognitive reserve, or the brains ability to maintain function in spite of damage. Genetics, education and childhood cognitive abilities are factors which......ity, promises to be useful for tackling antibiotic resistant superbugs like MRSA and C. difficile, as well as removing chewing gum from pavements and powering environmentally friendly cars, reports Nina Morgan in Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI. The value of instant steam lies in creating truly ...Females more prone to brain damage from alcohol abuse
...ere withdrawal due to a genetic predisposition, or resistant to it. Wiren said she was surprised by the resul...ere alcohol withdrawal compared with mice that are resistant to alcohol withdrawal," Wiren said. "I thought there would be a difference between the genders, but ...Monell researchers find metabolic defect in liver that can lead to obesity
...ate and became obese, gaining 36% more weight than resistant animals. Fat oxidation was further compromised due to a decreased ability to make CPT1A, the liver enzyme responsible for transporting fat into mitochondria. The inherited propensity to gain weight when eating a high-fat diet appears to be due to....... The vast majority of microbes are notoriously resistant to growing in laboratory cultures because they are so intricately linked to their own unique ecosystems. Microbiologists have coaxed less than one percent of the bacterial species that inhabit natural environments into growing in culture. But a micro...JCI table of contents: July 19, 2007
...bilizing pericytes, and rendering new vessels more resistant to anti-angiogenic therapies. In a surprising study appearing online on July 19 in advance of publication in the August print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a team led by Lee Ellis from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Cent...Expert to provide update after 'worst tomato virus' hits California
... the state, management strategies such as planting resistant varieties and implementing tomato-free periods can be implemented to minimize the virus' impact....MIT IDs link between brain tumor proteins
...opers seeking treatments for GBM, which has proven resistant to all drugs that have been tried against it. The team focused on a protein called EGFRvIII, a mutated form of the cell receptor for epidermal growth factor (EGF). The mutated receptor, which is found in approximately a quarter of GBM tumors, is c...Study explains how pathogens evolve to escape detection
...n find that five or six years after their release, resistant plant varieties become susceptible because pathoge... then, breeders develop a plant variety that stays resistant for 20 years or more." Understanding why some varieties have more durable disease resistance is impo......loped wheats that were more productive and disease resistant than the wheat Mexican farmers grew. As a result, Mexico became self-sufficient in wheat production for the first time. Word of what had been done in Mexico spread to Pakistan and India n the 1960s where grain shortages threatened mass starvation. Th...Malaria -- Effective insecticide-repellent synergy against mosquito vectors
...ng, has induced a disturbing rise in the number of resistant individuals in the Anopheles populations. The mosq... strategies against these malaria vectors that are resistant to these insecticides. IRD researchers and their partners (1) obtained encouraging results by comb...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
... Less toxic and more effective against multi-drug resistant bacteria, they are showing promise as a better choice for treatment of some bacterial and fungal infectious diseases. In the study researchers identified a novel parasiticidal peptide named longicin from the tick species Haemaphysalis longicornis a......ce is a condition in which the body's cells become resistant to insulin, a hormone secreted by the pancreas tha...utrients are channeled in the body in both insulin resistant and insulin sensitive human subjects. The subjects for the study were all young, lean, non-smoking......ile plant breeders are racing to develop cultivars resistant to the root-knot nematode, they are being slowed d...e-consuming and expensive methods of screening for resistant plants. Now, researchers believe they have found a shortcut for screening resistant soybean crops. ...