But, a chemical called suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA), recently approved as a leukemia drug, has now been shown to 'turn on' latent HIV, making it an…
The findings, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, illustrate the power of genetic studies not only to find causes of…
The compounds work against two notorious microbes: Vibrio cholerae, which causes cholera; and E. coli 0157:H7, the food contaminant that each year in the U.S….
Susan Liebman, distinguished university professor of biological sciences, and postdoctoral research associate Basant Patel propagated the new prion from a…
The investigators carried out a genome-wide study to identify inherited DNA sequence changes that frequently occur in patients with myeloproliferative…
Previous research has shown that some individuals who control HIV infection without medication naturally produce antibodies able to neutralize diverse strains…
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) have found that a key enzyme involved in absorbing fat may also be a key to reducing…
“Now we know how it works,” said Chan, director of the federally designed Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center at BCM and chief of the division of…
In living cells, DNA-binding proteins regulate the activity of various genes so that different cells carry out the right tasks at the right time. For this to…
A team led by researchers from Boston University and the National Institutes of Health has developed a new method for uncovering functional areas of the human…
When scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis selectively disabled the enzyme AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in mouse embryos,…
This process called angiogenesis involves a number of different growth factors and their respective receptors on the vascular wall cells. The departments of…
This new system, of great interest in the field of criminology, establishes correspondences between the parametres of micro-organic growth on cadaverous…
Publishing in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (Vol. 17 No.12), the researchers reported on eight patients with SCI (four acute and four chronic) to…
The combination therapy could decrease type 2 diabetes morbidity and mortality, said the authors, who published their study results in the latest issue of Cell…
The study was led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of Vermont…