Credit: Michaela Kane, Duke University
DURHAM, N.C. An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Duke University has developed a highly sensitive and rapid diagnostic test for Ebola virus (EBOV) infection. In monkeys infected with Ebola, this diagnostic, called the D4-assay, proved to be 1000 times more sensitive than the currently approved rapid diagnostic test and capable of detecting the virus a full day earlier than the gold standard polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.
This work, which appears in
Science Translational Medicine on April 7, was done by biomedical engineers, molecular biologists, and immunologists at Duke University, and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and the Galveston National Laboratory.
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Yet another magic bullet
By John DiTraglia - Contributing Columnist
You’re probably tired of me proclaiming magic bullets for the cure of obesity which is still pretty intractable. But one day one of these magic bullets is going to be the one. I need to do a list of all the magic bullets so far but before that there’s yet another to talk about.
There is this recently discovered enzyme called nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) that is very abundant and busy in white adipose tissue and serves as a critical regulator of the energy metabolism of cells. It has been found that blocking this enzyme causes weight loss and fixes lots of the rest of the story that happens when you are obese. These guys at the University of Texas Medical Branch At Galveston, Texas have reported (1) of some of their work with NNMT. Here they treated diet induced obesity in mice with a molecule called 5-amino-1-methylquinolium that blocks the business of NNMT. They found that it was truly a (the?) mag
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Diane Woods isn’t a textbook U.S. history teacher, in that she doesn’t use one in her Burnet High School classes. Woods wants her students to experience history from a number of perspectives, and the best way to do that is through primary sources: hearing the words of those who actually lived it.