Dr. Ruth Brack-Werner and her team at the Institute of Virology of the German Research Center for Environmental Health previously demonstrated that HIV invades…
Under the terms of the collaboration agreement, PolyTherics will explore the biological effects on proteins of Biocompatibles’ proprietary phosphorylcholine…
Researchers analyzed patterns of codon usage across 74 bacteriophages using the concept of a “genome landscape,” a method of visualizing long-range patterns in…
The bacteria, Shewanella, are commonly found in water and soil and are of interest because they can convert simple organic compounds (such as lactic acid) into…
This study shows for the first time how ISG15 slows the spread of Ebola virus budding, an observation that could help explain how ISG15 successfully inhibits…
Not only is our body made of individual organs, our cells themselves are made of tiny organelles, a variety of separate compartments that fulfill different…
Robert Koch who detected the tuberculosis causative agent in March 1882 described the contemporary situation: “Statistics tells us that one in seven of all…
A team of MIT researchers led by Professors Edward DeLong and Penny Chisholm is trying to change that.Borrowing gene sequencing tools developed for sequencing…
In a study published in the Feb. 29 issue of the journal PLoS Genetics, researchers at the University of Washington have developed a research method that…
Instead of studying one mouse model of the disease causing the brain tumors, the laboratory of David Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D., the Donald O. Schnuck Family…
Honey bees and hummingbirds can hover like helicopters for minutes at a time, sucking the juice from their favorite blossoms while staying aloft in a swirl of…
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have uncovered a new way to develop more effective tumor vaccines by turning off the suppression…
These findings, the first to indicate a biological basis for the clinical features of HGPS, also known as progeria, may also provide new insights into the…
In a series of elegant experiments in mice, researchers at Rockefeller University have now discovered a tiny RNA molecule that helps create this barrier. The…
A Canada-U.S. research team has solved a major genetic mystery: How a protein in some people’s DNA guards them against killer immune diseases such as HIV. In…
The Northwestern scientists, led by researcher Mary J. C. Hendrix, M.D., additionally found that the protein, called Lefty, prevents aggressive breast cancer…
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