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Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

...hereby reducing mortality and improving quality of life for patients suffering from these diseases. The Karolinska Institutet/Affymetrix Translational medicine research projects will use sufficiently large sample sizes to establish true clinical relevance of both gene expression and DNA sequence variatio...

Family trees of ancient bacteria reveal evolutionary moves

...s much less than it is today. Over their very long life span, Cyanobacteria have evolved a system to survive a gradually increasing oxidizing environment, making them of interest to a broad range of researchers. Blank is able to draw her hypothesis from family trees she is drawing of Cyanobacteria. Her o...

Measuring the impact of post-genomics on Mediterranean populations

...e European Commission, highlighted the role of the life sciences in improving health in countries borderin...order to capitalise on post-genomic research. The life sciences ?in particular following the mapping of the human genome ?offer vast opportunities to impro...

Scientists find fossil proof of Egypt's ancient climate

... 130,000 years ago. These particular snails have a life span of between one and two years, and build their shells in a classic spiral with whatever water is available that day. The snails were preserved in calcium carbonate deposits throughout the lake. "We're using the chemistry of the water over the co...

Affymetrix and Stratagene Announce Strategic Software Alliance

...these capabilities in a software tool designed for life scientists, and the result will be better quality ...scale available to an ever broadening community of life scientists." As part of the agreement, Stratagene has joined the community of Affymetrix partners d...

Rush Physicians Using Gene Therapy For Heart Patients With Moderate To Severe Chest Pains Who Do Not Benefit From Other Treatments

...n important new approach to improve the quality of life in these seriously ill patients with refractory chest pain," said Dr. R. Jeffrey Snell, study co-investigator and Schaer's colleague at Rush. In the new study, patients will be randomly assigned to receive the gene administered through a cardiac cat...

Sexual cooperation: Mating increases longevity in ant queens

...n, rather than sexual conflict, is promoted by the life history of social insects; whereas most insect fem...l species mate only during a short period early in life and store and use the sperm of their mate for the rest of their lives. Sexual offspring are only pro...

Breast-Cancer Risk Linked to Exposure to Traffic Emissions at Menarche, First Birth

...wing evidence that there may be times in a woman's life when exposures to potential carcinogens may be cri...ngs support the hypothesis that exposures in early life contribute to breast-cancer risk." The study was based on data from the Western New York Exposures ...

Nonlinear Dynamics announces more details of its global partnership with PerkinElmer

...(NYSE: PKI), a leading provider of drug discovery, life science research and analytical solutions. As detailed in a press release issued last week, PerkinElmer will distribute Nonlinear's full range of 1D, 2D and array software. However the agreement also represents the formation of an integrated partner...

Artifical cornea lets woman blind 20 years see

...es take for granted. Now, twenty years and several life milestones later, Elma is able to see again, thank...f the severity of damage to my corneas. But now my life is more like normal and I can do more things on my own and finally read the things that I want to re...

Yale researchers identify molecule for detecting parasitic infection in humans

.... gondii) causing toxoplasmosis, has a complicated life cycle in which it is transmitted from mice to cats and then to humans. Previous research had shown that T. gondii is recognized by a TLR and that the recognition of this parasite is crucial for an appropriate immune response. However, it was unclear ...

US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say

...fessor S. Jay Olshansky is predicting a decline in life expectancy in the United States later this century...he study determines that obesity currently reduces life expectancy by approximately four to nine months. "The magnitude of that effect may sound trivial to...

NYU study reveals how brain's immune system fights viral encephalitis

... fight the virus at different stages of the virus' life cycle. First, they inhibit viral RNA and protein synthesis. If this fails, interferons block the virus from forming particles which can be released and infect other neurons. This is critical, since the immune system does not kill infected precious ne...

Cricket's finicky mating behavior boosts biodiversity

...f increasing biodiversity? If so, this affects how life on the planet looks. The more species you have, the more complex the ecology is going to be." In down-to-earth terms: "What turns a female cricket on? Why does she prefer one pulse rate over another? Whatever the reason, it's very important that sh...

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

...rages strong collaborations between faculty in the life sciences and the health sciences," said Patricia O'Brien, executive dean of the UCLA College. "As biomedicine grows increasingly complex, new academic partnerships hold the key to discovery; this institute will create novel opportunities for research...

Wisconsin researchers identify sleep gene

...rivation. The mns flies, however, did have shorter life spans. Following the testing, the researchers noticed shaking in the flies' legs as the insects recovered from anesthesia. The observation led the team to focus on the Shaker gene, which produces this effect. Nevertheless, Shaker's main job in flies...

DuPont's first biologically derived polymer receives global recognition

... solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere. Operating in more than 70 countries, DuPont offers a wide range of innovative products and services for markets including agriculture, nutrition, electronics, communications, safety and protection, home and construction, transp...

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

...nals. BioMed Central urges all researchers in the life and medical sciences to fulfil the NIH request and to submit their future manuscripts to one of the 130 Open Access journals published by BioMed Central. ...

New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem

...rd understanding the diversity and distribution of life in the Gulf." Over the coming months, the website...Knowledge of biodiversity and the relationships of life in the Gulf of Maine to the surrounding environs is fundamental to ecosystem-based management. The D...

Dead zone area in Gulf could be increasing, researchers say

...rs from low oxygen which can result in huge marine life losses ?has appeared much earlier this year, meani...ld be potentially larger in 2005 and affect marine life more adversely than normal, researchers are reporting. A team of scientists from Texas A&M Univ...

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