... sequences are overproduced in people with lupus, and an immune response to such a sequence that resembles the Achilles heel can explain the production of abzymes in lupus. A small minority of HIV ...
... not just arrest their growth."
The new study "provides a proof of the principle that Akt's Achilles heel -- a consequence of its role in metabolism -- can be exploited in at least these two ways to ...
... toads, they discovered.
The results are interesting not only because they reveal the cane toad's Achilles' heel – a weakness that could be exploited to help control the spread of the toxic toad – ...
... for H1N1 influenza, a team of Alabama researchers have raised hopes that they have found an Achilles' heel for all strains of the flu—antioxidants. In an article appearing in the November 2009 print ...
... “The Flagellar Pocket is a multi-tasking organelle but we can now consider it as the parasite’s Achilles heel.”
How the trypanosome forms this important structure has previously been unknown. The new ...
... University of Melbourne Associate Professor Philip Batterham said.
Senator Carr said that finding the moth's Achilles heel was critically important to agriculture worldwide.
"The moth causes $225 ...
... of the attackers but also to support the business models of companies."
Now that the Achilles heel of the information security problem has been identified, companies, especially banks, often fight ...
In a breakthrough that could eventually help tame one of the deadliest virsuses known to man, researchers have laid bare the key to Ebola's power: a lone protein that resides on its surface. The ...
... , indicating the paths it has taken and the route it is on. This analysis suggests we may have found Typhi's Achilles' heel: in adapting to an exclusively human lifestyle, it has become complacent, ...
... species, like humans, about half of the genome consists of these repeated sequences, "which makes for an Achilles heel among humans," Argueso said. "If you have a break in this repeated part, you can ...
... three-part test every medical student and resident must pass will be delivered in a new way: by listening to a heartbeat. It's a skill that some say has become an Achilles heel in the medical field.
... need to produce small quantities of ATP to survive. As such, a block in ATP synthesis might be an Achilles heel for killing dormant bacteria.
This reasoning proved to be correct and R207190 was ...
... it to other nematodes to see what's missing from this genome," Bird says. "Finding potential Achilles' heels, what the nematode is getting from the plant and how is it really interacting with the ...
Researchers have discovered a mechanism for the rapid growth seen in infantile hemangioma, the most common childhood tumor. The tumors, which are made up of proliferating blood vessels, affect up to ...
... come in with something you might call 'tennis elbow,' or they might have a sore Achilles heel, and that's their only symptom. It can be very difficult to diagnose," said Ritchlin, who is director of ...
