Findings further understanding of how pathogen survives

17-05-2010

Scientists looking for new ways to fight tuberculosis (TB) have their sights set on a structure essential to the bacterium's survival. Disabling this structure could kill the microbes in the infected host and thwart TB infections. In a study in EMBO Journal scientists from the U.S. Department ...

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20-08-2009

Cancer remains a deadly threat despite the best efforts of science. New hopes were raised a few years ago with the discovery that the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells could be thwarted by blocking the action of proteasomes. Biochemists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have ...

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24-04-2008

Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine are the first to show that the location of protein-destroying "machines" in nerve cells in the brain may play an important role in how memories are formed - a finding with potential implications for treating Alzheimer's and other brain ...

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11-12-2001

Cambridge, MA, December 10, 2001 - Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today preliminary findings of an ongoing phase II clinical trial of its investigational drug LDP-341 (formerly known as PS-341) in patients with multiple myeloma who have failed to respond to other treatments. The ...

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