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Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 04 Jul 2009 Researchers from the Universities of York and Leeds have been awarded A 3.3m from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to find out how a family of proteins known as colicins force their way into bacterial ...

Main Category: Breast Cancer Also Included In: MRI / PET / Ultrasound ; Biology / Biochemistry ; Radiology / Nuclear Medicine Article Date: 04 Jul 2009 - 0:00 PDT A new study published in the July issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine shows that positron emission tomography scans in mice can be used to determine whether a novel type of breast ...

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Main Category: Dentistry Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 02 Jul 2009 - 6:00 PDT printer friendly view / write opinions rate article Tooth-colored fillings may be more attractive than silver ones, but the bonds between the white filling and the tooth quickly age and degrade.

Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research. An independent committee of world-renowned scientists selected Dr.

This illustrates the progression of AB42 to a toxic dodecamer, or, "twelve-mer" aggregation, . Below, the AB40 oligomer only becomes a nontoxic tetramer aggregation.

The discovery, featured on the cover of the July 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal , shows that proper protein folding over time in long-lived bats explains why they live significantly longer than other mammals of comparable size, such as mice.

Main Category: Lupus Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry ; Immune System / Vaccines Article Date: 01 Jul 2009 - 0:00 PDT The more than 1.5 million Americans with systemic lupus erythematosus suffer from a variety of symptoms that flare and subside, often including painful or swollen joints, extreme fatigue, skin rashes, fever, and kidney ...

Jennifer DeLuca, a faculty researcher in the biochemistry and molecular biology department, sits with her microscope inside of her lab on Tuesday.

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses ; Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 30 Jun 2009 - 1:00 PDT Scientists know that some cancers are triggered by viruses, which take over cellular systems and cause uncontrolled cell growth.

Main Category: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience Biology / Biochemistry Alcohol's inebriating effects are familiar to everyone.

Main Category: Alzheimer's / Dementia Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience Biology / Biochemistry It is possible to determine which patients run a high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and the dementia associated with it, even in patients with minimal memory impairment.

In a landmark technical achievement, investigators in the Vanderbilt Center for Structural Biology have used nuclear magnetic resonance methods to determine the structure of the largest membrane-spanning protein to date.

Main Category: Immune System / Vaccines Also Included In: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Biology / Biochemistry It is now possible to engineer tiny containers the size of a virus to deliver drugs and other materials with almost 100 percent efficiency to targeted cells in the bloodstream.

The new protein, called Trim24, feeds p53 to a protein-shredding complex known as the proteasome by attaching targeting molecules called ubiquitins to the tumor suppressor, the team reported this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition.

Main Category: Urology / Nephrology Article Date: 26 Jun 2009 - 3:00 PDT rate article The Roche Creatinine Plus enzymatic creatinine assay, for use with cobas or MODULAR Analytics analysers, offers a specific and accurate alternative to the less specific Jaffe method, ensuring clinically more reliable results in the management of patients with ...

Main Category: Hypertension Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry ; Genetics Article Date: 24 Jun 2009 - 2:00 PDT rate article Medical scientists at the University of Leicester are investigating how a species of fish from the Pacific Ocean could help provide answers to tackling chronic conditions such as hereditary high blood pressure and kidney ...

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry ; IT / Internet / E-mail Article Date: 24 Jun 2009 - 2:00 PDT Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the University Clinic Heidelberg, Germany, have produced a three-dimensional reconstruction of HIV , which shows the structure of the immature form of the virus ...

A fundamental question about how sugar units are strung together into long carbohydrate chains has also pinpointed a promising way to target new medicines against tuberculosis.

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry ; Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Article Date: 23 Jun 2009 - 1:00 PDT Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have isolated a potent inhibitor of tumor metastasis made by tumor cells, one that could potentially be harnessed as a cancer treatment.