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A much-needed shot in the arm for HIV vaccine development

...ilability of new quantitative laboratorytools that make comparisons among vaccine studies feasible." What isneeded, they argue, is a way of tying all of these opportunitiestogether, and their plan provides a model for doing just that."A preventive vaccine is the world's best long-term hope for bringingthe...

Inexpensive, mass-produced genes core of synthetic biology advances at UH

...s have developed a technologywith the potential to make complete functioning organisms that canproduce energy, neutralize toxins and make drugs and artificial genesthat could eventually be used in gene therapy procedures. Gene therapyis a...

HIV Patients May Be at Risk of Heart Problems When Taking Protease Inhibitor Drugs

...pecializes in various diseases and conditions that make a person vulnerable to sudden death by a ventricular arrhythmia. There are several specific actions physicians can take to use this new information wisely, Drs. Ackerman and Badley say. The first is to screen by electrocardiogram for heart effects i...

U-M scientist to talk about tissue engineering at AAAS

...tion. "It's not just a question of whether we can make new tissue in a perfect condition. Now we're mimic...o specific kinds of bone, and encouraging cells to make more BMPs during tissue engineering also can ramp up the effects. "Together these therapies can ove...

Finding Cures For Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source An Answer?

...have driven commercial pharmaceutical companies to make Western healthcare the envy of the world, the commercial model only works ifcompanies can sell enough patented products to cover their R&Dcosts and produce profits for shareholders. The model thus fails in thedeveloping world, where few patients ...

The transparent organism: EMBLEM and Carl Zeiss give labs a unique look at life

...m Swoger and Jan Huisken) have made it possible to make three-dimensional films of the inner workings of living organisms at a much higher level of detail than ever before. One innovation of SPIM is the illumination of a sample from the side rather than along the traditional view of the microscope lens. ...

Learning to fight an adversary that won't stay down

...ing and high throughput screening were expected to make the development of new antibiotic compounds easier and more productive. But in most cases the microbes continue to hold the upper hand ?and if three billion years of bacterial history is any kind of track record, we're in for an endless running battl...

Study finds more than one-third of human genome regulated by RNA

...vid Bartel.MicroRNAs interrupt a gene's ability to make protein. These tiny,single-stranded pieces of RNA are newcomers to biological research. Itwasn't until 2000 that researchers even knew that microRNAs existed inhumans. Now, in the January 14 edition of the journal Cell, BenjaminLewis, a graduate stud...

Emory Eye Center Implants Its First Retinal Chips In Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa

...d for mid-February. "This experimental device may make it possible for those with retinitis pigmentosa to have a much better quality of life," says Dr. Aaberg. "We are excited to be able to participate in this clinical trial as part of Emory Eye Center's ongoing research and surgical procedures to fight ...

NYU researchers simulate molecular biological clock

...vid Bartel.MicroRNAs interrupt a gene's ability to make protein. These tiny,single-stranded pieces of RNA are newcomers to biological research. Itwasn't until 2000 that researchers even knew that microRNAs existed inhumans. Now, in the January 14 edition of the journal Cell, BenjaminLewis, a graduate stud...

Dinosaur DNA? New Patent Covers Degraded DNA recovery

...to apply this new technology to products they will make available later this year. "We don't plan to turn house cats into saber tooth cats or create a Jurassic Theme Park anytime soon. But we do think this breakthrough has many applications yet to be discovered and we look forward to working with our coll...

Mitochondrial DNA mutations play significant role in prostate cancer

...enhanced prostate cancer growth.Since mitochondria make oxygen radicals as a by-product of makingenergy, and oxygen radicals can stimulate cell growth, the researchersthen tested the tumors for oxygen radical production. The tumors withthe mutant mtDNAs generated significantly more oxygen radicals thantho...

Gene therapy converts dead bone graft to new, living tissue

..., and more drastic surgery becomes necessary." To make the transplanted bone more robust, Schwarz looked into the activity of the genes and proteins that govern its health. His team replaced sections of bones in dozens of mice, using both healthy and dead segments, then scanned the surrounding inflammato...

Antibiotic Resistant Bacterium Uses Sonar-like Strategy to “See?Enemies or Prey

...nable to explain how the Enterococcus knew when to make it.In the Science study, Gilmore and his team foun...Based onwhether or not they ‘see?other cells, they make the toxinappropriately.?Gilmore says this discovery has several significant implications forthe futu...

Color-blind method opens new doors in DNA sequencing

...ssistant professor of chemistry at Rice. "We could make sequencing portable and do it faster." The research appears this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In the paper, Metzker, Rice University Professor Robert Curl and colleagues from BCM and Rice describe a new way of...

Yale Scientists Find MicroRNA Regulates Ras Cancer Gene

...to the normal structures of the worm ?instead they make an excess of their cells. After identifying let-7 as a cell division regulator, Slack's team used bioinformatics and found the relationship to Ras. Let-7 in humans is identical to the sequence in the worm, and both binding site and pathway for Ras a...

Gene variations explain drug dose required to control seizures

...al trials, such a "pharmacogenetic" approach might make it possible to safely reduce the time required for patients with epilepsy and their physicians to reach an effective dose of the medications that control seizures, said David Goldstein, Ph.D., director of the IGSP Center at Duke University Medical Ce...

Scientists collaborate to assess health of global environment

...ersity by giving them the information they need to make tough decisions. A substantial body of work addressing specific aspects of the assessment will follow this month's release of the global synthesis report. A report on global biodiversity will be available in May; a report on desertification is due o...

Poplar trees redirect resources in response to simulated attack

...producing chemicals that kill off the attackers or make their own leaves less tasty," said Benjamin Babst, a Ph.D. student in the biology department at Tufts University and lead author on that paper. "But there's a suspicion that plants also respond by building up tolerance, for example by putting aside m...

Purdue proves concept of using nano-materials for drug discovery

... find drugs that deactivate the pumps, which would make the chemotherapy drugs more effective. The researc...ith the same "microfabrication" techniques used to make computer chips. The reactors range in diameter from about 400 to 60 microns, or millionths of a mete...

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