New study reveals how human astroviruses bind to humans cells and paves the way for new therapies and vaccines Human astroviruses are a leading viral cause of the stomach bug—think vomiting, diarrhea, and fever. It often impacts young children and older adults, leading to vicious cycles of sickness and malnutrition, particularly for those in low and middle income countries. It’s very commonly found in wastewater studies, meaning it’s frequently circulating in communities. As of now, there are no vaccines for…
The tenacity of these glues on wet surfaces is difficult to match with artificial adhesives.Following up on their original research identifying the key…
“We have generated a draft DNA sequence and initial assembly of the date palm using the most advanced technology,” says Joel Malek, director of the Genomics…
In previous work, Dr. Daniel Lacorazza, assistant professor of pathology at BCM, along with his research team, identified a transcription factor, ELF4, which…
The DNA is being damaged continuously: It is affected by solar UV radiation just as by toxic substances from the environment. However, defects also occur…
These man-made molecules also were effective against the abnormal protein that causes Machado-Joseph disease, a neurological condition similar to Huntington’s.The work has been done only in cultured cells, and it will take years before the effectiveness of this process can be tested in patients, the researchers cautioned….
A study in the May 1 issue of the journal SLEEP suggests that babies born to mothers with depression are more likely to suffer from significant sleep…
“The new transposon system is able to introduce genes into cells and to stably insert them into the cell's genome at an unprecedented efficiency,” Dr. Lajos…
Many molecular materials, be they hydrogen for fuel cells or drugs, can be stored in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). This would even be possible for metal…
In studying the mystery of these biological phenomena, Asako Sugimoto, Team Leader of the Laboratory for Developmental Genomics in the Center for Developmental…
The world will reportedly face a food crisis as a result of the population explosion and other factors in the near future. To increase crop yields is a major…
In the thousands of years since the soybean was first cultivated, it has only become more useful and important, providing nutrition for billions of humans and…
Now, investigators from Germany at the University of Erlangen, the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and Regensburg, collaborating…
Crops and other plants are constantly confronted with adverse environmental conditions, lowering yield and costing farmers billions of dollars annually. Plants…
What is more, the mammals seem to be able to remain continually vigilant for sounds for days on end. All of this made Ridgway and his colleagues from San Diego…
Mitoxantrone is an immunosuppressant drug approved by the FDA for treatment of several forms of advancing MS. It is one of only two drugs that has been shown…
It includes ankylosing spondylitis (AS), psoriatic arthritis, inflammatory bowel-disease-related arthritis, reactive arthritis (ReA) and undifferentiated…
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