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Agilent Technologies introduces high-capacity human protein removal system for proteomics research

...he Jurassic." "People have argued that there is a great diversity of dinosaurs in the Late Triassic, and t...oping theropods around the world. "This find is a great thing for the crocodilian record, too. Here's this totally unrecognized group of possibly herbivorou...

Mechanism for the captation of nutrients in plants- unknown to date

... etc.), basic knowledge of this mechanism provides great tips for the rational design of experiments aimed ...e species in the interest of humanity. One of the great questions thrown up by the fact that saccharose pick-up is produced via endocitosis is, fundamentall...

Poaching, logging, and outbreaks of Ebola threaten central African gorillas and chimpanzees

...increase security against illegal hunting, protect great apes and tropical forests from logging, and slow t... "As dire as the threats are to the survival of great apes, it's important for the world to know that this is not a lost cause," said Emma Stokes of the W...

Scientists reveal how disease bacterium survives inside immune system cell

...s, most notably Staphylococcus aureus, which is of great interest because of its increasing resistance to antibiotic treatment. S. aureus, often simply referred to as "staph," are bacteria commonly found on the skin and in the noses of healthy people. Occasionally, staph can cause infection; most are minor...

Modified collagen could yield important medical applications

...not found in nature. Modified collagen can give us great new tool for treating injuries and illnesses." ...

ORNL, UC Berkeley unravel real-world clues to Earth's mysteries

...s of microbial community structure and function, a great deal of work remains to more fully explore the spatial and temporal aspects of how such a community grows, ages and adapts to its environment. ...

Unusual antibiotics show promise against deadly 'superbugs'

...not found in nature. Modified collagen can give us great new tool for treating injuries and illnesses." ...

First production of human monoclonal antibodies in chicken eggs published in Nature Biotechnology

... white." "Monoclonal antibodies have demonstrated great success as human therapeutics, with over 25 approved for human therapeutic use and an increasing number of these proteins in clinical development," continued Dr. Etches. "We expect the demand for more potent anti-cancer monoclonal antibodies and for ...

Scripps research scientists solve structure of a critical innate immune system protein

...mical Biology. "but But the structure has given us great insights into experiments we can design to explore...vered seven years ago. This will open the way to a great many other studies that will allow us to understand exactly how signaling occurs." Significantly, s...

Purdue scientists may have found key to halting spinal cord damage

...urther research will be necessary to determine how great a role acrolein actually plays in the process of secondary spinal cord damage, but Shi said that once this role is clarified, drugs that counter acrolein's effects could join the other approaches to treating spinal cord injury under development at Pu...

Study: Harmless virus kills some cancers

...mal and destroys them. This suggests that AAV2 has great potential to be developed as an anti-cancer agent." The study was presented June 20, 2005, at the 24th annual meeting of the American Society for Virology held June 18-22 at Penn State, University Park campus. Although the reason why remains unclea...

Exercise training in ordinary people affects the activity of 500 genes

...egular cycle training. The study also reveals that great differences in training response may be due to the ability in some people to activate their genes much more forcefully. The study is published May 2 in FASEB Journal. It is common knowledge that it is very dangerous to be inactive and that regular p...

Gifts from the sea

... are both relatively large, making this organism a great model for the study of vision. MBL scientists have also made significant research breakthroughs related to the horseshoe crab's blood. The crab's amebocyte cells clot in response to bacteria, enabling the development of tools used to test humans, dr...

'Punctuated' evolution in the human genome

...d monkeys, but before the divergence of humans and great apes. For the past 10 million years, however, no such "duplicative seeding" events appear to have occurred in this region of the genome. "It is unclear why pericentromeric seeding events have occurred so frequently during this period of human/great-...

University of Nevada, Reno research team discovers hormone that causes malaria mosquito to urinate

...e pest's ability to devastate crops. "It's not a great way to sell an insecticide to a farmer," Schooley said. "Most money in pesticide development is in making insecticides for pests which attack crops." This is what lead Schooley, and his colleague Geoff Coast of the University of London, down the pat...

Deep sleep short-circuits brain's grid of connectivity

...ery interesting set of activations that occur over great distances in the cortex. "During deep sleep early in the night," he adds, "the response is short-lived and doesn't propagate at all. Somehow, it doesn't travel anywhere." The experiments conducted by the Wisconsin team are the first of their kind. ...

Frog peptides block HIV in lab study

...ery interesting set of activations that occur over great distances in the cortex. "During deep sleep early in the night," he adds, "the response is short-lived and doesn't propagate at all. Somehow, it doesn't travel anywhere." The experiments conducted by the Wisconsin team are the first of their kind. ...

Micro-molecule plays big role in birth defects

...dy. "We looked at limb development because it's a great place to demonstrate the technique," said Brian Harfe, Ph.D., an assistant professor of molecular genetics and microbiology in the College of Medicine and lead author of the report. "We were able to show it's feasible to eliminate the activity of mic...

Oxygen increase caused mammals to triumph, researchers say

...were placental mammals on Earth at the time of the great extinction of dinosaurs about 65 million years ago...cent. Falkowski says many scientists believed that great fires burned over the earth about 10 million years ago, reducing the number of trees and, therefore,...

A molecule impedes the destruction of the 'Brucella' bacteria

...losis, the illness caused by these bacteria, is of great importance worldwide, with millions of human beings and domestic animals affected. This discovery not only means new useful ideas for other researchers, but also the enhanced knowledge of a very important pathogen. From this knowledge useful products...

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