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Priming embryonic stem cells to fulfill their promise

...ers at the Universityof California, San Diego have invented a process to help turn embryonicstem cells into the types of specialized cells being sought as possibletreatments for dozens of human diseases and health conditions. SangeetaBhatia and Shu Chien, UCSD bioengineering professors, and ChristopherJ. Flai...

Gene vaccine for Alzheimer's disease shows promising results

...Thegene gun and gene-vaccination technologies were invented by Dr. StephenAlbert Johnston, director of the Center for Biomedical Inventions andsenior author of the latest study."We have been developing ways to use gene-immunization to manipulatethe immune response," Dr. Johnston said. "This study was the firs...

Scientists identify molecular events that drive cell senescence

...Thegene gun and gene-vaccination technologies were invented by Dr. StephenAlbert Johnston, director of the Center for Biomedical Inventions andsenior author of the latest study."We have been developing ways to use gene-immunization to manipulatethe immune response," Dr. Johnston said. "This study was the firs...

Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

...diseases. About Affymetrix: Affymetrix scientists invented the world's first high-density microarray in 1989 and began selling the first commercial microarray in 1994. Since then, Affymetrix GeneChip(R) technology has become the industry standard in molecular biology research. Affymetrix technology is used b...

Ophthalmologists Use Artificial Silicon Retina Microchip To Treat Vision Loss

...ollack. The Artificial Silicon RetinaTM (ASR) was invented by Dr. Alan Chow, pediatric ophthalmologist and Rush faculty member, who developed the chip and founded Optobionics, with his brother Vincent, vice president of engineering. Optobionics is located in Naperville, Illinois. "This is an expansion of th...

Ophthalmologists implant five patients with artificial silicon retina microchip

...ollack. The Artificial Silicon RetinaTM (ASR) was invented by Dr. Alan Chow, pediatric ophthalmologist and Rush faculty member, who developed the chip and founded Optobionics, with his brother Vincent, vice president of engineering. Optobionics is located in Naperville, Illinois. "This is an expansion of th...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Create 'Obedient Virus'; First Step To Use Measles Virus Against Cancer

... instead of its natural binding partner. Then they invented a "molecular tag" that they attached to structures on the outside of the cancer-seeking measles virus. This tag is the key innovation of their work and central to the success of the team's investigation. It enables researchers to grow retargeted meas...

First frozen egg baby born in Canada

... of the patient is drawn into a protective device, invented by Drs. Chian and Tan, called a "Cryoleaf", and then placed in a special vitrification solution. The eggs undergo super-rapid cooling at a rate of more than 20,000ºC per minute, which prevents ice crystal formation and increases egg survival to appro...

Novel gene-silencing nanoparticles shown to inhibit Ewing's sarcoma

...the scientists employed a sugar-containing polymer invented by chemical engineers at the California Institute of Technology. For this experiment, the polymer binds to and condenses the engineered siRNA into nanoparticles that, in effect, form a protective shield around their precious genetic cargo. These nano...

Affymetrix Launches New Globin-Reduction Kits and Protocol Developed with PreAnalytiX

...ix.com . About Affymetrix: Affymetrix scientists invented the world's first microarray in 1989 and began selling the first commercial microarray in 1994. Since then, Affymetrix GeneChip(R) technology has become the industry standard in molecular biology research. Affymetrix technology is used by the world's...

Breakthrough in micro-device fabrication combines biology and synthetic chemistry

... The American Ceramic Society. This study's newly invented approaches for the low-cost mass production of micro-devices could yield unprecedented breakthroughs in genetically engineered microdevices (GEMs) for biomedical, computing, environmental cleanup, defense and numerous other applications. Convention...

Researchers discover key to human embryonic stem-cell potential

...h and Young labs. Using a microarray technology invented in the Young lab, Boyer and her colleagues analyzed the entire genome of a human embryonic stem cell and identified the genes regulated by these three transcription factors. The research team discovered that while these transcription factors activate...

Wright bros. upstaged! Dinos invented biplanes

...said Chatterjee. "It seems likely that Microraptor invented the biplane 125 million years before the Wright 1903 Flyer." The discovery of Microraptor and other small, exquisitely preserved feathered dinosaurs from China also helps to settle a century-old controversy over whether avian flight began in trees (...

Many needles, many haystacks

...o acids long."The method Neduva and his colleagues invented draws on large-scale studies of protein binding in the cells of yeast, flies, worms and humans. Those studies have produced parts lists of molecular machines. And the data holds a wealth of information about linear motifs ?if it can be mined. The sc...

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

Ohio State University researchers have invented a process for uncoiling long strands of DNA and forming them into precise patterns. Ultimately, these DNA strands could act as wires in biologically based electronics and medical devices, said L. James Lee, professor of chemical and biomolecular eng...

Technique offers new view of dynamic biological landscape

...te deletion would kill the cell -- the researchers invented a high throughput technique to manipulate the half-life of their messenger RNA (mRNA). Since mRNA is a genetic intermediate during the conversion of a gene to protein, reducing its lifespan by mutating the mRNA message lowers the amount of protein th...

Researchers develop new method to help find deadly malaria parasite's Achilles heel

...nomic sciences at the University of Washington who invented an ingenious way to identify pairs of proteins that physically interact with one another, modified his technique and added special culture conditions to enable his group to study Plasmodium. Fields's team and collaborators at Prolexys Pharmaceuticals...

New Rotavirus vaccine joins routine infant immunization schedule

...f thousands of child deaths. The new vaccine was invented by three Philadelphia scientists: H. Fred Clark, D.V.M., Ph.D.; Paul A. Offit, M.D.; and Stanley A. Plotkin, M.D., all of whom led laboratory studies of the vaccine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Wistar Institute between 1980 and ...

New drug could reduce tissue damage after heart attack

... is thus critically important. "We had previously invented a new mechanism of drug action for small molecules bound by target proteins. Coupled with knowledge of the structure and properties of CRP, we were able to design the CRP inhibitor. "We now propose to develop a CRP inhibitor as rapidly as possible ...

Junk DNA may not be so junky after all

...nstitute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins have invented a cost-effective and highly efficient way of analyzing what many have termed "junk" DNA and identified regions critical for controlling gene function. And they have found that these control regions from different species don't have to look alike to w...

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