UAB scientists discover the origin of a mysterious physical force
...t electrostatically charged molecules, such as DNA and other biomolecules, when they are very close to ea... Physics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Fernando Bresme of the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London have studied this mysterio...Researchers discover way to make cells in the eye sensitive to light
...ay in Nature, the team fromImperial College London and the University of Manchester, havediscovered that ...lanopsin, these cells may gain the ability tosense and respond to light.Professor Mark Hankins, from Imperial College London and Charing CrossHospital, and...Quantum Dots Research Leads to New Knowledge about Protein Binding in Plants
...erside researchers from the Departmentsof Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering andBotany and Plant Sciences have worked together to discover a way toutilize Quantum Dot bio-conjugates to uncov...Source of molecular triggers in cutaneous T cell lymphoma identified
...Edelson, M.D., Director of the Yale Cancer Center, and professor and chair of dermatology at Yale, since he and his colleagues at the National Cancer Institute first ide...University of Manchester makes made-to-measure skin and bones a reality using inkjet printers
Made-to-measure skin and bones, which couldbe used to treat burn victims or...gh technology which will allow tailor-made tissues and bonesto be grown, simply by inputting their dimensions into a computer. ProfessorBrian Derby, Head ...Protein discovery could unlock the secret to better TB treatment
... designing drugs which enable treatment of dormant and multidrug resistant TB. In England and Wales around 400 people die each year from the disease. The top challenge for TB control in the Euro...Enzyme, lost in most mammals, is shown to protect against UV-induced skin cancer
...d DNAlesions ?cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) and (6-4)photoproducts(6-4PPs) ?contribute to the processes of cell death and cancerformation. Identifying the relative contributions of the two types ofdamage to tumor formation...W.M. Keck Foundation funds study of friendly microbes
...vast communities of bacteria that normally live on and in us. Now a $1.45 million grant from the W.M. Ke...o develop new approaches for isolating, sequencing and analyzing the genomes of "friendly" bacteria that inhabit the intestine and identifying the natural ...Yellowstone microbes fueled by hydrogen, according to U. of Colorado study
... for life in extreme environments on other planets and couldadd to understanding of bacteria inside the h...the world's leading experts on molecular evolution and microbiology,published their report "Hydrogen and bioenergetics in the Yellowstonegeothermal system"...It's not all genetic: Common epigenetic problem doubles cancer risk in mice
... team of scientists from the United States, Sweden and Japan has discovered that having a double dose of ... levels, the researchers report. "Both clinically and scientifically, this discovery should expand attention in colon cancer research to earlier events, s...Columbia research lifts major hurdle to gene therapy for cancer
... virus eradicated prostate cancer cells in the lab and inanimals while leaving normal cells unscathed. G...as ovarian, breast, brain (glioma), skin(melanoma) and colon cancer - because the virus is constructed toexploit a characteristic of all solid cancers."Wha...Dysentery uses 'sword and shield' to cause infection
... the bacterium that causes dysentery uses a 'sword and shield' approach to cause infection. According to... in Science, the team from Imperial College London and Institut Pasteur, Paris, found that shigella, the bacteria which causes dysentery, is able to invade...Novel technology detects human DNA mutations
...ased technology allows for rapid, highly-sensitive and specific Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) ge...which is the direct detection of a particular gene and the extent to which it is normal or mutated. The technology, reported in the February 2005 (Volume 3...Topical treatment shown to inhibit HIV and herpes simplex virus infection
...n from both the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the herpes simplex Virus. The study, presented at the 12th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, is the first to show that a gel can retain anti-viral activity within the ...Priming embryonic stem cells to fulfill their promise
...as possibletreatments for dozens of human diseases and health conditions. SangeetaBhatia and Shu Chien, UCSD bioengineering professors, and ChristopherJ. Flaim, a bioengineering graduate studen...Growth in the sea comes down to a struggle for iron
... of the oceans can stimulate the growth of diatoms and other phytoplankton, but something odd occurs as t...tion with a large Japanese research program, Wells and a team of scientists from UMaine and other universities are studying the fate of iron in marine wate...New, automated tool successfully classifies and relates proteins in unprecedented way
...l feat opens a new way toidentify disease proteins and drug targets by helping to show whichproteins clus...pcoming special issue of the Journal ofBiomedicine and Biotechnology. "Ourapproach really enables the new field of location proteomics, whichdescribes and...New binding target for oncogenic viral protein
...l's most important cancer-preventing proteins, p53 and pRb. In a study published in the Journal of Biolog...al Chemistry, an American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology journal. DNA tumor viruses proliferate by hijacking their host cell's DNA replica...Lack of enzyme turns fat cells into fat burners
...s, explaining in part why the animals can eat more and weigh lessthan their normal counterparts, said Bay...Wakil, chair of the BCM department of biochemistry and molecularbiology. "We found that the adipose in the mutant mice are nowoxidizing fat, hydrolyzing (b...Poor prenatal nutrition permanently damages function of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas
...estigator in Joslin's Research Section on Cellular and Molecular Physiology and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. "The effect doesn't show up until later o...