Irish potato famine disease came from South America
...ll where the mutations originated and what strains spread to different parts of the world," Ristaino says. Most of the early mutations occurred in Peru and Ecuador in South America, according to the researchers' data. Ristaino says there are a number of camps on the issue of the pathogen's center of origi...Cancer cells forming blood vessels send their copper to the edge
...etween the growth of blood vessels critical to the spread of cancer and the copper in our bodies has been di...lopment and wound healing. But it also enables the spread of tumors throughout the body, so researchers have been scrambling for ways to stop angiogenesis in ...UT-Houston scientists develop new procedure to differentiate human embryonic stem cells
...f millions of alveolus in a pair of lungs could be spread out and placed side by side, they would cover the floor of a classroom. According to Wetsel, transplantable alveolar epithelial type II cells can be explored as treatments for pulmonary genetic diseases, acquired lung disease, as well as lung trau...Granthams to fund Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London
...te change and energy, public transport policy, the spread of infectious diseases (including SARS and Avian Bird Flu), and agricultural research policy. Imperial's dedicated Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP) provides policy analysis informed by science and technology, and incorporates the 1.2 million Tec...A first glimpse of the influenza replication machine
...revent the virus replicating, thereby reducing the spread of the virus and the severity of the infection. "For many years scientists have tried to understand the flu polymerase and to look for weak points that could be targeted by drugs," says Darren Hart, whose team participated in the research at EMBL ...'Bridge' protein spurs deadliest stages of breast cancer
...ab-2 is, however, essential for metastasis, or the spread of cancer. Breast cancer victims can survive before metastasis, but their chances decrease significantly when the cancer cells have spread. If we can understand precisely how Gab-2 functions in metastasis, then we might be able use this knowledge to ...Other highlights in the Feb. 21 JNCI
...locked the growth of tumor cells that have already spread other organs. But, the authors conclude, the GPR54 receptors did not likely play a role in this process. The finding that KISS1 can inhibit metastatic growth in multiple organs is a particularly important feature for an antimetastatic molecular ag...Practice of farming reaches back farther than thought
...n continents, was an important route for the human spread of food crops, and clearly a region where agriculture was practiced very early in history." Dickau is the lead author of a paper appearing next week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an internationa...Vet College gets grant to develop fish virus diagnostic technique
...inst this disease, and any measures to control its spread requires people to "apply procedures that existed ...outbreaks and trying to isolate fish so they don't spread the disease," said Jim Casey, Cornell associate professor of veterinary microbiology and immunology ...IDIBAPS participates in European Network on antibiotic resistances and hospital infections
...astering hOSpital Antimicrobial Resistance and its spread into the community ) is the first European-scale w... health group of IDIBAPS. The appearance and spread of resistant bacteria is one of the most alarming events of the last fifty years. This problem is ag...Red hot chili pepper research spices up historical record
... earliest known evidence for the domestication and spread of chili peppers by analysing starch microfossils ...rite. With the European conquest, the chili pepper spread around the world and is now associated with the cuisine of many different cultures. Early Latin Am...Smithsonian scientists report ancient chili pepper history
...es. A more ancient record of the domestication and spread of chili peppers awaits investigators working in o...and manioc and may have contributed to their rapid spread after they were domesticated."...Researchers discover new details about HIV-1 entry and infection
...earch Center. "Blocking HIV transmission and local spread in the female lower genital tract is key to prevent infection and ultimately to ease the pandemic." Dr. Florian Hladik and colleagues in the McElrath laboratory developed a unique model system to study the precise mechanisms by which HIV-1 enters ...Super-thin membrane, 50 atoms thick, sorts individual molecules
...pened up in their wakes. Imagine a party of people spread out evenly throughout a room, but as the evening progresses and people huddle into cliques, scattered areas of empty floor open up. In talks with Striemer and Fauchet, James L. McGrath, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and his graduat...Out of Africa -- bacteria, as well
...many people today. Together, man and the bacterium spread throughout the entire world. This is the conclusio...ovements of modern man. "The parallels between the spread of man and of H. pylori are truly astonishing," says Achtman. "This bacterium could help us attain f...Harvard team creates spray drying technique for TB vaccine
...accination against TB and help prevent the related spread of HIV/AIDS in the developing world. The research team led by Yun-Ling Wong, a graduate researcher in bioengineering, and David Edwards, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering, both at the Harvard School of Engineering and...How badger culling creates conditions for spread of bovine TB
A stable social structure may help control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB) among badgers, ecologi...understanding how population structure affects the spread of disease. The results also have major implications for future policy to control bovine TB in the...Prehistoric origins of stomach ulcers uncovered
...alysis with a computer simulation the modelled the spread of the bacteria across the globe. This showed that...e we could use our understanding of the bacteria's spread to gauge poorly understood human population shifts in Europe, Africa and Asia." ...Improved imaging for identifying breast cancer in overweight women
...cedure used to determine whether breast cancer has spread to lymph glands under the arm, said Lerman. The bi...ment," said Lerman. Knowing whether the cancer has spread helps determine the stage and approach to treatment, she noted. "Performing lymphoscintigraphy by us...Changes in amino acids in the 1918 influenza virus cut transmission
...binding sitea molecular structure critical for the spread of infectionstopped viral transmission in ferrets, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The finding, published in the February 1 issue of Science, c...