University of Illinois at Chicago receives $15.7 million grant to stop anthrax
...ousands of deaths, Johnson said. While the anthrax strain unleashed in 2001 was susceptible to conventional ... difficulty. "The damage that could be done with a strain of B. anthracis that had been bioengineered to be more potent and to incorporate additional virulenc...Stanford researchers study new antiviral approach to protect women from HIV
...olleagues have shown that a genetically engineered strain of lactobacillus - bacteria abundantly found in healthy vaginal mucosal linings - could significantly inhibit the ability of HIV to infect cells. Their findings are published in the Sept. 8 advance online edition of the Proceedings of the National Ac...Gene that is crucial for antibody-producing cell development is key to blood cell cancer
...enes were infected with a strongly disease-causing strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae, which causes one of the most common forms of pneumonia in humans. Unable to clear up the infection, these mice died. However, mice with normal Bcl10 genes mounted immune responses to the infection and survived. "This stu...Research pinpoints variations in sit-up techniques
...n crunches. "Crunches require less effort and less strain on the hip and lower back," Dr. Chong said. Also, interestingly, crunches are harder on the neck. "When the body is vertical (as during a full sit-up), the neck gets a break." The most strenuous sit-up is a full sit-up from the floor, he said, noting...Fast-acting ebola vaccine protects monkeys
...MRIID where they were injected with an Ebola virus strain obtained from a fatally infected person from the former Zaire in 1995. The single vaccine injection completely protected all eight animals against Ebola infection, even those who received high doses of the virus. "I am proud that our research team a...Emory University researchers find clue to Huntington's disease mechanism
...s. Last year Dr. Li's Emory laboratory produced a strain of mice lacking HAP1 and carefully examined the hypothalamus, suspecting it to be the source of the lack of appetite. They found that neurons in the hypothalamus of the HAP1-deficient mice were dying of apoptosis, a self-destruction program activate...Kids' backpacks may not cause back pain after all
...ist indicates backpacks don't cause the stress and strain on young backs that they've been linked to. "There...ls a specially designed backpack meant to minimize strain on the back. Because students in the study primarily carried their bags to and from school, the time...Work stress can affect how lower-income families eat
...ts of their jobs spilling over to family life, the strain was greatest for women with children. That, they say, is probably because in many families women feel responsible for the care of children and food preparation. While African-American and white workers reported that men and women shared in meal pre...Genotyping targets individuals at high risk for H. pylori-associated stomach cancer
...ds on a number of factors, including the bacterial strain and genetic variations in the host. To determine ...ukin-1 beta gene who were infected by an H. pylori strain with a particular variant of the vacA vacuolating cytotoxin had a nearly 90-fold increase in the ris...How HIV outmaneuvers the immune system
...till ableto recognize and eliminate the laboratory strain targets, no longer killedtarget cells that were infected with their own, autologous, virus. This islikely due to the virus' propensity to mutate and the in inability of thepatient's weakened immune system to keep up with the changing virus. These res...JCI table of contents, November 4, 2002
...till ableto recognize and eliminate the laboratory strain targets, no longer killedtarget cells that were infected with their own, autologous, virus. This islikely due to the virus' propensity to mutate and the in inability of thepatient's weakened immune system to keep up with the changing virus. These res...Memory training may help some Alzheimer's patients in the early stages of the disease
...avior, awareness of their memory problems, and the strain on the caregiver (usually the wife or husband) before and after the intervention. The researchers then trained participants to remember the names of people whom they had difficulty naming from a set of 12 photos that included people in their social...Work stress doubles risk of death from heart disease
...e national mortality register. They found that job strain (high work demands and low job control) and effort-reward imbalance (high demands, low security, few career opportunities) were each associated with a doubling of the risk of cardiovascular death among initially healthy employees. High job stress was...Researchers discover target for new anxiety-reducing drugs
... on the project. "To conduct this study, we used a strain of mouse that lacks an enzyme called protein kinase Ce (PKCe)," said Raber. "Earlier work showed that this enzyme interacts with GABA A receptors in the brain. As activation of GABA A receptors reduces anxiety, we tested whether PKCe deficiency reduc...Blocking enzyme found to ease anxiety without causing sedation
...PKC gene. Messing and his colleagues developed the strain of PKC knockout mice in 1998 and have been studying the neurological effects. In tests that measure the tendency of mice to avoid heights and exposed environments, the research showed that PKC epsilon-knockout mice expressed less anxiety-like behavi...New combination treatment for hepatitis C reported more beneficial than standard therapy
...e with the most-difficult-to-treat and most common strain of hepatitis C. The large international study, headed by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is also the first published one to show that treatment with the investigational drug peginterferon alfa-2a in combination with t...Remembering stressful events may lead to later heart disease
...sk of later heart disease, likely due to prolonged strain on the cardiovascular system. The study is published in the September/October issue of Psychosomatic Medicine. "It may be the case that exposure to emotional stressors is of greater potential harm to the cardiovascular system than exposure to non-emo...Rutgers research shows caffeine may prevent skin cancer
... department of chemical biology, studied a special strain of hairless mice that had been exposed to ultraviolet B light twice weekly for 20 weeks. This put the mice at risk for tumor formation and skin cancer. After stopping the exposures, the researchers applied caffeine and epigallocatechin gallate (EGC...All Hajj pilgrims should get meningitis jab
...al carriers, with 90% carrying the W135 clone the strain that caused an international outbreak of meningococcal disease during the Hajj 2000. Carriage was significantly higher in pilgrims who had not taken antibiotics. The returning pilgrims reported between 1 and 10 people living in their household. The l...UCSD study shows increased transmission of drug-resistant HIV infection
...n was 56 days for those without the drug-resistant strain and 88 days for those with the drug-resistant form of the virus. The time to virologic failure was significantly shorter among those with drug-resistance. In research results presented by Richman in December 2001 at the American Society for Microbio...