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'single–parent' stem cells to replace adult mice organ

...ch like you might donate blood for your own use in advance of an operation." Parthenogenesis, the act of cr...tem cells as a tissue source could provide a major advance in the alleviation of human disease, provided these results can be translated into human studies. ...

New Mechanism for Nutrient Uptake Discovered

...ally toxic at high concentrations. This is a major advance in the field of plant mineral nutrition." Source-Eurekalert SRM...

Cleft Palate in Fetal Mice Prevented by Treating

... and other institutions will benefit as this basic advance is translated into something that will eventually ... the study, which will be published in the Feb. 11 advance online edition of Nature. The research is the first demonstration that a technique known as chemical...

Antibodies in Mother Affect Heart of Fetus

...he steroid drug dexamethasone, the condition could advance within as little as one week to a third-degree block, which is irreversible even with further intervention. "Given the high recurrence rate we confirmed in this study, close monitoring and the earliest possible marker is necessary," said Copel, who...

Scientists Discover New Gene

...ot traditionally be funded by the government. "The advance by Dr. Mills and her team shows that CSHL's strategy of providing financial resources to outstanding young scientists pays off towards diagnosing and treating disease and human suffering," states CSHL President Bruce Stillman. Source-Eurekalert SR...

Scientists Identify Genetic Link to Schizophrenia

In a study appearing online on February 8 in advance of publication in the March print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation//, Daniel Weinberger and colleagues from the National Institutes of Health show that the gene that encodes DARPP-32 exhibits genetic variation. Several neurological an...

Vitamin D3 Protects Skin from Harmful Microbes

...tions. In a study appearing online February 8 in advance of publication in the March issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Gallo and his colleagues look at how the innate immune system is controlled in the skin, and find that genes controlled by active vitamin D3 play an essential role in the pro...

Stem Cell Research Lab Coming Up in Jaipur

...and stem cells. The laboratory, to be part of an advance research laboratory to come up in the state government-run institute, has been taken up under an Rs.70 million-project approved by the central government's department of science and technology. Ashok Pangariya, principal of the SMS college, told IA...

Vagus Nerve and Diabetes

... them go on to develop insulin resistance that can advance to diabetes and hypertension." But in these most recent experiments, the researchers showed that both Ppara and the vagus nerve seem to play important roles in the development of these disorders. "If the vagus nerve has been surgically removed, t...

Plan to Adopt Vaccine Purchase Plan for Diseases

...6 did not act on an opportunity to adopt a similar advance market commitment plan aimed at funding the development of vaccines for diseases such as HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. Under the plan, G8 nations would provide between $800 million and $6 billion to subsidize the purchase of new vaccines. Wealthy nati...

New Microchip for Protein Sorting

... for gel-based systems. The new technology is an advance from a one-dimensional sieve structure reported by the same MIT group last year. The key to this new advance, called an anisotropic nanofluidic sieving structure, is that the researchers have designed the anisotropic sieve in two orthogonal dimension...

Gene Found for Rare Disorder May Reveal New Pathway in Mental Retardation

.... 17 in the American Journal of Human Genetics, in advance of print publication in March 2007. In contrast to the NIPBL gene, in which mutations cause roughly half of known CdLS cases, the researchers found that mutations in the new genes, SMC3 and SMC1A, cause only about 5 percent of CdLS cases. All three...

Man-Made Proteins Could Be More Useful Than Real Ones

...nal of the American Chemical Society, published in advance online on January 19, 2007. Schepartz and her coauthors, Douglas Daniels, James Petersson, and Jade Qiu, are all at Yale University. A story in the February 5, 2007, issue of Chemical & Engineering News spotlighted the research. “The fundamental in...

FDA Approves New Product to Treat Von Willebrand Disease

...III deficiency. "This approval is an important advance for patients and their surgeons, providing them access to a proven preventive therapy that can make needed surgery possible and safer," said Jesse L. Goodman, M.D., MPH, director of FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. Men and women...

Ancient Genes Used to Produce Salt-Tolerant Wheat

... from an ancient wheat variety have led to a major advance in breeding new salt-tolerant varieties.// In a recent set of papers published in the journal Plant Physiology researchers describe the two genes – known as Nax1 and Nax2. The genes work by excluding salt from different parts of the plant: one from...

Scientists Identify Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells

...eatic cancer stem cells. The findings could help advance development of new therapies for this cancer, which has a five-year survival rate of only three percent - the worst prognosis of any major cancer, said the study’s lead author, Diane M. Simeone, M.D., an associate professor of surgery and molecular a...

MDCT Accurately Locates Bowel Perforation: Study

.... It is very beneficial for surgeons to know in advance where the bowel is perforated, Dr. Hainaux said. "MDCT allows us to quickly image the patient, then reformat the images so we can look at them from many different angles, making this technique particularly suitable for the assessment of abdominal abn...

Selenium Supplements May Slow Progression of HIV: Report

...ions regimens. "Selenium could be a very important advance in adjunct therapy," he said. Selenium has many unique qualities, he added. "It has many beneficial aspects that affect our health," Hurwitz said. "There have been findings that it may be beneficial to our immune system, and it is a highly potent ...

Web-Based Genomics Tool Designed to Help Predict Disease Susceptibility

...l biology community are developing to expedite and advance research in personalized, predictive, and preventive medicine," says Bruce Aronow, Ph.D., co-director of the Center for Computational Medicine and professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's and the University of Cincinnati. PolyDoms offers r...

Comprehensive Reforms to Move Toward Patient-Centered Care

...financed, and valued. Sweeping policy proposals to advance patient-centered// primary care were released today by the American College of Physicians (ACP) in its annual report on The State of the Nation's Health Care. The U.S. health care system is facing a collapse of primary care medicine, the ACP report...

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