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Studies reveal structure of EV71, a virus causing childhood illnesses

Researchers have discovered critical new details about the structure of a virus that causes potentially fatal brain swelling and paralysis in children, pointing toward designs for antiviral drugs to treat ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ozone treated water v. lethal microbial material

A University of Alberta research team has discovered that technology commonly used to decontaminate food industry equipment can also rid meat processing plants of lethal microbial material responsible for the human version ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Biologists reveal novel drug binding site in NMDA receptor subunit

Structural biologists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have obtained a precise molecular map of the binding site for an allosteric inhibitor in a subtype of the NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptor, which is commonly ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Magnetic field sensors for monitoring heart and brain activity developed

High sensitivity magnetic sensors are important in medical diagnostics for applications such as monitoring heart and brain activities, where mapping distributions of localized extremely weak magnetic fields ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Process important to brain development studied in detail

Knowledge about the development of the nervous system is of the greatest importance for us to understand the function of the brain and brain disorders. Researchers at Uppsala University have examined the key step when genes ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Toxins from diseased brain cells make diseases of the brain even worse

Sometimes our immune defence attacks our own cells. When this happens in the brain we see neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. But if the the immune defence is inhibited, the results ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researcher sees marine nutraceuticals as growth industry

The marine nutraceutical industry is booming in Europe and Asia, and it has taken off in recent years in Canada as well. While the industry is still in its infancy in the United States, University of Rhode Island researcher ...

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Potential new drugs plug brain's biological 'vacuum cleaner' and target HIV

In an advance toward eliminating pockets of infection in the brain that help make HIV disease incurable, scientists report the development of new substances that first plug the biological vacuum cleaner that ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0