- UGA discovery holds promise for treatment of diabetes and other debilitating diseases
Two University of Georgia animal science researchers introduced to the world 13 pigs that may hold the key to new therapies to treat human diseases, including diabetes. Announced this week, the discovery marks the first time...
(Issue date: 09 May 2010)
- Fighting fungal infections with bacteria
A bacterial pathogen can communicate with yeast to block the development of drug-resistant yeast infections, say Irish scientists. The research could be a step towards new strategies to prevent hospital-acquired infections...
(Issue date: 02 May 2010)
- Transportation governed by simple rules
All life on earth is threatened by chaos. In this sense, a cell is like a ship that could at any moment sink in a sea of chaos. It must constantly consume energy to maintain the same level of order to avoid going under -...
(Issue date: 02 May 2010)
- UA Scientists Discover First Case of Animals Making Their Own Carotene
The insects known as aphids can make their own essential nutrients called carotenoids, according to new research from University of Arizona scientists. No other animals are known to make the potent antioxidants. Until now...
(Issue date: 02 May 2010)
- Leptin Action in the Brain Linked to Sepsis Survival
The hormone leptin, typically associated with body weight regulation, works within the central nervous system (CNS) to aid the immune system’s defence against sepsis, researchers say. Sepsis is a life-threatening medical...
(Issue date: 02 May 2010)
- Embryonic stem cells reveal oncogene’s secret growth formula
A comprehensive new gene expression study in embryonic stem cells has uncovered a transcription control mechanism that is not only more pervasive than once thought but is also heavily regulated by the cancer-causing gene...
(Issue date: 02 May 2010)
- Genetically engineered tobacco plant cleans up environmental toxin
Researchers find that a new strain of tobacco plant can make antibodies to toxic pond scum that affects humans, livestock and wildlife. Tobacco might become as well known for keeping us healthy as it is for causing illness thanks...
(Issue date: 25 April 2010)
- Seek-and-destroy gene therapy system could make cancer tumours disappear
Cancer tumours could be eliminated through the use of a 'seek-and-destroy' gene therapeutic system, according to newly-published research led by scientists at Strathclyde. Genes have potential to be used as medicines to treat...
(Issue date: 25 April 2010)
- HIV Patients Hold Clues to Salmonella Vaccine Development
A study led by researchers from the University of Birmingham offers a long-awaited explanation for the link between HIV infection and susceptibility to life-threatening non-typhoidal strains of Salmonella. The research, funded by...
(Issue date: 25 April 2010)
- Scientists Make Fundamental Discovery about How Gene Expression Functions in Bacteria
Researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered and characterised a general mechanism that controls transcription elongation in bacteria. The mechanism relies on physical co-operation between a moving ribosome and RNA...
(Issue date: 25 April 2010)
- Poultry disease vaccine brings short-term results, long-term problems
Attenuated live vaccines that protect poultry against Newcastle Disease may be altering the genetic makeup of the wild virus strains, which could make future outbreaks unpredictable and difficult to tackle, according to...
(Issue date: 25 April 2010)
- New computational method to uncover gene regulation
Scientists have developed a new computational model to uncover gene regulation, the key to how our body develops – and how it can go wrong. The researchers, from The University of Manchester (UK), Aalto University (Finland) and...
(Issue date: 25 April 2010)
- Body builders - the worms that point the way to understanding tissue regeneration
Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered the gene that enables an extraordinary worm to regenerate its own body parts after amputation — including a whole head and brain. Their research into the Planarian worm...
(Issue date: 25 April 2010)
- UK team reveals all three structures of single transporter protein
A team of researchers from the Universities of Leeds, Oxford and Imperial College London have captured the 3D atomic models of a single transporter protein in each of its three main structural states. An achievement that has been...
(Issue date: 25 April 2010)
- Major breakthrough offers hope of preventing mitochondrial diseases
Scientists at Newcastle University have developed a pioneering technique which enables them for the first time to successfully transfer DNA between two human eggs. The technique has the potential to help prevent the transmission...
(Issue date: 18 April 2010)
- High-Altitude Metabolism Lets Mice Stay Slim and Healthy on a High-Fat Diet
Mice that are missing a protein involved in the response to low oxygen stay lean and healthy, even on a high-fat diet, a new study has found.
"They process fat differently," said Randall Johnson, professor of biology at the...
(Issue date: 18 April 2010)
- Newly discovered RNA steers brain development
How does the brain work? This question is one of the greatest scientific mysteries, and neurobiologists have only recently begun to piece together the molecular building blocks that enable human beings to be "thinking" animals....
(Issue date: 18 April 2010)
- Weizmann Institute Scientists Have Developed: An Electronic 'Nose' That is Able to Predict the Pleasantness of Novel Odours
Weizmann Institute scientists have ‘trained’ an electronic system to be able to predict the pleasantness of novel odours, just like a human would perceive them – turning the popular notion that smell is completely personal and...
(Issue date: 18 April 2010)
- How a Cell Motor Gets Pushy
A University of Utah researcher helped discover how a "wimpy" protein motor works with two other proteins to gain the strength necessary to move nerve cells and components inside them. The findings shed light on brain development...
(Issue date: 18 April 2010)
- Banana lectin identified as HIV inhibitor by U-M scientists
A potent new HIV inhibitor derived from bananas may open the door to new treatments to prevent sexual transmission of HIV, according to a University of Michigan Medical School study published this week. Scientists have an...
(Issue date: 18 April 2010)
