By producing some of the highest resolution images of peptides attaching to mineral surfaces, scientists have a deeper understanding of how biomolecules manipulate the growth of crystals. This research may lead to a new treatment for kidney stones using biomolecules.

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified two small protein fragments that could be developed into an anthrax vaccine that may cause fewer side effects than the current vaccine.

About one-fourth of patients with superficial vein thrombosis-clotting in blood vessels close to the skin-also may have the life-threatening condition deep vein thrombosis, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

The immune system’s T-cells react to foreign protein fragments and therefore are crucial to combating viruses and bacteria. Errant cells that attack the body’s own material are in most cases driven to cell death. Some of these autoreactive T-cells, however, undergo a kind of reeducation to become “regulatory T-cells” that keep other autoreactive T-cells under [...]

The idea that anti-inflammatory drugs might protect people struggling with dementia from Alzheimer’s disease has received a blow with the online release of a study of human brain tissue in Acta Neuropathologica.