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Engineering the heart piece by piece

...ource of new patient treatments. As part of the effort to make the leap from the lab to the clinic, U-M is applying for patent 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...

A first glimpse of the influenza replication machine

...e aiming for in our new FLUPOL project. In a joint effort with other European laboratories, and with financial support by the European Commission, we will explore both structure and function of this key drug target and try to characterise other mutations implicated in bird-to-human transmission." ...

Faster, low cost sequencing technologies needed to drive era of personalized medicine

...he NIH to achieve the $1,000 genome goal. Zhang's effort also joins two other ASU research teams, led by Stuart Lindsay and Peter Williams, who have more than $2 million in other DNA sequencing projects funded at ASU. "There are currently only 36 grants in the entire NHGRI sequencing program, so it's q...

Fake pesticides threaten food safety

...d a pan-European Anti-Counterfeit Programme, in an effort to get governments and regulators to use their powers to enforce regulatory policies. ...

Seagrass ecosystems at a 'global crisis'

...ists is calling for a targeted global conservation effort to preserve seagrasses and their ecological services for the world’s coastal ecosystems, according to an article published in the December issue of Bioscience, the journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS). The article "A Globa...

Math model predicts cancer behavior

...ans. For the last two years, he has headed a major effort to develop the kind of mathematical model for cancer invasion powerful enough for this purpose. The result was published as an entirely theoretical paper in the journal Cell and, if he is right, it represents a "sea change" in how biology is done. ...

NASA satellite data helps assess the health of Florida's coral reef

...f Florida's coral reef as part of a field research effort completed this August and September. The project was the first comprehensive assessment of the resiliency of reefs along the entire National Marine Sanctuary that stretches about 300 miles from Martin County to the Dry Tortugas in the Florida Keys....

Researchers seek to design first treatment for neuroAIDS

... because, despite ten years of trying, no research effort has yielded an approved HAD drug." ...

NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective

... and physics with engineering to enhance the whole effort to develop the next generation of DNA sequencing and analysis technologies. Since 2004, NHGRI has awarded $83 million to investigators to develop both "near term" and revolutionary sequencing technologies. "It is very important that we encourage and...

Researchers link ocean organisms with increased cloud cover and potential climate change

...ted from the ocean, and to better characterize the effort of organics on cloud droplet formation." ...

Rearing an army to save wheat

...lations of parasitic wasps, as part of an expanded effort to establish the more effective parasitoid populations in those areas. "We hope to see the populations there grow, and what Pallipparambil-Robert's work will do is to help us have the ability to have parasitoids more readily available for future e...

Selecting life: Scientists find new way to search for origin of life

...ut this research is that it's an interdisciplinary effort from different areas of science--biology, chemistry and geology," reflected Hazen. "It marries them to search for an answer to a question that has intrigued humanity since the birth of consciousness: How did we get here?"...

New technology to speed up research into Huntington's disease

...ore obvious motor effects of the disease, and much effort is focused on understanding cognitive decline in HD". "Useful cognitive testing has been a bottle-neck in developing new treatments for this aspect of HD. The touchscreen system should make it easier to test drugs for treating cognitive decline ...

Train your brain to hear your friends at a party

...rely hear what they were saying and it took a huge effort of concentration to follow any conversation. During the week, I gave up and spent a lot of time at home on my own because it was so distressing and tiring to be with lots of people or in a noisy place." Our ability to detect a particular sound in ...

Studies find general mechanism of cellular aging

...green tea or resveratrol every day for years in an effort to prevent aging, wouldn't you like some evidence that these not entirely benign things were having a beneficial effect? Now we have a biomarker that can directly test the effects of such things," he said....

First Quantum Grant to fund stem cell repair of damage from stroke

...process. "This project represents an integrated effort among leading scientists who have jointly authored numerous publications, mentored students and postdoctoral fellows, as well as collaborated on Bioengineering Research Partnership grants," said Jennifer West, who is leading the project's efforts at ...

GlycoFi and Dartmouth report full humanization of yeast glycosylation pathway in Science

...sylation reactions has been a challenging six year effort that many doubted could be accomplished," said Tillman Gerngross, Ph.D., chief scientific officer of GlycoFi and professor of Bioengineering at Dartmouth College. "This achievement required both the elimination of yeast-specific glycosylation reac...

American scientist's research of life's first cells

...ience . "Dr. Chen has accomplished a remarkable effort at forward engineering the possible origins of cellular behavior," said Dr. Donald Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Science . "She created an evolutionary experiment among 'proto-cells' -- vesicles built of membrane materials, some of which contained RNA...

Malaria treatment efficacy compromised in certain HIV-positive patients

...ral therapies should continue to be examined in an effort to maximize the effects of therapy on both diseases and to decrease the malaria burden in HIV-infected individuals. ...

Ebola-outbreak kills 5000 gorillas

..., "Uncertainty about whether a large Ebola control effort was necessary or even possible has paralyzed large donors and major conservation organizations," said Peter Walsh, a co-author from Max Planck. "We are hoping that the starkness of our results will push some public or private donor to finally commit ...

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