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Spleen may be source of versatile stem cells

...budget of more than $400 million andmajor research centers in AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer,cutaneous biology, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders,transplantation biology and photomedicine. In 1994, MGH and Brigham andWomen's Hospital joined to form Partners HealthCare System, anintegrated h...

Neuronal 'traffic jam' marks early Alzheimer's disease

...ovement of critical proteins to the communications centers of the nerve cells. In a vicious cycle, the traffic jam also could increase production of an abnormal protein that clogs neurons, leading to their failure and eventual death. The researchers said their findings could provide information that might b...

Another Look Finds Promising Proteomics Test is Not Biologically Plausible

...om Baylor College of Medicine). They say the issue centers on how the mass spectrometer data were analyzed. A mass spectrometer is an instrument that can quantitatively measure the concentration of hundreds of proteins from a single sample. In short, it does this by using an electric current to propel ioniz...

New species from old data

...om Baylor College of Medicine). They say the issue centers on how the mass spectrometer data were analyzed. A mass spectrometer is an instrument that can quantitatively measure the concentration of hundreds of proteins from a single sample. In short, it does this by using an electric current to propel ioniz...

Cracking the olfactory code in bees

...om Baylor College of Medicine). They say the issue centers on how the mass spectrometer data were analyzed. A mass spectrometer is an instrument that can quantitatively measure the concentration of hundreds of proteins from a single sample. In short, it does this by using an electric current to propel ioniz...

Signaling protein builds bigger, better bones in mice

...om Baylor College of Medicine). They say the issue centers on how the mass spectrometer data were analyzed. A mass spectrometer is an instrument that can quantitatively measure the concentration of hundreds of proteins from a single sample. In short, it does this by using an electric current to propel ioniz...

Scientists seek answers on what activates deadly anthrax spores

...sed at Duke University, one of eight such regional centers funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The other institutions in Claiborne's project include a co-investigator at Virginia Tech and collaborators at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fre...

Emory Eye Center Implants Its First Retinal Chips In Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa

...mentosa with moderate-to-severe vision loss. Three centers in the United States have been chosen to conduct the expanded trial. Other than Emory and the VA Rehabilitation R&D Center they include Rush University Medical Center's Department of Ophthalmology and the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Med...

First 'atlas' of key brain genes could speed research on cancer, neurological diseases

...l and is among the leading cancer research andcare centers in the United States. It is a founding member of theDana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC), designated a comprehensivecancer center by the National Cancer Institute....

New Study from Affymetrix Laboratories Points to Changing View of How Genome Works

...ived from the sparsely transcribed regions between centers of dense transcription are non-polyA transcripts. This study focused on an in depth scan of 10 chromosomes; however, Affymetrix has developed tiling microarrays that cover all human chromosomes. GeneChip tiling microarrays have been used by Gingeras...

The Shapes Of Life: NIGMS Project Yields More Than 1,000 Protein Structures

...ia, anthrax, and tuberculosis. The nine PSI pilot centers have transformed protein structure determination f...structural biology applications. As the PSI pilot centers have put automated structure determination pipelines in place, the number of protein structures they...

Ophthalmologists Use Artificial Silicon Retina Microchip To Treat Vision Loss

...he current study is being performed at these study centers in order to independently validate previous studies performed by Optobionics." The first 10 patients all reported some degree of improvement in visual function, says Pollack. "Improvement in visual function was variable and included the ability to r...

Ophthalmologists implant five patients with artificial silicon retina microchip

...he current study is being performed at these study centers in order to independently validate previous studies performed by Optobionics." The first 10 patients all reported some degree of improvement in visual function, says Pollack. "Improvement in visual function was variable and included the ability to r...

Expression Project for Oncology (expO) completes first phase of standardized gene expression analyses

...are. Collaboration with the participating medical centers in the mechanics of tumor collection has also improved the quality of the collected tissues. The collection of tumor samples from surgery is historically difficult to achieve rapidly, due to the number of handling and review steps required to insure ...

Supercomputer Dedicated To Bioengineering, Computational Biology Installed

...er biological systems." Traditional supercomputer centers have historically been the workhorses of computational biology, but McCulloch said the drive to build ever faster and more specialized supercomputers has required computational biologists to continually reinvent their modeling software. "It's not new...

NASA links nanobacteria to kidney stones and other diseases

... 1990s and has been found in the calcium phosphate centers of kidney stones. This novel agent has also been detected in related conditions, including Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, prostatitis, and some cancers. Further testing for the presence of NB in human bodies can help reduce the risk for kidney s...

Computational Method Speeds Mapping of Cell Signaling Networks

...s transmitted from outside of cells to the control centers inside them that trigger particular responses. But cell signaling networks are so complex that mapping them has been a slow, arduous process. Now, a research team from Stanford, MIT and Harvard has developed a new method for charting cellular signal...

Rare surgery performed to remove pancreas, prevent diabetes

...ge surgery known to be performed at only two other centers in the U.S., doctors at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on Tuesday returned a patient's own insulin-producing cells to him after surgically removing his pancreas to eliminate constant, severe pain from chronic pancreatitis. The patient, Leon...

Medical molecules designed to respond to visible light that can penetrate tissue

...ermolecular complexes containing Ru and Os with Rh centers that possess photoactive MMCT states: Visible light induced, oxygen independent DNA photocleavage (INOR 329)," will be presented by Mongelli during the general poster session, 7 to 9 p.m., Sunday, March 13, in Convention Center Hall D. The poster has...

Scientists identify genetic pathways essential to RNA interference

...udget of more than $450 million and major research centers in AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer, cutaneous biology, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, transplantation biology and photomedicine. In 1994, MGH and Brigham and Women's Hospital joined to form Partners HealthCare System, an integrat...

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