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Kinovate Life Sciences Launches Nittophase?High Performance Solid Support For Oligonucleatide Synthesis

...layers of all scales in this industry to meet both long and short term objectives of cost savings, and the eventual development of oligonucleotide drugs that are affordable to patients,?stated Dr. Kenji Matsumoto, President of Kinovate Life Sciences, Inc. “Through our strong collaborative relationship wit...

Rats infected as newborns grew up vulnerable to memory problems during an immune challenge

...e the problem, although researchers don't know how long it lasts. Still, says Bilbo, "This may go far to explain some of the individual variability in disease susceptibility, other than genetic variation, in animals in the wild and perhaps humans." The authors conclude that neonatal infection can create ...

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

...so good at taking over cells that researchers have long dreamed of exploiting the specific attraction viruses have to certain cells and using it as a homing device to seek and enter cancer cells. The measles virus became the focus of this vision several years ago when the surprising finding was made that...

Effective Cancer Treatments Follow The Clock

...ion of chronopharmacology : Oncologists have long thought that cancer treatments tend to be more eff...erested in examining this issue because there is a long history of knowledge that chemotherapeutic agents produce different mortality and morbidity at diffe...

LUCA technologies confirms real-time methane generation

...duction." Potential for Methane "Farming" It has long been known that certain microorganisms are "methanogens" ?microbes that generate methane by metabolizing organic materials including various hydrocarbons. While it has also been generally accepted that many of the known methane deposits were produced...

Vampire bats keep out of trouble by running

...nson explains. Getting most of the push from their long forelimbs -- actually their wings and therefore ve...y, the researchers say, the ability to run evolved long ago, when vampire bats had to prey on faster South American athletes such as the agouti, a rodent ab...

How the environment could be damaging men's reproductive health

...re plays an important role in their transport over long distances. POPs have a strong tendency to bioaccumulate in marine and terrestrial food webs. Humans, being at the top of the food web, particularly are exposed to POPs." The researchers found that larger amounts of both CB-153 and DDE in the blood o...

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

...he world's leading research universities, UCLA has long been engaged in adult and embryonic stem cell research with activities in areas ranging from the AIDS Institute to the Brain Research Institute to the UCLA College," said UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale. "The new UCLA Institute for Stem Cell Biology...

Wisconsin researchers identify sleep gene

...he cell membrane will remain activated, preventing long periods of deep, non-REM sleep." The researchers say that the fly research translates to humans even more than they thought it would. "Humans have the same kind of genes and potassium channels. And we know that slow waves must be generated by change...

Live fast, die young true for forests too

... forest like a bank account," said Stephenson. "As long as deposits and withdrawals are similar, your bala...trees, decreasing the average age of trees. In the long run, such changes might affect wildlife populations that prefer younger or older forests, said van M...

Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges

...tudies, could help explain why chronic users go on long binges with the illicit drug, also known as speed. The study could lead to new treatments for the drug's addiction, they say. Recent studies by others have documented the drug's apparent ability to suppress the immune system, making abusers more vul...

Pulsating ultrasound enhances gene therapy for tumors

...andard ultrasound. HIFU can destroy tumors through long and continuous exposures that raise the temperature inside cancerous cells, effectively "cooking" them. Under a technique introduced by King C.P. Li, M.D., M.B.A., from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), short pulses of HIFU can be used to prev...

Viral protein influences key cell-signaling pathway

.... ATLL is an aggressive disease characterized by a long latent period and the proliferation of T lymphocytes. The virus is spread by sexual activity, by contact with infected blood and by infected women to children through breast milk. HTLV-1, like its cousin HIV, inserts its genetic information permanen...

A frog's life is food for thought

...unlike most animals, which can't digest food after long periods of starvation, the green-striped burrowing...ion on the gut of animals that go without food for long periods. Ms Cramp's study is helping explain why animals such as the green-striped burrowing frog ar...

Reducing malarial transmission in Africa

...r was highly effective at reducing whether and how long children had gametocytes - the infective form of the malarial parasite - in their blood. The numbers of gametocytes carried and how able they were to infect mosquitoes 7 days later was also reduced by the six dose regimen. Although the results are p...

Advances in the characterisation of the oyster mushroom genes

...cose united by means of glycosidic links that form long polymer chains. The breaking down by live organisms takes place through the action of three types of enzymes: endogluconases, cellobiohydrolases y b-glucosidases. All these, necessary for the complete breaking down of cellulose, function by hydrolys...

Stem Cell Research Shows Potential for Replacing Tissue Damaged in Heart Attacks

...ajor step in ES cell research, but there’s still a long way to go. For example, we still don’t know if human cells will react in the same way,?Dr. Lough says. He notes, however, that the research has achieved unprecedented levels of success in this area. Dr. Lough’s laboratory currently is developing sup...

Insight into natural cholesterol control suggests novel cholesterol-lowering therapy

...Boyd, senior author of the study. Scientists have long known that cells respond to a high cholesterol diet by shutting down its internal synthesis, he explained. However, the molecular mechanisms by which cholesterol and other related compounds exert that self-control have only more recently begun to eme...

Gene Therapy Cures Inherited Liver Disease In Rats

...Crigler-Najjar syndrome) has been completely cured long term with a single injection in an adult animal," ...viral vector itself is important because it has no long term effect. It does not become part of the genetic machinery of the cell and poses no risk of causi...

Heart repair gets new muscle

...k, on the other hand, is not so clear-cut. It has long been thought that cardiac cells (cardiomyocytes) lack the capacity for self-renewal and repair, impeding the chances of a full recovery from a heart attack. However, recent evidence suggests that the heart might harbor stem cells after all and that s...

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