News tagged with gene transfer
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Novel vaccine approach offers hope in fight against HIV
A research team may have broken the stubborn impasse that has frustrated the invention of an effective HIV vaccine, by using an approach that bypasses the usual path followed by vaccine developers. By using ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 17, 2009 |
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Bioinformatics sheds light on evolutionary origin of Rickettsia virulence genes
Scientists from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech, the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and the University of Louisville have revealed that genes for a specific type of molecular secretion ...
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Aphids borrowed bacterial genes to play host
Most aphids host mutualistic bacteria, Buchnera aphidicola, which live inside specialized cells called bacteriocytes. Buchnera are vital to the aphids well being as they provide essential amino acids that are scarce in its ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Gene therapy shows promise as weapon against HIV
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new UCLA AIDS Institute study has found that gene therapy can be developed as a safe and active technique to combat HIV.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Device aims to decrease wait period for patients needing immunotherapy
Researchers from the Children's Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have created a device that significantly decreases the time needed to produce genetically manipulated ...
Feb 13, 2009 |
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Darwin's Tree of Life May Be More Like a Thicket
(PhysOrg.com) -- In On The Origin of Species, Darwin used the image of a tree of life to illustrate how species evolve, one from another. Even today, branches sprouting from lower branches (representing ancest ...
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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