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Progress being made in exploring potential use of stem cells to treat heart disease

...etime. The coming years will undoubtedly bring new developments and technologies to unravel these processes, leading to clinical applications of stem cell-based therapies for heart disease." ...

Purdue creates new low-cost system to detect bacteria

...lassify the bacteria. "One of the most important developments is being able to convert images to numbers, which makes it possible to classify the patterns," Rajwa said. "We are able to take images and convert them to numbers that uniquely describe every picture." The researchers used the new system to classif...

New strategy developed to combat West Nile Virus

... live in the region and even the number of housing developments in a given area," he added. "These are the variables that need to be studied across the country." Shaman and Day hope to expand their studies to analyze different regions of the country and create models similar to that of southern Florida, where ce...

Plant-cell-produced technologies-cutting edge approach to bringing solutions to the market

... and Human Health" will highlight major bioscience developments and scientific solutions that could prevent diseases and reduce animal and human health risks in Europe. Dow AgroSciences President and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Jerome A. Peribere will deliver a welcome address. Dow AgroSciences's R&D capabili...

Mirrors in the mind: New studies elucidate how the brain reflects onto itself the actions of others

...that the motor system may have strongly influenced developments in human social evolution. ...

Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

...horsteinsdottir of the CPGGH: "Our recent study of developments in regenerative medicine indicate that researchers in, for example, India, are taking regenerative medicine very seriously and there are government policies meant to energize research in this field," Adds Peter Singer, Senior Scientist at the McLau...

Neural networking nanotubes

...es to be moved might one day be possible thanks to developments in materials science. Writing today in Advanced Materials, Nicholas Kotov of the University of Michigan, USA, and colleagues describe how they have used hollow, submicroscopic strands of carbon, carbon nanotubes, to connect an integrated circuit to n...

Protein structure initiative launches new resources for the scientific community

...ns from machines, instead of cells. These developments have reduced the cost, time, and space needed to carry out structural studies, as well as improved the generation and analysis of quality data....

End-of-life care can be improved

... Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., describes recent developments in the integration of palliative and critical care. Palliative and end-of-life care in the ICU is an appropriate and under-developed area for quality assessment and improvement, according to Richard Mularski, M.D., M.S.H.S., from the Veterans Affa...

Breathing easy: When it comes to oxygen, a bug's life is full of it

...ather at the symposium, they will assess these new developments and consider a roadmap for future research, said Kirkton. The symposium, which is also sponsored by the London-based Journal of Physiology, will feature the following speakers: Gabriel Haddad, of the University of California, San Diego, will sp...

Engineering the heart piece by piece

...nt protection on the Artificial Heart Laboratory’s developments and is actively looking for a corporate partner to help bring the technology to market. The U-M team’s bioreactor was developed Robert Dennis, Ph.D., formerly of the U-M College of Engineering and now at the University of North Carolina. It allow...

Latest advances in DNA sequencing highlighted at DOE Joint Genome Institute User Meeting

...tion will gather March 28-30 to share their recent developments at the 2nd Annual U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) User Meeting. DOE JGI is the world's only user facility dedicated to making high-throughput DNA sequencing available to a diverse research community and individual investiga...

Organic is healthier: Kiwis prove that green is good

...ll as covering industry and science, it focuses on developments that will be of significant commercial interest in five- to ten-years time. Published twice-monthly and free to SCI Members, it also carries authoritative features and reviews. Opinion-formers worldwide respect Chemistry & Industry for its indep...

Cancer researchers add spice to research against rare neuromuscular disease

...is research has explained some previously baffling developments late in the course of that disease, opening the door to newer treatments. In 1988 Chang was the first to clone the androgen receptor, and he was the first to discover that the protein needs molecular allies called co-factors to accomplish many of ...

Scientists discover how body fights to control spread of cancer

...e and may have significant implications for future developments of drugs for the treatment of the disease." ...

New technologies coming too fast for Indian farmers

...actors affecting farmers' ability to adjust to new developments by practical methods. Among them are the speed of change, the overwhelming number of choices in the seed market and the desire for novelty ?all of which lead to lack of proper seed testing by farmers. "There is a rapidity of change that the farmers...

Misclassified for centuries, medicinal leeches found to be 3 distinct species

...ts, and three times as many biomedically important developments in areas like protease inhibitors," said Mark Siddall of the American Museum of Natural History, who led the research team. "However, it will also require a better effort to conserve these much-maligned animals, in a way that takes into account their...

Mine runoff continues to provide clues to microbial diversification

... diversity in related organisms and should lead to developments in human health and bioremediation.? The combination of mass spectrometry support from ORNL researchers with extensive reconstruction of genomes from community genomic data at UC Berkeley was key to this work, said Jill Banfield, who led the projec...

Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles

...AB4) THE SOUNDSCAPE OF MODERNITY Acoustical developments in the 20th century forever altered the sounds that U.S. residents heard and their ways of listening. Modern acoustical inventions such as sound meters, microphones, and reverberation equations brought about a new level of clarity and similarity in t...

3-D ultrasound scanner provides in-depth view of the brain

...n. The new advance is the latest in a series of developments Smith's team has made since developing the first 3-D ultrasound scanner in 1987 for imaging the heart from outside the body. "Wherever there is a commercial 2-D niche now, we are working to put a 3-D tool in there," Smith said. ...

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