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New nano-canary in the nanotoxicology coalmine: The body itself

...Heart Lung and Blood Institute that is designed to devise 3-D imaging and computational models that provide unsurpassed detail of respiratory systems in humans and other mammals. Advancements in medical imaging, data analysis and computation have increased "the speed and accuracy of developing detailed mo...

Scientists discover that widely available drug also helps fight kidney disease

... poorly understood, which has made it difficult to devise a treatment strategy for this disease." Weimbs and his research team found that polycystin-1 controls an important regulatory protein called mTOR. A defect in polycystin-1 leads to over-activation of mTOR. This, in turn, causes excess growth and pro...

Alzheimer's study first to explain death of brain cells

... is an important first step to helping researchers devise ways to slow, prevent and eventually cure a disease that affects an estimated 4.5 million Americans. In a study published in the February 28th issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, lead scientist Hani Atamna, Ph.D., found th...

Rice University researchers create 'nanorice'

... is an important first step to helping researchers devise ways to slow, prevent and eventually cure a disease that affects an estimated 4.5 million Americans. In a study published in the February 28th issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, lead scientist Hani Atamna, Ph.D., found th...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

... illnesses and a technology development program to devise new ways of monitoring personal environmental exposures that interact with genetic variations and result in human diseases. The proposed federal funding level will enable GEI to perform genetic analysis ?or genotyping - studies for several dozen co...

Attacking cancer's sweet tooth is effective strategy against tumors

...nderstand exactly all the steps involved, we could devise alternative strategies to attack the same pathway,...nderstand exactly all the steps involved, we could devise alternative strategies to attack the same pathway," Fantin said. What makes the prospect of anti-gly...

The brain, traffic and nano-circuits -- e-Science takes on major challenges

...ion to air pollution in inner cities. Governments devise policies and traffic management schemes to minimise the impact of air pollution. More detailed knowledge of how traffic-generated pollution behaves in the urban environment could greatly enhance these policies and schemes. Factors such as street and...

NYU algorithm enhances ability to detect cancer genes

...es. For this purpose, the NYU scientists sought to devise an efficient and novel statistical algorithm to map tumor suppressor genes using a multi-point statistical score function. Their algorithm is unique in that it exploits the high resolution of gene-chips and prior biological models through Bayesian st...

New strategy developed to combat West Nile Virus

...ated ?in time and space ?it does make it easier to devise control strategies. Chemical application is the most likely scenario, but because it could be applied in selected areas, it would be more cost-effective and potentially less environmentally threatening." The spread of West Nile Virus through the U....

Farm kids almost twice as likely to die from injury as children overall

...children to determine rates, identify patterns and devise prevention strategies on farms and ranches. They found that children 1? years old, particularly boys, when on farms are about twice as likely to die from accidental injury as young Canadian children altogether. Most of these mortal injuries occurred ...

Gene therapy protects mice from the effects of whole-body irradiation

...children to determine rates, identify patterns and devise prevention strategies on farms and ranches. They found that children 1? years old, particularly boys, when on farms are about twice as likely to die from accidental injury as young Canadian children altogether. Most of these mortal injuries occurred ...

Gene therapy accelerates healing of damaged skeletal muscle

...children to determine rates, identify patterns and devise prevention strategies on farms and ranches. They found that children 1? years old, particularly boys, when on farms are about twice as likely to die from accidental injury as young Canadian children altogether. Most of these mortal injuries occurred ...

Inheriting a tendency to brain infection

...re of the immune system should make it possible to devise novel ways to make it succeed," he said. Since the mid-1950s, most infectious disease researchers have believed that the genetic components of infectious disease are complex, involving different genetic variants interacting with each other and wit...

Researchers map spread of pathogens in the human body

...f antibiotics, it will enable the medical field to devise more targeted treatments and to more effectively manage antibiotic drug resistance. In the past, similar investigations have been hampered by the difficulty of identifying and observing directly the infection process within live tissues. For th...

Squid-inspired design could mean better handling of underwater vehicles

...e places. Currently, many designers are trying to devise better docking systems for underwater vehicles, but Mohseni said he and his collaborators wanted to improve the watercrafts' actual maneuvering capabilities. "We didn't want to treat the symptom alone," he said. "We made it our goal to resolve a ...

Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita

...ts in the core area of vaquita distribution and to devise schemes involving compensation, incentives and alternative livelihoods for fishermen. For the first time since 1958, when the vaquita was scientifically described and named as a species, the Mexican Government has finally taken specific actions to...

Genome info from 'plant destroyers' could save trees, beans and chocolate

...es of P. ramorum and P. sojae will help scientists devise strategies to combat not only these two species, but also other disease-causing Phytophtora. The study appears in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Science. Phytophthora sojae, an endemic pathogen of soybeans, is responsible for $1 billion to $2 bil...

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

...intain it. Such information will help the team devise different approaches to engineering liver therapeutics by helping them understand exactly which signals are needed to support specific liver cell functions. Instead of building an entire liver from scratch, Bhatia wants to isolate the key cell type, ...

New synthetic self-assembling macromolecules mimic nature

... are our hair, teeth, or skin. But when scientists devise new ways for molecules to self assemble into new materials, it is an important achievement. Researchers with the Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute (MII www.mii.vt.edu ) at Virginia Tech report such a development in the online issue for the Jo...

Scientists map key landmarks in human genome

...somes or on top of nucleosomes, and that led us to devise a method to ask where the nucleosomes are located." The researchers used gene microarrays to which DNA associated with single nucleosomes was added. The nucleosomal DNA was derived from several cancer cell lines including melanoma and breast cance...

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