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Both Trentham and Grayzel warned arthritis patients against over-the-counter drugs based on collagen, the major constituent of the treatment. Although such drugs are available at pharmacies, they do not have the proper amount of collagen, a protein found in joint cartilage, and have not been tested clinically...
...procedure involves genetically engineering human cells to produce antibodies that interfere with the production of a protein necessary for HIV, the virus which most commonly causes AIDS, to infect human cells...
...strength of an interface can determine the degree to which a protein binds to its receptor or the strength of a bond between a solid and an adhesive. Studying the exact makeup of interfaces. Whitesides said, is a valuable tool in both materials science and engineering...
...Erol Fikrig, an assistant professor of medicine at Yale, had isolated and duplicated a protein present on the surface of the bacteria, carried by deer ticks, which is thought to cause the disease...
Possessing that protein made possible the creation of a vaccine, which when injected into laboratory mice, protected 95 percent of the animals against Lyme disease infection. The body's immune system should react to the protein as it would the bacteria, but without any of the harmful effects of the disease. The vaccination allows the body to build up an arsenal enabling it to quickly defeat the real bacteria should it later attack the body...