Posted by Umar on March 14, 2011 ·
At Monash University, scientists have discovered further details about male puberty and how it begins. These details are centered on a protein called SMAD3 and the rate at which it is produced.
Researchers, Associate Professor Kate Loveland and Dr. Catherine Itman from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences have discovered through laboratory testing that half as much SMAD3 protein results [...]
Posted by Umar on March 14, 2011 ·
NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is a part of the National Institutes of Health. Scientists at the NIAID have now found a way to explain how theO157:H7 strain of Escherichia coli causes infections and how it manipulates the host immune response to grow vigorously.
The bacterium secretes a protein called NleH1 that directs the host immune enzyme IKK-beta to alter specific [...]