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3D ultrasound device poised to advance minimally invasive surgery

... the advantage of reduced postoperative pain and a faster recovery. However, the two-dimensional ultrasound imaging now available offers surgeons only a limited view, which can impede their depth perception and make such procedures difficult to master. "Our ultrasound device could really advance the use of...

Open Source Biotechnology alliance for international agriculture

... efforts as Linux. Open Source software hasspurred faster innovation, greater community participation, and new robust business models that break monopolies and foster fair competition. BiOS targets parallel challenges that limit the effective use of modern life sciences in agriculture to only a few multinat...

ASU researchers 'wire' DNA to identify mutations

...search is to make the measurement steps easier and faster through automation, which will allow many different DNA sequences to be analyzed at once. ...

Mouse study: New muscle-building agent beats all previous ones

... Biomedical Sciences. "Its effects were larger and faster than we've seen with any other agent, and they were even larger than we expected." ACVR2B is the business end of a cellular docking point for the myostatin protein, and it probably works in part by mopping up myostatin so it can't exert its muscle-i...

A resetting signal keeps circadian rhythm on track in Drosophila fruit flies

...n individual clocks: we made the morning cells run faster and the evening cells relatively slower, and the other way around," explained researcher Dan Stoleru. "In this fashion, we introduced phase differences between them. It turned out that no matter the manipulation, the morning cells set the pace of the...

From one cell, many possible cures

...uantities to permit far more research -- and allow faster growth of tissues that can be transplanted into patients. Teng Ma, an assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at the Florida A&M University-FSU College of Engineering, and colleagues have created a device called a perfusion bi...

DNA technique measures suitability of soil for onion crops

...Henri Hekman had been looking for a more accurate, faster and cheaper method for some time. He came into contact with Wageningen researcher Hans Helder who, with funding from Technology Foundation STW, was compiling a DNA database of all nematode species in the Netherlands. This database, together with a me...

Effective, safe anthrax vaccine can be grown in tobacco plants

...bacco cells, partly because those plants grow much faster than carrots, tomatoes and coffee. They grew the cells for several weeks in Daniell's laboratory. Tests showed the vaccine taken from the plants was just as potent as the one produced through fermentation but lacks the bacterial toxin that can cause ...

Scientists discover the molecular switch for nerve cells' insulating jelly rolls

...mit messages in the nervous system up to 100 times faster than their unmyelinated cousins and are critical for proper neurological function. However, it wasn't known what actually initiated myelin production. The neuregulin gene encodes a growth protein made by neurons. Last year a group of German scienti...

A little telomerase isn't enough

...t the more really short telomeres a person has the faster problems will develop," says Greider, whose lab reported the role of the critically short telomere in 2001. The usual treatment for people with dyskeratosis congenita is a bone marrow transplant from an unaffected family member. But the team's new ...

U. of Colorado researcher identifies tracks of swimming dinosaur in Wyoming

...s more, the sea lilies were moving a hundred times faster than previous observations had suggested. Further studies by Baumiller, Messing, and Rich Mooi of the California Academy of Sciences suggested that sea urchins don't eat bits of dead sea lilies that they find on the ocean floor but rather bite piece...

Creeping crinoids! Sea lilies crawl to escape predators, new video shows

...s more, the sea lilies were moving a hundred times faster than previous observations had suggested. Further studies by Baumiller, Messing, and Rich Mooi of the California Academy of Sciences suggested that sea urchins don't eat bits of dead sea lilies that they find on the ocean floor but rather bite piece...

Plant wounds trigger bacteria

...mor-inducing plasmid to replicate up to five times faster than normal by increasing the expression of a protein called RepC, which is required for replication of the plasmid. The extra copies of this DNA enhance the ability of the bacterium to cause tumors, which grow when a fragment of the plasmid DNA inva...

A bug's life: Exceptional genomic stability yet rapid protein evolution in a carpenter ant mutualist

...ion; divergence rates were approximately two times faster in B. floridanus than in B. pennsylvanicus. The authors suggested that these lineage-specific differences may reflect life history differences of their respective ant hosts. When the observations of the current study are coupled with results from pr...

Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history

...since which time the price has risen 7 to 10 times faster than inflation. California banned commercial abalo...950's the price of abalone has risen 7 to 10 times faster than inflation. 2) Inflation-adjusted price of lobster (normalized to 1 pound). Prior to 1880 lobst...

UF study first to quantify validity of DNA I.D. tool using marine snails

... Because species around the world are disappearing faster than biologists can identify them, the need for a quick and accurate method of classifying life has never been more pressing, Meyer said. With millions of animal species on Earth, DNA barcoding can be a helpful identification tool for ecologists who ...

U-M scientists say fused genes trigger the development of prostate cancer

...o in less than 24 hours, approximately 1,000 times faster than the prevailing technology until now. Their findings are featured in a special issue of the journal Genome Research, published today. "This information provides an invaluable resource for understanding the structure of human genetic variation,...

California computer scientists double volume of data in NIH biotech repository

...o in less than 24 hours, approximately 1,000 times faster than the prevailing technology until now. Their findings are featured in a special issue of the journal Genome Research, published today. "This information provides an invaluable resource for understanding the structure of human genetic variation,...

Costly breeding programs for endangered species pay off

...t might not be the case for species that reproduce faster or have larger broods. For those animals, alternate breeding schemes might indeed prove more effective, and her group is conducting research to see if that's the case. ...

New technology shows our ancestors ate…everything!

...olytechnic Institute and elsewhere has developed a faster and more objective way to examine the surfaces of fossilized teeth, a practice used to figure out the diets of our early ancestors. By comparing teeth from two species of early humans, Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus, the resear...

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