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An artificial cornea is in sight, thanks to biomimetic hydrogels

...n the market, but they are only used in last-ditch efforts [when transplants are rejected]," he notes. Stanford's artificial cornea is "the most biomimetic," he says, with a water concentration and mechanical properties that rival those of the natural cornea. "The dream would be to have a corneal replaceme...

Climate experts search for answers in the oceans

...llow researchers from various fields to pool their efforts in an attempt to understand how the climate is rea...be proud of their leading role in supporting these efforts through the International GODAE High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project Office (GHRSST...

The first tree genome is published: Poplar holds promise as renewable bioenergy resource

... Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), uniting the efforts of 34 institutions from around the world, including the University of British Columbia, and Genome Canada; Umeå University, Sweden; and Ghent University, Belgium. "Biofuels could provide a major answer to our energy needs by giving the United States...

Public Library of Science to launch new, open access journal on neglected tropical diseases

... Diseases will play a crucial role in boosting the efforts of neglected tropical disease researchers, health professionals, teachers, and advocacy groups in developing countries." "There are thousands of scientific and medical journals, but very few have focused on these diseases," said Regina Rabinovich, ...

Wild tigers need cat food

...er conservation strategy, along with anti-poaching efforts and eliminating trade in tiger body parts. The nine-year study in India’s Nagarahole National Park found that an average of 23 percent of the park’s tigers either move away or die each year from either naturally or from poaching outside of the park,...

Nano-devices hold promise for early-stage cancer detection

...earchers at McMaster University will be escalating efforts to develop these micro- and nanotechnology-based bio-sensors and imaging devices through the support of a recently announced $4.25 million grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). "This research is opening up a new front in the battl...

World's smallest cancer detection device

...e Einstein-Albany alliance will lead the nation in efforts to use nanotechnology to improve peoples' lives." ...

UCSD researchers create roadmap to integrin activation

...gineer these activation pathways may contribute to efforts to develop artificial platelets or leukocytes that could be used in patients with suppressed bone marrow function, for example," said Mark H. Ginsberg, M.D., professor of Medicine at the UCSD School of Medicine. The study will be published on line i...

Experimental vaccine protects mice against deadly 1918 flu virus

...on. This knowledge will help further our continued efforts to develop treatments and vaccines to protect us against another deadly flu pandemic." The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic was the most deadly flu outbreak in modern history, killing 50 million or more people worldwide. "A key to containing pandem...

New dwarf buffalo discovered by chance in the Philippines

...inding this new fossil species will spur us to new efforts to document the prehistory of our island nation." The Philippines include more than 7,000 islands. During the last glacial maximum about 20,000 years ago, much of the water in the oceans was frozen in glaciers, resulting in much lower sea levels--a...

History-hunting geneticists can still follow familiar trail

...ancient migrations, and because of well-publicized efforts to track the ancestral roots of Oprah Winfrey and other personalities. Located within the hundreds of energy-producing mitochondria that lie outside the nucleus of our cells, mtDNA is unlike the DNA inside the nucleus of a cell that contains genes...

Serengeti patrols cut poaching of buffalo, elephants, rhinos

...t all across Africa," Hilborn says. This confounds efforts to learn how best to solve the problem when wildlife numbers decline catastrophically. So Hilborn and his co-authors employed the catch-per-unit-of-effort technique used for decades by managers to estimate fish abundance and set fishing limits. Es...

Wheat gene may boost foods' nutrient content

... yield or quality. The researchers hope that these efforts will soon translate into food products with enhanced nutritional value. ...

On the golf tee or pitcher's mound, brain dooms motion to inconsistency

...of the research, Shenoy says, could come in future efforts to achieve new kinds of computing by building artificial circuits modeled on the brain. But Shenoy says the research simply set out to explain variability in movement. "This is basic science," Shenoy says. "We ask questions because we want to know....

International team analyzes human genetic variation in key immune region

...gion and lays the scientific foundation for future efforts aimed at uncovering the genetic roots of immune-re...ity, provide the tools needed to begin the initial efforts toward identifying genetic risk factors in the MHC for common immune-mediated diseases. Such endeavo...

Incidence of stroke decreases over last 50 years

...ke, there is a need for greater primary prevention efforts to reduce the lifetime risk, severity, and 30-day mortality following stroke," the authors conclude. ...

Minorities, uninsured less likely to receive care at high-volume hospitals

...pitals, policy development should include explicit efforts to identify the patient and system factors required to reduce current inequities in the receipt of care at such hospitals," the authors conclude. ...

Molecular anatomy of influenza virus detailed

...sualize influenza virus particles should boost our efforts to prepare for a possible pandemic flu attack," says NIAMS Director Stephen I. Katz, M.D., Ph.D. "This work will allow us to 'know our enemy' much better." One of the difficulties that has hampered structural studies of influenza virus is that no t...

Save the whales? Sure, but how many?

...hic sustainability has been achieved, conservation efforts should aim next for 'ecological functionality,' which means a species will serve its role in ecosystems, such as Pacific salmon providing marine-derived nitrogen to watersheds, or predators reducing pest species, or birds dispersing seeds. 'Sustain...

Fat stem cells being studied as option for breast reconstruction

... Dr. Rubin and his colleagues are focusing their efforts on an approach that involves combining the fat-derived stem cells with microscopic beads composed of a type of extracellular matrix (ECM) that has regenerative properties. Preliminary results indicate that the stem cells can easily attach themselves ...

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