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Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders

... are using the income from selling excess catch to obtain medical attention, including HIV and AIDS care and medicines," he says. Says Prof. Richard Mkandawire, senior NEPAD Agriculture Advisor: "For a relatively small investment, the international community has an opportunity to bring about significant im...

Gene Bridges And Covalys To Develop Restriction-Enzyme-Free SNAP-tag Gene Fusion Kits

...available BACs, so that it is easy to identify and obtain a BAC encoding a gene of interest. The new SNAP-tag kits will combine the inherent advantages of BACs with the power of SNAP-tag for protein expression studies." The cloning kits, which will contain validated reference BAC, and substrate for functio...

Researchers devise new technique for creating human stem cells

...stem cells, which are more plentiful and easier to obtain than unfertilized human eggs. In the studies publ...ause in the case of humans it is very difficult to obtain eggs in any quantity and difficult or impossible to genetically manipulate them," he said. "But embr...

Overbearing colored light may reveal a second mechanism by which birds interpret magnetic signals

...nation compass," which essentially allows birds to obtain directional information from the magnetic field by...oreception such that migratory birds can no longer obtain the information required to head into their migratory direction. The findings point to the existence...

Most common lung cancers may begin in newly discovered cells

...ls that we have to eliminate in cancer in order to obtain durable cures for the disease," said Jacks. "Along the way, we need to know how these cancer stem cells become different from normal stem cells." Bender Kim started with a mouse model of non-small cell adenocarcinoma recently developed by another po...

New clue to cocaine addicts' quirky behavior

...r right toward one arm or the other of the maze to obtain a piece of cereal. Goto and Grace found that, while the cocaine-sensitized rats learned the correct response strategy faster than normal rats, they were significantly less able to change strategies when they were required to ignore the cue and alway...

Microscopic brain imaging in the palm of your hand

... to establish a new technique that enables them to obtain microscopic images deeper in the living brain than was possible before microendoscopy. "We're bringing two-photon imaging to endoscopy and we're putting it all into a miniaturized package," says Mark Schnitzer, the team leader on the Optics Letters...

Human embryonic stem cells have the potential to develop into eggs and sperm in the laboratory

... will say. "But at present it is very difficult to obtain human samples of these cells as they only occur early in development." Mr Aflatoonian, who is a PhD student in Professor Harry Moore's laboratory at the Centre for Stem Cell Biology, University of Sheffield, UK, said that studies with mice embryonic...

New tool reveals secrets of migrating cells

...handful of researchers using two-photon imaging to obtain real-time images of cells throughout the top half-millimeter of a living organ, not just on the surface of tissue or within a slice. "In our earlier studies (published in Science) we could see cells getting together, presumably signaling one another...

Invitrogen Launches i-Path -- A Unique Systems Biology Platform at BIO 2005

...ion of the Inner Cell Mass (ICM) from which we can obtain embryonic stem cells. "The availability of human oocytes is a major obstacle at the moment for research into therapeutic cloning. Therefore, we consider this research is important because it makes best use of more easily available biological materia...

Scientists succeed in cloning human embryos from eggs matured in the lab

...ion of the Inner Cell Mass (ICM) from which we can obtain embryonic stem cells. "The availability of human oocytes is a major obstacle at the moment for research into therapeutic cloning. Therefore, we consider this research is important because it makes best use of more easily available biological materia...

Researcher gets NSF grant to create mutant maize lines

...nal clearinghouse where scientists will be able to obtain the seeds for their experiments. "A good chunk of this project is developing a community resource," Brutnell says. By providing these lines to the community, researchers with a wide range of interests and goals will have access to genetically unique...

Scientists discover the body's marijuana-like compounds are crucial for stress-induced pain relief

... it would not require people to smoke marijuana to obtain relief or wrestle with the legal issues surrounding the drug. Others from UGA involved in the study include faculty members Philip Holmes and Jonathon Crystal and students Richard Suplita, Nathan Bolton and Mark Neely. Authors from UC-Irvine includ...

Motor transport in bio-nano systems

... parameters. This is the only possible strategy to obtain the basic knowledge that is necessary to improve t...nsider the cooperative behavior of many motors. To obtain a large flux of cargo transport, it is obviously useful to let many motors work in parallel. However...

Proteomics brings researchers closer to understanding microbes that produce acid mine drainage

...rst successful leveraging of a community genome to obtain the complete complement of proteins produced by th...h includes work with the Joint Genome Institute to obtain more genomes of community members. "We really want to know how the environment drives the community...

$5.1 billion would save 6 million children

... program management and support were calculated to obtain the average cost to save a child's life. The cost of some of the interventions, such as vaccines to prevent infection with Haemophilus influenzae type b, may drop substantially as more extensive use reduces the price. According to the study authors,...

Natural Killers Could Lead to New Hepatitis Treatments

...y induced hepatitis. “So, all the evidence we can obtain so far points to CXCR6 being involved in promoting survival of these NKT cells when they get into the environment of the liver, and that's how the cells tend to accumulate there,?said Littman. “Our data don't support a critical role of CXCR6 in crawl...

Affymetrix Launches New Globin-Reduction Kits and Protocol Developed with PreAnalytiX

...controls will significantly improve the ability to obtain high quality profiles from blood, thus enabling clinical research and collecting samples for multi-site clinical trials." About PreAnalytiX GmbH: The purpose of PreAnalytiX GmbH, a Swiss-based joint venture between BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company...

Infants with Rare Genetic Disease Saved By Cord Blood Stem Cells

...atching adult donor can takes months to locate and obtain if available at all, said Kurtzberg. Similar benefits of cord blood were seen in an earlier Duke study of children with Hurler Syndrome, results of which were published in the May 6, 2004, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. In that study,...

The biggest family tree ever

...ill be used only for the project. Participants can obtain their personal results on a Web site. Participants who want to find out about a whole new set of relatives can do so by disclosing their names to Family Tree DNA and then plan their biggest family reunion ever. Websites: The Genographic Project ...

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