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Stem Cell Research Shows Potential for Replacing Tissue Damaged in Heart Attacks

...cardium in non-human models. This last question is being answered in collaboration with John Auchampach, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology & toxicology, and Tim Nelson, Ph.D., a senior medical student. Their findings were reported in the June 2004 edition of Circulation Research, a journal of...

Transgenic plants remove more selenium from polluted soil than wild plants, new tests show

...e that no other mustard-related plant species were being grown in the vicinity," said Banuelos. He noted t...d," said Banuelos. Terry said that techniques now being developed by plant geneticists -- such as modifying chloroplast DNA rather than nuclear DNA -- will ...

WHO Warns Of Increased Risk Of Vector-borne Diseases In Tsunami-affected Areas

...cal surveys in affected districts with local staff being trained on the job. WHO is also making accessible ...ted regions. Public health laboratory services are being restored including provision of rapid diagnostic kits, medical supplies and equipment, and training ...

GeneNotes - A novel information management software for biologists

...r each, tons of known interactions, with even more being unknown, tons of database with tons of information...n a biologically meaningfull way. Applications are being developped to make it all easier, leaving the fun part : biology! GeneNotes is one of them; I didn't...

Glow-in-the-dark zebrafish at UH hold keys to biological clocks

...such a high output of spawn, with hundreds of eggs being laid by each female per week. This gives the scientists a better chance of identifying mutant fish whose biological clocks run fast or slow, providing the ability to trace the specific genes that create the anomaly. Putting UH a bit ahead of other in...

Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola update

...vigour. All the essential containment measures are being applied with extensive international support, including more than 60 international staff drawn from institutions in the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, and the cooperation of national authorities and experts. Tools and methods developed ...

UCSD-Salk Team Show Protein’s Gene-Silencing Role In Development of Nervous System

...tion, the phosphatases prevent neuronal genes from being expressed in areas of the body, such as the heart and liver, where they shouldn’t be. When these phosphatases are shut off in the nervous system, neuronal stem cells can develop into specialized neurons. The researchers determined that SCPs are a co...

Alzheimer's cognitive decline slowed

... sedated, and two patients moved as the cells were being injected, resulting in bleeding in the brain. One of these patients died five week later. As a result of the bleeds, the protocol was redesigned to perform the procedure under general anesthesia and all subsequent procedures were performed without co...

Nanoparticles offer new hope for detection and treatment

...icine. "We believe the technology is very close to being useful in a hospital setting." Lanza and his colleague Samuel Wickline, M.D., professor of medicine, are co-inventors of this nanoparticle technology. The effectiveness of the nanoparticles in diagnosis and therapy in humans will be tested in clinic...

Birds brains reveal source of songs

...udent Aaron Andalman. "We said, this young bird is being creative, exploring many different sounds through trial and error. We hypothesized that the AFP is the source of this creativity, generating the variations, rather than comparing them." To test this theory, Fee's team studied finches that were just ...

Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive

...ung men and women who each described themselves as being newly and madly in love. The multidisciplinary te...n to win rewards, are central to the experience of being in love." Brown noted that "an important concept is that the caudate probably integrates huge amoun...

Researchers make gains in understanding antibiotic resistance

...y leading to new experimental antibiotics that are being engineered to circumvent resistance, which is a ma...somal origins of antibiotic resistance are already being applied to the development of new antibiotics. One company leading the way is Rib-X Pharmaceuticals,...

Disease diagnosis, biodefense among UH chemical research projects

...aditional culturing and growth-testing methods are being replaced by molecular biology-based methods as genome sequencing advances. This work presents novel DNA-sequence-based methods of sensitive, broadly applicable and false-positive resistant microbial identification. # George Fox, professor of biology...

Solutions that reduce death of marine life reeled in by International Smart Gear Competition

...r productive fishing and also prevents shrimp from being crushed under the weight of fish and bycatch hauled up on deck, making the shrimp more valuable at market. "Reducing wasteful practices like bycatch is essential to the health of our oceans and a win-win proposition for fishermen, fish stocks and ou...

Brain-mapping technique aids understanding of sleep, wakefulness

...positive, reinforcing signals back and forth. "By being active, animals fire up their cholinergic cells, which feed back to orexin neurons positively, and orexin neurons feed back to cholinergic cells," Dr. Yanagisawa said. "This creates a self-reinforcing loop, a positive feedback system that's very impo...

Canadian youth 4th highest in international obesity study

... watching television ?was strongly correlated with being overweight, he adds. Along with this alarming fin...f candy and chocolate increased, the likelihood of being overweight decreased. "This does not mean that eating sweets in large quantities is recommended for...

Discovery may lead to better Candidiasis drug

...nal Association on Dental Research General Session being held in Baltimore. Candidiasis also is known as t...ntent. Cells that lose their water content without being able to regulate its re-uptake die rapidly, Edgerton said. "Now that the target for histatin has be...

White Blood Cell 'Waste Disposal' System Plays Critical Regulatory Role

...trophils are white blood cells that are constantly being produced in the bone marrow and released into the blood stream where they migrate out of the blood and roam the body in search of potentially harmful foreign substances. Neutrophils have a short lifespan and often die via a programmed cell death path...

Genetically Modified Natural Killer Immune Cells Attack, Kill Leukemia Cells

...eukemia. "We look forward to seeing this strategy being added to the management of children with ALL," said Chihaya Imai, M.D., the postdoctoral student who did most of the work on this project. ...

Emergence of cancer as major cause of childhood death in developing countries is not being adequately addressed

...children in developing regions of the world is not being adequately addressed by national or international ...mber of children dying from infectious diseases is being reduced through the efforts of the World Health Organization and international charities, the resear...

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