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The first impact factor for PLoS Biology ?13.9

...cal literature a public resource ?is fulfilled. We hope that PLoS Biology's first impact factor will inspire even greater support for PLoS journals and for open access. * Thomson ISI calculated the impact factors that it announced this year by counting all the citations in 2004 to content that appeared i...

UN: World in big ecological mess

...ll our precious natural and human resources can we hope to build a sustainable future," Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a message launching the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) Synthesis Report compiled by 1,300 scientists in 95 countries. "The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is an unprecedented ...

Team Invents Device For Weighing Individual Molecules

...pical mass of an individual protein molecule. "We hope to transform this chip-based technology into systems that are useful for picking out and identifying specific molecules, one-by-one--for example certain types of proteins secreted in the very early stages of cancer," Roukes says. "The fundamental pr...

Random gene expression may drive HIV into hiding

...n eventual outcome, he explained. The researchers hope that understanding the molecular basis of HIV latency will lead to new treatments to slow or stop progression to AIDS. For example, Arkin suggested, the analysis implies that it might be effective to target the chemical modifications that Tat must un...

Scientists discover global pattern of big fish diversity in open oceans

...ne actual boundaries for marine parks. Scientists hope that the global perspective provided by this paper... good news, say these scientists, is that there is hope for the future. The key pieces of the global biodiversity puzzle are still out there, including the ...

Researchers make headway in mystery of migraines

... the development of improved treatments, providing hope to millions of migraine sufferers. ...

UNC plant researchers discover proteins interact to form hair-trigger protection against invaders

...lready gone into producing them," Dangl said. "The hope is that we might be able to manipulate plants' immune systems to make them more resistant to pathogens using fewer expensive and polluting chemicals." A report on the findings appears in this week's edition (June 24) of Science Express, the online, ...

FDA approves more generic AIDS drugs

...lready gone into producing them," Dangl said. "The hope is that we might be able to manipulate plants' immune systems to make them more resistant to pathogens using fewer expensive and polluting chemicals." A report on the findings appears in this week's edition (June 24) of Science Express, the online, ...

Study Finds Moderate Hypothermia A Safe Treatment For Traumatic Brain Injury In Kids

...treat all cases of traumatic brain injury, but our hope is that with the cooling from hypothermia, we may block or slow down the brain's deleterious biochemical mechanisms following an injury and also be able to develop other more effective treatments." Lowering body temperature can help control brain sw...

New method shows it is possible to grow bone for grafts within a patient's body

...proved for human treatment. At the same time, they hope to test the approach with the liver and pancreas, which have outer layers similar to the periosteum. ...

It's electric: Cows show promise as powerplants

...that we have yet to identify," Christy said. "The hope is that one day livestock farmers could use their farm's livestock waste lagoon as a huge fuel cell and generate enough power for their operation," Rismani-Yazdi said. ...

Researchers grow stem cells from human skin

...s of cells and to replicate themselves. Scientists hope to harness the potential of stem cells and use them to replace damaged cells and tissue in conditions such as spinal cord injuries, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, stroke and burns. Most scientists believe that stem cells from human embryos are the m...

Modified collagen could yield important medical applications

... hitchhiker, materials scientists at Johns Hopkins hope to create some important medical advances. The researchers have found a simple new way to modify collagen, paving the way for better infection-fighting bandages and a treatment to block the formation of unwanted scar tissue. In addition, tissue engin...

Unusual antibiotics show promise against deadly 'superbugs'

... hitchhiker, materials scientists at Johns Hopkins hope to create some important medical advances. The researchers have found a simple new way to modify collagen, paving the way for better infection-fighting bandages and a treatment to block the formation of unwanted scar tissue. In addition, tissue engin...

Major advance made on DNA structure

...ctual structure that we have to explore if we ever hope to understand biological function. This is a significant step forward, a milestone in DNA structural biology." In the early 1950s, two researchers at Cambridge University ?James Watson and Francis Crick ?made pioneering discoveries by proposing the ...

Identification of specific genes predicts which patients will respond to Hepatitis C treatment

...ts because it's one more piece of evidence that we hope will encourage 'responder' patients to start and continue treatment for Hepatitis C, despite it's many side effects," said Dr. Jenny Heathcote, a hepatologist at Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network and Professor of Medicine at Univers...

Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month

...llion living in the region are at risk. Now, real hope for a better treatment is on the horizon, based on research conducted in part at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In Phase II clinical trials, a new oral drug, DB289, demonstrated safety and high effectiveness in subjects with the ear...

Retroviral resistance gene found

...mplex and traps the viral DNA in the cytoplasm. We hope that learning more about this transport machinery might reveal a new target for antiviral drugs in the treatment of HIV-1 disease." ...

Redesigned protein accelerates blood clotting

Study holds hope for next generation hemophilia treatment Researchers have doubled the potency of a protein that drives blood to clot, according to research to be published in the July 26 edition of Biochemistry. The study results may have profound implications for t...

Snapin: A protein with therapy potential for autism

...d what does snapin regulate?" said Firestein. "Our hope is in ten years, we will have a whole pathway mapped out so that we can target different points in the pathway with new drugs." ...

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