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Searching the depths of the straits of Florida for disease cures

...ely, Harbor Branch's drug discovery group hopes to add to its growing collection of compounds derived from marine organisms that continue to show promise in fighting various forms of cancer and other diseases. ...

Chemical Engineer Kao Explores Antibiotic Synthesis With DNA Chips

...NA tethered to the chip is known. Then researchers add a sample with an unknown composition of fluorescently labeled DNA molecules. The base pairs in the sample's single-stranded DNA, groups of which correspond to individual genes, stick to similar, or homologous, regions of the DNA tethered to the chip....

Researchers Find New Technique To Identify Fetal Genetic Material From Amniotic Fluid

...n be performed on amniotic fluid components ? They add that the "cell-free component of the amniotic fluid is discarded after these analyses and is therefore available for research and future clinical applications." Paige B. Larrabee, M.D., from Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, and colleagues a...

Two new retroviruses—transmitted from animals—identified

...amazing," adds Hockstein. "It has the potential to add great precision to our surgical treatment of a variety of diseases of the head and neck. ...

Penn Researchers Use Robotic Surgery

...amazing," adds Hockstein. "It has the potential to add great precision to our surgical treatment of a variety of diseases of the head and neck. ...

Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive

...hesive properties. Li's research group was able to add these amino acids to soy protein, and make it work like a mussel-protein adhesive. Then they began to develop other strong and water-resistant wood adhesives from renewable natural materials using mussel protein as a model. The research work has resu...

Breakthrough isolating embryo-quality stem cells from blood

...ing consequences for medical treatments. "We could add significantly to our knowledge of stem cell biology toward developing cellular therapies," he says. The optical stretcher can already test 3,600 cells per minute. This is not yet fast enough for industrial separation of millions of high grade stem c...

Infants with Rare Genetic Disease Saved By Cord Blood Stem Cells

...ng brain cells from damage. Moreover, the findings add to the growing body of evidence showing that cord blood can save children with other fatal "lysosomal storage diseases," each of which stems from a specific enzyme deficiency. These disorders include more than 45 rare diseases, such as Krabbe Diseas...

FDA Warns About Antipsychotic Drugs and Elderly

...t the manufacturers of all of these kinds of drugs add a boxed warning to their drug labeling describing this risk and noting that these drugs are not approved for the treatment of behavioral symptoms in elderly patients with dementia. Patients receiving these drugs for treatment of behavioral disorders ...

Elephant seal pups suffer from ocean warming

...mics", conclude the authors. Le Boeuf and Crocker add that monitoring the mean weaning weight of elephant seal pups can therefore help track changes in ocean temperature cycles. ### This press release is based on the article: Ocean climate and seal condition Burney J Le Boeuf, Daniel E Crocker BMC Bi...

Biochemists report discovery of structure of major piece of telomerase; implications for cancer

...sts have determined is essential for telomerase to add nucleotides to telomeres. Telomerase is composed of both RNA and proteins. The entire RNA domain is composed of 451 nucleotides, represented by the letters A, C, G and U. Feigon and co-authors UCLA postdoctoral scholar Carla Theimer and graduate stud...

Infants With Rare Genetic Disease Saved by Cord Blood Stem Cells

...ng brain cells from damage. Moreover, the findings add to the growing body of evidence showing that cord blood can save children with other fatal "lysosomal storage diseases," each of which stems from a specific enzyme deficiency. These disorders include more than 45 rare diseases, such as Krabbe diseas...

Microbial fuel cell: High yield hydrogen source and wastewater cleaner

...roduce hydrogen, we keep oxygen out of the MFC and add a small amount of power into the system." In the new MFC, when the bacteria eat biomass, they transfer electrons to an anode. The bacteria also release protons, hydrogen atoms stripped of their electrons, which go into solution. The electrons on the...

Nanoscale Diagnostic Sets Sights on Alzheimer's

...tion at the end of the procedure. Researchers then add a second ingredient that consists of a gold nanoparticle core surrounded by hundreds of identical DNA strands, which serve as hundreds of "bio-bar-codes" the researchers can detect at the end of the test. Ultimately, the gold-DNA particles and magnet...

Live fast, die young true for forests too

...he world¹s most productive forests -- forests that add the most new growth each year -- also tend to die young, according to a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study published in a recent issue of the journal Ecology Letters. This discovery could help scientists predict how forests will respond to ongoing a...

International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort

...illion SNPs from publicly available databases, and add that information to the map. As a result of a gran...art of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to add data on 2.25 million additional SNPs to HapMap. The new development, enabled by a partnership among ...

Falling ants glide back to trunk to avoid dangers of forest floor

... and even ?frightening as it sounds ?snakes. Now, add ants to that list, say biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston (UTMB). Gliding ants ?the only wingless insects known to actively direct their fall ?were first observed last year o...

First real-time view of developing neurons reveals surprises, say Stanford researchers

...time," Niell said. When people learn new skills or add memories to their overstuffed brains, new connections are required to retain that information. Some diseases also seem to be caused by brain connections not forming normally. Dyslexia, for example, may be caused by connections failing to form betwee...

Ants Genetic Engineering Leads To Species Interdependency

...s.Recent work on ants suggests that we may need to add geneticengineering to the list of innovations ants have evolved to employ. Intwo species of harvester ants, populations have been discovered inwhich queens mate with males of another species to produce geneticallynovel hybrid workers.In a new study, ...

Nanogen Issued Patent for Electronic Microarray With Memory

...p differentiated advanced diagnostic products that add value to the company and to research and clinical laboratory customers," said Howard C. Birndorf, Nanogen chairman of the board and CEO. This new patent expands Nanogen's intellectual property portfolio to include 114 patents issued in the U.S. Abo...

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