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Supercomputer Dedicated To Bioengineering, Computational Biology Installed

...emory parallel computer. It is valued not only for its speed, but also because its 428 gigabytes of memory capacity and 20 terabytes of storage will enable researchers to solve ever l...

Effective Cancer Treatments Follow The Clock

...r Research Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, published its findings February 1, 2005, in the early online edi...s' the circadian clock at the most active point in its cycle.?/p> Biological clocks function in the brain as well as lung, liver, heart and skeletal mu...

LUCA technologies confirms real-time methane generation

Luca Technologies LLC today announced that its researchers have confirmed the presence of a resid...orsTM" that Luca Technologies has identified since its first demonstration of this phenomenon in the Powder River Basin coalfields of Wyoming. Geobioreact...

US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say

...dly escalating prevalence of childhood obesity and its most feared complication, Type 2 diabetes, raises the prospect of heart attack becoming a common condition of young adulthood." The authors expect that this study will raise awareness of the importance of increased funding for obesity research and t...

Potential treatments for neurofibromatosis

Neurofibromatosis can leave its patients miserable and debilitated with chronic it...k of blood vessel support. Neurofibromatosis gets its name from neurofibromas, the disfiguring and often painful tumors that grow along nerve coverings an...

UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders

...tute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine will focus its embryonic and adult stem cell research in three areas: * HIV: UCLA scientists are exploring how the AIDS virus blocks stem cell function, as well as stem cell approaches to combating HIV disease. One potential therapeutic example includes insert...

Wisconsin researchers identify sleep gene

...ffect on the amount of time fruit flies sleep. In its normal state, the Drosophila (fruit fly) gene, cal...t. Nevertheless, Shaker's main job in flies-and in its equivalent in humans--is to control the excitability of cell membranes. Genetic analysis of the mns...

Norovirus, AIDS vaccine and Hepatitis Virus

... infection frequency. "This study is the first of its kind to indicate that NoVs may be a major cause of... of interferons, interferon lambda, was tested for its ability to inhibit HBV and HCV replication. Results showed 90% inhibition of HBV after twenty-four h...

DuPont's first biologically derived polymer receives global recognition

...ine-resistance. Mills and manufacturers appreciate its easy dyeability and handling. In addition, product...ironmental Protection Agency presented DuPont with its annual "Presidential Green Chemistry Award" for the company's research leading to the development of...

NASA links nanobacteria to kidney stones and other diseases

... provides additional clues to understanding NB and its link to pathologic calcification-related diseases. "Hopefully, eradication or treatment of these diseases will be possible in the near future. We need more research and support to solve this puzzle, but we feel that we are close," adds Ciftcioglu. ...

PET/MRI scans may help unravel mechanisms of prenatal drug damage

...ing. The combined images show that cocaine and/or its labeled metabolites readily cross the placenta. Bu...r's brain, a measurable quantity of cocaine and/or its labeled metabolites does accumulate in the fetal brain, particularly in the striatum, where cocaine ...

BioMed Central welcomes the new National Institutes of Health public access policy

... new public access policy. The NIH calls on all of its grantees to deposit articles resulting from their NIH-funded research in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central and make them freely available within 12 months. BioMed Central anticipates that many other funding bodies worldwide will now ...

Probing the promise and perils of nanoparticles

For all its promise, the prospect of using nanoparticles in biomedical applications and consumer products has raised concerns about possible harmful effects of the miniscule materials. Scientists at the University of Michigan are addressing those concerns by inv...

New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem

...d to understanding the Gulf of Maine ecosystem and its species. For decades, a vast and growing storehouse of knowledge about the Gulf of Maine has been out of reach for most scientists and researchers. Although research capacity has grown by leaps and bounds as a result of computer and sensor technolog...

Substance protects resilient staph bacteria

...ditis (inflammation of the lining of the heart and its valves). Because of the ability of PGA to promote resistance to innate immune defenses, learning more about the protein could lead to new treatments for S. epidermidis and related Staphylococcal pathogens that also produce PGA, according to the RML ...

Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges

...ture of the drug's effect on the immune system and its potential for abuse, was described today at the 22...the drug, which is highly unique for a molecule of its relatively small size," says study co-leader Kim Janda, Ph.D., a chemist at Scripps in La Jolla, Cal...

Great White shark evolution debate involves WSU Lake Campus geology professor

...ved from the huge prehistoric megladon shark or if its ancestry rests with the mako shark. "Most scientists would probably say the Great Whites evolved from the megladon line, which existed from two million to twenty million years ago. They were huge sharks, approximately the length of a Greyhound bus a...

Fleshing out the genome

... Shewanella oneidensis--of key interest to DOE for its potential in nuclear and heavy metal waste remediation--were considered as hypothetical. This work identified 538 of these genes that expressed functional proteins and messenger RNA, accounting for a third of the hypothetical genes. They enlisted ana...

Viral protein influences key cell-signaling pathway

... scientists better understand how HTLV-1 maintains its lifelong infection and how the normal immune cells...men to children through breast milk. HTLV-1, like its cousin HIV, inserts its genetic information permanently into the DNA of a T lymphocyte and remains t...

A frog's life is food for thought

... of the first meal the gut had all but returned to its pre-aestivation state, and by the completion of digestion of the first meal the gut was operating on par with that of non-aestivating frogs," she said. "This rate of rectification of gut morphology is virtually unparalleled with the small intestine ...

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