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3/17/10
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Understanding the steps to the intricate dance inside a cell is essential to one day choreographing the show. By studying the molecules that give a cell its structure, Univ. of Illinois researchers are moving closer to understanding one of those steps: the conga line.
Mar 16 | News
Magic bullets, also called silver bullets, because of the folkloric belief that only silver bullets can kill supernatural creatures, remain the goal of drug development efforts today. A team of scientists at Washington Univ. in St. Louis is currently working on a magic bullet for cancer. But their bullets are gold rather than silver.
Mar 16 | News
In the effort to study the movements of bacteria, Texas A&M plant experts observed the cell wall crashing behavior of Xylella fastidiosa, which causes a deadly wine grape plant disease. Electron microscopy helped them see this movement for the first time.
23 hours ago | News
A global vaccine initiative is seeking $4.3 billion in new funding to ramp up child immunization campaigns against deadly diseases.The Geneva-based GAVI alliance, launched a decade ago as a partner of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, says governments and other donors could help save 4.2...
23 hours ago | News
China's Health Ministry is investigating the safety of inoculations in a northern province after a report that defective vaccines possibly killed four children and seriously sickened dozens.The ministry urged health authorities in Shanxi province to promptly report any abnormal reactions...
23 hours ago | News
A global vaccine initiative launched with the help of Bill Gates is seeking $4.3 billion in new funding to ramp up child immunization campaigns against deadly diseases such as hepatitis B, diarrhea and pneumonia in the developing world.The Geneva-based GAVI alliance, launched a decade ago as a...
Mar 18 | News
The detection of tissue-damaging pungent chemicals like those found in wasabi, tear gas and cigarette smoke is called chemical nociception. It’s different than either taste or smell, and according to recent phylogenetics research, this defensive sensor has been conserved across 500 million years of evolution.
Mar 18 | News
In a new study to be published in the April edition of Nature Genetics, Eleazar Eskin, associate professor of computer science at UCLA Engineering, and his research group unveil a new computational strategy for genome-wide association studies that corrects for population structure and is both...
Mar 18 | News
A team of McGill Chemistry Department researchers led by Dr. Hanadi Sleiman has achieved a breakthrough in the development of nanotubes—tiny "magic bullets" that could one day deliver drugs to specific diseased cells.
Mar 18 | News
Duke Univ. researchers have devised a method to dry and preserve proteins in a glassified form that seems to retain the molecules' properties as workhorses of biology.
Mar 18 | News
Condoms might be the only thing porn actors are required to wear if the state's workplace safety board approves a petition mandating their use.In a hearing Thursday, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board will hear testimony from the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare...
Mar 18 | News
A big new nationwide study on personalizing breast cancer treatment has Illinois connections.Loyola University Medical Center and the University of Chicago are among the nearly 20 centers involved. And Abbott Labs in North Chicago makes one of the experimental drugs used in the study.The...
Mar 17 | News
The Department of Veterans Affairs was fined $227,500 after incorrect radiation doses were given to 97 veterans with prostate cancer at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, a federal agency announced Wednesday.The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the fine is the second largest it has ever...