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Recognizing blood poisoning quickly
Is the patient suffering from blood poisoning? To answer this question, the doctor draws a blood sample and sends it to a central laboratory for testing. This takes up valuable time, which could cost the patient his life. In future, physicians will be …
Nature study: Jefferson researchers unravel protein’s elusive role in embryo and disease development
PHILADELPHIA — Reporting in Nature, scientists from Thomas Jefferson University have determined that a single protein called FADD controls multiple cell death pathways, a discovery that could lead to better, more targeted autoimmune disease and can…
Researchers develop curious snapshot of powerful retinal pigment and its partners
BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 28, 2011 — Science fiction novelist and scholar Issac Asimov once said, “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’ ” This recently rang true for…
U. Iowa team investigates function of ‘junk DNA’ in human genes
Part of the answer to how and why primates differ from other mammals, and humans differ from other primates, may lie in the repetitive stretches of the genome that were once considered “junk.”
A new study by researchers at the University of Iowa…
Needle-in-a-haystack search identifies potential brain disease drug
Scientists who examined more than 10,000 chemical compounds during the last year in search of potential new drugs for a group of untreatable brain diseases, are reporting that one substance shows unusual promise. The early positive signs for so-call…
New finding in ribosome signaling may lead to improved antibiotics
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a signaling mechanism in the bacterial ribosome that detects proteins that activate genes for antibiotic resistance.
“The ribosome is one of the most complex molecular machines i…