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(University of Utah) Like silkworm moths, butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater instead on dry land. Now, University of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly's silk is sticky when wet and how that may make it valuable as an adhesive tape during surgery.

(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) The following studies will be presented at the 2010 AAAAI Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La.

(Queen Mary, University of London) New research has identified four aspects of immune system disturbance which lead to the development of celiac disease. Nearly 40 different inherited risk factors which predispose to the disease have now been identified. These latest findings could speed the way towards improved diagnostics and treatments for the autoimmune complaint that affects 1 in 100 of the population, and lead to insights into related conditions such as type 1 diabetes.

(Ohio State University) Reversing a protein deficiency through gene therapy can correct motor function, restore nerve signals and improve survival in mice that serve as a model for the lethal childhood disorder spinal muscular atrophy, new research shows. This muscle-wasting disease results when a child's motor neurons -- nerve cells that send signals from the spinal cord to muscles -- produce insufficient amounts of what is called survival motor neuron protein, or SMN.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) A new technique to study protein dynamics in living cells has been created by a team of University of Illinois scientists, and evidence yielded from the new method indicates that an in vivo environment strongly modulates a protein's stability and folding rate.

(Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology) Beewolves house beneficial bacteria on their cocoons that guarantee protection against harmful microorganisms. Scientists have discovered that bacteria of the genus Streptomyces produce a cocktail of nine different antibiotics and thereby fend off invading pathogens. Using imaging techniques based on mass spectrometry, the antibiotics could be displayed on the cocoon's surface. Moreover, it was shown that the use of different kinds of antibiotics provides effective protection against infection with a multitude of different pathogenic microorganisms.

(Duke University Medical Center) A untested technology for delivering nicotine to the lungs may forthwith reveal d become exhausted smokers a new way to backlash the mode. <<>>

(Journal of the Country-wide Cancer Institute) Metastases that were 2 millimeters or less in diameter ("micrometastases") in axillary lymph nodes detected on going-over of a unique component of the lymph nodes were associated with poorer disease-free and inclusive survival in knocker cancer patients, according to a new lessons published online February 26 in the Chronicle of the Nationalistic Cancer Society. <<>>

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) New evidence reported at a painstaking confluence from the Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy vs. Stenting Inquisition finds the comprehensive sanctuary and efficacy of the two procedures essentially the uniform. But in those age 69 and younger, the stenting works improve than the surgery, says the preside of biostatistics at UAB and other researchers, and the surgery seems to mix control superiors in those age 70 and higher <<>>

(Loyola University Vigour System) The CREST hearing that compared household surgery with less-invasive stenting to unquestionable hazardously clogged carotid arteries in the neck is being supposed "seminal and strapping." <<>>