News tagged with agents
Shared equipment can lead to hepatitis B outbreaks
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Patient-to-patient transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) can occur as the result of routine clinical practices incorrectly thought to be risk-free. A review of 33 HBV outbreaks, published in the open access journal BMC Me ...
Nanotubes Sniff Out Cancer Agents in Living Cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A multidisciplinary team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed carbon nanotubes that can be used as sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells. The ...
Navigating in the ocean of molecules
Aug 07, 2009 |
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Tracking down new active agents for cancer or malaria treatment could soon become easier - thanks to a computer program with which researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund aim to facilitate ...
Chemists synthesize fungal compound with anti-cancer activity
Apr 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ten years ago, William Fenical of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography isolated from an ocean-living fungus a compound that has since shown the ability to kill cancer cells in the lab. ...
Support for adjunctive vitamin C treatment in cancer
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Serious flaws in a recent study, which concluded that high doses of vitamin C reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapeutic drugs in the treatment of cancer, are revealed in the current issue of Alternative and Complementary Th ...
Nanoemulsion potent against superbugs that kill cystic fibrosis patients
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 04, 2009 |
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University of Michigan scientists report highly encouraging evidence that a super-fine oil-and-water emulsion, already shown to kill many other microbes, may be able to quell the ravaging, often drug-resistant ...
Cold sore virus linked to Alzheimer's
Dec 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The virus behind cold sores is a major cause of the insoluble protein plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease sufferers, University of Manchester researchers have revealed.
Scientists create first crystal structure of an intermediate particle in virus assembly
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Feb 08, 2009 |
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The structure, described February 8 in an advance online publication of the journal Nature, provides fresh insights into the elegant dance that viral proteins perform to create the infectious structure that causes all ma ...
Nanotubes sniff out cancer agents in living cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 14, 2008 |
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MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells.
Engineered pea seeds protect against parasites
Sep 11, 2009 |
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A breed of pea seeds has been created that contains antibodies against coccidiosis, a disease caused by a parasite that attacks chickens. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biotechnology describe the develo ...
How pathogens have shaped genes involved in our immune system
Jul 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study on human genetics on various populations across the world conducted by researchers from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS (France) has shown how pathogens can shape the patterns of genetic ...
Ultrasensitive detector promises improved treatment of viral respiratory infections
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Vanderbilt chemist and a biomedical engineer have teamed up to develop a respiratory virus detector that is sensitive enough to detect an infection at an early stage, takes only a few minutes ...
Tiny motes sniff out chemical, biological threats
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research to develop a new method to detect biological and chemical threats may also lead to new approaches for removing pollutants from the environment.
New therapeutic target for melanoma identified
Apr 16, 2009 |
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A protein called Mcl-1 plays a critical role in melanoma cell resistance to a form of apoptosis called anoikis, according to research published this week in Molecular Cancer Research.
Engineered bacterium churns out two new key antibiotics
Feb 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In recent years, scientists have isolated two potent natural antibiotics — platensimycin and platencin — that are highly effective against bacterial infection, including those caused by the most dreaded drug-resistant ...
