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New insights into conquering influenza
Jan. 29, 2013 Researchers from the University of Melbourne and The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) have discovered a new protein that protects against viral infections such as influenza. As influenza spreads through the northern hemisphere winter, Dr Linda Wakim and her colleagues in the Laboratory of Professor Jose Villadangos from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, believe they have a new clue to why some people fight infections better than others
Heat Shock Proteins May Shed New Light on a Variety of Debilitating Diseases
Jan. 28, 2013 UCLA researchers, in a finding that runs counter to conventional wisdom, have discovered for the first time that a gene thought to express a protein in all cells that come under stress is instead expressed only in specific cell types
Chance finding reveals new control on blood vessels in developing brain
Jan. 24, 2013 Zhen Huang freely admits he was not interested in blood vessels four years ago when he was studying brain development in a fetal mouse. Instead, he wanted to see how changing a particular gene in brain cells called glia would affect the growth of neurons
Chance finding reveals new control on blood vessels in developing brain
Jan. 24, 2013 Zhen Huang freely admits he was not interested in blood vessels four years ago when he was studying brain development in a fetal mouse
Right target, but missing the bulls-eye for Alzheimer’s
Jan. 23, 2013 Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of late-life dementia. The disorder is thought to be caused by a protein known as the amyloid-beta protein, or Abeta, which clumps together in the brain, forming plaques that are thought to destroy neurons.
Right target, but missing the bulls-eye for Alzheimer’s
Jan. 23, 2013 Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of late-life dementia. The disorder is thought to be caused by a protein known as the amyloid-beta protein, or Abeta, which clumps together in the brain, forming plaques that are thought to destroy neurons.
Right target, but missing the bulls-eye for Alzheimer’s
Jan. 23, 2013 Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of late-life dementia. The disorder is thought to be caused by a protein known as the amyloid-beta protein, or Abeta, which clumps together in the brain, forming plaques that are thought to destroy neurons.
New discovery promises to improve drugs used to fight cancer, other diseases
Jan. 11, 2013 Even when at rest, the human body is a flurry of activity. Like a microscopic metropolis locked in a state of perpetual rush hour traffic, the trillions of cells that make us who we are work feverishly policing the streets, making repairs, building new structures and delivering important cargo throughout the bustling organic society.
‘Junk DNA’ made visible before the final cut
Jan. 7, 2013 Research findings from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine are shining a light on an important regulatory role performed by the so-called dark matter, or “junk DNA,” within each of our genes
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