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Precise Timing Enabled Pig-to-rat Transplants To Cure Diabetes

... them to release insulin where it will do the most good -- directly into a key blood vessel known as the portal vein," Hammerman explains. In a collaboration with scientists at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, Hammerman has received funding from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to transplan...

Young Blood Revives Aging Muscles, Stanford Researchers Find

...ls. "Another approach is to pick factors that are good candidates and see if any of them or some combination recapitulate the effect of the younger blood," Rando said. His group is now looking for likely targets. He said that for some degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or muscular dystrophy, such ...

Researchers test new therapy for advanced melanoma

...ollaboration of USF and Moffitt in this trial is a good example of translational research -- moving the new application of a gene transfer technology from an animal model to the patient. Dr. Heller's team worked extensively with Dr. Daud to adapt the electroporation technique used on mice to humans. The ...

Atmosphere may cleanse itself better than previously thought

...ements to atmospheric models. "Models are only as good as the information we put into them, and we must always keep a cautious perspective about the results models return," he said. "Sometimes things are happening that you can't see using standard methods. Now we hope to take this improved understanding ...

Disabling gene defuses rheumatoid arthritis in mice

...e in some cancers, and hopefully that puts us in a good position to devise ways to manipulate its activity," says senior author Stanford Peng, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine and of pathology and immunology. "If the human version of this gene functions in a similar fashion, modifying its acti...

U. Iowa researchers improve Huntington's disease symptoms in mice

...cells. Davidson explained that this mouse is very good for proof-of-principle experiments, allowing the researchers to ask a very pointed question ?can RNAi improve HD-like symptoms in a mouse model in short order? "Since our results are positive, we can now repeat the experiment in mouse models that de...

Shark attack worries? Driving to the beach is more deadly

...ash occurs, it gets big headlines. If you use some good common sense in the water, you should be fine." ...

New HIV drug candidate developed in Sweden

...ash occurs, it gets big headlines. If you use some good common sense in the water, you should be fine." ...

Agilent Technologies introduces advanced zebrafish, mouse microarrays for stem cell and developmental biology research

...ash occurs, it gets big headlines. If you use some good common sense in the water, you should be fine." ...

Aircraft Cabin Ventilation Influences The Transmission Of Diseases In-flight

...lated to air travel and infection. They write that good hand hygiene has been proven to reduce the risk of disease transmission, and air travellers should make it part of their normal travel routine. Dr Gendreau comments: "Because of the increasing ease and affordability of air travel and mobility of peo...

Tsunami-damaged coral reefs should be left to recover naturally, say scientists

...e suggests that in most cases these would not be a good use of scarce resources and could actually harm surviving reefs. We need to find a long-term, sustainable solution for restoration. "We're advocating a cleaning up of the debris in the majority of cases, so as to allow natural recovery processes to t...

Mice brains shrink during winter, impairing some learning and memory

...eir energy costs during winter, and the brain is a good place to do that." And while there are obviously many differences between mice and humans, studies like this may one day help researchers gain insight into seasonal brain dysfunctions in humans such as seasonal affective disorder, Nelson said. Nels...

Life detection instrument passes key test on road to Mars

...fe in that crusty, arid land, then it would have a good chance some day of detecting life on the planet Ma...s been made very strongly, and we think there is a good chance there is or was some life form on Mars," Mathies said. "Thanks to Alison's work, we're now in...

High-powered gene profiles provide clues to genes involved in common form of lung cancer

...errors that drive the disease. Our work provides a good starting point for scientists looking for others." As part of the study, investigators did microarray analyses on the two major subtypes of NSCLC, adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, and found that their genomic profiles overlap in every are...

Malaria mechanism revealed

...t take long for me to convince him that this was a good project," says structural biologist Leemor Joshua-Tor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, who led the research. A major pathway through which malaria parasites invade red blood cells is the binding of a protein on the surface of merozoites called EBA-...

Studies reveal how plague disables immune system, and how to exploit the process to make a vaccine

...e two papers combined, Schneewind suggested, are a good example of how, in this era of heightened awareness, "we can use modern tools to learn new things about an ancient scourge, and to prepare for the possible re-emergence of diseases we would like to forget, but better not." ...

Scientists discover global pattern of big fish diversity in open oceans

...me. It reveals that some areas recognized today as good fishing are perhaps even more important than we re...ulative and rapid impact on the ocean system. The good news, say these scientists, is that there is hope for the future. The key pieces of the global biodi...

Combination therapy leads to partial recovery from spinal cord injury in rats

...grants that funded this work. "The study also is a good example of strong collaboration between two spinal cord injury research centers, one at the University of Louisville and the other at the University of Miami in Florida." The researchers are now investigating ways to improve this type of therapy wit...

Proteomics brings researchers closer to understanding microbes that produce acid mine drainage

...enome of the dominant organism. That's at least as good as most people do with proteomics on single organisms growing in the laboratory," Banfield said. "The exciting thing to me is we can start to study the organisms in situ, and that's really a big step forward." Of the 2,033 proteins detected, 572 wer...

It's electric: Cows show promise as powerplants

...re also found in cow dung, which may prove to be a good source for generating electricity. In fact, in a related experiment, the researchers used cow manure directly to create energy for a fuel cell. Using cow dung as an energy source isn't a new idea : some farmers already use the methane released by li...

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