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Purdue researcher invents molecule that stops SARS

A Purdue University researcher has created a compound that prevents replication of the virus that causes SARS and could lead to a treatment for the disease.
[13.11.2008]  

Important Steps Towards Development Of Human Vaccine Against Malaria

A very promising method for vaccination is to sufficiently weaken parasites such that they invade liver cells but then are not able to develop any further. It is, however, required that these attenuated parasites are still able to stimulate a good immune response in the liver. This can be achieved by irradiating the parasites or by genetically inactivating individual parasite genes that are active during the parasites growth in the liver. Researchers from Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands and LUMC, Leiden, the Netherlands, have now characterized a large number of parasite proteins (‘proteome’) that are present only during liver stage development and therefore are potential targets for inactivation.
[12.11.2008]  

Organs transplants from pigs could be a reality in less than a decade, claims Lord Winston

Hearts and kidneys taken from genetically modified pigs could be transplanted into humans within a decade, a leading scientist has said.
[11.11.2008]  

Mitochondria Could Be a Target for Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer’s Disease Patients

A study in the Sept. 21 on-line edition of Nature Medicine describes the function and interaction of a critical molecule involved in cell death in Alzheimer’s disease patients.
[10.11.2008]  

siRNA filled nanoliposomes target melanoma

Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine, USA have used nanoparticles filled with small interfering RNA (siRNA) to inhibit the development of melanoma, the most aggressive form of skin cancer.
[8.11.2008]  

Washington University scientists first to sequence genome of cancer patient

For the first time, scientists have decoded the complete DNA of a cancer patient and traced her disease - acute myelogenous leukemia - to its genetic roots.
[7.11.2008]  

Frozen mice cloned - are woolly mammoths next?

Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long 16 years and said on Monday it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species.
[6.11.2008]  

Diesel Fuel From a Tree Fungus?

Petroleum geologists normally look for oil underground. Gary Strobel made his strike by pruning a tree. In the current issue of Microbiology, Strobel, a plant pathologist at Montana State University, Bozeman, and colleagues report that Gliocladium roseum - a novel fungus they discovered hidden within a stem from a scraggly tree in northern Patagonia - produces dozens of the same midlength hydrocarbons found in gasoline, diesel fuel, and jet fuel.
[5.11.2008]  

Scientists develop cancer fighting tomato

A purple tomato genetically engineered to contain nutrients more commonly seen in dark berries helped prevent cancer in mice, British researchers said on Sunday.
[4.11.2008]  

Engineering Technique to Identify Disease-Causing Genes

Scientists believe that complex diseases such as schizophrenia, major depression and cancer are not caused by one, but a multitude of dysfunctional genes.
[3.11.2008]