News articles tagged with 'protein'
Saliva proteins change as women age
— 19 Nov 2009 18:13 | HealthIn a step toward using human saliva to tell whether those stiff joints, memory lapses, and other telltale signs of ageing are normal or red flags for disease, scientists are describing... — full story
Toward explaining why hepatitis B hits men harder than women
— 19 Nov 2009 17:48 | HealthScientists in China are reporting discovery of unusual liver proteins, found only in males, that may help explain the long-standing mystery of why the hepatitis B virus (HBV) sexually... — full story
K-State researchers studying link between climate change and cattle nutritional stress
— 17 Nov 2009 14:44 | HealthKansas State University's Joseph Craine, research assistant professor in the Division of Biology, and KC Olson, associate professor in animal sciences and industry, have teamed up with... — full story
New combination therapy could deliver powerful punch to breast cancer
— 17 Nov 2009 14:09 | HealthA powerful new breast cancer treatment could result from packaging one of the newer drugs that inhibits cancer's hallmark wild growth with another that blocks a primordial survival... — full story
Protein changes in heart strengthen link between Alzheimer's disease and chronic heart failure
— 16 Nov 2009 11:40 | HealthA team of U.S., Canadian and Italian scientists led by researchers at Johns Hopkins report evidence from studies in animals and humans supporting a link between Alzheimer's disease... — full story
Researchers find potential treatment for Huntington's disease
— 16 Nov 2009 11:15 | HealthInvestigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham), the University of British Columbia's Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and the University of California,... — full story
Research reveals lipids' unexpected role in triggering death of brain cells
— 15 Nov 2009 16:26 | HealthThe lipid that accumulates in brain cells of individuals with an inherited enzyme disorder also drives the cell death that is a hallmark of the disease, according to new research led... — full story
Chromosomes dance and pair up on the nuclear membrane
— 15 Nov 2009 16:11 | BiologyMeiosis - the pairing and recombination of chromosomes, followed by segregation of half to each egg or sperm cell - is a major crossroads in all organisms reproducing sexually. Yet,... — full story
Study reveals why certain drug combinations backfire
— 15 Nov 2009 15:36 | HealthCombination drug therapy has become a staple for treating many infections. For instance, doctors treat extensively drug resistant forms of tuberculosis with one drug that breaks down... — full story
Shape of things to come: Structure of HIV coat could lead to new drugs
— 13 Nov 2009 14:34 | HealthStructural biologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have described the architecture of the complex of protein units that make up the coat surrounding the HIV genome... — full story