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A gene's first 'kiss' sets off that affair known as puberty

...years as men and women, appears to be triggered by the brain's own version of "It takes two to tango," wh...nd Eve ?makes its sudden appearance in a region of the brain called the hypothalamus just as puberty begins, according to a study published in this week's ...

Chemists create 'Superbowl' molecule; May lead to better health

...sion drug delivery, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Shaped like a miniature football stadium, the molecule is capable of deli...

DNA Molecules Used To Assemble Nanoparticles

...drug delivery systems, using DNA molecules to bind the particles together. Nanometer-scaled dendrimers c...-to almost any cell," said Dr. James R. Baker Jr., the Ruth Dow Doan Professor of Nanotechnology and director of the Center for Biologic Nanotechnology at ...

Bioartificial kidney under study at MCG

...ents with kidney failure survive is under study at the Medical College of Georgia. MCG Medical Center ha... study taking place in intensive care units across the country to evaluate the efficacy of the renal assist device, says Dr. Harold M. Szerlip, MCG nephrol...

Viral DNA sequence a possible trigger for breast cancer

A small sequence of DNA in the envelope (Env) protein of a mouse breast tumor vir...ncer cells, according to a study by Katz et al. in the February 7 issue of The Journal of Experimental Medicine. The ability of this motif to transform cel...

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New Microarray Labeling Kit for Preparing cDNA Probes

...d to arrays, theunhybridized probe is removed, and the hybridization is detected. Differences inthe levels of hybridization signals of specific genes on the array correlatewith differences in the abundance of those genes in the test and control mRNAused to ...

A New C-Terminal GST Vector for Protein Production in S. pombe

... Stratagene Stratagene has constructed and tested the new pESP-3 vector, which can beused for C-terminal...romyces pombe.After expression and purification of the GST fusion protein using the ESP yeast protein expression and purification system, the GST tag c...

Human Primary Preadipocytes and Differentiated Adipocytes

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A Positive Selection Assay for Mutation Analysis in Big Blue Animals

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Zygote

...947;ωτόν ) is a cell that is the result of fertilization . That is, two haploid ...e —merge into a single diploid cell called the zygote . Animal zygotes undergo mitotic cell divisions to become an embryo . Other organisms...

Zoology

This article is the top of the Zoology series. History of zoology (before Darwin) History of zoology (since Darwin) ...

Zona pellucida

... pellucida is a glycoprotein matrix surrounding the plasma membrane of a mammalian oocyte . This...e binds spermatozoa , and is required to initiate the acrosome reaction . The zona glycoprotein, ZP3 , is responsible for sperm binding, adhering to ...

Y chromosome

The Y chromosome is one of the two sex chromosomes in humans (the other is the X chromosome ). The sex chromosomes are one of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes. The Y chromosome ...

Xylem

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Zygotene

...e in prophase 1 of meiosis , character ized by the synapsis , or pairing, of homologous chromosomes... The term proposed by Gregoire (1907) to describe the nuclei at a particular stage of prophase 1 of meiosis when the homologous chromosomes are asso...

Zoology

Zoology is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals . The word zoology comes from Greek -ωο, zoon (" animal "), and λογος, -logy ("s...

Zygote

...fter fusion with male gamete , cell produced by the uniting of male and female sex cells Source: Nol...e in prophase 1 of meiosis , character ized by the synapsis , or pairing, of homologous chromosomes to form a bivalent . Full article >>&#...

Zygospore

zygospore spore formed by the union of two gametes (male and female sex cells...zygospore In fungi , a structure that forms from the diploid zygote created by the fusion of haploid hyphae of different mating type s. After a pe...

Zona pellucida

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Use of Cellular Phones associated with Increased risk of Brain Tumors

...that there is an increased risk of brain cancer in the areas of highest exposure in patients using digita...000, www.medscape.com). Their analysis focused on the effect of different risk factors, which have been previously documented as risk factors for brain tu...

New Drug in Diabetic Neuropathy

... What does this mean for India? Well, my uncle, the neurologist, will be pretty happy....

Vaccine to quit smoking?

...cVAX) binds nicotine and prevents it from reaching the brain, where it causes its stimulatory effects. In animal control experiments, the vaccine was effective in preventing brain distribution of nicotine. For India? We need a Beedi Vacc...

New Drug for Bronchial Asthma

...o induce symptomatic relief.How does that apply to the Indian context? Well, first we can try by ridding ourselves of pollution and other noxious stimulants....

Immunosupressants for Eczema

...e only uses corticosteroids for skin disease. Yet, the host of drugs that have come out in the recent years which are dermatocentric are astounding and here is another. Using Tacrolimus, the agen...

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Dade Behrings (hsCRP) Tests and BNTM Series Analyzers

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World medical systems

Around the world there are many medical systems. Non-western ...often labelled "alternative" or "complementary" in the West, but in their home nations they are usually regarded as traditional. Non-western traditions suc...

Wolf Prize in Medicine

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Unsolved problems in medicine

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Zygote

A zygote is the combined cell resulting from the union of sperm and egg. A zygote develops into an embryo. An embryo, a mass of cells with no rec...

Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome

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Zoster

...with severe pain and a blister like eruption in the area of the nerve distribution, a condition called shingles . Full article >>> Herpes zoster...

Zinc in diet

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Yew

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