He decided that building his own defensin was the only solution. His research team stripped down the structure of natural defensins to just the essential membrane-busting components, making one ...

At the same conference, Dr. Scott also presented results with PolyMedix’s defensin-mimetic antimicrobial compounds related to additional indications, including activity against Candida albicans ...

Specifically, the research shows that bees make a protein that they add to the honey, called defensin-1, which could one day be used to treat burns and skin infections and to develop new drugs ...

Colorectal cancer characteristics and outcomes in patients less than age 50: A comparison of an urban university hospital with the NCI SEER database. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ...

aureus. This is the first ever patient clinical efficacy study conducted with this new defensin-mimetic antibiotic class. PolyMedix is continuing to enroll patients and expects to complete the ...

The new clues regarding infertility that Cherr and his colleagues discovered have to do with a gene called DEFB124 that encodes beta-defensin 126, which belongs to a germ-killing class of proteins.

Their results show that a STS-containing insect defensin can be converted to the scorpion α-KTx-like neurotoxin through just a single genetic deletion event. The study provides the first ...

Hadassah researchers discovered that the patients who form these fatal clots have an increased level of alpha defensin protein in their blood, explained Dr. Abd Alrauf Higavi, who directs a lab at ...

Their results show that a STS-containing insect defensin can be converted to the scorpion α-KTx-like neurotoxin through just a single genetic deletion event. The study provides the first ...

A 2015 review found that honey may help heal burns, and a 2017 study found that the defensin-1 protein in honey promoted wound healing. An earlier study had found that applying medical grade honey ...