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RECEPTORS - A medical center lab has published papers in two issues of Science magazine (March 16, Aug. 31) on the structure of an important family of cellular receptors. The work - led by Christopher Garcia, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology and of structural biology - will help researchers design more effective drugs to treat high blood pressure and heart and kidney failure, and offer clues about how other receptors may work to transmit messages from the outside to the inside of a cell.
MAP - A three-dimensional gene-expression map, which places genes spatially according to activity, has been produced for the nematode worm and may eventually help researchers understand the functions of genes. The new tool was described in the Sept. 14 issue of Science by Stuart Kim, associate professor of developmental biology and of genetics, several local colleagues and collaborators from Sandia National Laboratories and elsewhere.
ASTHMA - A study in the August issue of Nature Immunology sheds light on how the immune system normally responds to inhaled foreign proteins, thus paving the way to find new therapies for asthma sufferers. The research was conducted by Dale Umetsu, professor of pediatrics; Rosemarie DeKruyff, professor of pediatrics; and Omid Akbari, postdoctoral fellow in allergy and immunology.
ANTIBIOTICS - Doctors frequently overprescribe antibiotics for adults with sore throats and few physicians prescribe penicillin - the recommended medication. Those are the conclusions of research published in the Sept. 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association by Randall Stafford, a researcher at the Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention.
