Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Latent HIV: SAHA Drug Shows New Potential

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…

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Discover Surprising New Syndrome in Blood Pressure Research

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…

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Einstein researchers develop novel antibiotics that don't trigger resistance

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….

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New Prion Discovery Sheds Light on Mass Gene Expression Control

Susan Liebman, distinguished university professor of biological sciences, and postdoctoral research associate Basant Patel propagated the new prion from a…

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Genetic Abnormality Linked to Increased Blood Disorder Risk

The investigators carried out a genome-wide study to identify inherited DNA sequence changes that frequently occur in patients with myeloproliferative…

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New Technology Unlocks Study of HIV-Specific Antibodies

Previous research has shown that some individuals who control HIV infection without medication naturally produce antibodies able to neutralize diverse strains…

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Gladstone Scientists Discover Key Enzyme for Fat Absorption

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…

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Stem Cells Show Promise for Diabetes Cure in Mice

“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…

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New Model Reveals How Proteins Locate DNA Sequences

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…

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New Method Uncovers Functional Areas of Human DNA

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…

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Enzyme AMPK Found to Boost Brain Growth in Mice

When scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis selectively disabled the enzyme AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in mouse embryos,…

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New Measure Detects Melanoma Malignancy Through Angiogenesis

This process called angiogenesis involves a number of different growth factors and their respective receptors on the vascular wall cells. The departments of…

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New Technique Uses Microorganisms to Date Forensic Death

This new system, of great interest in the field of criminology, establishes correspondences between the parametres of micro-organic growth on cadaverous…

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Bone Marrow Stem Cell Injections Show Hope for Spinal Cord Injury

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…

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Stem Cell Infusion and Hyperbaric Oxygen Enhance Islet Function

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…

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New Mouse Model of Melanoma Offers Hope for Targeted Therapies

The study was led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of Vermont…

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