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Solutions that reduce death of marine life reeled in by International Smart Gear Competition

...hted, deep-set gear. An innovative combination of glowing ropes and stiffer nets--the results of collaboration among a chemist, biologist and fisherman--was recognized as a runner up with $5,000 in the "cetaceans" category. More than 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises--or cetaceans--are estimated to die...

'Jumping genes' contribute to the uniqueness of individual brains

...eered L1 element jumped, the affected cell started glowing green [WHY?]. "We were very excited when we saw green cells all over the brain in our mice," says research fellow and co-author M. Carolina N. Marchetto, "because then we knew it happened in vivo and couldn't be dismissed as a tissue culture artifact...

Leading scientists rank endangered dolphins, porpoises most in need of immediate action

... prize to a promising gillnet design concept using glowing ropes and stiffer nets that may help cetaceans see gillnets in order to avoid them and to escape if they do accidentally swim into the net. Species and populations designated in the report as among the top priorities for investment of resources are:...

Canada's first embryonic stem cell lines

... prize to a promising gillnet design concept using glowing ropes and stiffer nets that may help cetaceans see gillnets in order to avoid them and to escape if they do accidentally swim into the net. Species and populations designated in the report as among the top priorities for investment of resources are:...

Novel targets found for the development of drugs to complement, or replace, statins

... prize to a promising gillnet design concept using glowing ropes and stiffer nets that may help cetaceans see gillnets in order to avoid them and to escape if they do accidentally swim into the net. Species and populations designated in the report as among the top priorities for investment of resources are:...

Virulizin granted orphan drug status in Europe

... prize to a promising gillnet design concept using glowing ropes and stiffer nets that may help cetaceans see gillnets in order to avoid them and to escape if they do accidentally swim into the net. Species and populations designated in the report as among the top priorities for investment of resources are:...

Surgical Robot 'Scrubs In' At UNC, May Be More Precise Than Conventional Surgery

...ry sporting three arms, a computerized brain and a glowing track record in helping to repair heart valves, remove cancerous prostates, bypass blocked coronary arteries and perform gastric bypass operations for morbid obesity. The new arrival is a robotic machine, the da Vinci Surgical System, manufactured b...

Screen all at risk for HIV, plus pregnant women

...ry sporting three arms, a computerized brain and a glowing track record in helping to repair heart valves, remove cancerous prostates, bypass blocked coronary arteries and perform gastric bypass operations for morbid obesity. The new arrival is a robotic machine, the da Vinci Surgical System, manufactured b...

FDA: 'Highly Unlikely' Green Tea Lowers Cancer Risk

...ry sporting three arms, a computerized brain and a glowing track record in helping to repair heart valves, remove cancerous prostates, bypass blocked coronary arteries and perform gastric bypass operations for morbid obesity. The new arrival is a robotic machine, the da Vinci Surgical System, manufactured b...

Firefly protein lets researchers monitor molecule linked to cancer

Scientists have used a glowing protein from fireflies to observe the activity of a molecule that is an important target for new drugs to treat cancer, autoimmune diseases and several other disorders. The target molecule, known as IKK (for IKappa kinase), regulates processes that ...

NRL scientists detect 'milky sea' phenomena

...s--all under the darkness of a moonless night. The glowing waters appear to extend to the horizon in all dire...a massive region of low-level light emission. The glowing waters spanned an area roughly the size of Connecticut (over 15000 km^2) and lasted at least three n...

Gene therapy for muscular dystrophy fixes frail muscle cells in animal model, Stanford study finds

...uce two genes - dystrophin and a gene that makes a glowing protein - into mice with a mouse version of muscul...oducing insufficient dystrophin, she could see the glowing protein slowly leak out of the cell. This leakiness is a sign that the cell is not healed. In contra...

Polymer gel can block toxic leakage problem in gene therapy

...the researchers injected adenoviruses that produce glowing proteins in order to trace where the viral particl...roblem," they wrote. Additional studies using the glowing protein to trace viral dissemination showed that "the poloxamer solution could significantly reduce ...

New GM mosquito sexing technique is step towards malaria control, report scientists

... genetically modified male mosquitoes to express a glowing protein in their gonads, in an advance that allows them to separate the different sexes quickly. By providing a way to quickly sex mosquitoes, the advance paves the way for pooling large numbers of sterile males which could be used to control the mo...

Scientists seek to unwrap the sweet mystery of the sugar coat on bacteria

... Mahal and her colleagues can read the patterns of glowing dots and determine which sugars coat the bacteria. The microarray technique worked fast enough that the researchers were able to see the sugar coating change over time in the neonatal meningitis strain of E. coli. "Over time, the lectins lost their...

Mice with glowing hearts shed light on how hearts develop

...rs have also transplanted cells from the mice with glowing hearts into normal mice to see whether the transplanted cells function normally within the host heart, which could offer insights for heart repair. In the study, the mouse was engineered to express a specially designed molecule that fluoresces when ...

Hopkins researchers develop new tool to watch real-time chemical activity in cells

...or off the PKA enzyme by looking for green or blue glowing cells. Of the 160 chemicals tested, three caused cells to turn on the switch and two others caused cells to turn off the switch. The 160 chemicals tested are from the Johns Hopkins Clinical Compound Library, a collection of about 3,300 chemicals...

UT Southwestern researchers find gene mutation that leads to 'broken hearts'

...rotein specifically in the heart. "This fly with a glowing heart enables us to visualize the details of heart development with high resolution in living animals and to detect cardiac defects that have never been described before", said Dr. Zhe Han, research instructor and co-first / co-senior author of this ...

New light microscope sharpens scientists' focus

...um of light across wavelengths into lots of little glowing things. And that technique allowed us to see the individual constituents of a generalized glow." In fact, that "generalized glow" was much like what scientists see when they use a light microscope to look at fluorescently labeled proteins inside cell...

New roles for growth factors: Enticing nerve cells to muscles

...rons, the investigators demonstrated that only the glowing neurons extended axons in the direction of target cells expressing FGF. "After a lot of hard work, we narrowed it down to FGFs and showed that they were indeed the long sought-after mysterious substance," says Pfaff. Neural stem cells can now be coa...

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