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Nano-Probes Allow an Inside Look at Cell Nuclei

...for the study of living cells. This technology has been licensed to the Hayward, California-based Quantum ...ned from the virus." So far, Chen and Gerion have been able to introduce and retain quantum dots in the nuclei of living cells for up to a week without har...

Gene sequencing explains bioremediation 'bug'

...entistshave suspected that this ability might have been borrowed by cellsneeding to build many different proteins from a specific, single set ofinstructions -- the key to recognizing a million immune-stimulatingproteins. But until now, no jumping gene was known to behave just right. Writingin the Dec. 23...

New protein discovered by Hebrew University researchers

...ped," circularform and is extremely stable. It has been found to be capable ofsurviving contact with enzymes that break down proteins or exposure toextreme conditions such as boiling, excessive acidity, salinity,organic solvents or detergent solutions. Theresearch was conducted at the Hebrew University's...

The death of a very special chimpanzee

...ped," circularform and is extremely stable. It has been found to be capable ofsurviving contact with enzymes that break down proteins or exposure toextreme conditions such as boiling, excessive acidity, salinity,organic solvents or detergent solutions. Theresearch was conducted at the Hebrew University's...

New studies suggest airborne SARS transmission is possible

... of airborne dissemination of SARS coronavirus has been controversial," said Dr. Tong, "this important work shows beyond doubt that SARS coronavirus aerosol generation can occur from a patient with SARS." The Hong Kong study provides additional, complementary evidence that the virus may be capable of spre...

Circles Of DNA Might Help Predict Success Of Stem Cell Transplantation

...blood means that a large number of stem cells have been converted to parent T cells--each of which targets...6 of the recipients themselves. The recipients had been treated for either white cell cancers (e.g., acute lymphoblastic leukemia) or red cell diseases (e.g...

Ice core 'dipstick' indicates West Antarctic ice has thinned less than believed

...me Siple Dome was thinning. Part of the puzzle has been whether the ice streams were flowing, whether they carried interior ice to the ice shelf at the end of the last ice age, and whether they began where they do now or receded along with the ice shelf's grounding line. Studying the ice core layer by la...

UCLA scientists transform HIV into cancer-seeking missile

...' lungs. "For the past 20 years, gene therapy has been hampered by the lack of a good carrier for therape...IV from which the viral pieces that cause AIDS had been removed. This allowed the virus to infect cells and spread throughout the body without provoking dis...

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

...e experiments mark the first time researchers have been able to watch neurons in an entire region of the brain as they fire one by one in real time. The technical savvy involved in monitoring neurons will allow researchers to conduct experiments that were previously not possible. While the research showe...

Gene vaccine for Alzheimer's disease shows promising results

...ions andsenior author of the latest study."We have been developing ways to use gene-immunization to manipu...sease focus on the symptoms sinceno therapies have been clinically proven to slow or prevent progressionof the disease. Amyloid protein deposits are present...

New Breast Cancer Test Could Save Lives

... the project. Commercialisation of the project has been driven by SETsquared, the high-tech support programme for very early stage ventures. SETsquared is part of the enterprise partnership between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton and Surrey. Based alongside the University’s incubation cent...

Scientists identify molecular events that drive cell senescence

...ions andsenior author of the latest study."We have been developing ways to use gene-immunization to manipu...sease focus on the symptoms sinceno therapies have been clinically proven to slow or prevent progressionof the disease. Amyloid protein deposits are present...

The Shapes Of Life: NIGMS Project Yields More Than 1,000 Protein Structures

... noted that some robotics and automated tools have been refined and are now marketed by companies for general structural biology applications. As the PSI pilot centers have put automated structure determination pipelines in place, the number of protein structures they have solved has increased significan...

New insight into people who 'see' colors in letters and numbers

...esthetic experience that previous studies have not been able to address." Edward M. Hubbard, A. Cyrus Arman, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, and Geoffrey M. Boynton: "Individual Differences among Grapheme-Color Synesthetes: Brain-Behavior Correlations" ...

Estrogen-like Component of Plastic Stimulates Growth of Certain Prostate Cancer Cells

...nly used to synthesize plastic food containers has been shown toencourage the growth of a specific categor...l response,?Dr. Knudsen said.The safety of BPA has been under intense debate for several years, withsome arguing that exposure to the chemical among humans ...

Beyond lithium for bipolar disorder

...vior of one such activated gene, called GPR88, has been found to be associated with a rat model of mania, ...th bipolar disorder. Also, in animals, lithium has been shown to affect such circadian behavior. The protein also has been found to affect the activity of a...

Discovery Could Lead To Novel Approaches In HIV Treatment

...ethod to study blood samplesfrom patients that had been recently infected with HIV and found that,already in the first months following the onset of infection, thymicfunction is decreased. Such a decrease results in a loweredT-lymphocyte production by the thymus.These findings pave the way to the developm...

FDA Warns Consumers Not to Use Home-Use Diagnostic Kits Marketed by Globus Media

...unapproved home-use diagnostic test kits that have been marketed nationwide via the Internet by Globus Med...usually by overnight delivery services. These have been made available for sale on several websites, including www.htkit.com and www.hstkits.com. The kits u...

Novel ultrafast laser detection of cancer cells also may improve understanding of stem cells

... Sandia's laser expertise. A project proposal has been filed with Sandia to support collaborative work between the unique research capabilities of UCSD and Sandia. "There are 300 different cell types in the human body and different mitochondria for each different shape and arrangement," says Naviaux. "We...

PANTHER Protein Classification System Database 5.0

...biology. We are honored thatthe PANTHER system has been accepted as an InterPro member database andlook fo...ase. “Our collaborationwith the PANTHER system has been excellent and very informative for theannotation of the Drosophila genome.?This week’s release inclu...

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