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New MRI technique quickly builds 3-D images of knees

... experiment," Block says. "What we're doing now is capable of a study that you can visualize in any plane in about the same time as people are doing one plane." For example, when imaging a joint like the knee - Block's inspiration for developing the new technique - suppressing the fat signal in bone provid...

Marine 'dead zone' off Oregon is spreading

... level below 1.4 milliliters per liter is hypoxic, capable of suffocating a wide range of fish, crabs, and other marine life. "There is a huge pool of low-oxygen water off the central Oregon coast with values as low as 0.46 milliliters per liter," said Francis Chan, marine ecologist in the OSU Department of...

Speeding discovery of the 'human cancer genome'

... process that requires and selects for tumor cells capable of escaping their normal microenvironment, traversing into and out of lymphatic or blood vessels, and proliferating in new "soil," the researchers said. Metastasis is particularly important in skin cancer, Chin added, as the primary tumor is almos...

Malignant melanoma cells secrete protein required for embryo formation

...aggressive tumor cells, particularly melanoma, are capable of responding to microenvironmental factors as well as influencing other cells via epigenetic (other than genetic) mechanisms, a quality known as bi-directional cellular communication. Bi-directional cellular communication is integral to both cancer ...

First direct mechanical communication of mitochondria, cardiomyocyte nucleus shown

...ibrils opens a new possibility to search for drugs capable of increasing cardiac contractility," Veksler said. *Presentations: The paper, "Direct mechanical communication between mitochondria and nucleus in cardiac cells," was chosen to be part of the "Physiological Genomics of Skeletal Muscle Adaptation in...

Proteins stop blood-vessel and tumor growth in mice

...ological effect. If they can find a small molecule capable of producing the fibulins' effects, it would hold more promise as a viable therapy. ...

Molecular force field helps cancer cells defend against attack

...ctor shield to evade enemy attack, tumor cells are capable of switching on a molecular force field of their own to fend off treatments aimed at killing them. Now University of Florida researchers have found a chink in their armor. The cells churn out an enzyme that bonds with a protein, creating a protectiv...

Nano-particles effective in killing cancer with one-two punch of chemotherapeutics

... Discher theorizes that polymersomes could be made capable of traveling to places in the body that are difficult for most drug-carrier systems to access. ...

New licensing agreement to maximize AIDS drug development

...dge and expertise. With CONRAD, we feel we have a capable and experienced partner to work with us toward approval of these critically important products," said Anne-Marie Corner, Senior Vice President of Cellegy Pharmaceuticals.Currently, the highest rates of infection in women are in sub-Saharan Africa and...

Parachuting allows krill to eat and run

...the new work, the researchers found that krill are capable of many migrations each night. What is more, the downward migration may be particularly rapid as the krill fan out their swimming legs and enter a controlled descent, akin to parachuting. The behavior is most apparent when their stomachs are full and...

Nobelist discovers antidepressant protein in mouse brain

...ore 5-HT1B receptors at the cell surface that were capable of increased serotonin transmission. The opposite occurred when researchers molecularly knocked out the p11 gene in mice. Compared to control mice, knockout mice had fewer receptors at the cell surface, reduced serotonin signaling, decreased respon...

Study reveals classic symbiotic relationship between ants, bacteria

... each species harbors - evidence that the ants are capable of rapidly changing to maintain their bacterial residents. "These two species of ants are very difficult to differentiate other than through molecular analysis," says Currie. "There are almost no morphological, or physical, differences between the ...

Leave it to salmon to leave no stone unturned

...ecies of salmon that spawn at higher densities are capable of even more widespread tilling, according to Moore, who has for six summers worked with sockeye salmon through the UW's Alaska Salmon Program. Using counts of spawning sockeye for the last 50 years and previously measured nest sizes, Moore calculate...

Macrophage signaling may affect hormone resistance in prostate tumors

...acrophages may be a source of inflammatory signals capable of impacting the effectiveness of androgen antagon...er this serves as a source of inflammatory signals capable of impacting the therapeutic effectiveness of androgen antagonists," said Rose. The research shows...

Scientists re-engineer a well-known antibiotic to counter drug resistance

...ommon strains of VRE-called VanA and VanB-are both capable of inhibiting the antibiotic's ability to bind to the bacteria to such a degree that the loss of antimicrobial activity is reduced nearly 1,000 fold, Boger said. In the study, the scientists developed two different re-engineered antibiotics and com...

Georgia Tech accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster

...powered by dual-core AMD Opteron TM processors is capable of performing more than 8.5 trillion calculations ...ief Technology Officer. The new supercomputer, capable of a peak performance of more than 16 TeraFlops, consists of a cluster of 1,000 AMD Opteron processo...

It's in the genes: Study opens door to new treatment of the blues

... to potential strategies, such as developing drugs capable of targeting specific proteins in restricted brain areas." ...

Movement of chromosome in nucleus visualized

...hers show that chromosomes in the cell nucleus are capable of directed, long-range movement that depends on actin and myosin, the major molecular motor complex in the cytoplasm. Developing a system for observing nuclear motion was difficult because chromosome movement is extremely light-sensitive. One expos...

Advanced genomics and proteomics improve the diagnosis and treatment of a deadly lung disease

...e. The synchrotron at the Advanced Light Source is capable of generating beams of x-rays to very specific wavelengths, which was critical in determining the structure of Dicer. Additional authors of the new Science paper are Ian J. MacRae, Kaihong Zhou, Fei Li, Adrian Repic, Angela N. Brooksand W. Zacheus ...

Molecule does more than slice and dice RNA

...e. The synchrotron at the Advanced Light Source is capable of generating beams of x-rays to very specific wavelengths, which was critical in determining the structure of Dicer. Additional authors of the new Science paper are Ian J. MacRae, Kaihong Zhou, Fei Li, Adrian Repic, Angela N. Brooksand W. Zacheus ...

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