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Discovery Of Gene That Affects Susceptibility To TB And Clues To How It Works

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
University of Washington (UW) researchers have identified a gene involved in susceptibility and resistance to tuberculosis. This same gene, they have found, has a role in the severity of leprosy, which is caused by a related pathogen. The researchers also have learned why this gene is important for ...

read more University of Washington (UW) researchers have identified a gene involved in susceptibility and resistance to tuberculosis. This same gene, they have found, has a role in the severity of leprosy, which is caused by a related pathogen. The researchers also have learned why this gene is important for read more Sat Mar 2010

Protein Shown To Be Natural Inhibitor Of Aging In Fruit Fly Model

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have identified a protein called Sestrin that serves as a natural inhibitor of aging and age-related pathologies in fruit flies... ...

read more Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have identified a protein called Sestrin that serves as a natural inhibitor of aging and age-related pathologies in fruit flies... read more Sat Mar 2010

Naegleria Genome Sheds Light On Transition From Prokaryotes To Eukaryotes

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
In the long evolutionary road from bacteria to humans, a major milestone occurred some 1.5 billion years ago when microbes started building closets for all their stuff, storing DNA inside a nucleus, for example, or cramming all the energy machinery inside mitochondria... ...

read more In the long evolutionary road from bacteria to humans, a major milestone occurred some 1.5 billion years ago when microbes started building closets for all their stuff, storing DNA inside a nucleus, for example, or cramming all the energy machinery inside mitochondria... read more Sat Mar 2010

2010 Yeast Genetics And Molecular Biology Meeting

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
The Genetics Society of America is pleased to announce the 2010 Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting, July 27-August 1, 2010, at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. This biennial meeting brings together investigators studying various aspects of eukaryotic biology i ...

read more The Genetics Society of America is pleased to announce the 2010 Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting, July 27-August 1, 2010, at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. This biennial meeting brings together investigators studying various aspects of eukaryotic biology i read more Sat Mar 2010

Current Opinion Conference On Cellular Host-Pathogen Interactions Announced By Elsevier

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services has announced that the prestigious journal Current Opinion in Cell Biology (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ceb) will host a Cellular Host-Pathogen Interactions Conference, in Amsterdam, The N ...

read more Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services has announced that the prestigious journal Current Opinion in Cell Biology (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ceb) will host a Cellular Host-Pathogen Interactions Conference, in Amsterdam, The N read more Sat Mar 2010

A Rocking Good Lecture

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
A University academic who left school early with dreams of being a rock star has been recognised for his internationally outstanding work in microbiology and his studies into the social lifestyle of the opportunistic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa - the leading cause of death in Cystic Fibrosis pa ...

read more A University academic who left school early with dreams of being a rock star has been recognised for his internationally outstanding work in microbiology and his studies into the social lifestyle of the opportunistic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa - the leading cause of death in Cystic Fibrosis pa read more Sat Mar 2010

The European Journal Of Drug Metabolism And Pharmacokinetics To Be Published By Springer

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
Starting in 2010, Springer will publish the European Journal of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics. All aspects of drug delivery and bioavailability are covered in the journal, which was previously published by the Swiss publisher MÃ©decine & HygiÃ¨ne... ...

read more Starting in 2010, Springer will publish the European Journal of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics. All aspects of drug delivery and bioavailability are covered in the journal, which was previously published by the Swiss publisher MÃ©decine & HygiÃ¨ne... read more Fri Mar 2010

Mother's Milk Turns On The Heat

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
In newborn mice, at least, mother's milk appears to have some rather immediate and potentially far-reaching metabolic consequences. The milk intake kick-starts the liver to produce a molecule that then turns on heat-generating brown fat... ...

read more In newborn mice, at least, mother's milk appears to have some rather immediate and potentially far-reaching metabolic consequences. The milk intake kick-starts the liver to produce a molecule that then turns on heat-generating brown fat... read more Fri Mar 2010

Don't Make That Face At Me!

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
Think back to your last fight with someone you love. How did you feel afterwards? How did you behave? Conflict with a loved one often leaves a person feeling terrible and then behaving badly. So much so that these scenarios have become soap opera clichÃ©s. After an argument, one partner may br ...

read more Think back to your last fight with someone you love. How did you feel afterwards? How did you behave? Conflict with a loved one often leaves a person feeling terrible and then behaving badly. So much so that these scenarios have become soap opera clichÃ©s. After an argument, one partner may br read more Fri Mar 2010

Microfluidic Technology Increases Efficiency, Reduces Costs, And Could Be A Boon For Synthetic Biology

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
Fictional candy maker Willy Wonka called his whimsical device to sort good chocolate eggs from bad, an eggucator. Likewise, by determining what enzymes and compounds to keep and which to discard, scientists are aiming to find their own golden eggs: more potent drugs and cleaner sources of energy... ...

read more Fictional candy maker Willy Wonka called his whimsical device to sort good chocolate eggs from bad, an eggucator. Likewise, by determining what enzymes and compounds to keep and which to discard, scientists are aiming to find their own golden eggs: more potent drugs and cleaner sources of energy... read more Fri Mar 2010

Downstream Processes Of Ion Channel Inactivation Revealed By New Studies

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
Two studies by researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine reveal new details of the mechanisms of ion channel inactivation. The papers appear in the March issue of The Journal of General Physiology (http://www.jgp.org). After opening, many ion channels spontaneously close by inac ...

read more Two studies by researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine reveal new details of the mechanisms of ion channel inactivation. The papers appear in the March issue of The Journal of General Physiology (http://www.jgp.org). After opening, many ion channels spontaneously close by inac read more Fri Mar 2010

Mice Show 'Global' Metabolic Improvements With Just 1 Enzyme Missing

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
When researchers created mice lacking an enzyme that breaks down and releases stored triglycerides (more properly known as triacylglycerols or TGs), they expected to see animals with better lipid profiles. But according to a report in the March Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, they got mor ...

read more When researchers created mice lacking an enzyme that breaks down and releases stored triglycerides (more properly known as triacylglycerols or TGs), they expected to see animals with better lipid profiles. But according to a report in the March Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, they got mor read more Fri Mar 2010

Cause Of Destructive Inflammations Discovered

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
The signaling molecule CD95L, known as "death messenger," causes an inflammatory process in injured tissue after spinal cord injuries and prevents its healing. This discovery was published by scientists of the German Cancer Research Center. In mice, the researchers found out that if they switch off ...

read more The signaling molecule CD95L, known as read more Fri Mar 2010

Targeting Leukaemia Cell's Gene 'addiction' Presents New Strategy For Treatment

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
An international team of scientists studying acute forms of Leukaemia have identified a new drug target to inhibit the genes which are vital for the growth of diseased cells. The research, reported in EMBO Molecular Medicine, reveals how leukaemia cells become 'addicted' to genes, which if targeted ...

read more An international team of scientists studying acute forms of Leukaemia have identified a new drug target to inhibit the genes which are vital for the growth of diseased cells. The research, reported in EMBO Molecular Medicine, reveals how leukaemia cells become 'addicted' to genes, which if targeted read more Fri Mar 2010

Aluminium Adjuvants In Vaccinations: How Do They Really Work?

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
An imminent publication in Trends in Immunology by a leading researcher in the bioinorganic chemistry of aluminium, Dr Christopher Exley, Reader in Bioinorganic Chemistry at The Birchall Centre, Keele University in Staffordshire, has now gone some way to giving the fullest possible explanation of ho ...

read more An imminent publication in Trends in Immunology by a leading researcher in the bioinorganic chemistry of aluminium, Dr Christopher Exley, Reader in Bioinorganic Chemistry at The Birchall Centre, Keele University in Staffordshire, has now gone some way to giving the fullest possible explanation of ho read more Fri Mar 2010

Baby Monkeys Receive Signals Through Their Mother's Breast Milk

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
Among rhesus macaque monkeys, mothers who weigh more and have had previous pregnancies produce more and better breast milk for their babies than mothers who weigh less and are less experienced... ...

read more Among rhesus macaque monkeys, mothers who weigh more and have had previous pregnancies produce more and better breast milk for their babies than mothers who weigh less and are less experienced... read more Fri Mar 2010

Key Protein In Energy Regulation Identified By Gladstone Scientists

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
With obesity and obesity-related diseases epidemic in the developed world, a clear understanding of how metabolism is regulated is crucial. One of the key metabolic pathways involves the oxidation of fat... ...

read more With obesity and obesity-related diseases epidemic in the developed world, a clear understanding of how metabolism is regulated is crucial. One of the key metabolic pathways involves the oxidation of fat... read more Fri Mar 2010

Artificial Bee Silk A Big Step Closer To Reality

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
CSIRO scientist Dr Tara Sutherland and her team have achieved another important milestone in the international quest to artificially produce insect silk. They have hand-drawn fine threads of honeybee silk from a 'soup' of silk proteins that they had produced transgenically... ...

read more CSIRO scientist Dr Tara Sutherland and her team have achieved another important milestone in the international quest to artificially produce insect silk. They have hand-drawn fine threads of honeybee silk from a 'soup' of silk proteins that they had produced transgenically... read more Fri Mar 2010

University Of Calgary Chemist Finds Right Mix Of Tools To Measure Nanomaterials In Blood Vessels

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
University of Calgary chemistry professor David Cramb is a step closer to helping solve a complex problem in nanotechnology: the impact nanoparticles have on human health and the environment. Cramb, director of the Faculty of Science's nanoscience program, and his researchers have developed a method ...

read more University of Calgary chemistry professor David Cramb is a step closer to helping solve a complex problem in nanotechnology: the impact nanoparticles have on human health and the environment. Cramb, director of the Faculty of Science's nanoscience program, and his researchers have developed a method read more Fri Mar 2010

'World's Most Useful Tree' Provides Low-Cost Water Purification Method For Developing World

Categorie : Biology / Biochemistry
A low-cost water purification technique published in Current Protocols in Microbiology could help drastically reduce the incidence of waterborne disease in the developing world. The procedure, which uses seeds from the Moringa oleifera tree, can produce a 90.00% to 99... ...

read more A low-cost water purification technique published in Current Protocols in Microbiology could help drastically reduce the incidence of waterborne disease in the developing world. The procedure, which uses seeds from the Moringa oleifera tree, can produce a 90.00% to 99... read more Fri Mar 2010

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