The antiviral drug peramivir might offer humans significant protection during a pandemic of the avian influenza virus H5N1, according to results of mouse…
The researchers have identified “a new level of biological regulation” and potentially an improved way to profile tumors, says Scott Waldman, M.D., Ph.D.,…
Medicinal plants are an integral part of African culture, one of the oldest and most diverse in the world. In South Africa, 21st century drug therapy is used…
Humans have five forms of this particular protein, and three are associated with syndromes that predispose people to cancer, said Dr. Susan Rosenberg,…
Scientists have pinpointed how different types of damage in types of damage to the same gene can cause some people to suffer from schizophrenia while others…
A new study, led by Felix Aigner, M.D., has identified a protein known as Lipocalin-2 (Lcn-2) as potentially responsible for regulating the body’s inflammatory…
“Thanks to this exceptional donation, we can boost research into what proteins look like and how they behave and interact in cells and tissues in healthy and…
“Many everyday financial decisions, such as playing the lottery or investing money are gambles in some form or another, and most of these gambles involve the…
The body is an almost perfect machine. For it to function properly, each individual component, that is each molecule, must reliably fulfill its specific…
A Sandia National Laboratories research team is developing a new type of electrochemical sensor that uses a unique surface chemistry to reliably and accurately…
And remarkably, although it is very distant from humans in evolutionary terms, it has many of the immune system genes that protect people against disease. In…
Researchers compared blood samples of 34 children with autism to samples of 34 children without autism who had been referred to an outpatient clinic of the…
“For the first time, we were able to cure mice of a very aggressive human breast tumor,” said Dr. Rachel Schiff, assistant professor in the Breast Center at…
University of South Florida neuroscientist Brian Giunta, MD, reported the findings May 1 at Experimental Biology 2007 in Washington, DC. His presentation was…
Duke University Medical Center researchers believe their findings could help physicians identify patients at risk of suffering mental decline after heart…
Scientists have shown that a tiny microRNA molecule called miR-155, plays a critical role in immune defence and may be a lynchpin in the immune system. The…
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