Normal cellular enzyme becomes marker for Alzheimer's disease
...p itsproper structure, scientists believe, when it acquires too many phosphate tags. Putting his suspicions to the test, Dr. Kuret searched for CK-1 in the braintissue of people who had died from AD. The hunch proved correct: Dr. Kuret and his team turned up a 30-fold increaseof one particular form of CK-1 i...Drug resistance may prove more pervasive in African HIV
...the case, the need for second generation therapies acquires renewed urgency." Freire stressed that the new findings do not imply that AIDS therapies should be withheld from the approximately 28 million patients infected with HIV-A and HIV-C, the African subtypes of the virus. "On the contrary, they emphasiz...UCLA seeks thousands of current and former smokers for landmark lung cancer screening trial
...n a table through a doughnut-shaped structure that acquires views from all angles. These views are combined to produce a three-dimensional image of the chest. With CT scanning, dime-sized abnormalities can be detected, although at somewhat higher levels of radiation. "Right now, our understanding of lung can...AIDS and cancer specimen bank at UCSF renamed and funded for five more years
...pecimen bank, ACSR, upon request, searches for and acquires specimens not currently in the bank to meet the special needs of approved investigations. In addition to UCSF, ACSR sites include George Washington University and Ohio State University as well as collaborative sites that together constitute an intern...Virtual mass spectrometry laboratory transforms learning experience
... standard compound, or calibrant. The student then acquires the data in the form of a plot called a mass spectrum (see Figure 2) and interprets the data. Problems arise if a student fails to prepare a sample correctly, set the instrument controls properly, or massages the dataset appropriately. For example, f...Texas A&M, ECOR sign deal to produce health-related proteins
...ombinant proteins. In the license agreement, ECOR acquires exclusive rights to commercialize the Texas A&M patents in the field of bio-processing. ECOR's subsidiary, proCANE LLC, will produce the sugarcane-derived, high-value proteins. Recombinant proteins are produced by splicing a gene, or a combination o...SMASH imaging increases effectiveness of MRI for musculoskeletal imaging
..., FL. According to the study, SMASH imaging, which acquires many pictures at the same time as opposed to traditional imaging techniques that acquire one image at a time, is commonly used in cardiac imaging and other applications where high-resolution fast imaging is needed, but it had not yet been used for mu...Optics meeting tips: Internal fingerprints, no cell left behind, 3-D reality
...ations of the light returned and in one fell swoop acquires the entire light-scattering pattern over a wide range of angles, instead of acquiring measurements one by one, which used to take five minutes per measurement. Wax anticipates that the first clinical trials in human subjects with esophageal cancer w...