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Parasite breaks its own DNA to avoid detection
Apr 15, 2009 |
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The parasite Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness, is like a thief donning a disguise. Every time the host's immune cells get close to destroying the parasite, it escapes detection by rearranging its DN ...
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Cell surface profiling technique could yield cancer blood test
Apr 13, 2006 |
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A chemical profiling technique that has potential for detecting the onset of cancer at the cellular level has been developed by scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of ...
Detecting flu viruses in remote areas of the world
Jul 14, 2008 |
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Researchers in Ohio and New Mexico are reporting an advance in the quest for a fast, sensitive test to detect flu viruses — one that requires no refrigeration and can be used in remote areas of the world where ...
Scientists reveal key structure from ebola virus
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Described in the July 10, 2008 issue of the journal Nature, the research reveals the shape of the Ebola virus spike protein, which is necessary for viral entry into human cells, bound to an immune system antibody acting to neu ...
Progress Toward an Antitumor Vaccine
Jun 12, 2007 |
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How can we induce the body to use its own weapon, the immune system, to battle cancer?
Blood type study sheds light on biology of pancreatic cancer
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Offering a novel clue about the basic biology of pancreatic cancer, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have confirmed a decades-old discovery of a link between blood type and the ...
Something fishy in human blood could save lives
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Thousands of people with liver and kidney disease die every year from too much ammonia in their blood, and scientists from the United States and Japan have found a possible solution. In the April 2007 issue of The FASEB Journal ...
Virologists developing more potent vaccine technology
May 04, 2009 |
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Virginia Tech virologist Chris Roberts' goal is to develop a platform for a flu vaccine that allows rapid modifications to meet new strains of flu.
Human nose too cold for bird flu, says new study
May 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Avian influenza viruses do not thrive in humans because the temperature inside a person's nose is too low, according to research published today in the journal PLoS Pathogens. The authors of the ...
UCLA Scientists Transform HIV Into Cancer-seeking Missile
Feb 17, 2005 |
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Camouflaging an impotent AIDS virus in new clothes enables it to hunt down metastasized melanoma cells in living mice, reports a UCLA AIDS Institute study in the Feb. 13 online edition of Nature Medicine. The scientists added ...
New mechanism underlying pain found
Oct 16, 2006 |
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Researchers at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development (J&JPRD) today announced that they have discovered a new molecular mechanism that may underlie neuropathic pain. The clearer understanding of the root-cause ...
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