Joslin study reveals how a specific fat type can protect against weight gain and diabetes
...of diabetes on any diet. The study, which used two strains of mice with differing tendencies to gain weight a...ty and metabolic syndrome in two different genetic strains of mice: the B6 mouse and the 129 mouse. The B6 mouse is one of the most commonly used strains in me...Mellow in Europe, crazy in America
...ic variety from across the European continent, new strains have emerged in the US with higher genetic diversity and more potentially advantageous qualities than their species brethren across the Atlantic. "It's not that you're taking the ones in France and moving them to the US and they're suddenly invasi...Creating new life forms that may help eradicate cancer affecting women
...ey call Lovaxin. The vaccines are comprised of new strains of bacteria created in Advaxis' laboratory that ar.../Neu protein." Advaxis has already created several strains for potential use in future vaccines to treat other cancers. The company is also currently testing ...E. coli bacteria migrating between humans, chimps in Ugandan park
...al chimpanzee populations. And some of the E. coli strains migrating to chimps are resistant to antibiotics u... It is also the first to find antibiotic-resistant strains in chimpanzees in Africa. "Antibiotic resistance has traditionally been associated with two factor...2,000 influenza virus genomes now completed and publicly accessible
...rld can use the sequence data to compare different strains of the virus, identify the genetic factors that de...r will continue to rapidly sequence more influenza strains and isolates and will make all the sequence data freely available to the scientific community and th...New study may show how to forestall a fatal, virus-caused immune-system meltdown
...cells from guinea pigs infected with two different strains of Pichinde virus. Guinea pigs infected with one of the Pichinde strains experience no ill effects, while those infected with the other strain develop symptoms similar to th...Global study concludes 'attack rate' of flu in kids is 55 percent lower with nasal spray vaccine
...n some years there's a vaccine "mismatch" with the strains of flu that are circulating. The study results als...compared to the flu shot even when the circulating strains of influenza were "mismatched" with those contained in the seasonal vaccine. "We found that the na...Protein discovery targets antibiotic-resistant bacteria
...e of the increasing number of antibiotic-resistant strains of many different types of bacteria, such as salmonella, she notes, new approaches to antibiotic therapy are needed. The Queens findings are published in the on-line edition of the journal Molecular Microbiology.Also on the team, from Biochemistry,...Flu shot might also offer some protection against H5N1
...nce us to look for evidence that immunity to human strains of flu might also trigger some antibody response to H5N1," Webby said. The investigators first vaccinated mice using DNA that coded for N1 from a human influenza virus. This ensured that the mice would make only N1 and not one of the hemagglutinin...Are some people immune to avian flu?
...ype 1 neuraminidase (huN1) in H1N1 influenza virus strains (and vaccines made to protect against them) could provide protection against avian H5N1 influenza virus, which contains the closely related avian type 1 neuraminidase (avN1). In the new study, they investigated this possibility in mice and in a small...ACS News Service weekly PressPac -- Feb. 7, 2007
...es had a strong antibacterial effect against eight strains of H. pylori, including antibiotic-resistant strains. "These results open the possibility of considering extra virgin olive oil a chemoprotective agent for peptic ulcer or gastric cancer, but this bioactivity must be confirmed in vivo in the future,...Detection of Salmonella in 24 hours
...this bacterium well. Fortunately there are several strains of Salmonella which have been totally sequenced. It is also known that there are certain genes that are specific to Salmonella that are not found in any other bacteria nor, for that matter, in any other living being. Thus, if we detect these gene...Changes in amino acids in the 1918 influenza virus cut transmission
...ecognized by hemaglutinins of both human and avian strains of influenza virus. These molecules are key to in... called H1 through H16, present in influenza virus strains circulating in birds. H1 and H3 are found today in human influenza viruses. Hemaglutinin helps op...Researchers find link between food odors and lifespan in fruit flies
...ing at Baylor, measured the lifespans of different strains of fruit flies in the presence and absence of food... The researchers also studied genetically altered strains of fruit flies to determine whether loss of olfactory function the sense of smell had an effect on...Dig deeper to find Martian life
...val time of dormant populations of the cells. Some strains are radiation-resistant and are able to survive the effects because, when active, they successfully repair the DNA breaks caused by ionising radiation. However, when cells are dormant, such as when frozen as in the subsurface of Mars, they are preser...Scientists to assess effects of multiple copies of genes on disease risk
...ostdoctoral fellow Deepa Edwin, Ph.D. The 20 mouse strains were previously selected by the Mouse Phenome Proj...rchers compared the genome of each of the 20 mouse strains against that of the prototypical research mouse strain, C57BL/6J. "That's the 'plain vanilla' mouse...Virginia Tech's System X supercomputer provides super tool for simulation of cell division
...ta consists of observed traits of 130 mutant yeast strains constructed by disabling and/or over-expressing the genes that encode the proteins of the regulatory network. The model has 143 parameters that need to be estimated from the data. "That is a big problem," said Watson. "You can't do that by hand. You ...Genes behind animal growth discovered
...with companies trying every possible cross of corn strains to find the best hybrids. "A century after its discovery in corn, we still dont know why plants have hybrid vigor, despite the economic and evolutionary importance of this phenomenon," Hedgecock explained. Knowing the genes for hybrid vigor may e...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...pressure processing may inactivate human norovirus strains in foods say researchers from the U.S. They repor... for inactivation of nonpropagable human norovirus strains in foods," say the researchers. (D.H. Kingsley, D.R. Holliman, K.R. Calci, H. Chen, G.J. Flick. 20...Williams College biologist explores photosynthetic apparatus
... differences in genomes of several Prochlorococcus strains and the implications of these differences for photosynthesis and acclimation to environmental stress. "These differences have evolved in response to selection pressures in the ocean environment," she explained. "The Prochlorococcus MED4 strain, f...