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A more powerful and efficient engine for rice: the C3-C4 challenge

... week to develop and use a radical new approach to boost rice production and avoid potential rice shortages, or even future famine. Scientists have been working on different aspects of the approach since the early 1990s. But new knowledge generated by the sequencing of the rice genome is allowing researc...

Study reveals how ADHD drugs work in brain

...f medications known as stimulants. ADHD stimulants boost levels of two neurotransmitters, or chemical messengers in the brain, known as dopamine and norepinephrine. Dopamine is thought to play a role in memory formation and the onset of addictive behaviors, while norepinephrine has been linked with arousal...

Bones hold the key to blood renewal

...stimulates osteoclast formation, they were able to boost osteoclast levels and thus manage the release of stem cells into the blood in a variety of stress situations. This finding may have implications for bone marrow transplant techniques: The drugs given today to donors to increase the supply of stem cel...

Buckyballs boost antibody's chemotherapy payload

...s called buckyballs might be used to significantly boost the payload of drugs carried by tumor-targeting antibodies. In research due to appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Chemical Communications, scientists at Rice University and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center describe a meth...

The molecular mechanism of a diabetes vaccine revealed

...egulating the immune system and therefore, help to boost the immune system in preventing the destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic cells," says Cohen. Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Alexandra Zanin-Zhorov spearheaded the project; the other scientists participating in this study were: the late Prof. Ofer Li...

Can you hear me now? Scientists find previously unknown receptors on adult stem cells

...he receptors in stem cells. "It may be possible to boost immunity when necessary and also shut down inappropriate responses. That could provide a powerful tool to fight cancer, lupus and many other diseases." ...

Research highlights how bacteria produce energy

...y, produce alternative fuels like ethanol and even boost the output of existing oil wells, according to research being presented this week at the 106th General Meeting of the (ASM) American Society for Microbiology in Orlando, Florida. "Microbial fuel cells show promise for conversion of organic wastes an...

Completed genome set to transform the cow

...ue of beef and dairy products has received a major boost with the release this week of the most complete sequence of the cow genome ever assembled. Developed by an international consortium of research organisations, including CSIRO and AgResearch New Zealand, the new bovine sequence contains 2.9 billion ...

Heal thyself: Systems biology model reveals how cells avoid becoming cancerous

...dings could eventually be used to develop drugs to boost DNA repair in response to environmental toxins and possibly treat inherited degenerative diseases such as xeroderma pigmentosum, a disease in which the body's ability to repair DNA damage caused by ultraviolet light is disabled, ataxia telangiectasia...

T cells activated to fight HIV basis for dendritic cell therapeutic vaccine

...culture with the addition of various substances to boost their potency. Separately, the researchers combined a small amount of the patient's HIV with their CD4 cells, in order to "super infect" them. In these now super-infected cells, the researchers inactivated the virus by promoting a process called apop...

Adult stem cell research at UB targets damaged hearts

..., "genetic and tissue engineering might be used to boost the competency of aged MSCs." He noted also that mesenchymal stem cells do not appear to generate a strong immune response. "If this characteristic is proven rigorously," he said, "and if we determine how these stem cells differentiate into cells ...

The brain, traffic and nano-circuits -- e-Science takes on major challenges

...and technological challenges is to receive a major boost from the application of e-Science and grid computing. The challenges are, understanding the brain, mapping the detailed environmental impact of traffic and designing future generation nano-scale electronic circuits. The Engineering and Physical Scie...

New study shows antibiotic may protect the heart

...earchers studying rapamycin, an antibiotic used to boost organ survival in transplant patients, have found that the drug may protect the heart against tissue damage following acute heart attack. In the July issue of the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, the official publication of the Interna...

Researchers to develop ultra-miniature implantable sensors to measure blood flow

...ity. Earlier this month, Kan's research received a boost in the form of a $255,000 grant from the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR). NYSTAR grants help academic research institutions and businesses move high-tech innovations from the laboratory to the marketplace....

Increased sensitivity to nerve signals keeps diabetes at bay

...gh-fat diet. The findings suggest that drugs that boost the activity of the M3 receptors on pancreatic beta cells might have therapeutic potential, said Jurgen Wess of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. "There may be ways to specifically drive up the number of M3 recept...

Race to halt global amphibian crisis boosted by rediscovery of endangered Colombian frogs

...pus frogs, before our very eyes, so this is a real boost for conservation efforts." The Alliance for Zero Extinction ( www.zeroextinction.org ) issued a report in December 2005 that pinpointed 595 sites around the world containing the last significant habitat for one or more endangered species of mammal,...

A rice future for Asia

...ung Filipinos for a week of activities designed to boost their interest in rice and science. Dr. Zeigler says it's vital for Asia's future development that the rice industry attract the region's best and brightest young people. "Rice and agriculture are still fundamental to the economic development of mos...

Epstein-Barr virus might kick-start multiple sclerosis

...ers say, may be a population of T cells that helps boost other components of the immune system in response to the virus. "What we discovered in the peripheral blood of the MS patients were T cells that appeared to be primed for action against EBV," said Nancy Edwards, an HHMI-NIH research scholar at the Na...

Adults who go to bed lonely get stress hormone boost next morning

... feelings of being overwhelmed, then along comes a boost of hormones in the morning to give you the energy ...itute for Policy Research. The morning cortisol boost could help adults who went to bed with troubled or overwhelming feelings go out in the world the nex...

Researchers find that bumblebees' flower choice matters

...use the information to increase crop yields and to boost conservation of native plant communities. Best bee practices Because there are many bee behaviors, the task isn't simple, but with tedious scrutiny it is documentable. "Bumblebees definitely have distinct foraging patterns, both among species...

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