Σάββατο 21 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013

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Study Explores Barriers to HIV Vaccine Response

Posted: 20 Sep 2013 01:43 PM PDT

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) discovered that an antibody that binds and neutralizes HIV likely also targets the body’s own “self” proteins. This finding could complicate the development of HIV vaccines designed to elicit this protective antibody, called 4E10, and others like it, as doing so might be dangerous or inefficient.

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Researchers identify proteins that may help brain tumors spread

Posted: 20 Sep 2013 09:06 AM PDT

Scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have identified a molecular pathway that seems to contribute to the ability of malignant glioma cells in a brain tumor to spread and invade previously healthy brain tissue. Researchers said the findings, published Sept. 19, 2013, in the journal PLOS ONE, provide new drug-discovery targets to rein in the ability of these cells to move.

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3 new species of tiny frogs from the remarkable region of Papua New Guinea

Posted: 20 Sep 2013 08:57 AM PDT

Three new species of tiny frogs from Papua New Guinea are described in the latest issue of Zookeys. Dr Fred Kraus, University of Michigan, who in 2011 in Zookeys described the world's smallest frogs Paedophryne dekot and Paedophryne verrucosa, now adds another 3 species from the genus Oreophryne to the remarkable diversity of this region.

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