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NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective

...f DNA sequencing and expand the use of genomics in medical research and health care. "There has been signif... innovative efforts to benefit scientific labs and medical clinics," said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "These technologies will eventually re...

Tiny Tampa Bay fish key to evolution of immune system

...anding human physiology and of use in facilitating medical advances." ...

Scientists discover way to block growth of prostate cancer cells

...s to develop agents such as MDL to fill this unmet medical need. If MDL, or any of the other agents that we are working with, can be expanded further to treat all high-risk men, we will be delighted." ...

Designer babies - what would you do for a 'healthy' baby?

...ee genetic engineering as acceptable primarily for medical applications. Reproductive technologies and designer babies will be held in ARTS 01.02 at UEA on Tuesday September 5 from 4-6pm....

Hair-growth drug artificially lowers PSA levels in prostate cancer screening, study finds

...o 60 years old, is available online in the British medical journal The Lancet and is scheduled to be publishe...r. Roehrborn from 1998 to 2000 in cooperation with medical centers in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, New York, North C...

New drug blocks influenza, including bird flu virus

...s Stacey Schultz-Cherry, a UW-Madison professor of medical microbiology and immunology and the senior author ...-author of the study and a UW-Madison professor of medical microbiology and immunology and of ophthalmology and visual sciences. "The virus can't even get into...

Brown scientists map structure of DNA-doctoring protein complex

...ogram created by Dale Mierke, a Brown professor of medical science, which plotted their positions to create the structural map. "The real breakthrough here is successfully using FRET to determine the structure of a large protein-DNA complex," Sun said. "Biologists now have a new tool to help them understa...

LSD treatment for alcoholism gets new look

...ldwide ban in the late 1960s--including its use in medical experiments. However, the ban on its use in medical experiments appears to be lifting, Dyck noted. A few groups of researchers in the U.S., including a ...

Train your brain to hear your friends at a party

...g impairment. Deafness Research UK, the leading medical charity, has awarded the 2007 Pauline Ashley Prize to Sam Irving, a young researcher at the MRC Institute for Hearing Research in Nottingham. The Pauline Ashley Prize, established in memory of the charity's founder, Lady Ashley of Stoke, is award...

Study shows antibiotic-resistant bacteria responsible for increase in muscle infections

...t been recently hospitalized or undergone invasive medical procedures. These community-acquired strains appear to be readily transmitted from person to person and can cause serious skin and soft tissue infections as well as invasive infections such as bone or joint infections or pneumonia. Failure by physici...

Studies find general mechanism of cellular aging

...milar to cells from younger mice. Teams from the medical schools at the University of North Carolina at Cha...rnal Nature. The three research teams are from the medical schools at UNC, the University of Michigan and Harvard University. The UNC study focused on p16INK4...

American scientist's research of life's first cells

...plexity," she writes. Chen is currently completing medical school at Harvard and plans to continue to study m...ow in the department of systems biology at Harvard medical school. In his spare time he enjoys investigating the beauty of nature in New-England together with ...

Neural networking nanotubes

...materials as biologically compatible components of medical devices, sensors, and prosthetics. SWNTs are forme...ed out before such devices become available to the medical profession. ...

'Erectile dysfunction' drugs heighten natural anti-cancer activity

...f air-polluting smog, but is gaining importance in medical research for its cell-signaling duties and its ability to divert soldiering T-cells that patrol and protect. The Hopkins team also analyzed gene expression patterns of the myeloid-derived suppressor cells and found that sildenafil blocked two gene...

Stroke symptoms common among general population

...on about demographics, general quality of life and medical history, including whether a physician had ever to...us studies have shown that many people do not seek medical care for stroke symptoms and if they do, they do not seek it immediately. "Targeted education on th...

Supercomputing equipment to advance the frontiers of computational biology

...signed to help develop simulations for prototyping medical devices in "virtual patients," with potential applications in targeted drug delivery systems such as drug eluting stents, transdermal patches, and inhalers. To be successful, these simulations must run efficiently and effectively on the latest gen...

Sports cheats beware -- new test detects previously undetectable drug

...e enhancing corticosteroid hormones for other than medical treatment is banned, and tests exist that can detect injected hormones. Injecting synacthen, which stimulates the body to produce extra amounts of its own corticosteroid hormones is also banned. But until now there has been no test that could detect ...

Protein splicing upsets the DNA colinearity paradigm

Understanding medical research problems often relies on the direct, linear relationship between the sequence of a protein and the DNA encoding that protein. In fact, colinearity of DNA and protein sequences is thought to be a fundamental feature of the universal genetic c...

Carnegie Mellon scientists use 'green' approach to transform plastics manufacturing

...uct. For example, many ATRP-generated plastics for medical implants would be acceptable from a health perspective because they contain so little copper. However, if the target application -- such as a coating for a biomedical stent -- absolutely requires the removal of residual catalyst, companies will now h...

Study illuminates how the plague bacteria causes disease

... pathogen a primary biodefense concern. Additional medical concerns have arisen from the evolution of multidrug-resistant strains of the plague bacterium found in patients from several locations. The plague bacterium Yersinia pestis is closely related to Y. enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis, which ar...

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