The UAB heads a European research project on proteases and pathological processes
...zerland, Slovenia, United Kingdom and Denmark also work on the project. CAMP forms part of the European Union's Specific Targeted Catering Projects (STREP) and has a duration of three years. Proteases are enzymes, or proteins that act as catalysts for other proteins when regulating many of the biologica...NY Stem Cell Foundation's 2nd Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference
... quite a while, said Dr. Gearhart. The Foundations work is important because it allows support of those ac...mply not support, said Dr. Nurse. Its a delight to work with people who are passionate about trying to find new cures, added Melton. And its a pleasure in l...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 11, 2007
... in preventing certain diabetic complications, may work by boosting ATP release from red blood cells. AR...asification, in which laborers are not required to work below the surface to carve out chambers in which coal is converted into gas. Building those gasifica...Clues to future evolution of HIV come from African green monkeys
...or of ecology and evolutionary biology. The new work suggests African green monkeys' SIVs, or SIVagm, may have lost their virulence more recently than the millions of years previously thought. Green monkeys almost never get sick from SIVagm. If SIVagm was once a monkey killer, the change in its virulen...Crystal structure enables tailoring of pharmaceuticals against asthma
... from human. The scientists now believe that their work will enable the development of new and better therapeutics against inflammations in the pulmonary tract. Asthma attacks are caused by an acute inflammatory reaction in the airways, a reaction that is largely due to actions of LTC4 synthase. For thi...New ACS podcast debuts with science news for broad general audience
...aboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Showalters work at Sandia focuses on the design and development of new batteries. As an active member of the ACS since 1987, I view these podcasts as part of a broader commitment to improving public understanding of chemistry, Showalter said. He also works toward th......ation of fears stemming from traumatic events. The work could lead to the first drug to treat the millions of adults who suffer each year from persistent, debilitating fears - including hundreds of soldiers returning from conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. The team will report their results in the July 1...Serica scientists win AOSSM Award for ACL (knee) tissue regeneration in preclinical study
...r pain and knee size. The primary focus of our work over the past ten years has been to solve the unme...merican Orthopedic Society of Sports Medicine, for work that best exemplifies clinically relevant hypothesis-driven basic science research. This award sym...HWI researchers determine structure of protein from pathogen associated with CF and TB
...he proteins will be essential there as well. This work gives us clues to the role of this protein and we ...n be blocked. "This is a perfect example of the work my lab enjoys doing. We determine structures and functions of important proteins and provide insigh...Chitin from lobster shell shows great healing and bio-stimulant properties
...Development. Prof. Peniche points out that "this work allows for the first accurate and comprehensive re...medicine." Use in medicine These researchers work has led to the development of a procedure to obtain surgical materials with great healing and antise...Nodal status is best predictor of outcome after neoadjuvant therapy for esophageal cancer
...wever, the evidence for which additional therapies work best is confusing and conflicting. What is more, although it is widely accepted that there is a group of patients in whom this approach works well, identifying who these patients are is no easy task. To help find ways of pinpointing individuals wh...Unraveling the physics of DNA's double helix
... form the complete, double-stranded molecules. The work was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Each DNA strand includes a sugar and phosphate "backbone" attached to one of four bases, which encode genetic sequences. The strength of the interactions within...Adding folic acid to flour significantly reduces congenital malformations
...g physical and learning disabilities. Dr. De Walss work as head of a team of a dozen Canadian researchers appears today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The neural tube is the basis of the embryos nervous system. Poor development of the neural tube, which is sometimes due to a lack of folic acid,...One man's junk may be a genomic treasure
...lp properly organize these building blocks. Their work will be published in the July 13 issue of the journal Science. Some of the junk DNA might be considered punctuation marks commas and periods that help make sense of the coding portion of the genome, said first author Victoria Lunyak, Ph.D., assist...How plants learned to respond to changing environments
...d cant repress growth. However, the moss proteins work the same as their more recently evolved counterpar...ned on and off in response to these proteins. This work was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. ...Sour taste make you pucker? It may be in your genes
...te. The findings, in conjunction with previous work on sweet, bitter, and umami (savory) taste, suggest that people differ in how they perceive the taste of foods, and that these differences are determined in part by their taste genes. So someone who inherited a high sensitivity to sour taste may fin...Research team discovers gallstone gene
...genetic modification appears to cause this pump to work permanently at high speed. Gallstones are a common disorder: in Germany alone more than 170,000 gallbladder operations a year are performed. Gallstones occur very frequently, affecting 15 to 20 per cent of all Germans, usually without noticeable s...White blood cells are picky about sugar
...k, who is also an MIT professor of biology. Ifat's work has shown that the cells aren't little Pac-Men, bu...her by stimulating immune cells. Rubin-Bejeranos work offers hope for combating the growing problem of microbial infections, which can seriously threaten ...Researchers discover human embryonic stem cells are the ultimate perpetual fuel cell
...human stem cells develop is the kind of scientific work which has already put this Institute on the map as...nfirmed their discovery, it was time to submit the work for international peer review from other experts. This will be critical for future developments in...Revolutionary global environment fund announces $50M expansion
...und that revolutionized how international partners work together to protect the worlds biologically riches...or CEPF, with a goal of $150 million to expand its work to 11 more hotspots in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Saving the hotspots is an investment well w...