platform 2 2

Tag: "platform" at biology news

Mice brains shrink during winter, impairing some learning and memory

...st in which the mice had to swim to find an escape platform hidden just below the surface of opaque water. The...he platform, and whether they remembered where the platform was from day to day. Results showed that mice that were kept in short days ?simulating winter ?took...

Neurologix announces positive results of gene therapy clinical trial in Parkinson's disease

...tive trial, it would represent a fundamentally new platform for the treatment, not only of Parkinson's disease, but of a large number of neurological and psychiatric disorders as well. Such a replication would make viral-mediated gene therapy for brain diseases a reality." Dr. Paul Greengard, Nobel Laureate...

U of MN researchers reverse memory loss in mice

...ere put in the pool and allowed to learn where the platform is located. After they learn where the platform is, the platform is removed, and the mice are again put in the pool. The researchers measured how mu...

Envisat and ERS-2 reveal hidden side of Hurricane Rita

... predictions. "Scatterometer data from the ERS-2 platform provide high-quality wind information in the vicinity of tropical cyclones," states Hans Hersbach of ECMWF. "For a Hurricane like Rita, the combination of such observations with [in-situ] dropsonde data enables the analysis system at ECMWF to produce...

Rensselaer researchers develop approach that predicts protein separation behavior

...erdisciplinary Studies provides a state-of-the-art platform for collaborative research and world-class programs and symposia. About Rensselaer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1824, is the nation's oldest technological university. The university offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degre...

UCSD discovery may provide novel method to generate medically useful proteins

...f protein variability, and it opens up a whole new platform for protein development." Other contributors to the paper were Jeffrey Lawton, Department of Chemistry, Eastern University; Donald Kerkow, The Scripps Research Institute; Marc Marti-Renom, Eswar Narayanan, and Andrej Sali, Departments of Biopharmace...

Genomatix Microarray Analysis Pipeline achieves Affymetrix GeneChip compatible?status

...cts with the Affymetrix Inc. GeneChip® microarray platform and that it has joined Affymetrix GeneChip-compati...r microarray analysis pipeline with the Affymetrix platform will stimulate exciting new results in both basic and applied biomedical R&D," said Klaus May, D...

New vaccine platform may fight infections with causes from influenza to bioterrorism

...une cells that HIV destroys in humans. The vaccine platform developed by Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh res...on to protection against pneumocystis, our vaccine platform may be effective in preventing viral illnesses such as influenza, in high-risk, immune-deficient ind...

DNA self-assembly used to mass-produce patterned nanostructures

...ng manufactured. Instead of using silicon as the platform for tiny circuits, as is done in the current manufacturing technique of photolithography, the Duke researchers used DNA strands to create grids less than one ten-millionth of a meter square. The smallest features on these square DNA lattices are appr...

Nanoparticles, nanoshells, nanotubes: How tiny specks may provide powerful tools against cancer

... strategy for this technology," she notes. "It's a platform technology." A phase I study of the strategy has already begun at Georgetown University Medical Center and will enroll 20 patients with advanced solid tumors, including head and neck, prostate, pancreatic, breast, bladder, colon, cervical, brain, mel...

Wild Gorillas Handy with a Stick

...ceful as the other great apes. From an observation platform at Mbeli Bai, a swampy forest clearing that gorillas frequently visit to forage, Breuer et al. observed an adult female gorilla named Leah (a member of a long-studied gorilla group) at the edge of a pool of water, “looking intently at the water in fr...

Recreating 'Flowers for Algernon' with a happy ending

... platform. The normal animals learned to find the platform in seven days; the NF1 mice took 10. After receiving statins, the NF1 mice outraced the normal mice. Third, Lee tested coordination by training the mice to balance while running on a rotating log, which gradually increased in speed. At first...

Sahara's edge studied from ground, air and space to improve water management

...flown by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) was the platform for two airborne sensors operating simultaneously: the Experimental Synthetic Aperture Radar (E-SAR) built by DLR, which can acquire imagery at differing radar wavelengths and polarisations, and the Airborne Visible Imaging and Infrared Imaging Spect...

New RNAi tools enable systematic studies of gene function

...he Cell paper and the director of TRC and the RNAi platform at the Broad Institute. "Thanks to this unique public-private effort, we now have new tools to enable the entire research community to realize the potential of RNAi in the two most important species in biomedicine." "The RNAi library developed by TR...

High-tech tags on marine animals yield valuable data for biologists and oceanographers

...alifornia sea lions are proving to be an excellent platform for monitoring oceanographic conditions along the California coast, Costa said. State-of-the-art tags developed at SMRU can now capture an animal's location, swim speed, and the depth and duration of dives, as well as the temperature and salinity of ...

Powerful technique for multiplying adult stem cells may aid therapies

...em cells so dramatically? Zhang used a microarray platform to search for genes that were active in these newly discovered cells, but not active in similar neighboring cells. Some such genes, he reasoned, might encode secreted proteins that sustained stem cells. Eventually, he located a number of such genes. ...

New compound stops brain cell degeneration in Alzheimer's disease

...rg School of Medicine, using a synthetic chemistry platform developed in his lab by researchers at the Northwestern University Center for Drug Discovery and Chemical Biology (CDDCB) for the rapid discovery of new potential therapeutic compounds. Watterson is co-director of the CDDCB, the J.G. Searle Professo...

Penguins waddle but they don't fall down, UH researchers say

...o facilitate his study, Kurz has created a special platform that contains a pressure mat. As penguins walk across the mat, it measures the variability in the width and length of their steps. The data will provide insight into the natural mechanics and stability of the penguins' walking patterns. Kurz is ...

Losing sleep undoes the rejuvenating effects new learning has on the brain

...ippocampus. The experiment: swimming to the exit platform The researchers trained rats on one of two tasks...which had a citrus odor. The researchers moved the platform every fourth trial, requiring the animal to rely on its senses, not on memory, to find it. This task...

Strawberries by design

...tablished, make this plant an ideal candidate as a platform for large-scale studies to elucidate gene function. The new protocol involves taking strawberry plant tissue from its original site and transferring it to an artificial medium for growth or maintenance. Here unfolded leaves, known as trifoliate lea...

1 2 3 4