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First clinical trial of gene therapy for childhood blindness

The first clinical trial to test a revolutionary treatment for blindness in children has been announced by researchers at UCL (University College London). The trial, funded by the Department of Health, is the first of its kind and could have a significant impact on future treatments for eye disease...

The longest carbon nanotubes you've ever seen

... as the foundation for growth. "This process is revolutionary because it allows us to keep the catalyst 'alive' for a long period of time thus, providing fast and continuous transport of the carbon 'building blocks' to the carbon nanotube growth zone," said Shanov. The carbon nanotubes are extremely long com...

Elucidation of the genome for diabetics with DNA chips

... predisposition to DT2 in its entirety. In 2006, a revolutionary genetic analysis technique was developed in the United States. This method is based on the use of DNA chips, with a surface of only a few square centimetres, carrying almost half a million DNA mutations. Each of these chips can be used to dissect the...

Scientists produce neurons from human skin

...erthod. This breakthrough could eventually lead to revolutionary advances in the treatment of neurodegenerative ill... produce neurons from skin cells opens the door to revolutionary therapeutic applications. "We could take a patient’s skin cells and use them to produce perfectly co...

NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective

...new grants will fund nine investigators developing revolutionary technologies that may make it feasible to sequence...n to investigators to develop both "near term" and revolutionary sequencing technologies. "It is very important that we encourage and support the development of inn...

Carnegie Mellon scientists use 'green' approach to transform plastics manufacturing

...delivery systems to resilient paint coatings. The revolutionary improvement in atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) now enables large-scale production of many specialty plastics, according to the scientists, whose work appears in a special issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)...

Plants give up answers in the war on bacteria

Back-to-back scientific papers are offering a revolutionary look at the battlefield on which plant diseases are fought ?and often lost ?to bacteria. The laboratory of Sheng Yang He at Michigan State University has changed the textbook description of a plant's surface terrain and is unveiling new knowledge o...

Pure carbon nanotubes pass first in vivo test

...study of chemically unmodified carbon nanotubes, a revolutionary nanomaterial that many researchers hope will prove useful in diagnosing and treating disease. The research will appear in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We sampled tissues from a dozen organs, a...

Embryos exposed in 3-D

...ed that Pall technology can play a key role in the revolutionary advances now occurring in medicine by providing researchers with the tools to take novel cell therapies from the laboratory into the clinic, as part of our goal to make cell therapy safe, routine and simple," Dr. Angelbeck added. Regenerative medici...

New technology enables faster, more efficient cell harvest: Cell therapy meeting study

...ed that Pall technology can play a key role in the revolutionary advances now occurring in medicine by providing researchers with the tools to take novel cell therapies from the laboratory into the clinic, as part of our goal to make cell therapy safe, routine and simple," Dr. Angelbeck added. Regenerative medici...

Eminent inventor of DNA fingerprinting gains new recognition

...nd Sciences in recognition of the discovery of the revolutionary technique. The Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochem... Leicester over 20 years ago has gone on to make a revolutionary impact in the world."Sir Alec is no stranger to awards. Last year he was awarded the Albert Lasker A...

Mapping the protein world

... bacteria or viruses will contribute to design new revolutionary therapeutic strategies." To meet this objective the scientists intend to study crystals of proteins bound to diverse drug candidates or containing different types of large molecules. "ARP/wARP needs to meet a two fold challenge: firstly, it needs...

New light microscope sharpens scientists' focus

...ages of light and electron microscopy, producing a revolutionary new approach for looking at the cell in molecular detail." For now, Hess and Betzig have focused on creating PALM images with a single fluorescent protein, which limits them to mapping a single target protein per sample. "Right now the resolution ...

NASA technology helping injured US troops

...r Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The revolutionary new physical therapy device named SAM, for the Secure Ambulation Mode, is based on technology originally developed and honed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The late James Kerley created and patented the technology, consist...

Nanowire arrays can detect signals along individual neurons

...m one neuron to another. "This work could have a revolutionary impact on science and technology," Lieber says. "It provides a powerful new approach for neuroscience to study and manipulate signal propagation in neuronal networks at a level unmatched by other techniques; it provides a new paradigm for building so...

New genes implicated in rheumatoid arthritis

... all with one healthy and one RA-affected twin. A revolutionary DNA technology, microarray can be used to not only compare gene expression in two different tissue samples, but to examine the expression of thousands of genes at once. The researchers extracted complementary DNA from the cells of every twin, labell...

Microscopic scaffolding offers a 'simple' solution to treating skin injuries

A revolutionary dissolvable scaffold for growing new areas of skin could provide a safer, more effective way of treating burns, diabetic ulcers and similar injuries. This ultra-fine, 3-dimensional scaffold, which is made from specially developed polymers, looks si...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...vances have only scratched the surface of possible revolutionary approaches to treat and cure diseases. Pfizer, the NIH and other public/private biomedical research interests have complementary missions greater than the sum of their parts. Our hope is that this public/private initiative will encourage a deeper col...

Multi-million pound UK Biobank underway

...o take part in the start-up phase of UK Biobank ?a revolutionary research undertaking that will eventually recruit half a million volunteers aged 40 to 69. The project ?a UK world first ?will gather, store and protect a vast bank of medical data and material that will allow researchers to study in depth, in decad...

Earth Rx: A microbial biotechnology prescription for global environmental health

...nmental biotechnology. Leading the marriage are revolutionary changes in compiling vast amounts of genetic information on microbial organisms through state-of-the-art DNA-based techniques. Identifying just a single microbial specimen is a daunting task, considering, that there may be trillions of bacteria in e...

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