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Researchers make gains in understanding antibiotic resistance

...them target the large subunit," he said. "So, such advances have the potential for significant clinical impact. The general strategy of Rib-X to overcome resistance is to create new hybrid antibiotics that possess the ability to bind to interact simultaneously with different, nearby sites on the ribosome repr...

Rare surgery performed to remove pancreas, prevent diabetes

...ocedure fell out of favor until recently, when new advances in cadaveric islet cell transplantation made outcomes more favorable. ...

Scientists discover how plants disarm the toxic effects of excessive sunlight

...ilitating diseases. "There have been considerable advances in our understanding of how cells protect themselves from several reactive oxygen species," says Donohue. "However, nothing has previously been known about how cells alter gene expression to respond to singlet oxygen. We may now be able to design pha...

Not-for-profit publishers call NIH public access rule a missed opportunity

...his partnership in a way that benefits the public, advances scientific research, and preserves this important relationship." "We believe the NIH rule will not achieve the goal of better access to science and will place an unreasonable burden on researchers by requiring them to pursue a duplicative submission...

US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say

...set any improvements in longevity from anticipated advances in biomedical technology. Researchers also believe the life-shortening effect of obesity could rise so rapidly in the United States -- from two to five years in the next 50 years -- that it may eventually exceed the current life-shortening effects o...

Artifical cornea lets woman blind 20 years see

...stones later, Elma is able to see again, thanks to advances in ophthalmology research. Physicians at Duke University Eye Center and Harvard have been monitoring her closely following the implantation of an artificial cornea, or keratoprosthesis, into one of her eyes -- restoring her sight in that eye and ult...

Papers of DNA Pioneer and Nobel Laureate Francis Crick Added to National Library of Medicine’s Profiles in Science Web Site

...f heredity at the molecular level. “Major current advances in science and biotechnology, such as genetic engineering, the mapping of the human genome, and genetic fingerprinting, all have their origins in Crick’s inspired work,?said Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D., director of the National Library of Medicine. “T...

Learning to fight an adversary that won't stay down

...es we face, says Dr. Davies. Ironically, he says, advances in molecular biology techniques have shown just how adept these pathogens are at adapting to anything we can throw at them. Innovations such as highly efficient polymerase chain reaction (PCR) have made it possible to identify and study the many gene...

U-M scientist to talk about tissue engineering at AAAS

... different perspective, and it leads to scientific advances that couldn't happen in any one discipline, Krebsbach said. "That's the beauty of tissue engineering. It has to be multi-disciplinary to work," he said. ...

New Technique for Tracking Gene Regulators

...on’s disease inmice, which is important for making advances in understandingHuntington’s disease in humans, and genes that may play an importantrole in certain cancers.“This technique can be applied to any protein that binds to specificsequences in the DNA and promises to be a very useful tool,?says Dunn.This...

Inexpensive, mass-produced genes core of synthetic biology advances at UH

...mputers that once occupied an entire room. Similar advances are beingmade in the emerging field of synthetic biology at the University ofHouston, now allowing researchers to inexpensively program the chemicalsynthesis of entire genes on a single microchip.Xiaolian Gao, a professor in the department of biology...

Fox Chase Cancer Center scientists identify immune-system mutation

...nts of the immune system can contribute to medical advances in stimulating desirable immune responses and halting undesirable immune reactions, Kappes said. This understanding can further progress against various immune disorders, allergies and certain cancers, such as those of the blood and bone marrow, that...

Molecular biology fills gaps in knowledge of bat evolution

...odiversity Research, Kent, U.K. "The present work advances our understanding of where bats originated, when they diversified and how different bat families are related to each other," Springer said. "It also quantifies the fraction of the fossil record that is missing for bats." The team, using DNA sequenci...

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