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FDA sees nanotech challenges in every product category it regulates

...t pace with inflation—making sure that FDA has the capacity to safely manage nanotechnology must be the shared responsibility of Congress and our political leaders,” argued Rejeski. “The agency must be ‘nano-ready’ for the products on the market today and able to deal with the more advanced nanotechnology app...

Identified main genetic variants involved in response to HIV

...sponsible for the determination of immune response capacity against a number of infectious diseases, including AIDS. These variations are located in the short arm of chromosome 6 in genes controlling HLA-B and HLA-C molecular systems, responsible for the activation of the immune system so that it is able to l...

Soils offer new hope as carbon sink

...eed for added fertiliser reduced and water holding capacity was raised," he said. The trials also measured gases given off from the soils and found significantly lower emissions of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide (a greenhouse gas more than 300 times as potent as carbon dioxide). NSW DPI environmental sc...

New collaborative research reveals chimpanzees can sustain multiple-tradition cultures

...ent Biology, confirms captive chimpanzees have the capacity to sustain the same kind of multiple-tradition cultures many researchers believe exist in the wild, providing further evidence chimpanzees and humans shared a common ancestor five to six million years ago who had a similar level of cultural complexit...

Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming

...lot of carbon dioxide be captured, but the Earth's capacity to store it is also vast, he added. Estimates of worldwide storage capacity range from 2 trillion to 10 trillion tons of carbon dioxide, according to the Intergovernmental Pane...

Newly discovered antibody may be body's natural defense against Alzheimer's

... oligomers by these antibodies appears to be their capacity to recognize the oligomer's misfolded shape. "That was a surprise, because most antibodies work by recognizing some aspect of the chemical structure of their target -- not their shape," explains Weill Cornell Medical College molecular biologist a...

Researchers reveal structure of protein altered in autism

...em to associate so that synapses form and have the capacity for neurotransmission,” said Palmer Taylor, Ph.D., Dean of the Skaggs School, Sandra & Monroe Trout Professor of Pharmacology, and co-principal investigator of the study, along with Jill Trewhella, Ph.D., of the University of Sydney, Australia an...

Study investigates 'divorce' among Galapagos seabirds

...r, his mate is likely to choose another. A male’s capacity to raise offspring, a quality that can vary with time, may carry more weight with a mate than stellar genes or past breeding success, Maness said. She used 14 years of data on about 950 males and 700 females in the study. During that time, the maj...

Research finds that circadian rhythms dominate all life functions

...State study uses advanced algorithms that have the capacity to identify patterns in such a large number of genes. Ptitsyn discovered that gene activity oscillates in a "finely orchestrated" system and gene expression can be impacted by daylight and darkness -- or a lack of both. For example, while gene exp...

Researchers use MRI to predict recovery after spinal cord injury

...ppear to have a severe SCI but may indeed have the capacity for substantial neurological recovery." According to the National Spinal Cord Association, 250,000 to 400,000 people in the United States are living with SCI or spinal dysfunction. An estimated 7,800 new cases of SCI occur each year. Motor vehicle...

Puzzling plankton yield secrets to role in evolution/global photosynthesis

...cts due to human activities. Clearly, this storage capacity is affected by changes in the photosynthetic efficiency of the algae, which in turn is linked to the environmental conditions experienced by these organisms in their environment." The ecology of picoeukaryotes, said Moreau, has thus become an int...

A cherry on top: Tart cherries may alter heart/diabetes factors

...lso measured plasma TEAC, a measure of antioxidant capacity in the blood on which a higher reading means better ability to neutralize damaging free radical molecules produced in the body during metabolism. The rats that received cherries had higher antioxidant capacity, indicating lower oxidative stress in th...

Madagascan tropical forests return thanks to better management and well-defined ownership

...he new study. The new study points to the large capacity of dry tropical forests to spontaneously regenerate if existing local rules and norms (including well-defined property rights) mitigate other drivers of deforestation and alternative land-use. ...

Why do oysters choose to live where they could be eaten?

...ntage of future benefits of increased reproductive capacity when they mature. "Oyster larvae make a life or death decision when they get their one chance to select where to attach themselves to the bottom," said University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Chesapeake Biological Laboratory resear...

Automatic identification of protein's critical features from the structure

...d by other reasons than fashion. In biology, the capacity to establish the function of a molecule, proteins in particular, from its form is relevant to understand how living forms work, and to develop effective treatments and diagnostic tests. The scientists led by Dr. Gabriel del Río at the Instituto d...

Implanting dopamine generators in brain cells obtains improvement in Parkinson's in monkeys

...meliorate Parkinson's appears to be related to the capacity of these cells to release substances (trophic factors) that induce an increase of the dopaminergic cells (that usually exist in the normal brain but in lower quantities). Amongst these trophic factors is the GNDF (Glial Cell-derived Neurotrophic Fact...

Do fruit flies have free will?

...herwise keep bouncing off the same window have the capacity for nonrandom spontaneity if given the chance." ...ead directly to the development of robots with the capacity for spontaneous nonrandom behavior and may help combating disorders leading to compromised spontaneo...

Latent memory of cells comes to life

.... The effect of these changes can be that a latent capacity that was dormant comes to life, or, conversely, that a previously active capacity shuts down. Same inheritance ?different traits In the practical experiment molecular biologis...

Studies force new view on biology of flavonoids

...s, it appears they have 3-5 times more antioxidant capacity than vitamins C or E. But with flavonoids in parti... The large increase in total antioxidant capacity of blood observed after the consumption of flavonoid-rich foods is not caused by the flavonoids them...

Cure for cancer one step closer

...els (-196ºC) and two -80ºC freezers which have the capacity to house in excess of 164,000 tissue and blood samples. The small sections of tissue collected from patients will be stored in cryogenic vials which will help preserve the tissue's proteins and genetic material almost indefinitely. The Wesley R...

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