How tooth microbes aim straight for heart
U. ROCHESTER (US) — Bacteria best known for causing cavities are also able to make their way into heart tissue, causing endocarditis, a dangerous and potentially lethal condition. Continue…
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Health & Medicine - Apr 21, 2011 14:44 - 3 Comments
After brain injury, add antidepressants
U. ROCHESTER (US) — Antidepressants may help spur the creation and survival of new brain cells after brain injury, according to a new study. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 11, 2011 11:35 - 0 Comments
New offensive in battle with superbug
U. ROCHESTER (US) — A new way to attack pathogens stops bacteria’s ability to degrade RNA, a “housekeeping” process crucial to their ability to thrive. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 28, 2011 11:13 - 0 Comments
Lattice adds flexibility to nano toolkit
U. ROCHESTER (US) — Scientists have created a diamond-like lattice composed of gold nanoparticles and viral particles, woven together and held in place by strands of DNA. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 7, 2011 15:04 - 0 Comments
Tumor gets start in stem cell’s daughter
U. ROCHESTER (US) — The most common type of malignant brain tumor gets its start in cells known as glial progenitor cells—often referred to as “daughter” cells of stem cells. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 6, 2010 16:09 - 1 Comment
This stands between you and pandemic
U. ROCHESTER (US) — Eggs—hundreds of millions of them—have to be available to make flu vaccines happen each year. But a new study with bacteria suggests there may be a way to skip the eggs. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 24, 2010 10:44 - 1 Comment
Teeth should be thankful for cranberry
U. ROCHESTER (US) — You won’t be the only one feasting this Thanksgiving. Harmful bacteria await their own holiday meal, launching one of the biggest assaults of the year on your teeth. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 3, 2010 11:54 - 0 Comments
Boring brain cells lead double life
U. ROCHESTER (US) — Immune cells known as microglia, long thought to be activated in the brain only when fighting infection or injury, are constantly active and likely play a central role in the creation and elimination of synapses. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 29, 2010 9:32 - 0 Comments
Protein makes HIV less sticky
U. ROCHESTER (US) — A protein best known for the troubles it poses in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients is being exploited in semen as a way to stop HIV. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 23, 2010 8:48 - 1 Comment
Old drug puts up a fight against lung bug
U. ROCHESTER (US)—A drug to treat inflammation plays a surprising role reducing the level of infection caused by an opportunistic bug that is deadly for AIDS and cancer patients and others with weakened immune systems. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 20, 2010 16:43 - 0 Comments
Early flaw brings on muscular dystrophy
U. ROCHESTER (US)—Nearly two decades after they identified the specific genetic flaw that causes a common type of muscular dystrophy, scientists believe they have figured out how that flaw brings about the disease. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 8, 2010 15:09 - 2 Comments
Vitamin D emerges from ‘gut flora’ murk
U. ROCHESTER (US)—The vitamin D receptor is a key player amid gut bacteria—what scientists refer to as the “gut flora”—helping to govern activity, responding to cues, and sometimes countering their presence. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jun 29, 2010 16:40 - 4 Comments
Original HIV infection morphs, but hangs on
U. ROCHESTER (US)—Despite thousands of changes that viruses like HIV undergo in rapid fashion to evade the body’s immune system, the original version that caused the infection is still present in the body months later. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jun 1, 2010 11:26 - 9 Comments
Drug triples acupuncture’s painkilling effect
U. ROCHESTER (US)—Scientists have taken another important step toward understanding just how sticking needles into the body can ease pain. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 29, 2010 17:13 - 2 Comments
Frog genome teeming with ‘jumping genes’
U. ROCHESTER (US)—The spotted green puffer fish, the honeybee, the human—and now add the African clawed frog to the list of more than 175 organisms that have had their genetic information sequenced. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 2, 2010 11:02 - 0 Comments
Keeping skeletal stem cells ‘forever’ young
U. ROCHESTER (US)—Scientists seeking new ways to fight maladies ranging from arthritis and osteoporosis to broken bones that won’t heal, have cleared a formidable hurdle, pinpointing and controlling a key molecular player to keep stem cells in a sort of extended infancy. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 19, 2010 13:57 - 3 Comments
Maggot to fruit fly: Clues to cancer growth
U. ROCHESTER—Scientists trying to understand how cancer cells invade healthy tissue have used the fruit fly’s metamorphosis as a guide to identify a key molecular signal that may be involved in both processes. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 11, 2010 12:23 - 0 Comments
Sleeping Beauty hooks up with herpes
U. ROCHESTER—An unlikely molecular union—the herpes virus and a molecule known as Sleeping Beauty—could improve gene therapy technology and help fight diseases of the brain and nervous system. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 5, 2010 12:49 - 0 Comments
‘Macho’ receptor slows wound healing
U. ROCHESTER (US)—A molecular receptor pivotal to the action of male hormones such as testosterone also plays a crucial role in the body’s ability to heal, report scientists in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. (more…)
