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Researchers design unique method to induce immunity to certain STDs

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common bacterial agent of sexually transmitted disease, accounting for more than a million reported infections in the United States each year.





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Emergence of recombinant forms of HIV: dynamics and scaling

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Oct 26, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The emergence of drug resistant forms of HIV often underlies the failure of current antiretroviral therapies for HIV infection. Specific mutations in the HIV genome confer resistance to individual drugs.


FDA OKs novel surgical clotting solution

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 17, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced approval Thursday of the first clotting solution made using recombinant DNA techniques.


Novel mechanism revealed for increasing recombinant protein yield in tobacco

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) cause plants to store GM proteins in special 'protein bodies', insulating them from normal cellular degradation processes and increasing the overall protein yield. Researchers writing in the ...


Researchers outline structure of largest nonvirus particle ever crystallized

Researchers outline structure of largest nonvirus particle ever crystallized

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created Nov 27, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Researchers at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute, the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have modeled the structure of the largest cellular particle ever ...


Challenges of HIV-1 subtype diversity

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created May 21, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A review article in the New England Journal of Medicine explores the genetic variation of HIV-1 and its implications for preventing and treating the disease. Francine McCutchan, Ph.D., a researcher with the U.S. Military HIV Re ...


Veterinary researchers study poultry virus as human cancer treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 12, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers on the Blacksburg and College Park, Md., campuses of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine have been awarded a major new grant from the National Institutes of Health to support innovative ...


Research identifies type of vaccine that holds promise in protecting against TB

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers are one step closer to finding a vaccine that better protects against tuberculosis. An investigational vaccine for TB tested at Saint Louis University appears likely to offer significantly better protection against ...


Biorefining of corn brings gelatin production into the 21st century

Chemistry /

created Aug 23, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Scientists are reporting an advance toward turning corn plants into natural factories for producing gelatin to replace animal-sourced gelatin widely used by the pharmaceutical industry for manufacturing capsules and tablets. ...


Vaults: From Biological Mystery to Nanotech Workhorse?

Vaults: From Biological Mystery to Nanotech Workhorse?

Nanotechnology /

created May 11, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Natural nano-capsules show promise for drug delivery, electrical switches and circuits Naturally occurring nano-capsules, known as "vaults," could provide a whole new class of delivery vehicles for therapeu ...


UCLA scientists store materials in cells' natural vaults

Nanotechnology /

created Mar 08, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Method may offer safer way to target drugs to living cells In the realm of nanotechnology, or study of the tiny, scientists often aim to safely deliver and leave material in the human body without causing harm. A big chall ...



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