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Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring

...tidisciplinary team of scientific, engineering and business experts. "We believe this technology will change...entists, engineers, physicians and a host of local business leaders from academia and upstate New York industry. The concept has seen strong support from indivi...

Silver bullet: UGA researchers use laser, nanotechnology to rapidly detect viruses

... finding commercially viable, they're developing a business model, seeking venture capital and exploring ways to mass produce the silver nanorods. Next year, they plan on moving their enterprise to the Georgia BioBusiness Center, an UGA incubator for startup bio-science companies. Presently, viruses are fi...

Scientists win grants to develop $1,000 genome sequencing technology

...g laboratories down to a glass slide the size of a business card. Huang's team will combine micro- and nano-fabrication technologies with innovative chemistry technologies to simultaneously sequence more than 1 billion individual pieces of DNA attached to the surface of single slides. The latest genome-seq...

Plants give up answers in the war on bacteria

...ese tiny ports were busy with their photosynthesis business and were merely unwitting doorways to invading bacteria on a plant's surface. Melotto and Underwood, however, have discovered that stomata are an intricate part of the plant's immune system that can sense danger and respond by shutting down. The la...

'Failed' experiment yields a biocontrol agent that doesn't trigger antibiotic resistance

...got experience with a start-up, and Dick and I got business expertise. It was a great partnership," Filutowicz says. In addition to federal funding from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense, the company has also attracted so-called angel funding from outside investors. Filutowicz ...

Triple threat: World fin trade may harvest up to 73 million sharks per year

...er celebrations for centuries and more recently at business dinners in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim, fins are the most valuable part of the shark, which typically are sliced off as the shark, sometimes still alive, is thrown back into the ocean. The shark fin trade appears to be keeping pace with the g...

Chronic jet-lag conditions hasten death in aged mice

...me as a great surprise to exhausted globe-trotting business travelers, but the research nonetheless provides, in rather stark terms, new insight into how the disruption of circadian rhythms can impact well-being and physiology, and how those impacts might change with age. The mouse study is reported by a grou...

Unique gene regulation gives chilly bugs survival advantage at bottom of the world

...ut in this case, the larvae merrily go about their business of feeding and growing while producing their stress proteins." The Antarctic midge is barely bigger than a grain of rice, but it's still the largest free-roaming terrestrial animal to inhabit Antarctica. The larvae resemble tiny black worms. "It'...

MIT device draws cells close -- but not too close -- together

...h, Bhatia wants to isolate the key cell type, "the business end of the organ," and get it to work without replicating the entire cellular environment that supports it. "If you can get away with it, you want to get rid of the supporting cells," she says. This simple device will also be useful for exploring ...

Drug treatment improves learning in mice with Down syndrome symptoms, Stanford/Packard study shows

... capabilities of normal mice. "We’re not in the business of cognitive enhancement," said Fernandez. "Basically, we have something that could be one part of the many different medical and environmental interventions that may allow kids with Down syndrome to live more normally." ...

Nanoparticles can track cells deep within living organisms

... Hospital. "And then the cells just go about their business and do what they're supposed to do by homing in on targeted regions of the body." Laboratory tests showed that the cells retained their usual surface markers and that they were still functional after the labeling process. The labeled cells were s...

Organic is healthier: Kiwis prove that green is good

...s a unique international forum where science meets business on independent, impartial ground. Anyone can join, and the Society offers a chance to share information between sectors as diverse as food and agriculture, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, environmental science and safety. As well as publishing new re...

UW launches study testing adult stem cells for heart damage repair

...tudy, which is sponsored by the Cellular Therapies business unit of Baxter Healthcare Corporation. Baxter technology is used to select the subject's own CD34+ stem cells that are under investigation in this trial. The first step in the ACT34-CMI trial is to establish the baseline of how often the study s...

Farmed salmon could become an invasive species in forest streams

...st Peter Bisson. "Net pen culture of salmon is big business worldwide, and both advocates and opponents of salmon farming have been very vocal in stating their views. I wanted to look at the hard evidence to determine the short- and long-term risks to native species in streams on National Forests." Bisson,...

Brown cancer biologists identify major player in cell growth

When cells go about the business of dividing, they can get sidelined. Maybe there aren't enough nutrients. Maybe there aren't the right signals to resume multiplying. Either way, cells go quiet. What can restart cell division -- the process that drives the development of embryos, t...

Cornell lab confirms deadly fish virus spreading to new species

... which constitutes about 80 percent of aquaculture business in the United States, said Bowser. Catfish is a very popular food fish in the Deep South. "We have detected VHSV in channel catfish in our surveillance efforts," said Bowser. "The ability of the virus to go beyond a carrier state and cause disease ...

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