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Breakthrough isolating embryo-quality stem cells from blood

...e if it can be scaled up. Meanwhile, it is already being used to isolate low-grade stem cells which can dev...cal professionals in Leipzig, elderly patients are being treated for persistent non-healing wounds. Low-grade stem cells isolated from the patient's own bloo...

Scientists generate patient-specific stem cells, Science study says

...om disease or spinal cord injury. The research is being released by the journal Science, which is published by AAAS, the non-profit science society, on the Science Express website on 19 May, 2005. These cell lines will enable the study of human disease in cells in the laboratory. The work also moves scie...

SuperLigands - a database of ligand structures derived from the Protein Data Bank

...om disease or spinal cord injury. The research is being released by the journal Science, which is published by AAAS, the non-profit science society, on the Science Express website on 19 May, 2005. These cell lines will enable the study of human disease in cells in the laboratory. The work also moves scie...

Thai spice helps cut blood sugar swings

... better." Besides the implication for extra sugar being stored (as fat) rather being used effectively, Dr. Agatston notes that with large sugar infusions, the body often produces too mu...

New strategies to reduce hospital-aquired infections

...ubes or to rinse medical equipment is increasingly being recognized as a significant source of microbes tha...tages of each. "Despite the range of technologies being applied, the problem of waterborne microbes in the healthcare setting continues to persist," explain...

Distributed Basic Local Alignment Search Toolkit (W.ND-BLAST)

...ubes or to rinse medical equipment is increasingly being recognized as a significant source of microbes tha...tages of each. "Despite the range of technologies being applied, the problem of waterborne microbes in the healthcare setting continues to persist," explain...

Innovative collaboration brings Arctic science into the classroom

...imarily through translators, he explained the work being done and she quickly mastered the basic sampling protocols. At the end of the trip, he explained to her how more frequent sampling would help scientists learn more about the Lena River, and that if she wanted to continue participating in the PARTNERS...

Microscopes at microscopic size

...iagnostics and drug development." The research is being carried out at the Wales College of Medicine and involves researchers at Cardiff University, University of Bangor, the Gray Cancer Institute in London and collaboration with the University of Warwick and laboratories in the United States. ...

Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive

...cky home at the ocean's edge. Li observed mussels being pounded by ocean waves, and wondered how they coul...ty of mussels to stick tightly to surfaces despite being inundated in water. "Clearly the mussels have evolved with the ability to make this protein so they...

To Stop Evolution: New Way Of Fighting Antibiotic Resistance Demonstrated By Scripps Scientists

... growth of antibiotic resistance. Three days after being subjected to antibiotics, the rodents showed no level of resistance to rifampicin or ciprofloxin, when they harbored a variant of LexA that was catalytically inactive. In control experiments, the rodents were given rifampicin or ciprofloxin, and the ...

Hydrogen and methane provide raw energy for life at 'Lost City'

...co-author on the paper. Another marked difference being published for the first time this week concerns th...those ancient rocks or on other planets. The work being published was funded by the NSF, NASA Astrobiology Institute and a Swiss national science grant. "T...

Structure-building cell signals also may influence learning and memory

...sively studied for many years, with most attention being paid to its maintenance of the cell's skeletal structure during development." Once the biochemical pathway was determined, the researchers then looked at whether ephrin truly increased endocytosis in cells that were not altered genetically. Using ra...

Molecular messengers perform a crucial role in the ability of injured nerve cells to heal themselves

...star in many heroic tales, perhaps the most famous being the one about the runner who carried the news about the victory of the Greeks over the Persians in the fateful battle of Marathon. A team of researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science has now discovered how molecular messengers perform a crucia...

Radio-tracking associated with 'dramatic shift' in water vole sex ratio

Wildlife researchers are being warned that radio-tracking could be affecting the ... with apple and carrot during 2002 and 2003, voles being released after counting. However, Moorhouse and Macdonald had also fitted radio-collars to 38 of the...

Prescription Drug Patches Gaining Ground, Tackling New Therapies

... Growth in demand for prescription drug patches is being driven by several factors ?factors with strong dem...n a smaller package. “The number of drug therapies being developed in patch form is expanding,?explains George Perros, Greystone Managing Director. “At the s...

UN environmental agency steps up battle against marine pollution

...lammable, ecotoxic, and infectious wastes that are being moved from one country to another. Governments are also expected to minimize the quantities that are transported, to treat and dispose of wastes as close as possible to their place of generation and to minimize the generation of hazardous waste at s...

Research into how prions act in the brain could hold the key to defeating diseases

..., for example through blood transfusion, are still being debated and recalculated as new research adds new knowledge and information to the overall picture. ...

NHGRI targets 12 more organisms for genome sequencing

... from humans than other non-human primates already being sequenced, such as the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes... genomes of a number of organisms have been or are being sequenced by the large-scale sequencing capacity developed by the Human Genome Project. These includ...

Primates on the brink

...e and more, mankind's closest living relatives are being cornered into shrinking areas of tropical forest," said CI President Russell A. Mittermeier, who also chairs the IUCN-SSC Primate Specialist Group. "This is especially true of Madagascar, one of the planet's biodiversity hotspots that has lost most o...

Internet viruses help ecologists control invasive species

...se environmental conditions (such as drying out or being eaten by fish), and because humans transport the eggs on their fishing gear and pleasure boats. Professor Norman Yan of Ontario's York University has demonstrated that predation by the spiny water flea causes an average loss of three zooplankton spe...

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