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Biotechnology's newest chemical tool

... is articulated and has one motor dedicated to its joint flexing for autonomous control. It features that m...ld. CYBERHAND includes sensors for tension, force, joint angle, end stroke and contact in the final prototype. This prototype uses Longitudinal IntraFascicu...

Biologist Discovers What May Be World’s ‘Pickiest?Mates

...atic Bioinvasions Research and Policy Institute, a joint entity of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and Portland State University. deRivera and a group of UCSD students who assisted her conducted their observations in the Sweetwater River estuary in Chula Vista, south of San Diego, near the M...

Vaginal gel may provide a new approach to HIV prevention

...s of Health. Additionally, in a first-of-its-kind joint announcement, two of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, Merck & Co. and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) today announced that they have signed separate license agreements with the International Partnership for Microbicides to develop two of ...

How HIV disables the cells' call for help

... treated with FP showed a significant reduction in joint swelling and other symptoms of arthritis. Shai points out that using FP, a tiny piece of a piece of the HIV virus, would pose no danger to patients as it lacks any ability to either infect cells or to reproduce. Rather, as the scientists note in the...

WCS says avian flu prevention should focus on farms, markets

...n the Kovsgol province near the Russian border. A joint WCS-Mongolia team that was working in western Mongolia immediately went to the site to collect more samples that will be sent to the United States Department of Agriculture for further testing to determine the strain. These tests will determine if th...

Evolution of life on Earth may hold key to finding life in outer space

...ublic outreach supplement to Fox's NASA grant, the joint production between HMNS and UH, called "Fantasy Worlds: Exploring the Limits of Life," is playing at the Burke Baker Planetarium at HMNS until December. "Fantasy Worlds" explores extreme environments of Earth for a rare glimpse at microbes known as ...

Results of world's first gene therapy trial for arthritis show approach safe, feasible

...s showing that successful gene transfer can target joint inflammation open the door to the development of i...d cells were removed after one week during routine joint replacement surgery. Nonetheless, with safety a key concern, the authors report no clinical side eff...

Use of high hydrostatic pressure to inactivate Hepatitis A virus in oysters studied

...alaise, fever, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, joint and muscle aches, and abdominal pain, coupled with the onset of jaundice, a yellowing of the whites of the eyes, and dark urine. The disease generally runs its course in two months, but can linger as long as six. While survival rates for Hepatitis A ...

Vineyard weeds found to host Pierce's disease of grapes

...m," Wistrom said. In addition, she noted that the joint lab and field experiments showed that environmental conditions strongly influenced how rapidly the bacteria multiplied within the plants. ...

Old drug, new tricks: Prospects for slashing the impact of malaria

...he project funding allows significant expansion of joint activities and research among the collaborating institutions. Successful completion of the trial is likely to help inform global health policy in combating this most serious disease of humanity. ...

New bioinformatics technique for systematically analyzing key regions in DNA that help control gene activity

... and Andriy Kryshtafovych of LLNL. A report on the joint work appears in the June issue of the journal Genome Research. The rough sets technique was developed by Zdzislaw Pawlak in Poland in the 1980s and is particularly suitable to build models from incomplete and uncertain data. It has been used in appl...

Past droughts geographically widespread in the West, according to tree-ring data

...igh or extremely low flow." She added, "The recent joint drought, while severe, is not unprecedented when compared to those in the previous five centuries." The findings of the first phase are being shared with representatives of various federal, state and local agencies such as the National Weather Servi...

Nose odors and mouth odors: The brain distinguishes

...ystem through the mouth or through the nose. In a joint research effort led by Dana M Small of The John B Pierce Laboratory and Yale University and Thomas Hummel of the University of Dresden Medical School, the researchers launched their exploration into the brain's possible dual response to odors because...

Neurologix announces positive results of gene therapy clinical trial in Parkinson's disease

...urologix and are consultants to the company. In a joint statement, Drs. Kaplitt and During commented: "While the primary objective of any Phase I trial is to demonstrate safety, the FDA's requirement of unilateral infusion of AAV-GAD allowed us the unique opportunity to compare treated and untreated side...

New research could help us deliver genes for new bone formation

...ntial of significant benefits for patients needing joint replacement or similar treatments. The new research will use tiny nanoscopic systems that cross the surface of a stem cell and then deliver the genes into that prompt the cell to turn into a bone cell. Professor Richard Oreffo at the University of...

Wild grasses and man-made wheats advance research capabilities

...iginated in Turkey and were collected in 1992 as a joint project between Texas A&M University and Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo, (The International Maise and Wheat Improvement Center) better known as CIMMYT. "This is a gold mine of untapped genetics," Rudd said. "They can be tap...

Genomic sequences processed in minutes, rather than weeks

...Research as part of the BioPilot project, a larger joint research effort between PNNL and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ...

Malaria killing a million a year

...orne parasitic disease makes a comeback, the first joint malaria report from the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) says. The report on the disease that claims three times as many African children's lives as HIV/AIDS was launched today at events in New York, Geneva and Cair...

Arthritis: What Wnt wrong?

... functional analyses of Wnt-related genes in human joint disorders," appears in the July issue of The Ameri...idence also points to its involvement in arthritic joint disease. Comprehensive analysis of the entire Wnt gene family in the progression of arthritis has be...

Molecular steps involved in the creation of gene-silencing microRNAs identified

...ch of the proteins was known previously, but their joint role in producing miRNAs is newly delineated here. Equally as important, however, is the fact that while two of the proteins had been associated with miRNAs in earlier work, the third protein, TRBP, had not been. And TRBP is clearly a protein of inte...

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