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First image of insulin ‘docking’ could lead to better diabetes treatments
Jan. 9, 2013 A landmark discovery about how insulin docks on cells could help in the development of improved types of insulin for treating both type 1 and type 2 diabetes
First image of insulin ‘docking’ could lead to better diabetes treatments
Jan. 9, 2013 A landmark discovery about how insulin docks on cells could help in the development of improved types of insulin for treating both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. For the first time, researchers have captured the intricate way in which insulin uses the insulin receptor to bind to the surface of cells.
Drug resistance in E. Coli: ‘Baby steps’ can pay off big
Jan. 9, 2013 Rice University scientists have found that mutations of small effect can turn out to be game changers in the bacterial fight against antibiotic drugs. The discovery came during an exhaustive, three-year effort to create a mathematical model that could accurately predict how specific mutations allow bacteria like E
Drug resistance in E. Coli: ‘Baby steps’ can pay off big
Jan. 9, 2013 Rice University scientists have found that mutations of small effect can turn out to be game changers in the bacterial fight against antibiotic drugs. The discovery came during an exhaustive, three-year effort to create a mathematical model that could accurately predict how specific mutations allow bacteria like E
Drug resistance in E. Coli: ‘Baby steps’ can pay off big
Jan. 9, 2013 Rice University scientists have found that mutations of small effect can turn out to be game changers in the bacterial fight against antibiotic drugs. The discovery came during an exhaustive, three-year effort to create a mathematical model that could accurately predict how specific mutations allow bacteria like E.
First oral drug for spinal cord injury improves movement in mice
Jan. 8, 2013 An experimental oral drug given to mice after a spinal cord injury was effective at improving limb movement after the injury, a new study shows. The compound efficiently crossed the blood-brain barrier, did not increase pain and showed no toxic effects to the animals.
Synthetic stool can cure C. difficile infection, study suggests
Jan. 8, 2013 A synthetic “poop” developed at the University of Guelph can cure nasty gastrointestinal infections caused by Clostridium difficile , a toxin-producing bacterium. A study on the artificial stool was published January 8 in the inaugural issue of Microbiome , a new peer-reviewed science journal.
Pioneering research on Type 2 diabetes
Jan. 4, 2013 While legions of medical researchers have been looking to understand the genetic basis of disease and how mutations may affect human health, a group of biomedical researchers at UC Santa Barbara is studying the metabolism of cells and their surrounding tissue, to ferret out ways in which certain diseases begin.
Staphylococcus aureus: Why it just gets up your nose
Dec. 27, 2012 A collaboration between researchers at the School of Biochemistry and Immunology and the Department of Microbiology at Trinity College Dublin has identified a mechanism by which the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus ( S.
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