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Dinosaur DNA? New Patent Covers Degraded DNA recovery

...rman of MatrixDesign, a biotechnology company that analyzes the genomics of human tissues and uses the information to produce high performance wound healing and tissue regeneration products, and the CEO of DermaPlus, a science-based skin care company. Dr. Ensley is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbio...

Carnegie Mellon scientists develop tool that uses MRI to visualize gene expression in living animals

...nt MRI "reporter." A typical MRI scan detects and analyzes signals given off by hydrogen protons in water molecules after they are exposed to a magnetic field and radiofrequency pulses. These signals are then converted into an image. Ahrens' new MRI reporter alters the magnetic field in its proximity, causin...

Making medicine 'smarter'

...g computer software to mimic the way a radiologist analyzes all of that information -- and to do it better and faster. "The outcome of the proposed research is expected to have substantial implications in health care by contributing to the improved diagnosis of indeterminate breast lesions by non-invasive i...

Terahertz imaging may reduce breast cancer surgeries

...ealthy tissue being removed. If a histopathologist analyzes the tissue and finds tumor at or near the edges, this indicates that there is a higher chance of cancer recurrence. A second operation is required to remove more tissue, involving additional hospital resources and increased risk of patient morbidity....

Tastier tomatoes in the future?

...tion of mass spectrometry and gas chromatography - analyzes the composition of biological samples. It can be used to quickly and simultaneously look into a fruit's amino acids, organic acids, sugar and vitamins. Dr. Alisdair Fernie, head of the Institute's "Central Metabolism" research group, discovered that...

Computer scientist sorts out confusable drug names

...then created a new program for them, BI SIM, which analyzes and compares the spelling of words. PPC combined Kondrak's programs into a system that the FDA has been using for the past two years to analyze proposed drug names and rank them in terms of confusability, both phonetically and orthographically, wit...

Purdue creates new low-cost system to detect bacteria

...iversity have developed a new low-cost system that analyzes scattered laser light to quickly identify bacteria for applications in medicine, food processing and homeland security at one-tenth the cost of conventional technologies. The technique - Bacteria Rapid Detection Using Optical Scattering Technology ...

Researcher gives hard thoughts on soft inheritance

...ting in the May issue of Nature Reviews Genetics, analyzes recent and past research in epigenetics and the history of evolution and proposes that epigenetics should be considered a form of soft inheritance, citing examples in both the plant and mammalian kingdoms. In doing so, he evokes the pre-Dar...

How the US drug safety system should be changed

...the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, analyzes the limitations of the current system of drug-safety monitoring and proposes a solution that addresses overly aggressive early marketing practices; an absence of incentives to complete post-marketing safety studies; direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisi...

With record resolution and sensitivity, tool images how life organizes in a cell membrane

...e is a highly specialized mass spectrometer, which analyzes the mass of small molecular ions formed when a focused ion beam runs across the surface of a sample. ''You take everything in the beam's focal area, which is about 100 nanometers in diameter and about 10 nanometers deep for our experiment, and you ob...

Three-dimensional, miniature endoscope opens new diagnostic possibilities

...he various colors decoded by a spectrometer, which analyzes the wavelengths of light. Another device called an interferometer, which calculates structural information based on the interaction between two waves of light, provides the data required to create three-dimensional images. To demonstrate the devi...

Leading reason for corneal transplants comes into focus

...process-of-elimination gene-hunting technique that analyzes inheritance patterns in families with relatively large numbers of affected individuals and trace genetic traits co-inherited or "linked" with the disorder. Researchers search for a common location for all the linked traits until they wind up with a s...

Weighty viruses

...he light goes to a measuring device that precisely analyzes the scattering signal. The scattered light is different from the initial light beam because the virus particle in the electric field of the ion trap begins to oscillate. This oscillation depends on the mass (and charge) of the virus. The team was ...

Vaccine to cope with viral diversity in HIV

...athogens. This computational method clarifies and analyzes the variation found in the strains of the virus by describing the molecules which stimulate the immune response to HIV (immunogens) that have multiple forms of variable elements of the virus. These antigens compress the variation found in many viral ...

'Terror bird' arrived in North America before land bridge, study finds

...eam used an established geochemical technique that analyzes rare earth elements in a new application to revise the ages of terror bird fossils in Texas and Florida, the only places in North America where the species has been found. Rare earth elements are a group of naturally occurring metallic elements that ...

Rapid, Low-Cost DNA Testing

...erg's method is part of a much larger process that analyzes DNA. First, a technician extracts the DNA from the blood, tissue, or food. This typically take up to an hour. Second, there is generally not enough DNA to analyze, so it must be chemically amplified. This also takes apprximately one hour. The new pro...

Paper challenges 1491 Amazonian population theories

...o collect core samples from ancient lakes. He then analyzes those samples for pollen and charcoal and thus is able to conclude with a high degree of accuracy the extent of human settlement in that region. "What we do say is that when you start to look away from known settlements, you may see very long-term...

100 percent of pregnant women have at least one kind of pesticide in their placenta

...da (Universidad de Granada [ http://www.ugr.es ]), analyzes the presence of organochlorine pesticides –normally used as pesticides- in the organisms of pregnant women. The analysis was developed at San Cecilio University Hospital, in Granada, with 308 women who had given birth to healthy children between 2000...

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