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…)
Best of 2009 - Nov 9, 2009 11:58 - 3 Comments
BEST OF 2009: Old mice with young ears
U. ROCHESTER (US)—What do you get when you cross a mouse with poor hearing and a mouse with even worse hearing? Ironically, a new strain of mice that have outstanding hearing as they age. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 22, 2009 13:23 - 4 Comments
Compound appears to slow ALS progression
U. ROCHESTER (US)—A chemical cousin of a drug currently used to treat sepsis dramatically slows the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, in mice. (more…)
Health & Medicine - May 1, 2009 13:08 - 14 Comments
After stroke, brain learns to see again
U. ROCHESTER (US)—Once thought irreversible, vision loss sometimes associated with stroke may be treatable. By doing a set of vigorous visual exercises on a computer every day for several months, patients who had gone partially blind as a result of suffering a stroke were able to regain some vision. (more…)
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