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Nanopore method could revolutionize genome sequencing

...ia, San Diego has shown the feasibility of a fast, inexpensive technique to sequence DNA as it passes through tiny pores. The advance brings personalized, genome-based medicine closer to reality. The paper, published in the April issue of the journal Nano Letters, describes a method to sequence a human genome ...

Study fishes out new role for prostaglandins

... cancer. But zebrafish, which develop quickly, are inexpensive and easy to manipulate, could actually aid in the discovery of new cancer drugs. "If you could use the zebrafish intelligently to screen for these drugs, it might really speed up the drug discovery process and give us some early clues about the eff...

New study reveals promising osteoporosis treatment

...ore importantly, a Mg/Zn/F-CaP supplement would be inexpensive to produce and would not require FDA approval. Dr. LeGeros' formulation could be available to market as an over-the-counter supplement, pending patent approval. In her study, Dr. LeGeros investigated the effect in rats of Mg/Zn/F-CaP ion combinati...

Aspirin reduces cardiovascular risks in men and women -- but differently

... for many years ?it is well-understood, effective, inexpensive and widely available," said Duke cardiology fellow Jeffrey Berger, M.D, first author of a paper published Jan. 18, 2006, in the Journal of the American Medical Association. He performed much of the research while at Beth Israel Medical Center, New Yo...

Fertility drugs given 'all-clear' in new study

...rns about the use of letrozole, an easy-to-use and inexpensive drug for the treatment of infertility, appear to be unfounded, according to a major study co–authored by Dr. Togas Tulandi, Director of Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and Chief of Obstet...

Too much sugar not good for coral reefs

The race is on to buy up inexpensive land along coastlines for vacation homes and tourist hotels. But increased development can mean more nutrient rich runoff that threatens the very coral reefs attracting tourists in the first place. David Kline at the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...

Infused spleen cells found not to impact islet recovery and reversal of type 1 diabetes in mice

... in length - they grow quickly, and are relatively inexpensive to maintain compared to mice or rats. "Zebrafish are the only vertebrate embryo you can even think about doing this type of work in," says Shannon Fisher, M.D., Ph.D., the study's first author and an assistant professor in cell biology in Johns Hopki...

Junk DNA may not be so junky after all

... in length - they grow quickly, and are relatively inexpensive to maintain compared to mice or rats. "Zebrafish are the only vertebrate embryo you can even think about doing this type of work in," says Shannon Fisher, M.D., Ph.D., the study's first author and an assistant professor in cell biology in Johns Hopki...

Rochester scientists develop fast-working biosensor

...ad author of the article. "We've developed a very inexpensive technology that can detect an infectious agent," said Miller, who is part of the university's Center for Future Health "It's clearly faster and cheaper than any competing technology. This is another step on the way to point-of-care diagnostics." The...

Portable cocaine sensor developed at UC Santa Barbara

...the most exciting thing is that this is a generic, inexpensive way of detecting a range of interesting targets," said Kevin Plaxco, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry. "Cocaine is just the tip of the iceberg." Currently detecting cocaine (and other illegal and legal drugs) in bodily fluids must b...

Cheap, rapid hand-held check for HIV

..."It is the first step towards a hand-held, simple, inexpensive device that will measure the number of CD4+ cells in human blood without the need for extensive infrastructure," says James Turner, a biophysicist at the University at Albany, who led the research. ...

Researchers make long DNA 'wires' for future medical and electronic devices

... that Lee and Guan used is similar to a relatively inexpensive chip-making technology called soft lithography, where rubber molds press materials into shape. In this study, they arranged the DNA into rows of "stitches," pinstripes and criss-cross shapes. The pinstripes presented the researchers with a mystery:...

A step toward the $1,000 personal genome using readily available lab equipment

...ed on converting a widely available and relatively inexpensive microscope with a digital camera for use in a rapi... that is still large enough to be resolved through inexpensive optics. One of four fluorescent dyes corresponding to the four DNA bases binds at a specific locatio...

NHGRI expands effort to revolutionize sequencing technologies

...to develop a general utility instrument to provide inexpensive sequencing that can also be used for projects to recognize genome variation. The group will design novel nanopores articulated with probes to sequentially, and directly, identify nucleotides in very long fragments of genomic DNA based on their unique...

Tiny avalanche photodiodes target bioterrorism agents

...red by the Center for Quantum Devices to create an inexpensive detection system capable of identifying the unique...ation possible utilizing a combination of compact, inexpensive UV LEDs and UV APDs both developed at the Center for Quantum Devices. The technology for the realiz...

Researchers find how some antibiotics kill bacteria

... the rise worldwide. The drugs are also relatively inexpensive to make, have a long shelf life and are nearly non-toxic to cells other than the pathogenic ones they target. The problem with them, though, is the rampant development of bacterial resistance. "There is a voluntary restriction on the use of rifamyc...

New technique helps identify multiple DNA regulatory sites

...plex devices would make DNA analysis as common and inexpensive as blood testing, and thus greatly accelerate efforts to discover the origins of disease. The demand for ever-shrinking devices of ever-increasing complexity in areas from biomedicine to information technology has spurred several research efforts to...

New technique may speed DNA analysis

...plex devices would make DNA analysis as common and inexpensive as blood testing, and thus greatly accelerate efforts to discover the origins of disease. The demand for ever-shrinking devices of ever-increasing complexity in areas from biomedicine to information technology has spurred several research efforts to...

Microreactor efficiently regenerates cofactors for biocatalysis

...called cofactors that permit the synthesis through inexpensive and environmentally friendly biocatalytic processes. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Universite Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France, has developed a microreactor that efficiently regenerates cofac...

Researchers feed tiny pills of RNA to planarians to identify genes essential for regeneration

...nes in mice or zebrafish, for example. * It is inexpensive to study. Now that Sánchez Alvarado and his colleagues have opened the door to understanding regeneration by identifying key genes in the process, the U researcher predicts, with aid of the planarian, more discoveries are on the way. "Our limitatio...

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