Non-stick coating of a protein found in semen reduces HIV infection
A non-stick coating for a substance found in semen dramatically lowers the rate of infection of immune cells by HIV a new study has found.
A non-stick coating for a substance found in semen dramatically lowers the rate of infection of immune cells by HIV a new study has found.
Biochemistry
Sep 23, 2010
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UC Davis biomedical engineer Prof. Alexander Revzin has developed a "lab on a chip" device for HIV testing. Revzin's microfluidic device uses antibodies to "capture" white blood cells called T cells that are affected by HIV. ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 16, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Apelin is a recently discovered peptide that binds to the apelin (or APJ) G-protein-coupled receptor. Apelin-13 (NH2-QRPRLSHKGPMPF-COOH), one of several cleavage products of the proprotein form of the apelin ...
Biochemistry
Jun 1, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Each year, 83,000 life-threatening fungal infections cost us $2.6 billion. And this number will only go up as HIV infection, cancer chemotherapy, and organ transplants bump up the immune-compromised population ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 8, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Women make up nearly one-third of the homeless population in the United States. Yet little is known about how they become homeless or how they live. University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist Les Whitbeck ...
Social Sciences
Dec 23, 2009
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By adapting a single protein on the surface of the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus, researchers at the University of British Columbia have turned it into a protein production factory, making useful proteins that can act ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 7, 2009
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